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Finsbury Park mosque in Finsbury Park, London, England was built c.1990 to serve the large Muslim population in the area. The mosque became associated with radical Islamism in the early 2000s, in particular related to its association with Abu Hamza al-Masri. Download high resolution version (576x768, 106 KB)Finsbury Park Mosque, adjacent to Finsbury Park, photo by Salim Fadhley. ...
Download high resolution version (576x768, 106 KB)Finsbury Park Mosque, adjacent to Finsbury Park, photo by Salim Fadhley. ...
Finsbury Park is a place in London, England, at the junction of the London Boroughs of Islington, Haringey and Hackney. ...
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A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم) is an adherent of Islam. ...
Tulip Mosque in Ufa, Russia. ...
Islamism refers to a set of political ideologies derived from various conservative religious views of Muslim fundamentalists, which hold that Islam is not only a religion, but also a political system that governs the legal, economic and social imperatives of the state. ...
Abu Hamza al-Masri Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri (born 15 April 1958) is a fundamentalist Islamic cleric and one of the most distinctive radical Islamic figures in the United Kingdom. ...
The Charity Commission expressed concerns about the management of the mosque, and its apparent use for political activities. The Charity Commission is the government agency that regulates charities (and hence most churches) in England and Wales. ...
On January 20, 2003 the mosque was raided by British police, apparently as part of the investigation into the discovery of ricin in Wood Green. A number of men who were apparently living at the mosque were arrested. January 20 is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Castor beans The protein ricin (pronounced rye-sin) is a poison manufactured from the castor bean (Ricinus communis). ...
Wood Green, London N22, is a place in North London, England, in the London borough of Haringey. ...
On February 4, 2003, Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri was removed from his position as an agent of the mosque. February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
Abu Hamza al-Masri Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri (born 15 April 1958) is a fundamentalist Islamic cleric and one of the most distinctive radical Islamic figures in the United Kingdom. ...
On October 3, 2004, The Observer revealed that 46-year-old Kamel Rabat Bouralha attended the mosque. Bouralha, with UK citizens Osman Larussi and Yacine Benalia, were loyal to Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev. Basayev has boasted of training the men who took control of the school and wired it with explosives. Investigators believe that the three men, all Algerian-born, travelled to Chechnya from London to take part in fighting there in 2001. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
Chechen can mean: Chechen people, an ethnic group Chechen language Related to Chechnya This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Shamil Basayev Shamil Salmanovich Basayev (Russian: Шамиль Салманович БаÑаев) (born January 14, 1965) is a Chechen leading an armed group acting in the north Caucasus region of Russia, principally in Chechnya. ...
Like Bouralha, they are believed to have attended Finsbury Park mosque and to have joined the network of groups loyal to Basayev on arrival in Chechnya.
After the 2003 raid, the mosque was reclaimed by mainstream Muslims, who installed a new board of trustees and imam. The mosque now offers courses open to the general public, and weekly attendance has tripled.
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There is much more to Muslim history than military and political history; this particular chronology is almost entirely of military and political history. ...
Islamic architecture is the entire range of architecture that has evolved from Islam as a social, cultural, political and religious phenomenon. ...
Islamic tilework of the Shrine of Hadhrat Masoumah, first built in the late 8th century. ...
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The British capital of London was given the pejorative sobriquet Londonistan by French counter-terrorism agents in the late 1990s owing to the number of exiled Islamist groups that established political headquarters in the city, and from where they sought to overthrow Middle Eastern governments they considered oppressive or heretical...
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