mookaloid
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| posted on 12/7/07 at 09:57 AM |
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Mega Mosque
Just got this on email - I am happy for mosques to be built but not at the taxpayers expense.
Cheers
Mark 
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 people flying in from all over the world for the 2012 Olympics will see it as the biggest landmark in
London , bigger than St Pauls, 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 100'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
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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britishtrident
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| posted on 12/7/07 at 10:02 AM |
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I think you will find it is more likely to be Saudi Royal Family money --- they have paid for most Mosque building world wide.
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matt_claydon
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| posted on 12/7/07 at 10:20 AM |
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According to this BBC report, the building is being payed for by the landowners:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/politics_show/6040892.stm
It seems far too often the case with these online petitions that the 'facts' stated not true. Never believe anything you read on the
internet without checking it yourself 
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tegwin
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| posted on 12/7/07 at 10:21 AM |
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makes my wee boil....
This is ENGLAND.... if i went to durka durka land and tried to build a giant church I would have my nutsack chopped off and then be shot...
GRRR!!!!
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Hammerhead
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| posted on 12/7/07 at 10:35 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by tegwin
makes my wee boil....
This is ENGLAND.... if i went to durka durka land and tried to build a giant church I would have my nutsack chopped off and then be shot...
GRRR!!!!
lol. Didn't we do that at some point in history
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smart51
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| posted on 12/7/07 at 10:49 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by tegwin
if i went to durka durka land
to many people, comments like this read "I am racist". It kid of detracts from the point you want to make.
quote:
Originally posted by tegwin
This is ENGLAND.... build a giant church
Are you a church goer at all or do you believe that Christ was in fact English?
We, in this country, believe in freedom; freedom of religious beliefs is just one of those. Some other countries don't and we can look down on
them as not as "nice" and "liberal" but it doesn't mean we should retaliate against them. I don't like the idea
of a mosque being built at the expense of the tax payer, but only because the taxman doesn't also pay for Churches, Temples and Synagogues.
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Coose
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| posted on 12/7/07 at 10:58 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by smart51
I don't like the idea of a mosque being built at the expense of the tax payer, but only because the taxman doesn't also pay for
Churches, Temples and Synagogues.
You forgot to add "and barely donates towards schools and hospitals...."
Spin 'er off Well...
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skydivepaul
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| posted on 12/7/07 at 11:06 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by tegwin
makes my wee boil....
This is ENGLAND.... if i went to durka durka land and tried to build a giant church I would have my nutsack chopped off and then be shot...
GRRR!!!!
LOL send in team america
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Alan B
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| posted on 12/7/07 at 11:27 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by skydivepaul
quote:
Originally posted by tegwin
makes my wee boil....
This is ENGLAND.... if i went to durka durka land and tried to build a giant church I would have my nutsack chopped off and then be shot...
GRRR!!!!
LOL send in team america
Now you're talking...LOL
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mookaloid
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| posted on 12/7/07 at 11:41 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
I think you will find it is more likely to be Saudi Royal Family money --- they have paid for most Mosque building world wide.
Ah well so it would seem. As I said I would only have a concern if it was funded with taxpayers money.
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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Fatgadget
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| posted on 12/7/07 at 11:59 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
I think you will find it is more likely to be Saudi Royal Family money --- they have paid for most Mosque building world wide.
Very powerful these Saudis by the looks of things.Didn't they coerce Tony Blair into stopping some corruption investigations on pain of
unspecified draconian retaliatory measures?
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JoelP
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| posted on 12/7/07 at 05:56 PM |
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more likely TB stopped it himself - fact is, whats wrong with a backhander?
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ChrisGamlin
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| posted on 13/7/07 at 10:47 AM |
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Worth doing a bit of research before forwarding on c*** spam emails like this me thinks!!
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=70062
http://www.london.gov.uk/view_press_release.jsp?releaseid=11471
quote:
Emails whipping up communal hatred to influence Evening Standard online poll
4-4-2007 214
The Mayor of London today revealed an organised email campaign around an online poll being conducted by the Evening Standard aimed at stirring up
communal hatred by spreading entirely false statements about plans for a new mosque in East London. These included a totally untrue claim that the
Mayor was planning to spend £100 million of public money on the mosque when there are no plans to spend any public money at all on the mosque.
The campaign was sparked by an online poll in the Evening Standard reprinting an article from last September asking people to vote for whether or not
they were in favour of the "£100 million mosque". In fact, as reports in other newspapers have made clear, there are no plans for a
mosque on this scale.
Following this the Mayor's Office was alerted to a series of emails being sent out to large numbers of recipients making a series of false
claims about the mosque proposals in such a way as to stir up communal hatred. These read:
"Don't know if you have heard about this but Ken Livingstone is planning to use tax payer's money to build an enormous mosque
costing an estimated 100M in the docklands. What do you think about it? Wouldn't it be better to spend the money on a new hospital or improved
transport facilities?? BIGGER THAN ST PAULS!!! The plan is for the mosque to be so big that people flying in from all over the world for the 2012
Olympics will it see it as the biggest landmark in London , bigger than St Pauls, Westminster Abbey or Wembley Stadium
Take a second to cast your vote in The Evening Standard on-line poll to determine public opinion about whether a mega mosque should be built for the
Olympics.
The vote so far is 57 % in favour. It looks like the Muslim community is casting its vote in droves, and as usual the Christians are burying their
heads in the sand....
After voting, forward this to as many people as you can. Here's the link:"
One of the emails used to circulate this was from a work address at Jaguar Cars.
Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone said:
`The allegations in these emails are clearly designed to deliberately whip up communal hatred and contain content that is entirely untrue. They are
clearly being spread in an organised way for unscrupulous political reasons.
`Factually there is no proposal to use any public money at all for such a mosque; there is no link between plans for a mosque and the Olympics; and,
as widely reported, there are actually no plans for a mosque on the scale claimed in the email.
`This email campaign is a disgrace and should be clearly condemned as such. Besides the lies it is spreading for political purposes it aims to stir
up hatred between Muslims and non-Muslims’.
The Mayor has written today to Veronica Wadley, Editor of the Evening Standard, asking her to clarify that the paper repudiates the content of the
mass email, and asking the Standard to clarify to readers and visitors to the website that the poll will be disregarded as totally
unrepresentative.
It has also emerged today that similar false claims about the mosque relating to the online poll are being promoted by the British National Party on
their website, describing it as 'the biggest symbol so far of the Islamic colonisation of England' and urging readers to 'Please go
to the Standard website and add your own 'No' vote. And please forward this email on to everyone in your address book.
[Edited on 13/7/07 by ChrisGamlin]
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