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	Finsbury Park Mosque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Finsbury Park mosque in Finsbury Park, London, was built c.
		The mosque became associated with radical Islamism in the early 2000s, in particular related to its association with Abu Hamza al-Masri.
		On January 20, 2003 the mosque was raided by the Metropolitan Police, as part of the investigation into the alleged discovery of ricin in Wood Green.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finsbury_Park_mosque (375 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Finsbury Park
		Finsbury Park is a place in London, England, at the junction of the London Boroughs of Islington, Haringey and Hackney.
		The park itself is in the borough of Haringey, with the border between Haringey and Hackney running along the Seven Sisters Road (the A503) to its south-east.
		Finsbury Park mosque has become associated with Islamic extremism in recent years, with the Charities Commission expressing concerns about the management of the mosque, and its apparent use for political activities.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Finsbury_Park (958 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| The battle for the mosque
		"Finsbury Park Mosque should be considered one of the very rare success stories where the Muslim community and others came together and decided to rescue the mosque," says Dr Tamimi.
		But while Finsbury Park is now viewed largely as a success story, a small but increasingly outspoken group of British Muslims are calling for a rethink in the running of mosques.
		Community sources in Finsbury Park have complained to the BBC about the takeover, saying they feel they were not given a say.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/4639074.stm (1370 words)

	USATODAY.com - Seven terror suspects arrested in mosque raid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		LONDON (AP) — Police using ladders and battering rams raided a London mosque — a known center of radical Islam led by a suspected terrorist — and arrested seven men early Monday in connection with the recent discovery of the deadly poison ricin.
		Mosque leader Abu Hamza al-Masri, whose fiery anti-Western sermons have led Britain to order him removed from his pulpit, was not arrested.
		A neighbor of the mosque, who gave his name only as Ali, said as many as 100 young men often slept at the mosque, working as cleaners, kitchen help or security guards in return for shelter.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-01-20-britain-arrests_x.htm (952 words)

	CNN.com - 'Mini-arsenal' find at UK mosque - Jan. 21, 2003
		The men held were believed to be "supporting or engaging in terrorist activity from within" the Finsbury Park Mosque.
		Finsbury Park mosque is the base of well-known radical cleric Abu Hamza.
		Finsbury Park mosque is the base of radical cleric Abu Hamza.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/europe/01/20/mosque.raid (591 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		LONDON (AP): Bustling with devotees gathering beneath the shadows of its minaret, the Finsbury Park mosque is buzzing with activity — a stark contrast to when it stood idle and empty after radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was arrested at his home.
		Al-Masri kept preaching outside the mosque until his arrest in 2004 when the United States requested an extradition warrant as the mosque battled other allegations that failed shoe-bomber Richard Reid and alleged Sept 11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui attended sermons.
		The mosque’s trustees said they had lost control to radical elements and were replaced by a new group of trustees last February.
	www.arabtimesonline.com /arabtimes/world/view.asp?msgID=6852 (657 words)

	North London Central Mosque Trust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Subsequent comments made by Abu Hamza in the media and publicly, where he was identified as the cleric of "Finsbury Park Mosque" led investigating officers to conclude that his actions and comments were detrimental to the interests and reputation of NLCMT.
		He caused or permitted the control of the Mosque to be taken over by his supporters to the exclusion of the trustees.
		That his continued unauthorised activities in connection with the Mosque of NLCMT prevented the proper use of the Mosque for its charitable purposes and was damaging its reputation; and
	www.charity-commission.gov.uk /news/mosqueinq.asp (2675 words)

	Finsbury Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Friends of Finsbury Park [1] (founded in 1986) publish a history of the park and organise a range of environmental and arts activities in the park.
		The surrounding area, especially that near Finsbury Park station, to the south of the park, may also be called by the name.
		Finsbury Park mosque has been in the news in recent years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finsbury_Park (889 words)

	CBS News \| Finsbury Park Mosque Tries to Move On (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		(AP) The Finsbury Park mosque stood idle and empty for months after it was raided by anti-terror police and its former preacher was arrested on charges of inciting murder and stirring racial hatred.
		The commission that oversees British places of worship banned al-Masri from the mosque that year after he allegedly said in one of his sermons that God had punished the crew who died in the Columbia space shuttle disaster.
		Ihtisham Hibatullah, a spokesman for the new trustees at the mosque, said trustees are declining interviews until al-Masri's trial finishes.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/01/15/ap/world/mainD8F5DO1O9.shtml (694 words)

	Turf war in Londinistan :Terrorists fight fellow Islamists to give Finsbury Park Mosque "a fresh start ": Reid, ...
		The fact is that a large number of worshippers were displaced from their mosque and wished to pray as near to the building as possible.
		Muslim hardliners who took control of the Finsbury Park mosque in north London were deposed at the weekend after allegations that opponents had been beaten and intimidated, the Guardian has learned.
		The mosque, closed in 2003 because of concern that those in control were too extreme, was reopened last August with new trustees.
	www.militantislammonitor.org /article/id/432 (5606 words)

