Here is the full version of a story which appears in the print edition of today's Daily Telegraph:
Ken Livingstone has promised to turn London into a “beacon” for the
words of the Prophet Mohammed in a sermon at one of the capital’s most
controversial mosques.
Mr Livingstone, Labour’s candidate for mayor of London, pledged to
“educate the mass of Londoners” in Islam, saying: “That will help to
cement our city as a beacon that demonstrates the meaning of the words
of the Prophet.” Mr Livingstone described Mohammed’s words in his last
sermon as “an agenda for all humanity.”
He praised the Prophet’s last sermon, telling his audience: “I want
to spend the next four years making sure that every non-Muslim in London
knows and understands [its] words and message.” He also promised to
“make your life a bit easier financially.”
Mr Livingstone was speaking at last Friday’s Jummah prayer at the North London Central Mosque, also known as Finsbury Park Mosque, formerly controlled by the terrorist recruiter Abu Hamza.
Hamza was removed in 2003 but the mosque is now controlled by an
Islamist organisation, the Muslim Association of Britain, which has been
linked to the banned terror group, Hamas. A man who has acted as spokesman for the current leadership, Azzam Tamimi, is on record as supporting suicide bombings. One of the mosque’s current directors, Mohammed Sawalha, is described by the BBC
as a former senior figure in Hamas who “is said to have masterminded
much of Hamas’s political and military strategy” from his post in
London.
In 2009 Mr Sawalha also signed the Istanbul Declaration
which calls for attacks against the allies of Israel, which include the
UK. The British Government interpreted it as calling for attacks on
British troops.
In 2010, the Labour MP Khalid Mahmood, a Muslim moderate, resigned from
the mosque’s board of trustees and reported it to the Charity
Commission, accusing the mosque of forging his signature on key legal
documents.
Mr Livingstone has been dogged by allegations of links to Islamic
fundamentalism. In 2010, in the London borough of Tower Hamlets, he campaigned against his own party’s candidate to back a controversial independent politician, Lutfur Rahman, sacked by Labour for his links to a Muslim extremist group, the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE).
During his mayoralty, Mr Livingstone’s London Development Agency channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds to the East London Mosque in Tower Hamlets, controlled by the IFE, even though senior LDA managers strongly opposed the grant. In return, IFE activists campaigned strongly for him at the 2008 mayoral elections, boasting that they "got out the vote" for Mr Livingstone and achieving dramatic swings to him in their east London heartland.
Mr Livingstone also gave thousands of pounds of public money to the Muslim Welfare House, a charity closely associated with the Finsbury Park Mosque, which signed an open letter backing his re-election campaign in 2008.
In his last sermon, delivered in the valley of Mount Arafat, near
Mecca in 632 AD, the Prophet Mohammed attacked discrimination, saying
that “a white has no superiority over a black nor a black has any
superiority over white, except by piety and good action.” However, he
also said that men had a right to ensure their wives “do not make
friends with anyone of whom you do not approve.”
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewgilligan/100144946/ken-livingstone-i-will-make-london-a-beacon-of-islam/
By: golem
In: World News
Tags: Ken, Livingstone, Islam, labour, party, beacon, communist, leftist, UAF, radical, tower, hamlets, English, Defense, League
Location: London, England, United Kingdom (UK/GB) (load item map)
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