Dudley's central mosque Fanatic Opposition in Bringham Great Britain
10 April 2015 From the section UK Politics Dudley's central mosque is not big enough, the town's Muslims say "An icon of division" is how one of the parliamentary candidates in Dudley describes the proposed location for a replacement mosque. He, along with many others, wants the town's Muslims - part of the community for over 50 years - to build somewhere else. Sounds reasonable? Perhaps. Mind you, on at least three previous occasions over the past 10 years, Dudley Borough Council has asked Dudley Muslim Association to switch sites, only for the alternative location to fall through. That's fed a suspicion that local politicians would really rather it wasn't built at all. At Friday prayers this lunchtime, I watched as families arrived at the existing mosque. Court case It's a former Church of England School, with a couple of small minarets placed on top of the old chimney stacks, and a metal gateway inscribed with its...