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HAHHAHAHAHA! Right, now it's not a good time to build anything!
Now it's demolishing time only
If you are in a riot against the state's complacency with the global banking system perhaps. By the way, how are things in Greece these days? Is it a safe place to live? I have relatives there, including a certain anti-austerity politician. I wish I still had the money to make regular donations to International Orthodox Christian Charities.
I think as likely as a Saudi mosque in Moscow. Last I heard on that one Putin's words were "We will allow it when we can build an Orthodox cathedral in Mecca".By the way, how likely is it that a mosque will be built in Athens any time soon? The Turks would hopefully see that as a diplomatic gesture.
I think as likely as a Saudi mosque in Moscow. Last I heard on that one Putin's words were "We will allow it when we can build an Orthodox cathedral in Mecca".
Non-Muslims of ANY sort are not allowed near Mecca.
Why did church and government officials in Greece originally show support of a mosque in Athens? Personally, I don't have an opinion either way whether one should be built, but I think that multiculturalist Westerners should be understanding of the history involved before condemning Greeks for opposing a mosque.
By the way, how likely is it that a mosque will be built in Athens any time soon? The Turks would hopefully see that as a diplomatic gesture.
Hopefully never. That Mosque which would have been funded by saudi money and atleast partially by the broke greek government's treasury is not for those of Turkish background. Most of the Turks and musims of greek citizenry reside north in the Thrace region.
This mosque is to appease the illegal alien criminals. Since the western Europeans love them so much they can go there. They should be happy that the Suleiman Mosque in Rhodes is still a Mosque inspite of the fact that it was built on the ruins of the ancient church of the Apostles. Even though there is hardly any Turks in the old city (or elsewhere), its being restored and its minaret remans the tallest structure in the fortress.
Lucky I dont live there, i would have toppled that satanic structure from greek land long ago.
Lucky I dont live there, i would have toppled that satanic structure from greek land long ago.
Gallup poll
John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed present data relevant to Islamic views on peace, and more, in their book Who Speaks for Islam? The book reports Gallup poll data from random samples in over 35 countries using Gallup's various research techniques (e.g. pairing male and female interviewers, testing the questions beforehand, communicating with local leaders when approval is necessary, travelling by foot if that is the only way to reach a region, etc.).[1]
There was a great deal of data. It suggests, firstly, that individuals who dislike America and consider the September 11 attacks to be "perfectly justified" form a statistically distinct group, with suddenly more extreme views. The authors call this 7% of Muslims "Politically Radicalized".[1] They chose that title "because of their radical political orientation" and clarify "we are not saying that all in this group commit acts of violence. However, those with extremist views are a potential source for recruitment or support for terrorist groups."[31] The data also indicates that poverty is not simply to blame for the comparatively radical views of this 7% of Muslims, who tend to be better educated than moderates.[31]
The authors say that, contrary to what the media may indicate, most Muslims believe that the September 11 attacks cannot actually be justified at all. The authors called this 55% of Muslims "Moderates". They applied the same label to an additional 12% who said the attacks almost cannot be justified at all. To be clear, 67% of Muslims were classified as Moderates, meaning 26% of Muslims are not quite Moderates, and the remaining 7% are Politically Radicalized. Esposito and Mogahed explain that the labels should not be taken as being perfectly definitive, however (e.g. there may be individuals who would generally not be considered radical, although they believe the attacks were justified, or vice versa).[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_of_Peace#Gallup_poll
According to this Gallup poll, the largest of its kind, a majority of the world's Muslims are moderate in their attitudes:
BBC NEWS | Americas | Most Muslims 'desire democracy'
I wonder if this means that a majority of Muslims support the rights of Christians in Islamic lands.
I hope so, if not the world is going to turn into a battlefield yet again...
Something that many Westeners don't realize is that a major reason why there are extremist, despotic governments in the Middle East is either because they were created by Western colonialism or were formed in reaction against Western colonialism. An obvious example is how Iran's government was formed as a revolution against the American-installed Shah.
1953 Iranian coup d'état - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I know a little bit about how Syrian Jacobites, Copts, and Armenians at least initially reacted to Islam's overtaking of the Byzantine empire. In the decades that followed, many welcomed Islamic rule as the lesser evil compared to the persecution suffered under Byzantine rule. Perhaps the Middle East would still be Christian today if these Christian brothers had come together for mutual protection instead of clinging to past dogmatic disputes.
When I post about these issues, it is simply to become more enlightened as to what went on historically. As a student of history, I don't mean to and I am sorry to have offended anyone.
What is so special about mosque's?
I was invited to a mosque and told to remove my shoes. As if my shoes, walking on land, was offensive to a building built upon the same ground I walked. The ground Jesus walked in the temple. Who decides walking on ground is bad when they do the same daily?
Some witnesses say that when Constantinople fell, the Turks would believe the books of the Ancient Greek Philosophers and those of the Holy fathers to be worthless, and you could buy 10 of them for ridiculously low prices.
(I believe that was what caused the humanist Aeneas Silvius to say that when Constantinople fell, Homer and Plato died a second death).
What about the reputation of Islamic Baghdad and Spain being a place of learning and tolerance? Is the "golden age of Islam" a Western myth?
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