UK Fighting Back! Churches Oppose Mosque Construction
UK Churches Oppose Mosque Plan
CAIRO — Churches and locals in Camberley town, South East England, are opposing a planned mosque, describing its minarets as supremacist statement for Islam.
“I think it fair to say that a mosque with two 100ft minarets and a large elevated dome is making not so much a spiritual, as a powerful cultural, or even political statement,” Rev Mark Chester, chairman of Churches Together coalition, told the Times Wednesday, March 10.
The coalition, which represents Camberley churches, firmly opposes the planned mosque’s design and site.
It threatened that the mosque plan would spark “antagonism between the Muslim community and the wider community in Camberley for years to come.”
The mosque, proposed by the Bengali Welfare Association, would be located near the Royal Military Academy.
The location was the site of a former Victorian school used by local Muslims as a mosque over the past 14 years.
Still, Rev Bob Peck of St Martin’s Church claims the mosque plan is not innocent.
“They seem to have a political agenda and they want to make a big statement,” he told the Times.“It’s a supremacist statement.”
Britain has a sizable Muslim minority of more than two millions, mostly of Asian backgrounds.
Security Threat
Tim Cross, a retired Major-General, describes the mosque as “a significant security threat.”
He claims the minarets could be used to attack senior members of the royal family and important military figures who visit the Royal Military Academy every year.
“Visitors self-evidently provide significant potential targets being openly on display around the college building and elsewhere,” he told the Times.
The mosque planning application will be decided by Surrey Heath Borough Council at a meeting Wednesday.
But the fierce opposition is already shocking to local Muslims.
Abdul Wasay Chowdhury, a spokesman for the Bengali Welfare Association, dismissed security concerns as ungrounded.
He asserted that access within the minarets would not go beyond the height of a house as they would be filled in with concrete.
The Ministry of Defence, which initially had security concerns about the minaret, has reserved its position after these clarifications.
“Plans were revised so that access to the towers would be restricted to essential maintenance work,” it said in a statement.
The Muslim community leader also dismissed allegations that the mosque was a political statement.
“We do not know anything about politics,” Chowdhury told the Times.
“We are simple people who want to do according to our faith.”
Yea OK Chowdhry, you are not even making sense. Your belief system is a combination of religion and politics. Try again.
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Its good that they are starting to fight back. When the Swiss banned minarets, Ghadaffi declared jihad on them and was supported by other arselifter arab states. If this keeps up, wars will start soon.
However, when SIOE demonstrated in Harrow against further mosque building we were branded as fascists by politicians, Jewish leaders and Christian leaders.
Those are traitors, not leaders.
Well we have here in the US an idiot named Glen Beck calling Geert Wilders a far right fascist. He is one of the most popular talk/news people on Fox, one of our most sensible main media channels. Their loosing it though – must be the money from Moslems – and they refuse to believe the truth.
I saw a video in which Robert Spencer quoted Beck as saying that he said that he read the Koran, and it is a religion of peace. Spencer said that he must of read it with his eyes closed.
Would you happen to have a video or link to him calling Wilders a far right fascist?
Fox had the video taken off youtube, but Atlas Shrugs has it up again today – here in Glen Beck:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2…
Here are Glen Beck's comments:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2…
Thanks, FOX should be embarrassed at their ignorance on Islam. Or are they just gutless and afraid of their Saudi boss?
What percentage of Fox do the arselifters own? Here in Australia we have foreign ownership laws restricting how much of the local media can be owned by foreign interests.
Kingdom Holding’s statement said Alwaleed is already the second largest stakeholder in News Corp., with 5.7 percent of the shares of the media company. The stake is held through Kingdom Holding, in which Alwaleed holds a 95 percent stake.
http://loganswarning.com/2010/01/18/saudi-billion…
The problem is that people cannot wait to cater to Muslims. Don't you guys also have a law against bells, and the call to prayers being allowed outside a Church or Mosque?
I'm not sure. I don't live anywhere near a moske. No churches near me either. I'll look it up.
There is a chapel at a public hospital near me that recently caused a stir. I'm going up later today to do a photo essay on it. Here's the original story behind it –
http://www.islammonitor.org/index.php?option=com_…
Time to say goodbye Fed Up.
I can see why power freak politicians will stand with Muslims, but non-politician Jews, and Christian "leaders", are just "leading" their own people slowly down a razor blade.
"But the fierce opposition is already shocking to local Muslims."
Muz are always shocked when something goes against them and they start whining again.
They are the masters of the victim card, and they play it over and over.
Yup!
"We don't know anything about politics" ? That is ridiculous.
Islam = Sharia Law = politics
Chowdhury said they know nothing about politic. If so,let not built the mosque because most of the time,mosque has been as a platform to preach the political agenda of Islam.Surely he doesn't know what is he talking about.
Many in Eurpoe a beginning to develop the stones to oppose islam. I don't particularly care what side of the political spectrum they choose to oppose it from, as long as islam is exposed for the shit that it is and is driven back to the shitholes it oozed from.
Amen to that.
Let's pray that more brave Christians rise up against the muslim horde! If we don't start fighting back now, we are all doomed to beheadings & chadors.
Abdul states: “We are simple people who want to do according to our faith.” So does this mean that the people of South East England get to look forward to bombings and terrorism? Islam was founded in war and terrorism by a heartless baby killer named mohamid. It states all through that piece of garbage they call the koran to "conquer or kill" all non-believers ! When are people going to wake up !!!!
Abdul states: “We are simple people who want to do according to our faith.” So does this mean that the people of South East England get to look forward to bombings and terrorism? Islam was founded in war and terrorism by a heartless baby killer named mohamid. It states all through that piece of garbage they call the koran to "conquer or kill" all non-believers ! When are people going to wake up !!!!