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| The Brixton Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre | |
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| Location | 1 Gresham Road, Brixton, South London, England |
| Capacity | 400 |
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The Brixton Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre (the "Brixton Mosque", or "Masjid ibn Taymeeyah") is located in Gresham Road in Brixton, South London, England, close to Brixton Police Station. The mosque has facilities for both men and women and space for 400 worshippers during prayer.
Opened in 1990, Brixton Mosque is one of the oldest mosques in South London. The mosque provides religious, social, and financial support to its members. In 2004, the mosque's imam, Omar Urquhart, himself a Black convert to Islam, said that 60 percent of the mosque's 500 members were Black converts.
The mosque's leader, Abdul Haqq Baker, had warned that terrorist "talent scouts" prey on mosques like the Brixton mosque in search of the young and unstable. He warned his congregation, "The recruiting has got out of control. Beware. It's your sons, your teenagers who are plucked into these extreme groups."
The mosque made international headlines when it was reported that after converting to Islam in jail Richard Reid, the so-called "shoe bomber", had spent much of his time at the mosque from 1996-98. Abdul Haqq Baker, chairman of mosque, told the BBC that Reid came to the mosque to learn about Islam, but soon fell in with what he called "more extreme elements".
Zacarias Moussaoui, who was convicted of conspiring to kill citizens of the USA as part of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, spent a great deal of his time between 1996 and 1997 and made his initial steps into radical indoctrination in Brixton Mosque, where he met future "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, though he was expelled from the mosque after he turned up wearing combat fatigues and a backpack, and pressured the cleric in an effort to get him to give Moussaoui information on joining the jihad.
Abdullah el-Faisal, radical Muslim cleric who preached in the UK until imprisoned for stirring up hatred and later deported to Jamaica in 2007, was associated with the Brixton Mosque and began preaching to crowds of up to 500 people, but was ousted by its Salafi administration in 1993. Afterward, he gave a lecture he called The Devil's Deception of the Saudi Salafis, scorning the Salafi Muslims, (especially the members of the Brixton Mosque), calling them hypocrites and apostates (takfir).
External links
- Official website
- "A view from the inside: Abdul Haqq Baker provides an account of the Brixton Mosque and the shifting perceptions towards it, since it was founded," Abdul Haqq Baker, Criminal Justice Matters, Volume 73, Issue 1 (September 2008), pp. 24-25
- Islam in London: Documentary about Brixton Mosque
References
- http://www.salaam.co.uk/mosques/searchmosque.php?orgcode=150
- Brixton Mosque & Islamic Cultural Centre, Museums, Heritage UK
- The New Frontiers of Jihad: Radical Islam in Europe, p. 180, Alison Pargeter, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, ISBN 0812241460, 9780812241464, accessed January 11, 2010
- God's continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's religious crisis, p. 224, Philip Jenkins, Oxford University Press US, 2007, ISBN 019531395X, 9780195313956, accessed January 11, 2010
- A pretext for war: 9/11, Iraq, and the abuse of America's intelligence agencies, p. 237, James Bamford, Random House, Inc., 2005, ISBN 140003034X, 9781400030347, accessed January 11, 2010
- Islamist and Middle Eastern terrorism: a threat to Europe?, p. 47, Maria do Céu Pinto, Rubbettino Editore srl, 2004, ISBN 8849808879, 9788849808872, accessed January 11, 2010
- BBC News | UK | Shoe bomb suspect 'one of many'
- A pretext for war: 9/11, Iraq, and the abuse of America's intelligence agencies, p. 237, James Bamford, Random House, Inc., 2005, ISBN 140003034X, 9781400030347, accessed January 11, 2010
- Al-Qaeda: in search of the terror network that threatens the world, p. 276, Jane Corbin, Nation Books, 2003, ISBN 1560255234, 9781560255239, accessed January 11, 2010
- Encyclopedia of modern worldwide extremists and extremist groups, p. 271, Stephen E. Atkins, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004, ISBN 0313324859, 9780313324857, accessed January 11, 2010
- Johnston, Philip (27 May 2007). "7 July preacher Abdullah El-Faisal deported". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 23 December 2007.
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