[A. Pole]

The mosque anywhere in Saudi is the ONLY PLACE where you can have a group religious ceremony or gathering. At the same time the only religious practices authorized in mosques in Saudi are those of the official Wahabi sect of Moslems. Seems pretty simple to me ~ very straight forward ~ one church, one state, one people, one king ~ Louis XIV did it that way.

The mosque is not something like the church. And it does not need Louis XIV to rule. It already includes key elements of state laws, of political organization, and of a nation.

So while you can try to separate churches from state because churches in their own nature have concept of dual citizenship in Kingdom of Heaven, the mosque started as the conquest and political coup.

[muawiyah]

That's what I told you. But the differnce between the sort of rule Louis XIV demanded and what they do today in Saudi Arabia is miniscule ~ comes in the spelling of the words ~ pretty minor stuff.