It is being proposed to build a massive mosque that will hold 40,000 worshippers alongside the Olympic complex in London. The mosque and its surrounding buildings would hold a total of 70,000 people, only 10,000 fewer than the Olympic stadium, and be opened in time for the 2012 Games. The new three-storey building will be called the London Markaz (Arabic for centre) and many times dwarf the largest Christian place of worship, Liverpool's Anglican cathedral, which has a capacity of 3,000.

“It will be something never seen before in this country. It is a mosque for the future as part of the British landscape,” said Abdul Khalique, a senior member of Tablighi Jamaat, a worldwide Islamic missionary group that is proposing the mosque as its new UK headquarters.
The Sunday Times

Here is a little background on this missionary Islamic group:
Tablighi Jamaat: Jihad’s Stealthy Legions
Be warned… it is not exactly comforting reading.

Well, the proposed mosque was reported in several online newspapers, but I have yet to see any reaction from folks in London, or in the rest of the United Kingdom. I am wondering if they have all gone to sleep, or if this is just the usual reaction of the silent majority - silence, just nothing at all. Has the mighty lion buried its head like the ostrich, or is this the hopelessness of despair? Oh I hope not yet to the latter, nor an abandonment to confusion and ignorance to the former.

A friend living in London did not know of this proposed mosque, but thought it was hardly news… there are mosques everywhere now. Immigration in the UK was said to be out of control, and seemingly beyond correction. Thanks to this post-modern age of multiculturalism and the liberal political correctness that is ruthlessly stripping western civilization of its Judeo-Christian heritage, the Islamicization of Britain has already begun.

But while this is going on in Britain, there is something else going on in the midst of Islam.
Compass News Agency, reporting in Iran Focus News online, has this story:

Christian Activities ‘Out of Control’

Reportedly, this same official [a top official within the Ministry of Security Intelligence who spoke on state television's Channel 1 warning the populace against the many "foreign religions" active in the country and pledging to protect the nation's "beloved Shiite Islam" from all outside forces] participated in the extended interrogation of the 10 evangelical pastors, complaining that Christian activities in Iran had gone “out of control” and insisting that their church do something to stop the flood of Christian literature, television and radio programs targeting Iran.

Over the past year, prominent government leaders have publicly denounced Christianity, Sufism and Zoroastrianism as threats to Iran's national security.

Under Iran's Islamist regime, several ex-Muslims who converted to Christianity have been either assassinated or executed by court order, under the guise of accusations of spying for foreign countries.

Apostasy is listed along with murder, armed robbery, rape and serious drug trafficking as a capital offense in Iran.

During a speech to high school students in Tehran six months ago, Shiite cleric Hasan Mohammadi from the Ministry of Education declared, “Unfortunately, on average every day, 50 Iranian girls and boys convert secretly to Christian denominations in our country.”

After the speech, which was reported by the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency's correspondent Ramin Mostaghim on May 5, the father of one student in the audience told IPS that Mohammadi had “unknowingly admitted the defeat of the Islamic Republic of Iran as a theocratic regime in promoting its Islam.”

According to one Iranian Christian who spoke with Compass last week, “Neither the government nor the established churches can control what is happening spiritually across Iran right now.”

“We are hearing estimates that 60 percent of the Iranian people have now heard the message of Christ, even out in the villages,” the source said. Although many of the new Christians are young people, reports indicate entire families have come to faith in Christ and started worshipping in the privacy of their own homes.

“So really, the government can't do anything to stop the growth of Christianity in Iran,” he said. “It's out of control.”

Government officials in Iran admit Christianity ‘out of control.'

Admittedly, it is not good that a Christian lay pastor of the Assemblies of God Church, Hamid Pourmand, was arrested by the Iranian security police who refused to give any reason for his arrest and prolonged detention. At the time of this report, no one had been allowed contact with Pourmand since September 9 when he was arrested along with 85 other evangelical church leaders. But despite the persecution of Christians in Iran, the rest of the news is heartening.

A Christian friend has told me that an Iranian friend of his reports that secret church houses are popping up all over the place.
My friend went on to say that yet another friend just back from Peace Corps work in Kazakhstan had reported that Christianity is exploding there. Chinese Christians, in a project called “Back to Jerusalem” are preparing to send 100,000 missionaries into the Middle East (over a period of years, of course). He adds “Wouldn’t it be funny if Communist, atheist China was the source of the gospel penetrating the Muslim world?”

It is interesting how news travels in this way… reports sent on from friend to friend, an almost clandestine manner of sharing “underground” news of forbidden activities. In the Christian brotherhood where there is persecution we seek news that is passed on surreptitiously below the surface. Then as though carried by little creatures who scurry the course of myriad twisting turning burrows, the news pops up for air, divulged to soar on the winds of freedom. We breathe it in eagerly and with gratitude.

But will it be enough? Is it a terrible lack of faith to be so unsure?

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Edmund Burke