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Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Mount Zion Methodist Church

“. . . idly wondered if among those churches-transformed-into-mosques any had been Methodist.” ponders Hugh in this post. 
When Lowry painted the scene below in Clitheroe Lancashire 80 years ago the building on the right was the Mount Zion Methodist Church.
Once the Medina Islamic Society have got the dosh together by next year it will be the Clitheroe Masjid.
To be fair it hasn’t been used as a church since 1940 and in between it has been a munitions store and a hijab factory. Planning permission for conversion to mosque was granted, in the face of vocal local opposition in December 2006 but with the approval of the local Methodist minister. However the condition is that the outside must remain unchanged other than the cross being removed – no dome, no minaret, no call to prayer.

Posted on 12:49 PM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
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7 Oct 2008
Hugh Fitzgerald

"get the dosh together"

If they collect the money during Ramadan, would that make it "the Ramadan dosh"? 



7 Oct 2008
Esmerelda Weatherwax

I can't help it if I'm not posh.
They could use a cosh, to get the dosh to buy the nosh. Gosh! 
Am I talking tosh again?  .



7 Oct 2008
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[It is with some reluctance and an expectation of knuckle-rapping that I bring forward this Muslim Methodist epistle.  It may be noted that neurologic exam "tongue twisters" include not only the pramish, "rugged rubber baby bumpers" but also "Methodist Episcopal" -R ]
 
Ding Dong, The Wicked West Is Dead
Or 95 Fedayeen At The Door
Or: Doshing Through The Snow Of Lancashire
Or: The Old Rubber Cross 
 
Dear NER:
 
The call to answer the door will be brought forward allah the installation of a Ramadan Lama Ding Dong*.
Guests in transit from India's Puneic*** Wars to serve on a jury of Peerbhoy's*** or to assist in the appeal process for Mike "Hogwash" Hawash*** will stay at Clitheroe's ("Is that, too, a clitic possessive?" said the man in the punt -Ha-Ha) Lancashire Ramadan Inn.
 
By the Wadi, EW's delightful use of "dosh" et allah reminds me that "reactionry" (Death be upon him!) left out "...cosh, lolly (money, literally 'red stuff')...." **  in his condensation of Geipel's comments regarding "Gypsie" dialects.  We prefer allah Hitler (Praise be upon him!), to call them, to wit or to pickpocket, - Ha-Ha - "The People of the Crook".
 
Best Destroy The West,
Dost "Dosh" Muhammad
 
 
 
 
 


7 Oct 2008
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Doshing Your Hopes
 
And another thing: no more Shakespeare, no more cosmetics, no more "Ding-Dong, Beard/Bard of Avon calling!"
 
- Dost Muhammad


7 Oct 2008
Paul Blaskowicz

However the condition is that the outside must remain unchanged other than the cross being removed – no dome, no minaret, no call to prayer.

And how long will it be before those restrictions are tested in court as unreasonable? 

"The text of the Qur’an is replete with verses inviting us to use our intellect, to ponder, to think and to know, for the goal of human life is to discover the Truth which is none other than worshipping God in His Oneness." - Clitheroe Masjid site

Yeah, right.

I was so moved by this and all the other obfuscatory taqiya  that I immediately sent them a donation... 



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