	Family Security Matters
		Finsbury Park Mosque became notorious when the hook handed-cleric Abu Hamza took up residence there, intimidating the mosque trustees with threats of violence.
		Hamza preached jihad at the Finsbury Park mosque for years, saying that it was acceptable to kill unbelievers, but particularly to kill Jews, whom he described as "the first monkey and the first ape".
		But the mosque's trustees were co-ordinated by the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), who placed one of their senior members, Mohammed Sawalha (pictured) as one of the trustees.
	www.familysecuritymatters.org /global.php?id=490297 (1958 words)

	Britain hardens its stance on fundamentalism - theage.com.au
		The early-morning anti-terrorism raid on London's notorious Finsbury Park mosque this week reveals that the rules of the game have changed in Britain's struggle with Islamic extremism.
		Finsbury Park played a role in the emerging radicalism of "holy warriors," including Richard Reid, the al Qaeda "shoe-bomber" convicted of trying to blow up an American Airlines flight, and Zacarias Moussaoui, the Frenchman on trial for his alleged part in the September 11 conspiracy.
		On Monday evening, searchers were still inside the mosque, a busy gathering point in an immigrant neighbourhood full of Middle Eastern cafes, Pakistani grocery stores and money wiring services that attest to the population mix.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/01/21/1042911379533.html (877 words)

	Terrorist in Beslan school massacre came from Finsbury Park mosque in London: Omar Bakri Mohammed of Al Muhajiroun ...
		Hamza's mosque was home to Richard Reid, the dirty bomber, Zacharias Mossauoui, the alleged 20th hijacker, and James Ujaama, jailed in Seattle for aiding Al Qaeda.
		She told the Commons she was prompted by scenes of hardline Islamists torching the Union flag in a demonstration in April near Regent's Park in central London.
		Yasseen Rahman, a spokesman for the council of mosques in Luton, said although there was a small number of extremists within the community, not everyone should be regarded as suspect.
	www.militantislammonitor.org /article/id/294 (3253 words)

	New start for terror-tinged mosque - Islam in Europe - MSNBC.com
		The North London Central Mosque, formerly known as the Finbury Park mosque, holds an inter-faith meeting in the main prayer hall.
		LONDON — The Finsbury Park mosque, where the one-eyed, hook-handed militant cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri once delivered his fiery sermons and helped turn a religious facility into the target for dozens of international terrorism investigations, is going through a makeover.
		Now, far from being allegedly al-Qaida-linked, the mosque is quietly repairing its reputation from that of a hotbed of radicalism to one of a more moderate institution — albeit a mosque run by a group linked to the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood and with an alleged former Hamas commander as a co-trustee.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/13501930 (1492 words)

	Independent Online Edition > New Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The notorious Finsbury Park mosque became a breeding ground for terrorism during the six years that Abu Hamza held a "controlling influence" there.
		While he held sway, Finsbury Park mosque became a shelter for radical young Muslims arriving in Britain from abroad.
		When police finally raided the mosque in January 2003, they found an array of terrorist paraphernalia, including nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) protective suits, blank firing weapons, a stun gun and a CS canister.
	www.independent.co.uk /incoming/article343843.ece (1254 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Mosque in the spotlight
		The mosque is just a few yards from Arsenal FC Finsbury Park mosque has come under the spotlight several times for alleged links to Muslim terror suspects.
		The North London Central Mosque, based in Finsbury Park, is inextricably linked with its controversial cleric, or Imam, Sheikh Abu Hamza.
		The mosque, situated a corner-kick away from Highbury - the home of Arsenal Football Club - serves a diverse community of Pakistanis, Bengalis, Algerians and Egyptians.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1777503.stm (466 words)

	Finsbury Park London
		Finsbury Park is a place in London, at the junction of the London Boroughs of Islington, Haringey and Hackney.
		The large public park which gives the area its name was one of the first of the great London parks that appeared in Victorian times.
		Finsbury Park mosque had become associated with Islamic extremism in recent years, with the Charities Commission expressing concerns about the management of the mosque, and its apparent use for political activities.
	www.parksidehotel.com /finsbury-park.asp (442 words)

	War on Terrorism - 2064+: Re: London - Ricin Terror Scare
		Police in riot gear burst into the mosque in Britain's biggest anti-terror operation since the September 11 attacks, arresting seven people as part of a wider probe into the discovery of ricin poison.
		Armed with battering rams, dozens of officers stormed Finsbury Park mosque and two neighboring houses in the early hours of the morning as helicopters circled overhead, shining bright lights on the buildings.
		Trotter added that searches were continuing at the mosque, officially known as the North London Central Mosque, and were focusing on computers and documents, some of which had been seized.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/investing/81407/742743 (871 words)

	frontline: al qaeda's new front: map: u.k.: interview - abu abdullah \| PBS
		What attracted me to Finsbury Park is because there was a struggle, and in Islam, one that has belief in Allah, he must incur some hardship or struggles according to his belief.
		The mosque, suspected of promoting radical ideals, was raided by police and shut down for a year.
		Because people may have visited Finsbury Park masjid doesn't mean that they was affiliated to Sheikh Abu Hamza and Abu Hamza gave them some kind of instructions, as it's been portrayed to the media.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/front/map/abdullah.html (1922 words)

