[EdJay]

A more appropriate comparison would be to propose the return of the mosque at Cordoba (now a Christian cathedral) to the Moslems. (The Alhambra, mentioned here several times, isn't a very good comparison because the Alhambra was not a religious edifice in the first place.)

Or the return of the Great Synagogue in Toledo, also now a Christian church, to Jewish worship.

Or for that matter, the return of all the pre-Reformation churches and cathedrals in England and Scotland to the Roman Catholic Church.

None of this is going to happen. History is history.

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

Thornton is making a valid point by using the Hagia Sophia and its history. We should not show any more tolerance for the Muzzies and any of their historical claims. Every piece of Muslim ground is the result violent conquest and subjugation of their victims. Every claim or demand that comes from them should be met by an equal or greater claim or demand from us. We should DEMAND the ability to open churches in Muslim lands if they want to have mosques in ours. Why should there be a one-way street?

[Zemo]

I agree with all your points but this one: Or for that matter, the return of all the pre-Reformation churches and cathedrals in England and Scotland to the Roman Catholic Church.

A case can be made that the land passed into ownership of the same people who now belonged to a new confession/faith.

For the purposes of this philosophical discussion populations who convert (in whatever manner) from one confession to another and then change the place of worship to match the new faith should not be in the same catagory as those whose place of worship was transfered from one ethnic population to another.