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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (46116)	9/24/2010 3:02:39 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

What do you mean? What the Vatican (or the city of Rome for that matter, but I think you mean the former) does in regards to churches or mosques or just about anything else, wouldn't provide proper reason to infringe on the constitutional rights of Christians. That's more obviously true for Protestants (who have no special connection to the Vatican), but its also true for Catholics (who are not responsible for the pronouncements of the Pope or the College of Cardinals). Like the Protestants and the Vatican, many Muslims have no special connection to Saudi Arabia, or Egypt. Saudi doesn't even server as the organizing structure for a large subset, there isn't a hierarchical formal structure for Islam as a whole or for most parts of it. There are respected and/or powerful religious figures, but they aren't the head of Islam the way the Pope is the head of the Roman Catholic Church. In simple terms there is no equivalent of "Rome" to ignore in this situation.