The “Mail” article is a rehash of the same old nonsense that the Christian People’s Alliance, Lawyers Christian Fellowship and Christian Voice have been putting about since June 2006. Michael Gove MP took it up once, and promptly dropped it; Pauline Neville-Jones ought to know better.

Islamist fringe elements attend mosques. Wow! Trostkyites sell papers outside Trade Union meetings and Bears shit in the woods. That does not mean that trade unions are trotskyite organisations, nor that the woods are full of Bear shit.

The picture is of model covering the whole site, whose effective function is to provide ammunition for opponents. It was made by Architects who used to work for the site owners, but don’t any more.

A planning application in 2001, for a mosque less than a third the size ofthe model, was refused for perfectly good Town Planning reasons of inadequate vehicular and pedestrian access to the site. The site owners have yet to solve those problems and have not submitted another planning application for new building.

If they ever do, they’ll be entitled to have it considered fair and square. So would you and I if we submitted identical plannning applications.

“And this is relevant to women’s educatonal opportunities in what way?”
The OP was clearly using the story of these courageous women as a stick to beat anti-imperialists with. The relevance is that the occupation forces, being so widely disliked, are in bad position to help or support women going to school because doing so will encourage people to associate Western feminism with Western bombings.

There is nothing apparent about it, unless apparent has changed its meaning.

You might like to get the news organisations straight about this.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1053877/Revealed-Muslim-bomb-plot-gangs-links-mega-mosque-east-London.html

The article is on another issue but there does seem to be a plan and it does, apparently, appear to be connected with building a Mosque.

But what has this got to do with extending equal educational opportunities to Moslem women? Either you do or do not wish it. Hardly a complicated idea.

There is a site in Beckton, next to Kingsford School, that once had two planning permissions for Mosques. Not much money raised and no Mosque. It is me, apparently not you, that takes every opportunity to refute the myth that there is a mega-mosque planned at West Ham.

And this is relevant to women’s educatonal opportunities in what way?

Please do not misquote me.

I did not write “I take every opportunity to refute the myth that there is a …” At least be more careful how you contextualise a quotation.

Pakistani controlled Kashmir. His home region was subject to Indian Army shell fire on one return visit.

It was at this kindly man’s home that I ran into my first Islamist. I was subjected to a smiling interrogation about the failures of western civilisation for twenty or twenty five minutes, much to my friends embarrassment – hospitality had been violated I suppose.

All this happened long ago. I do not wish to identify anyone so you will have to trust me. I could give dates and so on but the thread is about extending education opportunities to Moslem women. Why is that an issue for men, do we think?

Don’t talk shit.

The Allied forces are targeting the Taliban – who are not the people who are being liberated. They are the oppressors, who have been overthrown.