£100million mosque????

[ThomCat]

Do I have that right - has anyone else heard that Ken Livingstone is apparently planning to use "tax payer's money to build an enormous mosque" costing an estimated £100M in the docklands???

Not opposed to mosque's being built - but 100 million pounds - ??????

Not sure how true it is but I have heard that 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 - ??????

didn't hear that, but it wouldn't surprise me!

Think, if true, it's an inappropriate use of taxpayers money. (And I would say that if it were to be a Church or a Hindu temple as well).

some info here

i keep getting emails about this, is it not spam?

This is just another charming piece of anti-Muslim propaganda:

here

Yes it's not the mosque, but that is an outrageous amount of money to spend, and actually yes it is a lot of money to spend on a mosque, fuck it, it is. It's wrong.

thought so , thanks MP

oh - morning paper - that's mad! Glad I asked now then.
Blimey
Thanks for that link.

problem with these sorts of emails, they look credible, especially if a public figure;s name is involved

Yes it's bollix and we have had the 'heated' debate on here before too

I think there's been a thread on this before - email has been doing the rounds for a while.

Anti Muslim tosh.

This is an urban myth isn't it?

I think booktheif means the London mosque referred to in the email. Not exactly an urban myth some basis in truth ie there are plans to build a mosque just nothing like the scale mentioned and not using public funds.

The Oxford one - I think - was on land provided by the council but was funded by the Muslim community

There was a big kerfuffle about it being 'higher than everything else so the muslims could show their dominance and using 'our' money to do it, too!!!'

Amazing the legs these kinds of stories grow.

Sadly there are far too many bigots/fools out there who are all too willing to lap this stuff up.

Oops. No offence intended OP

No offence taken as I din't lap it up. I haven't had the emails but heard soemthing and wanted to know more about it, and now I know.

Oh god yes, it was simply a cost thing, why would I mind that there was a mosque being built? But £100 million to build the biggest mosque they could is a bit steep if the lie was a truth and that was taxpayers money. There are so many other things we could spend that much money on.

There was an article in the Times about it and something on the BBC News a few months ago. Seems as though the plans have been shelved at present.

hi thomcat i just want to ask u ,do u know how many muslim live in uk?millions,
and how many of them is a tax payer? millions
do u know how many millions? more than 15 millions is tax payer.
do u know how many of them have not the right to have any free Public funds ?millions
i think after all what i have said, it is seams very fair if it is true.

((Yes it's not the mosque, but that is an outrageous amount of money to spend, and actually yes it is a lot of money to spend on a mosque, fuck it, it is. It's wrong))mind yours language please.