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| Bavarian Mega-Mosque: Threat to Pork Eating Beer Guzzlers |
| 2006-12-11 |
| MUNICH: Helga Schandl says she has nothing against Muslims. For three decades, she worked in Munich's wholesale food market, where many of her colleagues were immigrants from Turkey. "I have experienced integration first hand," she said. They were faking it; Muslims want Shariah, not Schnitzel. Yet Schandl, a 67-year-old Bavarian, is leading a fierce campaign to halt plans to build a mosque in a working- class district here. "It is a provocation," she said of the mosque, which would sit across a graceful square from her Roman Catholic church - its minarets an exotic counterpoint to the church's neo-baroque steeples. "The mosque doesn't have anything to do with religion," she said. "It is a power play." In the many ways that Christians and Muslims rub up against each other in this country, the construction of mosques has become one of the most contentious. Symbols of a foreign faith, rising in the middle of German cities, they are stoking anti-foreign sentiment and reinforcing fears that Christianity is under threat. Why, Schandl asked, do the Turks want to build their mosque right here, on a site opposite St. Korbinian? Like churches everywhere in Germany, it is struggling to survive in a secular society. A few empty churches are being converted into banks or restaurants. Why? Because the Big Mosques will become mini-Reichstags. Then they take Berlin. For Onder Yildiz, a soft-spoken but intense leader of the Turkish community, the answer is simple: "A mosque next to a church helps intensify dialogue between the religions," he said. Yah, c'mon over for some pork ribs and Shine. On one level, Yildiz is right: St. Korbinian, and the mayor of Munich, Christian Ude, have welcomed the mosque, which would be the third, and most prominent, in Munich, the heartland of German Catholicism. But a vocal minority of residents has resisted, holding protest meetings, collecting signatures, and filing a petition with the Bavarian Parliament. "Bavarian life," the petition declares, "is marked by the drinking of beer and the eating of pork. In Muslim faith, both are unclean and forbidden." Already American Muslims have attempted to interfere with Campus drinking. The West is Dar-Harb (House of War) to the slaves of allah. With the support of Bavaria's conservative state government, the residents have been able to tie up the project in court. Mosques have existed in Germany for decades, but only in recent years has there been a building boom The Holy Ghost and Yahwah and Krishna disapprove. |
| Posted by:Sneaze Shaiting3550 |
| #14 Not in Riyadh.. in Mecca. And an old fashioned evangelical revival tent in Medina. |
| Posted by: john 2006-12-11 17:36 |
| #13 Let 'em build their Mosque--starting after the completion of a Roman Catholic catheral in Riyadh. This 'one-way street' crap has to stop. Bingo, GK. Reciprocity has got to be the watchword from now on. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-12-11 16:27 |
| #12 Empty churches, secular society equals low birth rate equals Eurabia equals decline of Western Civilization. Germans should go back to church and start making more babies. Maybe if someone threatens to take their beer they'll wake up. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2006-12-11 16:17 |
| #11 A mosque next to a church helps intensify dialogue between the religions," No, it indicates that Islam is supplanting the old region. It is a sign of conquest |
| Posted by: john 2006-12-11 14:56 |
| #10 My quote vanished Why, Schandl asked, do the Turks want to build their mosque right here, on a site opposite St. Korbinian? |
| Posted by: john 2006-12-11 14:54 |
| #9 The same reason there is a mosque opposite, to the side of, or built right on top of Hindu temples throughout India. |
| Posted by: john 2006-12-11 14:49 |
| #8 Helga: build a pig farm next ddor. Its working in TX. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2006-12-11 14:33 |
| #7 Turkey has waged a relentless attack against Christianity within its borders. Both Orthodox and Catholic congregations have been refused building permits for new structures and have even been denied permission to repair existing buildings. Three Catholic priests have been attacked in the last two years (one of them was shot to death), by assailants screaming Islamic slogans. The Turkish government still refuses to allow the Ecumenical Patriarchate to re-open an Istanbul seminary closed in 1972. Christian clergy are routinely denied a religious status by Turkish civil authorities; this requires non-Turkish priests to enter and leave the country on tourist visas. It is time the EU put its foot down hard on Muslim building projects within its jurisdiction. More power to the Bavarians for standing up to "dialogue"-demanding immams whose native lands openly repress Christianity and Judaism. |
| Posted by: mrp 2006-12-11 12:33 |
| #6 Every mosque constructed ourisde a muslim land must fund the construction of an alternate house of worship in a muslim land and pay for its protection and upkeep. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-12-11 11:37 |
| #5 Let 'em build their Mosque--starting after the completion of a Roman Catholic catheral in Riyadh. This 'one-way street' crap has to stop. |
| Posted by: GK 2006-12-11 11:04 |
| #4 Simple: Make beer and pork consumption central to a mandatory citizenship examination. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2006-12-11 09:48 |
| #3 Thats HUNGRY, D *** it, STARVING FOR GOD = FAITH LIKE A NORTH KOREAN, NOT merely "desirous". |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-12-11 01:23 |
| #2 STAR TREK:TNG/2.0 > WORF = KLINGON WARRIORS are hungry for SPIRITUAL STRENGTH. Dare the Germans watch PICARD??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-12-11 01:20 |
| #1 "...in recent years has there been a building boom" Let me guess funded by Saudis? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-12-11 01:16 |