LONDONISTAN: 423 NEW MOSQUES, 500 CLOSED CHURCHES (Friday Church News Notes, April 7, 2017, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) – The following is excerpted from “Londonistan,” Giulio Meotti, The Gatestone Institute, Apr. 2, 2017: “‘London is more Islamic than many Muslim countries put together’ according to Maulana Syed Raza Rizvi, one of the Islamic preachers who now lead ‘Londonistan’ as the journalist Melanie Phillips has called the English capital. … Londonistan, with its new 423 mosques, is built on the sad ruins of English Christianity. The Hyatt United Church was bought by the Egyptian community to be converted to a mosque. St Peter’s Church has been converted into the Madina Mosque. The Brick Lane Mosque was built on a former Methodist church. Not only buildings are converted, but also people. The number of converts to Islam has doubled; often they embrace radical Islam, as with Khalid Masood, the terrorist who struck Westminster. The Daily Mail published photographs of a church and a mosque a few meters from each other in the heart of London. At the Church of San Giorgio, designed to accommodate 1,230 worshipers, only 12 people gathered to celebrate Mass. At the Church of Santa Maria, there were 20. … ‘In another 20 years there are going to be more active Muslims than there are churchgoers,’ said Keith Porteous Wood, director of the National Secular Society. Since 2001, 500 London churches of all denominations have been turned into private homes. During the same period, British mosques have been proliferating. … The Wahhabis control six percent of mosques in the UK, while the fundamentalist Deobandi control up to 45%. … London is also full of sharia courts. There are officially 100. … The British ambassador in Saudi Arabia, Simon Collis, converted to Islam and completed the pilgrimage to Mecca, the hajj. He now calls himself Haji Collis.”