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Friday 9 February 2018

February 9, 1555 John Hooper Burned in Gloucester

A fervent Puritan John Hooper examined all of his clergymen and found that some did not even know the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments or the Apostles' Creed. He set out to remedy this, and to educate the people, preaching every day, often up to four or five times. He was known for his kindness to the poor. The people of Gloucester loved him. In spite of that, under the new government his marriage cost him his position as bishop; and his views on the Lord's Supper (the Eucharist) and other doctrines, cost him his life.

On February 9, 1555 he rose up early in the morning, when it was still dark, to pray.
When it was light, he asked that no one be allowed into his room until the hour of his execution, as he wished to continue in prayer.
If only he would change his religious opinions he could spare his life.
 "If you love my soul, away with it!"
he exclaimed, repeating the words for emphasis. Though his executioners had strict orders not to allow him to preach to the crowd he still could reach them with his words and asked the people to pray the Lord's prayer with him, which they did. 

The reeds that were supposed to kindle the fire were so wet they had to rebuilt the fire three times.
The stump of the stake at which he was burned was rediscovered in the twentieth century and shown to the curious.

His writings influenced generations of Puritans and evangelicals.

Thursday 6 March 2014

Arson attack carried out on Stevenage Central Mosque

At Stevenage Central Mosque, Vardon Road, sometime between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, on February 26th 2014, an extractor fan in the mosques toilet’s was smashed and flammable liquid was poured in and set alight.
Salman Lone, executive committee member for the mosque, said: “This is a major incident. It’s the worst thing that has ever happened to the mosque since it was set up 14 years ago.
“Fortunately the fire was unable to spread but there’s still a lot smoke damage to the building which we’re doing everything we can to clean up.
“People are concerned, confused and cross about the whole thing because a lot of them cannot understand why this has happened.
“We want to show solidarity with everyone in the community and demonstrate that this sort of thing is wrong.”
In April 2013 as in 2011 a mosque  in the former school building at Tureluurshof, Enkhuizen, Netherlands, was also the target of arson.

In May 2013 police also had already to condemn a cowardly and disgraceful petrol bomb attack on an Islamic centre in Bletchley.
On the 24th of May 2013 Bletchley mosque ad a bottle of petrol thrown onto the roof of the Zainabia Islamic Centre, commonly known as the Granby Mosque, on Peverel Drive.

In June 2013 petrol was also poured around the door of the Masjid-E-Noor mosque on Ryecroft Street in Gloucester and set on fire in an attack.


> Possible arson attack on Stevenage Mosque



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