Villagers Try to Block Athens Mosque Plan
It was meant to showcase Athens as a modern, multi-ethnic city in the year that it stages the Olympic Games. Instead, a plan to erect the first mosque serving the capital since the end of Ottoman rule has unleashed a row pitting the reform-minded government against the Greek Orthodox Church.
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| Matt Hood |
Muslims are not tolerent of anyone but of other muslims. They all need to stay in muslims countries and to stop sluming in the west which you call us the devil which it means they are living in hell if they live amoung us. For God's sakes don't come toTexas. Texans tend to hit people in the mouth when they are being insulted. I get the feeling the arabs are like the illegal mexican nationals, who are trying to plant their seeds all over the world. I hope the day comes when in America, we have a West Bank or Gaza Strip on American soil. We the people will drive the muslims to the sea, if they try to take over America. Washington will have no say on the matter-period!
We don't need them and we will not call them who are back stabbers towards America who are guilty of economic treason to all of us in America whom Congress have sold us out for 30 pieces of silver. |
6/14/2008 |
| Matt Hood |
The Saudis are building their places of worship for their brand of Isam; which, produces people like Osama Bin Laden. Why don't they pay the people who work in his oild fields, who are not being paid very well, who are Muslims. Why don't they pay their help like the American's who live and work in Saudi Arabia. It is their mosque in Pakistan who are making sure Al Queda and Osama Bin Laden get to live and eat well. They are not going to allow Ben Laden to appear in a American court. We should send them a bill for a trillion dollars for helping Ben Laden to stay a free man, who is not hiding in Pakistan. He is living in a free soceity sourrounded by his friends. Strangly enough it was Ben Laden who complained about how the west was robbbing the muslim nation out of cheap oil, who wanted 100 dollars a barrel or more. Washington thinks Ben Laden is hiding for his life like the illegal aliens are in America. They have lost their mind! Why are the Muslims coming to the west to live. I would think that they would want to live in Muslim country near Mecca. |
6/14/2008 |
| david |
IF IT IS MUSLIM DOCTRINE TO DESTROY CHRISTIANS WHY WOULD ANY
CHRISTIAN NATION ALLOW THEM IN THEIR BORDERS? i wish my country would adopt the same policy |
7/20/2006 |
| Christine |
In terms of overall morality, Islam and Christianity might be considered nearly identical. There is a general agreement as to what is right and wrong, fair or unfair. Even divorce which is permitted in Islam but forbidden by Christ is nonetheless seen as undesirable by Muslims. Sexual equality is at least theoretical in both religions. Christians and Muslims also share many practices the most important of which is prayer and worship. It is in theological issues where the greatest differences exist. The nature of the person of Christ is absolutely central here. Islam not only denies that the Word came as flesh but also affirms that it came instead as the Qur’an. For Christians this must be the utterly fatal flaw of Islam (1 John 4:2). Word Count 2130.
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6/16/2006 |
| eleni |
There is no Mosque in saudia Arabia yet the Saudi government insisits we built a Mosque in Athens? but thats not really the biggest point.In Greece we are christians we belive in Jesus Christ.Moslims belive in Mohammed....The Koran and the bible are 2 completely different texts.I read both of them.The values that the koran instils in the people and the values their faith teaches are very different than our own.We have enough problems trying to teach our young the values of family and marriage... A mosque would cause distraction.
.For example on (Marriage and Divorce)
A Muslim may marry as many as four wives if he treats them equally (Q.4:3). In Islam marriage is positively enjoined with the explicit objective to avoid sexual temptation. Marriage is a legal contract sanctioned by divine law and in no sense a sacrament. (Sunni Muslims agree that a virgin may be forced to marry a man of her father’s choice; Shi’ites place the woman on equal legal footing.) The woman’s interest is supposedly maintained by the dowry given her by her husband and is an insurance against his divorcing her. The man may divorce his wife by pronouncing "I divorce you " three times interposed by a waiting times of three menstrual cycles to test for pregnancy. In the waiting times reconciliation is encouraged. A woman may initiate divorce but forfeits her dowry. A Muslim man is permitted to marry a Jew or Christian woman. The reverse is not allowed.
The Old testament patriarchs were polygynous though by Christ’s day monoginy was the rule. Christian societies have not permitted polyginy. Divorce is repudiated by Christ and marriage has traditionally been considered as lifelong and indissoluble unless the bond is broken by adultery (Matt 5:32). The Christian attitude to marriage has at times been ambivalent. Marriage is considered honourable (Heb 13:4) although Paul spoke of the advantages of singleness (1 Cor 7:7). Many in the early and mediaeval church saw sex as at best an obstacle to spirituality and worst as a sin. After the Reformation, however, marriage regained much of its status. In general marriage outside of the faith is discouraged for both sexes (2 Cor 6:14) and arranged marriages (let alone forced!) are rare in modern Christian culture.
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