Government might block building 'supermosque' in London
London, Feb 18 (IANS) The British government is likely to block plans to build a 'supermosque' on a site close to the venue of the 2012 Olympics in east London.
The supermosque, called London Markaz, is supposed to have room for 70,000 worshippers. The group behind the project is reported to be Tablighi Jamaat, whose charitable trust, the Anjuman-e-Islahul Muslimeen, owns the 18-acre site.
According to the Sunday Telegraph, the Tablighi Jamaat was called 'an ante-chamber for fundamentalism' by French security services, and two of the July 7 London suicide bombers had reportedly attended one of its mosques....
