Churches have joined together to protest against plans for a mosque that would tower over the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, with one minister describing it as a “supremacist statement” for Islam.
A collective comprising every church in Camberley, Surrey, has lambasted plans for the giant mosque, warning that will create only “division and discord” in the town.
The proposal has already caused security concerns in military circles as the mosque includes 30m (100ft) minarets that would overlook Sandhurst.
The planned mosque lies just 360m from the academy, where hundreds of newly commissioned Army officers take to the parade ground each year for their passing out ceremony. The event attracts senior members of the Royal Family as well as important military figures.
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Posted March 11, 2010 at 6:01 am
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2. Henry Greville wrote:
Perhaps as the Muslim population of Britain increases our native British Christian friends can begin to empathise, genuinely, with the feelings of the native peoples of North America as the Christians who came to North America from Europe started installing their culture. March 11, 9:25 am | [comment link] |
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4. teatime wrote:
Oh my. My good friends live in Camberley and I’ve been there. I can’t imagine a giant mosque towering over the area, sigh. It’s such a lovely, quaint place. I’m glad the churches are fighting this! March 11, 1:19 pm | [comment link] |
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6. TridentineVirginian wrote:
#5 - because your remark doesn’t sound like something a Christian would say. |
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7. Henry Greville wrote:
Dear TridentineVirginian, your username and use of the term “Dowry of Mary” - which honestly I have never heard or seen before in my nearly 60 years - tells me we don’t even have the same understanding of “the Church” and its authority. Also, I have lived for years in American communities that have included Muslims and even mosques, and none of the Muslims I have encountered have supported or advocated terrorism or the wiping out any of us who are have been their neighboring “infidels”: whether Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, or whatever else. Frankly, I worry more about what Scientology does to people’s lives and souls than Islam. March 12, 11:23 am | [comment link] |
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I hate to say it, but the “Norman Conquest of England” is going to pale compared to what it appears that the history books will eventually record as “The Great Islamic Conquest of England.”
Unfortunately, the ghost of Neville Chamberlain’s lives on in the hearts of far too many Brits. You can’t establish “peace in our times” with those who have a fanatical intent on destroying you. The English (Europeans in general) seem to have developed a touch of amnesia where the experiences of past generations are concerned.
March 11, 8:03 am | [comment link]