This is certain to be interpreted as a warning that physical violence could be unleashed against Muslims unless the dissenters get their way and defeat plans to build a mosque on the Olympic site in Stratford, East London.

The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, attacked another online poll being run at the same time, on the "thisislondon" website, which is also being pushed on the BNP's website.

Ken Livingstone said the poll was "aimed at stirring up communal hatred by spreading entirely false statements about plans for a new mosque in East London."

The mayor accuses opponents of spreading false propaganda by claiming £100m of public money would be pumped into the mosque, when there are no plans to spend any public money on the project.

Ken Livingstone said the false  claims were "clearly designed to deliberately whip up communal hatred and contain content that is entirely untrue.They are clearly being spread in an organised way for unscrupulous political reasons.”

He added: "There is no proposal to use any public money at all for such a mosque; there is no link between plans for a mosque and the Olympics; and, as widely reported, there are actually no plans for a mosque on the scale claimed in the email."

However the Downing Street petition, with its implicit threat of far-right attacks on Muslims, is potentially even more serious. Over 30,000 people had signed the petition this morning.

Islamic Times is encouraging readers to complain to the Prime Minister over the reference to "terrible violence and suffering" if the mosque is built. Please email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and ask for these words to be removed or failing that, the whole petition taken off line.