A Suffolk town is expecting up to 100,000 Muslim pilgrims to descend on it for a festival planned by a fundamentalist mosque.
Worshippers from across the world are anticipated to attend the three-day ‘Ijtema’, or gathering, which is being organised by the Markazi Mosque in Didsbury, West Yorkshire.
Locals in Barham village, Ipswich, have called for the July event – set to take place at the Grade II listed Georgian manor, Shrubland Hall – to be cancelled.
They argue the village, with a population of around 1,600, will struggle to accommodate the thousands of people – which will also cause traffic jams.
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