The mosque, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, serves Great Britain's largest Muslim community, accommodating more than 7,000 worshippers. The chairman of the Mosque and its Centre, Abdul Bari, responded to the Inquiry's call for evidence of bias or prejudice against the Muslim community in press reporting. Abdul Bari gave as example a highly defamatory attack on himself on the Daily Telegraph website. The offending material had been taken down following his protests.
