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Chief among them is Ken Livingston, the mayor of London, who is quoted approvingly on Tablighi Jamaat's website set up to promote the Mega Mosque as saying that:

“The particularly vicious nature of the campaign against a possible Muslim place of worship in East London should be condemned by all of those who support the long established right of freedom of religion in this country.”

Livingston has previously shown his grasp of Islamic issues by hailing Yusuf al-Qaradawi as “one of the most authoritative Muslim scholars in the world” and inviting him to London to help the UK authorities tackle extremism.

Qaradawi has publicly declared his support for female circumcision and suicide bombing and has called for homosexuals to be executed.

Another Sharia-law groupie to jump on the pro-Mosque bandwagon is Inayat Bunglawala, the spokesman for the widely-discredited Muslim Council of Britain and the Ilford-representative of the equally shady Islamic Society of Britain.

Bunglawala defended the plans in a column in the Guardian in which he called critics of the project “alarmist” and saying petition against the mosque had an “embittered tone”.
He even added that the mosque could be “beautiful” rather than “functional”:

“In what could be an inspired move, the Tablighi Jamaat have recently appointed Allies and Morrison - the people behind the refurbishment of the Royal Festival Hall - as their architects for the proposed West Ham mosque,” he wrote.

In similar fits of gushing prose Bunglawala has previously accused British Jews, whom he referred to as ‘The Tribe of Judah’ as controlling the British media and refused to attend Holocaust Memorial day.