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THE £1.6MILLION MOSQUE .. AT HOOK'S JAIL
 BRITAIN'S toughest jail is to build a £1.6million mosque for prisoners including hook-handed preacher Abu Hamza. Muslim inmates at Belmarsh Prison, who include Hamza and other suspected al-Qaeda terrorists, have objected to praying in a multi-denominational chapel where they have to cover up Christian crosses. Now prison chiefs have controversially agreed to give them a separate place of worship with its own dome and minaret. Detailed plans for the 150ft x 150ft site on Yesterday Brian Caton, General Secretary of the Prison Officers Association, attacked the decision. He said: "We recognise the Prison Service's obligation to provide places of worship. However, we don't believe that spending a huge amount of money at this time is in the best interests of prisoners or staff. At a time when prison overcrowding is running wild, contagious diseases are massively on the increase and we have financial problems in prisons, to identify the £1.6million for a mosque for a single denomination is clearly wrong. What would serve prisoners better would be to expand existing areas to ensure that they can be used by all denominations. This is clearly a waste of money. The money should be used for something else worthwhile not so these people can pray in such luxury. Nobody else is having a new building built for them, we don't have a synagogue, for example." The source added: "This is political correctness gone mad just because they have kicked up a stink. This isn't a makeshift building, it's a full-on mosque. Staff are totally disheartened at pandering again to the prisoners."
Posted by: tipper 2004-11-09 |
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