UK: Good news. London mega mosque plans fall through.

Jamaat Tablighi? You're outta here. ---->

From the Times UK:

Controversial plans to build Europe’s biggest mosque close to the London Olympics site have been halted, The Times has learnt. (Ed. Note: 2012 Olympic officials breathe sigh of relief.)

Tablighi Jamaat, the Islamic sect behind the proposal, is to be evicted this week from the East London site, where it has been operating illegally a temporary mosque (Ed. Note: For three years I might add.) and had planned a complex that would accommodate 12,000 worshippers. (Ed. Note: It was called a mega mosque for a reason. As originally planned it would have held FOUR more times than the largest Anglican cathedral in Britain.)

The Muslim Council of Britain said that the group had fallen victim to “unfounded hostility and hysteria”.

However, another Muslim organisation last night welcomed the move. Minhaj-ul-Quran, which advises the Government on how to combat youth radicalisation, said that a mosque should be a “community effort” and not the initiative of one group with extremist links.

About Tablighi Jamaat:

"Tablighi Jamaat is a global and ambitious organisation with a secretive, separatist nature. Its narrow medieval form of Deobandi Islam is deliberately hostile to the modern and open democratic societies of the West. Its frequent claims to be non-political and non-violent are at best a superficial cloak that hides a deeper agenda."

That deeper agenda includes:

Connection with terrorism plots, including the October 2002 Portland Seven and the September 2002 Lackawanna Six cases in the United States, as well as the August 2006 plot to bomb airliners en route from London to the United States, the July 7, 2005, London Underground bombings and the July 2007 attempted bombings in London and Glasgow, Scotland and the Shoe Bomber, Richard Reid.

Unfounded hostility and hysteria? I don't think so.