Terror-tinged U.K. mosque gets a makeover

MSNBC ^ | 5 July 06 | Daniel Strieff

[LSUfan]

LONDON — The Finsbury Park mosque, where the one-eyed, hook-handed militant cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri once delivered his fiery sermons and helped turn a religious facility into the target for dozens of international terrorism investigations, is going through a makeover.

During his time at the helm, Hamza, now sitting in a British prison and awaiting possible U.S. extradition, allowed the mosque to become a haven of radical Islam in Europe — a “suicide factory” as one book has called it — which hosted such figures as Zacarias Moussaoui, Richard Reid and, reportedly, three of the four London bombers.

Now, far from being allegedly al-Qaida-linked, the mosque is quietly repairing its reputation from that of a hotbed of radicalism to one of a more moderate institution — albeit a mosque run by a group linked to the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood and with an alleged former Hamas commander as a co-trustee.

[LSUfan]

The ultimate goals of the Muslim Brotherhood really are not all that different from those of Al Qaida or HAMAS. The term "fundamentalist" used in this article is unfortunate because what the author is really describing is militant Islam...

[Cinnamon]

shouldn't it be getting razed to the ground? it ought be...

[manic4organic]

Lipstick, meet pig.

[PsyOp]

The only makeover that would be worth the effort would require the use of a Caterpillar D9 dozer.

[ncountylee]

JDAM or fumigator?

[expatpat]

the mosque is quietly repairing its reputation from that of a hotbed of radicalism to one of a more moderate institution — albeit a mosque run by a group linked to the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood and with an alleged former Hamas commander as a co-trustee.

Talk about lipstick on the radical Muslim pig.....

[sageb1]

"albeit a mosque run by a group linked to the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood and with an alleged former Hamas commander as a co-trustee."

So much for improving their image.

[midnoon]

"...a hotbed of radicalism to one of a more moderate institution..."

I didn't know Whahabism could be moderate.