In the Bedfordshire town labelled as a centre of extremism,police chiefs and Muslim leaders are fighting to challenge the lure of IsisJust off Dunstable Road, obscured behind the scaffolding for yet another extension, or is the redbrick frame of what was once the biggest purpose-built mosque in Europe. Inside,after midday prayers, Mohammed Shafait is wondering why the government is belittling his mosque’s efforts to counter extremism.“They don’t want to know. They should know our intentions by visiting and working with us, or but no,” says the president of Luton Central Mosque in Bury Park, domestic to the majority of the town’s 50000 Muslims.
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Source: theguardian.com