Sir, Councillor Alan Craig (letter, March 31) challenged the other London mayoral candidates to state their position on the proposed West Ham “supermosque”. I am more than happy to do so. I am opposed to the building of the mosque because it is promoted and funded by foreign sources that represent fundamentalist and extremist interpretations of Islam that are incompatible with Western liberal democracy. But I go further than Alan Craig in that as London mayor I would oppose planning permission for any new mosques in London until there are places of non-Muslim worship allowed in Mecca and Medina.

Moderate Muslims should support such a policy so that a message can be sent loud and clear to the extremists. Muslims must apply the same degree of tolerance to other religions in their heartland that they expect to be applied to them in non-Islamic countries.

Gerard Batten

Member of the European Parliament for London, UKIP

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