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Do you want a Mosque to be London's biggest landmark?
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The plan is for the mosque to be so big that people flying in from all over the world for the 2012 Olympics will it see it as the biggest landmark in London.
Take a second to cast your vote in the Evening Standard online poll
To determine public opinion about whether a mega mosque should be Built for the Olympics.
The vote so far is 56 % in favour. It looks like the Muslim
Community is casting its vote in droves.
After voting, forward this to as many people as
You can. Here's the link:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/poll/...ote+now/ poll.do
Take a second to cast your vote in the Evening Standard online poll
To determine public opinion about whether a mega mosque should be Built for the Olympics.
The vote so far is 56 % in favour. It looks like the Muslim
Community is casting its vote in droves.
After voting, forward this to as many people as
You can. Here's the link:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/poll/...ote+now/ poll.do
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Blooming good luck to 'em. It'll probably bring work to the areas (builders will be required, together with architects, maintenance contracts, cleaners).
Nice one. I personally don't think anything can beat The Arc, The London Eye or Tower Bridge in terms of aestetics, but I think there's a particular beauty to the way the minorets glow golden at sunset on the mosque down near the London Hospital.
Blooming good luck to 'em. It'll probably bring work to the areas (builders will be required, together with architects, maintenance contracts, cleaners).
Nice one. I personally don't think anything can beat The Arc, The London Eye or Tower Bridge in terms of aestetics, but I think there's a particular beauty to the way the minorets glow golden at sunset on the mosque down near the London Hospital.
I can't get into the link, but I'll keep trying and I'll vote against it. I don't like what's happening to our country. With so many jumping on the politically correct bandwagon and trying desperately to make the right noises in this so-called multi-cultural society, it seems we're not just losing our national identity - we're throwing it away. What's a mosque got to do with the Olympics anyway? I can't see the connection.
If, as seems likely, London will get a beautiful new building then I cannot see why anyone should object.
I can see why a religion might offend someone especially if they hold different religious beliefs themselves, but to object to a building purely on the use it will be put to seems mightily strange.
I can see why a religion might offend someone especially if they hold different religious beliefs themselves, but to object to a building purely on the use it will be put to seems mightily strange.
The Olympics has nothing to do with any religion and to choose one above the others is clearly going to upset some and please others. Religion should be kept out of the Olympics - it causes enough trouble in the world already. If they built something like the London Eye, or an Olympic Bridge across the Thames, or something like the CN Tower in Toronto, perhaps, then fine - but the suggestion that a mosque is to be built is already causing controversy because we're talking about it now.
I don't have a problem with it in the slightest, in the same way that I wouldn't have a problem with a new, massive cathedral. It's a privately owned and built venture, creates jobs, and will give us another lovely piece of architecture.
Naomi24 - perhaps we're not just trying to make PC noises in a 'so-called multicultural society' . Perhaps we actually believe that universal tolerance and respect for other people's cultures and creeds is the correct way to live, and that part of our 'national identity' is having built a society based on democracy and enlightenment (I'll allow some Blair jokes here).
Naomi24 - perhaps we're not just trying to make PC noises in a 'so-called multicultural society' . Perhaps we actually believe that universal tolerance and respect for other people's cultures and creeds is the correct way to live, and that part of our 'national identity' is having built a society based on democracy and enlightenment (I'll allow some Blair jokes here).
if there was a plan to erect a giant cross to show the world that we are in the main a christian country the muslim community would soon be on the streets with their faces covered and banging their heads saying it was an insult to islam and proclaiming death to whoever thought of the idea.we embrace ethnic communities enough in this country and how do they repay us?they dont do they.
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