COMMUNITY leaders in Deeside have met after plans to build an Islamic cultural centre in Shotton threatened to spark protests.
The Flintshire Muslim Cultural Society (FMCS) is aiming to set up the centre at the former Shotton Lane Social Club, which has been empty since it closed in August.
The group is more than halfway to raising the £150,000 needed to buy out the club after a TV appeal broadcast to the wider Muslim community.
But the proposal has sparked opposition from residents who took to Facebook to protest against what they call the planned ‘mosque’, while the BNP is co-ordinating a leaflet distribution campaign against the plans. [Flintshire Chronicle] Read more [via National Secular Society]
