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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (3778)	1/4/2007 6:46:06 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Spanish Muslim prays that Church will be a mosque Spero News ^ \| 02 January 2007 Anno Domini \| Martin Barillas speroforum.com:80/site/article.asp?idarticle=7292 A number of Catholic lay organizations of Cordoba and southern Spain expressed their unreserved support for the decision on the part of Bishop Juan José Asenjo to refuse to bow to pressures from the Islamic Council of Spain to turn a church into a mosque. Part of the cathedral in Cordoba was a mosque many centuries ago, but for some 600 years it has been a place consecrated to Catholic worship and the Mass. Mansur Escudero, president of the Islamic Council, demanded in December 2006 that the cathedral be converted into a “multi-faith” centre where Muslims would conduct formal prayer and worship. Hearing of the Bishop’s decision, Escudero spoke at a press conference on January 1st in front of the cathedral where he prayed on a carpet to “soften the heart of the bishop.” Felipa María Bautista, the president of the Forum for Christian Presence, said in response that “it makes no sense to take a share in Catholic worship in a cathedral” while criticizing Escudero for an “antagonizing” stance. Victoria Briceño told the ABC newspaper of Spain said as president of Catholic Action of Cordoba that her organization utterly supports Bishop Asenjo. Referring to Escudero’s request for a multi-faith center, Briceño said that “he should have done the same with the imams who bar Christians from entering mosques” while reminding him that “he doesn’t to call on journalists in order to pray.” Francisco Alcalde of the Confraternities and Brotherhoods of Cordoba also expressed his support for the bishop’s stance, saying that Escudero’s “prayer” merely “contributes to disunion, indeed it is inadequate.” Juan José Jurado, president of the Spanish Society for Nocturnal Adoration in Cordoba said that “the first step towards living together is mutual respect. The freedom and ease with which Muslims practice their religion in countries of Christian tradition, including Spain, is not in any way corresponded to Christians living in Muslim countries.” The vicar general of the diocese of Cordoba, Monsignor Santiago Gómez Sierra, said that Escudero’s request is “disproportionate”, while he also contrasted the freedom Muslims enjoy in Spain with the situation for Christians in Muslim countries. “It is saddening that the Catholic Church and the cathedral deanery of Cordoba, who are the owners of a temple consecrated to Catholic worship, should be subjected to such unjust and disproportionate pressures…Within the framework of a minimal amount of reciprocity, Muslims must consider to what extent they respect religious freedom where they are the majority.”

To: Oral Roberts who wrote (3778)	1/6/2007 3:00:39 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Shiite Happens ..... (Charles Krauthammer) NRO ^ \| January 5, 2007 \| Charles Krauthammer article.nationalreview.com Of the six billion people on this earth, not one killed more people than Saddam Hussein. And not just killed, but tortured and mutilated — doing so often with his own hands and for pleasure. It is quite a distinction to be the pre-eminent monster on the planet. If the death penalty was ever deserved, no one was more richly deserving than Saddam Hussein. For the Iraqi government to have botched both his trial and execution, therefore, and turned monster into victim, is not just a tragedy, but a crime — against the new Iraq that Americans are dying for, and against justice itself. In late 2005, I wrote about the incompetence of the Saddam trial and how it was an opportunity missed. Instead of exposing, elucidating and irrefutably making the case for the crimes of the accused — as was done at Nuremberg and the Eichmann trial — the Iraqi government lost control and inadvertently turned it into a stage for Saddam. The trial managed to repair the image of the man the world had last seen as a bedraggled nobody pulled cowering from a filthy hole. Now coiffed and cleaned, he acted the imperious president of Iraq, drowning out in the coverage seen around the world the testimony of his victims. That was bad enough. Then comes the execution, a rushed, botched, unholy mess that exposed the hopelessly sectarian nature of the Maliki government. Consider the timing. It was carried out on a religious holiday. We would not ordinarily care about this, except for the fact that it is in contravention of Iraqi law. It was done on the first day of Eid al-Adha as celebrated by Sunnis. The Shiite Eid began the next day, which tells you in whose name the execution was performed. (Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ....