[A. Pole]

Excuse me, but in the sense in which you used it in the post I was responding to, it most certainly is.

I find it it deeply insulting. The mosques are NOT churches.

[Old Student]

A church is a place where many people go to worship god, and where some go to be seen and heard. So is a mosque. So is a synagogue. You may be insulted, but you're also wrong. Further, as I said before, there is only one religion allowed in Saudi Arabia. Not no religion, as in the former Soviet Union, and not religious freedom, as in the USA. Your point that Saudi Arabia was a good example of separation of church and state is flatly wrong.