A Muslim scholar who has courted controversy in Islamic circles for his progressive views on women has stepped into the equally fiery territory of contemporary architecture.
Taj Hargey is an imam and the director of the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford who is best known for allowing men and women to pray together and for discouraging veils. He describes himself as a "thorn in the side of Muslim hierarchy".
Now he is risking a similar status in architecture after weighing into the long-running row over plans for a giant mosque on the Olympic fringes. [Islamophobia Watch] Read more
