Neighbours to the so-called ‘Mega mosque’ believe it would completely dwarf the surrounding conservation areas and fail to serve a mixed community if given the go-ahead.
Residents near the site in Canning Road, West Ham – owned by Islamic movement Tablighi Jamaat – have spoken about what they describe as real concerns about the project despite fears of being labelled Islamophobic. It comes after mosque backers put their case to the Recorder earlier this month.
A man from north London accused of being an Islamic extremist has had his British citizenship revoked.
Family and friends of Mahdi Hashi, 23, from Camden, claim the government acted because he had refused to become an informant for the security services.
Mr Hashi, from Camden, is currently thought to be in a jail in East Africa.
Revoking his nationality in the summer, the Home Office said he was considered a threat to UK national security due to his “extremist” activities.
The government has since made no further comment.
See also “UK ‘discards own citizen who refused to spy on Muslims'”,Russia Today, 31 October 2012
The former principal of an Islamic college in Dundee has lost his claim he was unfairly dismissed for being a white Christian.
Professor Malory Nye had insisted he was forced out of his £67,000-a-year post at the Al Maktoum College because of his race and religion.
The institution offers post-graduate courses in Arab and Muslim studies and Mr Nye claimed senior figures wanted a Muslim in charge.
His wife Isobel Campbell-Nye, who was head of the English department, has also lost her unfair dismissal case.
Last week the Camden New Journal reported that a proposal by the British Humanist Association to erect a statue of the late Christopher Hitchens at Red Lion Square in Holborn had received a less than enthusiastic response from local Labour councillors. This week’s issue includes a range of letters on the controversy.
Simon Childs of Vice talks to BNP members demonstrating against paedophilia outside Broadcasting House.
Anti-fascists in the Yorkshire town of Rotherham vowed today to maintain and build their campaign after racists targeted the community for a second time.
Twice the community has rallied in the face of demonstrations first by the English Defence League (EDL) and then by the National Front (NF). On both occasions the racists and fascists were heavily outnumbered by counter-protesters – and organisers said they were ready to mobilise again.
This is the headline to an article in the Daily Mail reporting claims that Israel has destroyed a Sudanese weapons factory in a bombing raid. The article itself suggests that “the raid acted as a ‘dry run’ for a forthcoming strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities”. The subeditor’s substitution of “Islam” for “Iran” in the headline tells us a lot about the general mindset at the Mail.
Campaigners against the far-right English Defence League (EDL) defied a protest ban by marching through Walthamstow after scuffles with police this afternoon.
Officers struggled to contain a crowd of several hundred who broke away from a legal static protest outside the former EMD cinema in Hoe Street at around 1.30pm. Protesters pushed through a cordon and marched several hundred metres down to the junction with Selborne Road, where police reinforcements eventually stopped them.
