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angel · Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 4751 Location: essex

We need to act now before it’s too late
> KEN Livingstone is apparently planning to use tax payer’s money to
build
>an enormous mosque costing an estimated £100M in the docklands.
Wouldn’t
>it be better to spend the money on a new hospital or improved
transport
>facilities - anything but such a scheme as this
> The mosque will be bigger than St Paul’s!!! The plan is for the
mosque
>to be so big so that peoplel flying in from all over the world for the
2012
>Olympics will see it as the biggest landmark in London, bigger than St

>Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey or Wembley Stadium.
> The vote so far is 56% in favour. It looks like the Muslim
community in
>the UK is casting its vote in droves, and as usual the British are
burying
>their heads in the sand... It is an undemocratic use of British tax
payers
>money, especially when our Churches that are hundred’s of years old
get no
>government funding to keep their structures standing, and we are
supposedly
>a Christian Nation.
> To vote to “Scrap the ‘Mega-Mosque” please sign the official
Government
>petition in the link below.
>
> http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ScrapMegaMosque/
>
>
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Moose · Joined: 28 May 2007 Posts: 72

I am not sure I necessarily want it scratched to be honest .. I'd have to learn some more about it :). Maybe it would be a good way of promoting unity with the Muslim community?
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jtheb · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 1452 Location: second childhood

I don't think it should be financed out of Community charge or national taxes.
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bobbyc · Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1367

tangent · Joined: 28 May 2007 Posts: 31

There's a notable dearth of information on the mega-mosque in the independent media. I tried searching the BBC and a few national newspapers and could find almost nothing.

angel · Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 4751 Location: essex

bobbyc · Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1367

Shouldn't this whole thread be in the world news section and not the Lion's Den?

angel · Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 4751 Location: essex

bobbyc · Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1367

Hmm, an interesting exposition of how you view the Lion's Den - namely that it's (only?) for controversial issues. I've always seen it as a more in-depth area. Sort of more academic than general discussions if you like. Anyway why is a mega-mosque controversial in the first place? Would a synagogue or Sikh Temple of similar size be equally controversial?

jtheb · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 1452 Location: second childhood

Absolutely. A church erected at the public's expense woulkd be questionable.
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bobbyc · Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1367

Q. Is this proposed mega-mosque actually going to be built?
A. Since no planning permission has been sought we have to assume that it isn't.
Since it apparently isn't going to be built the issue of who finances it is immaterial.

Presumably, John, you'd also be against public funding for a Christian Church.

I just searched the BBC site for anything about London's mega mosque and the only article that came up dated back to October 2006. Whoever sent you the info in your opening post is using old material angel. Definitely scaremongering if you ask me.

VictoriaPlum · Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 718

There is a mega mosque already, in Regents' Park.
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angel · Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 4751 Location: essex

Bobby, does it matter where i put this? I look at the lions den as being somewhere we put "debating matters" so im debating this.
My personal opinion is that there is an argument for "Not" putting up a Mega mosque, Especially using using public funds, "allegedly".
We as a country are pulling down our Christian Ideals and letting others take over, now this frightens/Worrys me, so i wanted to discuss it.

I shall email the sender and ask where this story has come from.
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bobbyc · Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1367

Personally I think it does matter whereabouts on a forum a topic is posted. To my mind that's why we have different sections. The story about an allegedly proposed mosque is not a topic on a par with Creationism, whether Adam was a real person or other such topics that are listed in the Lion's Den index. The mosque is a news item, no more no less and as such better belongs in the News area where it can still be debated. Incidentally angel, had you forgotten that you posted this same topic back in March when the figures in favour were 62%?

angel · Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 4751 Location: essex

No I had not Noticed [trust me].
Well if you want it deleted maybe Sis could Delete this.
I will not put anymore on here, I did not realise it was a place for Debating only what certain members wanted debating.
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