Posted on 11/26/2005 6:08:11 PM PST by Mount Athos
A MASSIVE mosque that will hold 40,000 worshippers is being proposed beside the Olympic complex in London to be opened in time for the 2012 Games.
The project’s backers hope the mosque and its surrounding buildings would hold a total of 70,000 people, only 10,000 fewer than the Olympic stadium. Its futuristic design features wind turbines instead of the traditional minarets, while a translucent latticed roof would replace the domes seen on most mosques. The complex is designed to become the “Muslim quarter” for the Games, acting as a hub for Islamic competitors and spectators.
“It will be something never seen before in this country. It is a mosque for the future as part of the British landscape,” said Abdul Khalique, a senior member of Tablighi Jamaat, a worldwide Islamic missionary group that is proposing the mosque as its new UK headquarters.
Tablighi Jamaat has come under scrutiny from western security agencies since 9/11. Two years ago, according to The New York Times, a senior FBI anti-terrorism official claimed it was a recruiting ground for Al-Qaeda. British police investigated a report that Mohammad Sidique Khan, leader of the July 7 London bombers, had attended its present headquarters in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. In August, Bavaria expelled three members of the organisation on the grounds that it promoted Islamic extremism.
Defenders of Tablighi Jamaat say that it is not political and confines itself to humanitarian work. It was founded in India under the British Raj and has many members in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
The east London complex would have by far the largest capacity of any religious building in Britain. The biggest at present is the Baitul Futuh in Morden, Surrey, which holds about 10,000 worshippers. Liverpool’s Anglican cathedral, the largest Christian place of worship, has a capacity of 3,000.
The new building will be called the London Markaz (Arabic for centre) and will be built in place of an existing mosque on a 10-acre site 500 yards from the Olympic development.
The three-storey mosque will be designed to accommodate more than 40,000 worshippers. Its sweeping roof is intended to evoke tented cities. The complex would include a garden, school, library and accommodation for visiting worshippers.
Islamic calligraphy would cover the walls and ceilings, the washing areas would have cascading water to mimic a stream, and the complex’s buildings would be adapted to allow extra worshippers during festivals such as Eid, accommodating a further 30,000 visitors.
Ali Mangera, the London and Barcelona-based architect who is designing the mosque, said: “People in this country build mosques with fake domes and plastic minarets to look like the mosques back home. Islam has traditionally been at the forefront of technology and change. The Markaz will reflect this. It will be more than a mosque. The whole idea behind it is to break down barriers.”
Mangera has previously worked with leading British architects including Zaha Hadid, designer of the Cardiff opera house. Mangera and Tablighi Jamaat are in negotiations with Newham council, the Greater London Authority and the Thames Gateway Development Corporation for planning permission.
Sunil Sahadevan, a planning officer at Newham council, said: “We are working towards the mosque application with the organisers and discussions are ongoing. The application will be finalised over the next year.”
It is estimated that the project would cost more than £100m and donations are being sought from Britain and abroad.
Why make the terrorists walk too far when the wreak havoc on the Olympics?
This is the country that spent a couple of billion on the Millennium Dome, but refused to allow any references to Christ or Christianity in it.
What event did they think 2000 was the Millennium of, exactly?
I hope this proposal is shot down.
Too small.
Well thats just great! A nice place for 40,000 Islamofacists to "worship". I hope they dont forget to install the suicide bomb vending machines prior to the Games.
Maybe a blessing ~ imam gives the call to prayer; all the terrorists go to the mosque; air strikes are called in.
Say goodbye to our friends oin the UK - they're about to be over-run. And at the stupidity of their own hand.
That's a lot of vermin in one place.
"A MASSIVE mosque that will hold 40,000"...
Humm, I wonder if they have received license from the patent holder for Roach Motels?
Absolutely NOT - they would tear us to pieces for even suggesting such a thing!
The Brits are nuts to do this but they must think it gives insurance against terrorism. A bunch of Tornadoes with five-hundred-pounders would be better insurance.
No, of course not. The message of Jesus Christ is a direct challenge and a danger to them.
Bombs are heavy.
Always park the assault staging area next to the intended target.
In a word, surrender.
Build it but make it hold twice as many. Just build the supports out of explosives, then when it's full flip the switch.
Heck they are just gonna blow themselves up anyway let's save them the trouble.
I bet the Brits like the idea of housing 40,000 terrorists 5 times a day.
Sounds like a distribution centre for RPGs, IEDs and AKs.
I am certain that there will be a tremendous amount of explosions and mayhem during the Olympics.
You can say that again. Christ's life-affirming message is a direct affront to their cult of death.
Tell them to stay the hell away.
Hang out the big sign..........
"ATTENTION - ISLAM-o-NUTS: YOU ARE NOT WECLOME!!!" "GO AWAY!!! GET OUT!!!"
LVM
its worse, infidel.
probably 'bout the same as holy water is to a vampire
Well, I guess a little more encouragement won't hurt.../sarcasm
This is a 12-story block combining classical neo-Georgian features with the efficiency of modern techniques. The tenants arrive here and are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort, past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The last twenty feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed. The blood pours down these chutes and the mangled flesh slurps into these gutters.
Mind you, this is a real beaut. None of your blood caked on the walls and flesh flying out of the windows incommoding the passers-by with this one.
Tablighi Jamaat ?
Several articles recently about these guys, not sure who to believe:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/004720.php
Yea, talk about a target rich enviornment... Just pull the pin and toss in a can of 'whoop-ass'.
My wild guess is that it will never happen. Zoning laws, traffic, architecture, etc., it will die the death of a thousand cuts.
This is a joke, right?
Don't scrimp, toss in a few.
How stupid are these Brits. Won't they ever learn. Don't build things that attract islamists unless its an Islam Bomb Trap - and build it in the middle of an open field!
2000 was the millenium of nothing. The millenium did not begin until 2001.
That said, I understand the sentiment of what you are saying and agree with it.
Moslems can't even listen to musical instruments or any kind of music.
Well, have you heard that some of the sports stadiums here in the good ole USA are providing places for the Muslims to pray ---- so they don't miss any first downs, I guess..
SO...if the stadiums are making accomodations for Muslims, then I don't see why a 100,000 seat Mosque isn't far behind...
Don't look now...but WE are being overrun also.
Don't scrimp, toss in a few.
OK then, let's just introduce the mosque to a MOAB...
In a few years the Muslims will control England, Why shouldnt they have a nice place to do their beheadings in.
If the Brits let them build this thing, they are crazy. They should be kicking these lunatics out, not encouraging them!
Building this is sort of like bending over in Key West. Not a good idea.
I don't know which is worse; the ROP vermin, or the Dhimmis who welcome them.
There will be no gigantic Christian pavilion or Jewish city for our convenience. "Religion" will be strictly excluded from the noble games. I'm sure all the London Olympics literature will be conveniently available in 28 languages, with Arabic on top. And vendors won't have any foods that might offend. I'd wager we will see the first athletes competing in hijabs or burkas. That frog must surely be getting uncomfortably hot by now.
After all this is for the 2012 Olympics...that is 7 years away...London should be a Muslim theocracy by then...
Huh??????
I was unaware of this particular tradition.
Build it - and they will come.
You beat me to it.
If it has a big flat wall on the side that we can project the film "Munich" on over and over again during the Olympics, we should do it.
Yah, brahs, is there a spot for the daily beheadings? The beating and degredation of women. A burkha shop? Please, there's an answer for this sort of nonsense:
Be Seeing You,
Chris
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