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  • The Ground Zero Mosque and Conquest

    06/16/2010 2:48:39 AM PDT · by Scanian · 2 replies · 214+ views
    The American Thinker ^ | June 16, 2010 | Vinod Kumar
    Having worked in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam and the home of its most extreme form, Wahhabism, I was shocked that a New York City neighborhood community board, in its ignorance, recently voted 29 to 1 to support a request to build a mosque and a Muslim center near Ground Zero. Muslims have always built mosques on the sites of their conquests. The Prophet Muhammad himself made the Ka'aba, a pagan pantheon, into a mosque after he captured Mecca in 630 CE. The Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem was deliberately built near the Temple Mount, the holiest places in...
  • Pope makes Turkish mosque visit ( and nearby Hagia Sophia Museum ) ( former Christian Church ? )

    11/30/2006 8:40:18 PM PST · by george76 · 54 replies · 3,951+ views
    BBC ^ | 30 November 2006 | BBC
    Pope Benedict XVI has visited one of Turkey's most famous mosques in what is being seen as an attempt to mend relations with the Muslim community. During his tour of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, the pontiff paused in silent prayer alongside senior Muslim clerics. It marks only the second papal visit in history to a Muslim place of worship. Earlier, the Pope visited the nearby Hagia Sophia Museum - a site heavy with Christian and Muslim symbolism - drawing around 150 protesters. The Pope spent half an hour in Hagia Sophia, a domed complex that was once a Christian...