Sticky Bricky

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday January 22, 2003 17:49 by iosaf stickybricky at hotmail dot com

There are more ways to

lay a brick build a movement make a point protect a people speak your mind have your say stop a war and build a

Mosque.

Now for several days sticky bricky has been contemplating the newest proposed mosque in Northern Europe. It´s planning and construction have been known for over a year but only in this last while as the proposed Mosque for Northern Ireland´s muslims become an "issue".

Sticky Bricky likes "issues".

There are many ways to build a mosque but it must always point it´s worshippers towards Mecca, which is presently in the Royal State of Saudi Arabia.

There are many mosques serving english speaking muslims. The majority are in Britain. They are situated in Bradford and London.

In London there are many mosques attracting muslims from the whole range of Islamic belief.

In North London in the area of Finsbury Park where Arsenal hold their football ground there is a mosque which is well known.

In a five hundred metre radius of that mosque are to be found numerous and spacious Irish bars, an excellent bagel shop, a converted cinema which is the headquarters of a evangelical christian church, several west african owned taxi shops, the London Jewish School and lots of squats.

In that same five hundred metre radius there have been numerous weapons seized by the Metropolitan Police ranging from knives to automatic firearms consistently over the past ten years.

I once stood with a small group of Italians watching a crowd leave Finsbury Park, which is one of London´s most used open air venues. The crowd were leaving a performance held to mark Gay Pride Day 1999. On the steps of that mosque stood its clerics one of whom has been a regular front page tabloid face.

For a brief moment I and my Italian friends stood between Sodom and Mecca.

I am neither gay nor a muslim.

Those who wish worship any God or Rite of their choice are supposedly allowed the freedom to do so without prejudice or organised opposition.

Those who have openly admitted their homosexuality have done so often at great emotional cost, so it may frequently be with "autonomy that begins with self".

The movement which you are part of,
if you read these pages.
is a transnational peace anti-globalised hyper capitalist world.

But it is mostly centered in Western Civilised notions of value, morality, and ethics.

The Mosque in Finsbury Park will always be raided.
It provides homes obeying Sharia that is the law of the Prophet (PBUH) to all muslims who ask for it.

It´s role in communicating the political agenda of Hamas, Al Qaeda and the Taliban has never been a secret.

It´s role in providing homes and food to some of the most vulnerable of migrants has never been discussed.

Many Irish brickies went to North London in the 1960s.
They never had a vote to change the country they had left behind. But one which followed them and follows them to this day.
The Irish are arguably the largest ethnic minority in London.
Their life expectancy is on average five years less than their english born neighbours.
They have suffered the consequences again and again of flawed decision making in Dublin and London.

I will as "sticky bricky" continue this little letter soon.

admit that you know diddly eye squit shit about Islam.
I have in the last week left you some basic arabic vocabulary.
http://www.idleworm.com/nws/2002/11/iraq2.shtml