The minaret vote

From the East London Advertiser comes further news of the progressive Islamisation of London’s East End, and the lengths to which Ken Livingstone is going to court the Muslim vote for tomorrow’s mayoral election. This story reveals that Ken has promised to help raise funds for a major revamp of the Brick Lane Jamme Masjid mosque — with a crucial addition:

That would include an overhaul of the interior of the Grade II listed structure, originally built as Huguenot church on the corner of Fournier-street, Spitalfields, in 1743, and later converted to the Jewish Maz'ik Adath synagogue. But the scheme controversially includes a huge new minaret that would tower over the Brick Lane conservation area.

The pavements on the corner of Fournier-street and Brick-lane would also need to be realigned to make room for the minaret. Its construction could also provoke anger among those who fear an irrevocable change in character to a building that has housed all three great monotheistic faiths without alteration for more than 350 years.

The height of this proposed minaret is no incidental matter. The fact that it would tower over Brick Lane is designed to make a powerful symbolic statement of the supremacy of Islam over that area and the subjugation of all non-Islamic creeds. Like the proposed vast Olympic village mosque, also in east London, it is thus in itself an act of jihad against British society. That is what Ken is endorsing.