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Muslims ask to worship at Cordoba [Spain's Cordoba Cathedral........]
Al Jazeera ^

Posted on 12/26/2006 4:30:30 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Muslims ask to worship at Cordoba More than a million of Spain's 44 million inhabitants are Muslims [GALLO/GETTY]

Spanish Muslims have written to the Vatican to demand the right to worship at Cordoba Cathedral.

Spain's Islamic Board wrote to Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday, calling on him to grant them permission to worship in the cathedral, parts of which were built as a mosque during Spain's period of Islamic rule.

The group said in their letter: "What we wanted was not to take over that holy place, but to create in it, together with you and other faiths, an ecumenical space unique in the world which would have been of great significance in bringing peace to humanity."

They said that senior Spanish Catholic clergy had earlier rejected requests for Muslims to be allowed to prostrate themselves inside the Cathedral.

Mansur Escudero, the board's secretary general, said security guards often stop Muslim worshipers from praying at the old mosque.

He said: "There are reactionary elements within the Catholic Church, and when they hear about the construction of a mosque, or Muslim teachings in state schools, or about veils, they see it as a sign we are growing and they oppose it."

Mansur said Muslims came from around the world to see Cordoba's Cathedral, which is still commonly known as the Cathedral-Mosque.

(Excerpt) Read more at english.aljazeera.net ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aljazeera; cordobacathedral; madrassas; mosque; mosques; pope; spain; veil
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To: muawiyah

Since their initial "request" was rejected, it's likely this second is a demand. Either way, the answer should be NO.


21 posted on 12/26/2006 4:44:05 PM PST by onyx (Phillip Rivers, LT and the San Diego Chargers! WOO-HOO!)
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To: Sub-Driver

NO!


22 posted on 12/26/2006 4:45:39 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Sub-Driver

"Greater Caliphate" alert!


23 posted on 12/26/2006 4:47:35 PM PST by Cincinna (HILLARY & HER HINO " We are going to take things away from you for the Common Good ")
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To: Digger
Hopefully this administration will be gone because this justice dept will grant them anything they want.

I'm not sure what your Bush-hating agenda has to do with anything on this thread.

24 posted on 12/26/2006 4:47:37 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Sub-Driver

Theb headline says muslims ask, but the article says they have written a letter demanding.
Wonder which it really is? sarc/


25 posted on 12/26/2006 4:47:57 PM PST by kalee (No burka for me....EVER!)
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To: Sub-Driver
If Spain doesn't agree, the murderous cult will blow up another train.
Spain might say they are now a Muslim country!
26 posted on 12/26/2006 4:48:47 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: SolidWood

lol


27 posted on 12/26/2006 4:49:55 PM PST by kalee (No burka for me....EVER!)
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To: Sub-Driver

What's Latin for "go p*** up a rope"?


28 posted on 12/26/2006 4:49:59 PM PST by Ronin (Ut iusta esse, lex noblis severus necesse est.)
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To: Sub-Driver
I'm doing something I've not done in a long time.......placing my faith in the Pope.

I hope Benedict stands strong.

This type of "reasonable" request if granted or not is going to start becoming the norm, time to set a precident......and tell them to go Pound Sand.

29 posted on 12/26/2006 4:51:16 PM PST by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: onyx
Could be. I'd really like to see what they said by having it translated to Russian and then German.

I'll guarantee it would pick up a totally different set of attitudes ~ probably equally confusing.

30 posted on 12/26/2006 4:51:27 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: PeteB570

Let’s hope that all remain strong in rejecting this “request”.

When the fear of men (and what they might do) is greater than the fear of GOD, the end is truly near!


31 posted on 12/26/2006 4:57:36 PM PST by doc1019
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine; ninenot; sittnick; A. Pole; Tax-chick; Cap'n Crunch; Convert from ECUSA
The Muslims will also have to allow weekly or even daily Tridentine Masses at the main mosques in Mecca, Medina and at the Dome of the Rock, each in chapels named for canonized Crusader saints. Can't we all get along???? Well, ummm, no, not actually.
32 posted on 12/26/2006 5:09:15 PM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: Andrew Byler

Hagia Sophia

AKA Aya Sofia, aka Emperor Constantine's monument to Greek Orthodoxy/Catholocism, no?

Having seen Cordoba, the answer should be no, no and NO.

Cordoba was the Islamic capital for a long time. This mosque is terribly important to control.


33 posted on 12/26/2006 5:10:26 PM PST by combat_boots (The MSM: State run Democrat media masquerading as corporations)
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To: Sub-Driver

Sure! When can I, an infidel, even visit Mecca or Medina? I hope Pope Benedict answers them forcefully and in the negative.


34 posted on 12/26/2006 5:10:33 PM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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To: Sub-Driver
"What we wanted was not to take over that holy place, but to create in it, together with you and other faiths, an ecumenical space unique in the world which would have been of great significance in bringing peace to humanity."

I wonder if this group would be willing to support such an ecumenical space in the church on Cyprus that had been converted to a Mosque after Turkey invaded in 1973.

I won’t hold my breath.

35 posted on 12/26/2006 5:15:38 PM PST by Pontiac (All are worthy of freedom, none are incapable.)
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To: Sub-Driver

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1758712/posts

About where the Basilica and Tomb of St. John used to be.......


36 posted on 12/26/2006 5:17:34 PM PST by combat_boots (The MSM: State run Democrat media masquerading as corporations)
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To: Sub-Driver
Islam has absolutely nothing to offer Western Civilization. They have no technology, no humanity and no civilization. What's the point in accomodating people who spend the better part of each day bumping their heads on the ground and forcing their women to retreat into the concealment of a bundle of rags known as a burka. We of the Christian and Jewish faiths do not have a reputation for beheading people and then claiming that it was the will of our diety.

No Western nation should strive to accomodate these murderous savages!!

37 posted on 12/26/2006 5:17:57 PM PST by davisfh
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To: muawiyah

Religious preference is not the same as ethnicity. Religious preference is a matter of choice whereas ethnicity is not.


38 posted on 12/26/2006 5:23:50 PM PST by Whispering Smith
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To: Sub-Driver
Spanish Muslims have written to the Vatican to demand the right to worship at Cordoba Cathedral.

Muslims already have the right to worship at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at the cathedral.

39 posted on 12/26/2006 5:24:31 PM PST by Peelod (Decentia est fragilis. Curatoribus validis indiget.)
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To: Ronin; ninenot; sittnick; ArrogantBustard
"Vade! Fac urinam usque ad funem."

Credits to the Latin teaching Mrs. Elk.

Rumor has it that, if necessary, Fra Tomas, the scourge of fleeing Muslims of yesteryear, will be sent back to finish the job of, ummm, inquiry leading to judgment without fear and appropriate punishment for the impudent who would defile Cordoba Cathedral. There may be a brief delay while our engineering division restores the instruments of correction so long dormant and neglected. Whatever orthodox Catholic high clerics who may remain in Spain will be asked to name an absolute monarch to replace the current constitutional and spineless socialist royal nuisance.

cc: First paragraph (Latin) to His Holiness Benedict XVI for use in his reply to the Muslims of Cordoba or whomever they are.

40 posted on 12/26/2006 5:25:49 PM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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