Dan posts #5 I 'get' the reality here: The mosque - at the very least - is in poor taste, but there isn't anything anybody do about it.That sort of situation, in which the irrational types can't compete with what's rational - often results in such conspiracy nonsense---like these clowns who would love for you to believe that Al Quaada is getting offices in downtown NYC.But look, we already have plenty of nuts looking to enforce their religious values on the rest of the country.Dan posts #55:Do you seriously believe that is a real risk if the muslim folks put up a mosque near ground zero? Dan posts #76 Why does believing that somebody has a right to build a church ----however in poor taste --- mean that there's some sort of ideological alignment? To me, that seems a fundamental right. I think I read that somewhere. Ok then. So muslims who want Sharia law have that freedom of speech to. Build the mosque!No. I'm a common sense catholic. Not a crazy one. Dan,For whatever reason you are always averting to yourself as Catholic. It seems you want a mosque built. But what disturbs me is the intolerance of Muslims. There is a huge colony of diplomatic and business people residing in Riyadh, the capitol of Saudi Arabia, including a great number of your fellow Catholics.Since you believe in the construction of mosgues, how about going public and demanding that the Saudi Arabian government take immediate steps to allow a Catholic Church to be built on extra-territorial ground in Riyadh so that your co-relgionists may fulfill their religious duties? Why should Muslims be able to worship at a mosque here in the US, while your fellow Catholics have no church in Riyadh?Where is the reciprocity from them?
Dan posts #5 I 'get' the reality here: The mosque - at the very least - is in poor taste, but there isn't anything anybody do about it.That sort of situation, in which the irrational types can't compete with what's rational - often results in such conspiracy nonsense---like these clowns who would love for you to believe that Al Quaada is getting offices in downtown NYC.But look, we already have plenty of nuts looking to enforce their religious values on the rest of the country.Dan posts #55:Do you seriously believe that is a real risk if the muslim folks put up a mosque near ground zero? Dan posts #76 Why does believing that somebody has a right to build a church ----however in poor taste --- mean that there's some sort of ideological alignment? To me, that seems a fundamental right. I think I read that somewhere. Ok then. So muslims who want Sharia law have that freedom of speech to. Build the mosque!No. I'm a common sense catholic. Not a crazy one. Dan,For whatever reason you are always averting to yourself as Catholic. It seems you want a mosque built. But what disturbs me is the intolerance of Muslims. There is a huge colony of diplomatic and business people residing in Riyadh, the capitol of Saudi Arabia, including a great number of your fellow Catholics.Since you believe in the construction of mosgues, how about going public and demanding that the Saudi Arabian government take immediate steps to allow a Catholic Church to be built on extra-territorial ground in Riyadh so that your co-relgionists may fulfill their religious duties? Why should Muslims be able to worship at a mosque here in the US, while your fellow Catholics have no church in Riyadh?Where is the reciprocity from them?
There's a problem with your premise; you're comparing the USA with Saudi Arabia. They're not exactly the same boots in the box. With the former, there exists (or, well, there is supposed to) a certain freedom of expression, religion, and within limits, the freedom to build what you want. With the latter, there isn't.
Two different countries, two different set of laws.
Further, if I may offer an answer to your question; I would assume that he would naturally desire some reciprocity for his fellow Catholics, but I would think that it comes down to the fact that Saudi Arabia is not his country, and it would be like the Saudi Arabians or Chinese telling us what to do or how to act.
Continuing on, you ask, "Why should Muslims be able to worship at a mosque here in the US?"
Well, quite simply, we have freedom of religion, Saudi Arabia doesn't. Though, the last I heard the Pope was talking with SA's King about possibly having a church built.
Life is tough and you won't always get that reciprocity, even if you feel it is right. You don't get what you want sometimes. The best thing we can do is to not base our arguments off of emotions or things similar to it.
