Plans to build a multi-million pound mosque on a brownfield site in east London are the subject of allegations linking backers of the mosque to a radical form of Islam.
Tablighi Jamaat, the controversial Islamist sect which has applied for planning permission for the £100m – £300m mosque, has links to the Wahhabi fundamentalist form of the religion promoted in Saudi Arabia.
The sect bought the brownfield site in the early nineties. The proposed Abbey Mills Islamic Centre would have a capacity of 40,000 worshippers, making it Britain’s biggest religious building.
References: The Observer 24 September 2006 News Page 10
