[goldstategop]

Its politically incorrect to hear it from The Vatican. After all, every one knows Islam Is The Religion Of Tolerance. TM

[ladyinred]

This is true.

[pcx99]

Too many Islamic countries treat their Christian minorities as second-class citizens and bar them from building churches while Western states let their Muslims build mosques freely, according to a senior Vatican official.

Well... Duh!

[VOA]

Leading church figures have increasingly expressed concern about Islam in view
of friction between Muslims and Christians in Africa and the Middle East and the
difficult integration of Muslim minorities in traditionally Christian Europe.

Make that post-Christian Europe.
Which will be renamed Eurabia in fifty years, probably less.

America, take warning!

[freedom44]

Well said.

[reg45]

Second class?

Third, fourth, fifth or even tenth class would be more accurate.

[Doctor13]

The Saudis are going to build a mosque in Athens for the 2004 Olympics. Unfortunately, the Greek government doesn't have the guts (they will be accused of racism by the West) to say to them, "We will build your mosque in our country when you allow us to build our church in your country."

To add insult to injury, the Saudis want the mosque to face the Parthenon!

The Greeks were "dhimmitude" (subjugated)under the Ottoman Turks for over 400 years. The first thing the Turks did was to into the villages, cut off the heads of priests, and stick them on poles. During the Greek War of Independence in 1821 from the Turks, there was a battle whereby the Turks were held up in the Parthenon. When they ran out of bullets, they began to dismantle the Parthenon's columns which contained lead running through it. The Greeks, in their love for the Parthenon, sent a message to the Turks and said, "don't dismantle the columns! We will send you bullets!"

During my time in Saudi Arabia, the government wanted the Swiss to remove the Cross from their tail of their aircraft because it was offensive to them. The Swiss said that if they can't land at their airports, then the Saudis' can't land in Zurich and other Swiss airports. Furthermore, when the Saudis asked to build a mosque in Zurich, the Swiss said, "as soon as you let us build a church in Riyadh."

We keep hearing how the Koran instructs Muslims to take care of the people of the book, i.e., Christians and Jews. This, however, can only take place AFTER they have been conquered, and have "subjugated" themselves to Islam as being the superior religion.

What democratic countries do not understand is "Reciprocity!"

[dennisw]

Wake up pampered Vatican pooh-bahs. I think some progress is being made here. Perhaps it was (the idiot) idea of the Muslomaniacs to build a huge Mosque across from the Vatican. In your face proof the Vatican and Euro Christianity are imperiled.