A British planning lawyer and self-styled ‘mosque buster’ claims he is fighting to stop the ‘tide of Islam’ by successfully blocking plans for the building of mosques across the UK.
Gavin Boby, once linked to the far-right English Defence League (EDL), said he had already blocked plans for 16 out of the 17 mosques being built. Under the banner of the Law and Freedom Foundation, he calls for people to come to him for free professional legal help in opposing mosque proposals and claims that Islam encourages paedophilia, sexual abuse and pimping.
He claims to help followers resist planning applications for mosque developments by raising opposition with councils. The 48-year-old said in a video posted online, “If anyone out there knows of an application for a new mosque, a cultural centre for some phoney community centre or some multi-faith or inter-faith harmony institute then let me know”. Boby, from Bristol, runs a planning consultancy but also provides legal assistant for those who oppose mosque developments, according to the Sunday Times.
On the foundation website he claims to have stopped the construction of 16 out of 17 mosques in total. These include mosques in York, Blackpool, Bolton, Ealing and one in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, which was to replace ‘the beautiful old Jolly Sailor Pub’, according to the site. Boby reportedly launched the service with a mock-up of the Ghostbusters logo-swapped for Mosque busters-in which the ghost was replaced by ‘hate preacher’ Abu Hamza. The website’s ‘about’ section explains the three threats to the survival of state authority in Britain and Europe. The third, it reads, is, “Ethnic division, particularly between Islamic and non-Islamic society, and the violence at the heart of Islamic doctrine.