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2003-09-28 Europe

After France, Italy Threatens To Close Mosques

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-09-28 10:51|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Mosques are places of worship and if you close them because someone who committed a crime happened to enter the mosque then by the same logic we would have to shut down Churches frequented by members of the Italian mafia...

Good point. But the mosques go first, since unlike the Mafia, they have no interest in collecting protection money.

And until the day Don Corleone(TM) announces to the world, they will destroy the infidel and that includes murder of innoncent people, and destruction of property having nothing to do with that agenda, Christian churches will remain open.

Posted by badanov 2003-9-28 11:05:50 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2003-9-28 11:05:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Why not send them back to their homelands to look for "bread and work"?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-9-28 11:06:44 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2003-9-28 11:06:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Tree: 70 ft tall. High-voltage power line: 150 ft tall. Amusing premature explanations: priceless.

Posted by Tom 2003-9-28 12:01:10 PM|| 2003-9-28 12:01:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Oops! That was for the Italian black-out story.

Posted by Tom 2003-9-28 12:04:02 PM|| 2003-9-28 12:04:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Don't close the mosques and force the clowns underground. Let ehem say what they want in public, and monitor who is saying what and who is listening.

In our country I would deny Wahabists the use of reiligious visas but allow moderate sects of Islam to continue to use the program.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-28 12:06:09 PM|| 2003-9-28 12:06:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Religious visas? We have religious visas, huh? What for? Why is a visa to the US issued on religious grounds? To gawk at the Mormons? Study the scam techniques of TV Preachers with perfect hair? How to abuse mascara? I can imagine all sorts of goofy crap in other places full of "holy" shit that some might think justifies such a distinction... What, pray tell, is the reasoning behind the US issuing such a thing? Do we happen to have the 6,537th most Holy Shrine of Islam somewhere in Iowa?

How bloody inane.

Posted by .com 2003-9-28 12:39:48 PM|| 2003-9-28 12:39:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 It is sad to see that a minister of the Berlusconi government thinks that muslims come to Western Countries 'to find bread and work'.
Billions of billions of dollars that we pay to arab countries for oil would allow them to absorb all the possible workforce and to trigger an industrial revolution. Instead the masses of muslims are sent to invade Europe and America (after invading in the past centuries Asia and half of Africa)...
It's the invasion, stupid.

Posted by Poitiers 2003-9-28 1:59:54 PM|| 2003-9-28 1:59:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Religious visas? We have religious visas, huh?

The U.S. certainly does -- R visas, given to people who enter the US to work in religious schools, etc. The wife of a person we recently interviewed for a position had an R-1 visa: she taught Hebrew at a Jewish private school. Nice lady, too. I don't know the ins and outs of the visa process, but apparently the US has a class of visa for just about any situation.

Posted by Steve White 2003-9-28 3:23:29 PM|| 2003-9-28 3:23:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 R-visas work for the Catholic church who needs to import religious personnel who are interested in celibate life. Not a popular choice among American youth.

Unfortunately, R-visa are also a popular way to import Jihadis.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-28 4:00:02 PM|| 2003-9-28 4:00:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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