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[quote]Asalaamualykum everyone,

In response to the following news headlines:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/8608282.stm

I just thought I'd add... Muslims are not supposed to attach themselves to
place, right? Nor person- nothing physical. As long as it gets the job done- and
clearly, a green coloured circular dome originally copied off the Jewish
synagogues of Jerusalam during the Umayyad dynesty is not getting the job done
1300 odd years later.

I mean- now that our traditional symbols for mosques is literally getting shot
to pieces, we can maybe revert our understanding of mosques to serve as
'functional' rather than 'symbollic'.

For example, if I were to ever make a mosque, I'd totally give it the Will
Allsopp- (Peckham Library) look.

http://thelunaticarms.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pecklib460279-glow.jpg

With a big buzzing hollywood-esque 'MOSQUE' sign twirling slowly at the top...

And the only reason I'd ever even consider having a minaret, is if I could put a
water slide on it. With a wudu area at the top, (imaam cant even give adhaan in
this country anyway, might as well get a nice view of the city while washing his
feet) and the super cool water slide all the way down to the mimbaar. Wudu and
transport all in one. Maybe not even a wudu area required- water slide does it
all. Lift access round the back. Theme park and Mosque ALL IN ONE.

Maybe that way kids will finally start coming to the mosques.

And no one's gonna start shooting a theme park.

Maybe even non-muslims will use it between prayer times on Saturdays. And while
the kids queue up for the 'wudu slide' we could play some Dawud Wharsnby
innocently in the background (Allah made us all...a different shade and
colour...*not just green*...)

You may notice that I'm choosing to take an angle on this which is completely
not addressing the humanitarian issue of firing at a place of worship, no matter
what it looks like. All I'm saying is, we make the new mosques so crazy and so
unorthodox, that our dear retiring green capped uncles run for the green capped
yorkshire hills- letting us make some real changes in our new societies without
any 'good old green domed days' infuriority complexes.[/quote]

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