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To: marshmallow

Israel should be doing exactly the opposite, nationalizing all non-Jewish religious sites. Once they do that, they can be very liberal about leasing them to whatever religion—as long as that religion exhibits “good behavior”.

If they get obnoxious to Israel, they can “lose their lease”, and the religious site can be leased to a different sect.

Importantly, this hits close to home with religions, and is a very tangible threat to them. In Saudi Arabia, the Wahhabi sect runs all the religious sites. But when they start agitating to overthrow the regime, the Saud threaten to take away the Wahhabi’s control over mosques and give it to the Sufi sect, which would be more than happy to take it.

This scares the Wahhabis half to death, so they behave themselves.

And the Israelis should do the same thing. If Israel took away the Wahhabi lease of the al-Asqa mosque and gave it to the Sufis, the Wahhabis would about poop themselves. And for their part, the Sufis would probably be exceptionally good and well behaved tenants.


3 posted on 05/02/2014 6:24:36 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

So the government of Israel should seize the religious property of non-Jews? Should they make the non-Jews wear identifying arm bands too?


5 posted on 05/02/2014 6:39:27 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Should Christian here do the same thing?


7 posted on 05/02/2014 6:50:29 AM PDT by Petrosius
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