	SupportersOfShariah.com
		Other, recent, famous British Islamists/terrorists from the Finsbury Park Mosque are Moussaouri, the '20th hijacker' and shoe-bomber suspect Richard Reid.
		Finsbury Park mosque, near London's Arsenal soccer stadium, is emerging as a common link between the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington and Osama Bin Laden, the man believed to have masterminded the attacks.
		Beghal lived in Finsbury Park in the late 1990s and used to pray at the local mosque.
	www.geocities.com /johnathanrgalt/SupportersOfShariah_com.html (1011 words)

	Western Resistance: UK Islam: Faces Of Fanaticism Part One
		It was then revealed by Scotland Yard that Finsbury Park Mosque in North London, where Hamza had preached, had a cache of starting pistols, a stun gun, forged passports and forged driving licenses, which were concealed behind a ceiling tile.
		Reda Hassiane, the MI5 "plant" at the mosque between July 1999 and November 2000, claimed that he was told by the intelligence agency that it was "not interested" in prosecuting Hamza for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred, the crimes for which he was convicted last week.
		Britain's approach to terror in mosques is alienating the public, and America should be aware of this, and not fall into the same trap.
	www.westernresistance.com /blog/archives/001647.html (923 words)

	C4 News - UK - Terrorism - Finsbury Park mosque stash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Around 150 officers stormed into Finsbury Park mosque in north London in the early hours of the morning, hunting for men who police say are involved in terrorist activities.
		But the leader of the mosque, Abu Hamza al-Masri, has called the raid a "barbaric desecration" and a sign of police racism.
		There have been requests in the past to raid this mosque on allegations that it was being used to raise funds for terrorist networks.
	www.channel4.com /news/2003/01/week_4/20_mosque.html (426 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Police seize weapons in mosque raid
		Anti-terrorist police who burst into the Finsbury Park mosque in north London early yesterday found weapons including a stun gun and hundreds of suspected forged or stolen passports, identity and credit cards.
		Sheikh Abu Hamza, the radical Muslim cleric who has been closely associated with the mosque since 1996, was not there at the time and has not been arrested.
		It was ordered by Scotland Yard after evidence mounted of links between men staying in "offices" in the mosque and an alleged terrorist network uncovered by police following the discovery of traces of the poison ricin in a flat in Wood Green, north London.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/21/nmosq21.xml (393 words)

	UK mosque raided over ricin link - theage.com.au
		Police swooped on a north London mosque linked to Islamic radicals, arresting seven people in what a top police officer called a "successful raid" linked to the discovery of deadly ricin in a London apartment two weeks earlier.
		The operation was the most dramatic in a string of recent anti-terrorist raids in Britain, after many months of bitter complaints by Britain's EU partners that the city had turned into "Londonistan" - a lair for Islamic extremists.
		The red-brick mosque, in a residential neighbourhood close to the Arsenal football ground, is best known for its Egyptian-born fundamentalist imam Abu Hamza al-Masri, 45, a supporter of Afghanistan's fallen Taliban regime.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/01/21/1042911374831.html (434 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Hard-line cleric faces expulsion from Finsbury Park mosque
		The Charity Commission is preparing to use its banning powers under the Charities Act to end Hamza's occupation of Finsbury Park mosque, a registered charity.
		The mosque is alleged to be a meeting place for al-Qa'eda activists and other Islamists.
		Yet despite the mosque's involvement in radical politics and a succession of inflammatory statements by Hamza, the Home Office and the police say they have been powerless to act.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/17/nhamz17.xml (807 words)

	channel4.com - Trouble at the Mosque
		Clerics such as Abu Hamza at Finsbury Park Mosque have caused great damage to the reputation of Muslims in Britain by advocating violence against non-Muslims.
		These kind of financial abuses are particularly worrying for the community as Muslims are extremely generous in their donations to mosques.
		Trouble at the Mosque looks at three shocking cases where men have abused children they have met through their association with different mosques.
	www.channel4.com /life/microsites/T/trouble_mosque (278 words)

	New Imam Calls for Help in Catching Bombers: Free Muslims Coalition
		The new imam at the Finsbury Park mosque, once a hotbed of radical Islam, had a message for those who gathered for prayer on Friday, a day after four bombs killed at least 49 people: help identify the bombers, he told them.
		In many ways, Finsbury Park is a microcosm of Britain's Muslim community: a traditionally immigrant neighborhood that has housed Irish and Italians as they arrived and moved up in British society.
		The Finsbury Park mosque cannot prevent Muslims with extremist beliefs from coming to pray, but they can no longer use the premises for other activities, said Muhammad Kozbar, the new secretary of the mosque's board of trustees.
	www.freemuslims.org /news/article.php?article=757 (1097 words)

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