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

Al Jazeera ^

[onyx]

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

[sageb1]

NO!

[Cincinna]

"Greater Caliphate" alert!

[Dog Gone]

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.

[kalee]

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

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

If Spain doesn't agree, the murderous cult will blow up another train.
Spain might say they are now a Muslim country!

[kalee]

lol

[Ronin]

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

[Kakaze]

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.

[muawiyah]

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.

[doc1019]

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!

[BlackElk]

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.

[combat_boots]

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.

[Rummyfan]

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

[Pontiac]

"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.

[combat_boots]

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

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

[davisfh]

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!!

[Whispering Smith]

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

[Peelod]

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.

[BlackElk]

"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.