Plans to build a mega-mosque in London West Ham have had to be put on hold for the time being after it was discovered that the land on which it is to be built, was once the site of a butchers shop.
A spokesman for the group who wants to build the mega-mosque, Ali-s bin-Wankin, told In Seine News today; "we bought this land in good faith and had plans to build a large community complex in time for the 2012 Olympics in London. We were led to believe that the ground had not been built on since the blitz, when a row of shops received a direct hit from a doodlebug [V1 flying bomb]. There had certainly been no development there for over 50 years and apart from the occasional house brick and piece of scrap metal, the ground was clear for development."
"An estate agent calling himself Mr Kipper [something fishy about that] approached us and asked us if we would like to buy a building plot for the rain very reasonable price of £100,000 for 55,000m² - that is under £1 per m2. We thought it was an offer that we could not refuse them so we bought it off him. We thought that Allah(pbuh) was being most merciful to us and was giving us a base to operate from. We were even given planning permission from the local council to build a large community centre.
Once we got our hands on the deeds to the land, we looked at them and indeed discovered that there were indeed a row of shops there until the war. One of them happened to be a butchers shop with its own abattoir in the garden and it can be safely assumed that there are a huge quantity of pigs buried there!"
"With a name like West Ham, we should have known better!!!"
The group is now considering selling the land for a knockdown price of £99,000.
