UK: Supermosque for 70,000 'will be blocked'

Anti-dhimmitude in the UK. Note the Tablighi Jamaat involvement. "Supermosque for 70,000 'will be blocked,'" by Ben Leapman and Jonathan Wynne-Jones in the Sunday Telegraph

Controversial plans to build a "supermosque" on the doorstep of the London Olympics will be blocked by the Government. Alan Craig, Newham councillor, concerned about the supermosque Alan Craig is concerned about the security impact.
Ruth Kelly's Whitehall department is expected to refuse planning permission for the London Markaz, which would be the biggest religious building in Britain with room for 70,000 worshippers.
Backers want the £300 million mosque, in east London, to serve as a reception centre for athletes and fans from Islamic countries during the 2012 games.
The group behind the plans is Tablighi Jamaat, a Muslim missionary sect whose charitable trust, Anjuman-e-Islahul Muslimeen, has owned the 18-acre site since 1996. Tablighi Jamaat was called "an ante-chamber for fundamentalism" by French security services. Two of the July 7 London suicide bombers are believed to have attended one of its mosques.
The organisation denies any link to terrorism, and has never been banned....
Until now, it was thought that planners would rubber-stamp the proposed mosque, which was agreed in principle in a 2001 deal between Newham Council and Anjuman-e-Islahul Muslimeen.