Editing Brixton (section)

===Brixton Mosque===
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The [[Masjid ibn Taymeeyah]], or Brixton Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre, is located in Gresham Road, close to Brixton Police Station. The mosque has facilities for both men and women and space for 400 worshippers during prayer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.salaam.co.uk/mosques/searchmosque.php?orgcode=150 |title=Brixton Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre |website=Salaam.co.uk |access-date=20 June 2010 |archive-date=17 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100817131918/http://www.salaam.co.uk/mosques/searchmosque.php?orgcode=150 |url-status=live }}</ref> Opened in 1990, it is one of the oldest mosques in south London. The mosque provides religious, social and financial support to its members.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.totaltravel.co.uk/travel/greater-london/london-south-west/brixton-stockwell/attractions/heritage/brixton-mosque |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209092851/http://www.totaltravel.co.uk/travel/greater-london/london-south-west/brixton-stockwell/attractions/heritage/brixton-mosque |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 December 2008 |title=Brixton Mosque & Islamic Cultural Centre, Museums, Heritage UK |website=Totaltravel.co.uk}}</ref>

The mosque made international headlines when it was reported that [[Richard Reid (shoe bomber)|Richard Reid]], the so-called "shoe bomber", had attended the mosque. [[Abdul Haqq Baker]], chairman of Brixton Mosque, told the BBC that Reid came to the mosque to learn about Islam but soon fell in with what he called "more extreme elements".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1729022.stm |work=BBC News |title=Shoe bomb suspect 'one of many' |date=26 December 2001 |access-date=27 April 2010 |archive-date=2 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091202171047/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1729022.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Zacarias Moussaoui]], who was convicted of conspiring to kill citizens of the US as part of 11 September 2001, terrorist attacks, made his initial steps into radical indoctrination in Brixton Mosque, where he met Reid, though he was expelled from the mosque after he turned up wearing combat fatigues and a backpack, and pressured the cleric to give him information on joining the ''[[jihad]]''. [[Abdullah el-Faisal]], a radical Muslim cleric who preached in the UK until imprisoned for stirring up hatred and later deported to Jamaica in 2007, was associated with the Brixton Mosque and began preaching to crowds of up to 500 people, but was ousted by its [[Salafi]] administration in 1993.<ref name="Telegraph07">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/25/npreach125.xml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071227161116/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2007%2F05%2F25%2Fnpreach125.xml |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 December 2007 |title=7 July preacher Abdullah El-Faisal deported |access-date=23 December 2007 |last=Johnston |first=Philip |date=27 May 2007 |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London}}</ref> Afterward, he gave a lecture he called ''The Devil's Deception of the Saudi Salafis'', scorning the [[Salafi]] Muslims (especially the members of the Brixton Mosque), calling them hypocrites and [[apostate]]s (''[[takfir]]'').<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF0sI6xgh-M&mode=related&search= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130720095856/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF0sI6xgh-M&mode=related&search= |archive-date=20 July 2013 |url-status=dead |title=Video of lecture 'The Devil's Deception of the Saudi Salafis' |website=[[YouTube]]}}</ref>