Regular readers may recall earlier posts on Tablighi Jama’at’s desire to build their European Headquarters on the site they own, which they call the Riverine Centre, or Abbeymills Mosque or London Markaz, or Markaz Ilyas, on the banks of the River Lea, or more accurately those channels of the River Lea system in East London known as the Bow Back Rivers.
.... Lapido also spoke to Imam Dr Taj Hargey of the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford who is a very good man who has received death threats from other Muslims for his modern views and efforts at integration. He describes the proposal as a ‘towering edifice’ and a symbol of triumphialism.
“If this goes ahead, it will give Muslims in this country the idea that only this ultra-conservative, puritanical Islam works because they would have succeeded where others haven’t; and it will encourage others to follow this Neanderthal version of Islam. [The Iconoclast] Read more
