[TheConservator]

The problem with the Muslim's appeal to the historical use of the Cathedral as a mosque is that it has no logical stopping point. Spain, North Africa, and much of the middle east were Christian for seven centuries before they became Muslim. As the Pope correctly pointed out, under the Muslim's logic, he would be entitled to assert rights in virtually every significant or historic mosque in these areas.

The only reasonable approach is based on the principle that, once the status quo has reached a point where it is generally accepted as such (100 years?), it controls.

And in any event, there is never a bad time to tell those moon god worshipping, barbaric sand monkeys to stick it in their ears.

[MegaSilver]

And in any event, there is never a bad time to tell those moon god worshipping, barbaric sand monkeys to stick it in their ears.

Most of them can probably be helped. It is the leaders, the radical upper and middle classmen, who probably cannot.

[WOSG]

"The problem with the Muslim's appeal to the historical use of the Cathedral as a mosque is that it has no logical stopping point. Spain, North Africa, and much of the middle east were Christian for seven centuries before they became Muslim. As the Pope correctly pointed out, under the Muslim's logic, he would be entitled to assert rights in virtually every significant or historic mosque in these areas."

And it goes both ways, that wonderful Hagia Sofia (sp?) in Constantinople, and there is certain Mosque in Jerusalem that used to be the holiest temple in Judaism... Not to mention that a certain stone structure in Mecca used to be used to worship the moon Gods and Mary mother of Jesus!!!! :-)

[thatcher]

As the Pope correctly pointed out, under the Muslim's logic, he would be entitled to assert rights in virtually every significant or historic mosque in these areas.

Call For Incorporating Sharia Into International Law
Posted by MegaSilver
On News/Activism 04/30/2004 2:28:30 PM EDT

Sharia to be enforced by Canadian courts
From the right ^ | 11/25/03 | Lawrence Auster

European Dishonor, Sharia on the Old Continent
National Review ^ | December 3, 2003 | Lorenzo Vidino & Erick Stakelbeck

And in any event, there is never a bad time to tell those moon god worshipping, barbaric sand monkeys to stick it in their ears.

And don't forget that they are also children sacrificers. Every time that they blow innocents up with their murderous bombs in the name of Allah; they are making a blood sacrifice to their god.

Once it is clear that the war of self-defense is one of  tous azimuths, that should put an end to America turning-the-other-cheek and sweetness-and-light (which, until now, has been the policy), and that the constraints, for example, on a wide range of policies (including a complete ban on Arab leaders being able to send their children to the West for education, or counting on Western medical care -- they cannot be allowed to cherry-pick what they take from the West, while they make our own lives much more unpleasant, difficult, expensive, and dangerous. And anyone who gives it a week's thought can no doubt come up with many ways to defeat the Jihad, or limit its impact, other than this quixotic project of making Islam something it never has been, and is the most unlikely candidate for ever being.

One still does not know to what degree the folly of the "democracy in Islam" project will continue, but those who were completely behind the smashing of Saddam, and especially of his military power, and then for a quick withdrawal to leave Iraq to whatever the people in it could make of it, have been vindicated. It is through chaos and confusion and collapse, and only thus, that within the Muslim world there will be a slow recognition that Islam itself is the problem, not the solution, that Islam itself is the political, economic, moral, and intellectual failure that, without Western foreign aid or OPEC money, it would be seen to be.