the second Fall of Rome

Submitted by The Grand Infidel of Kaffiristan (Australia), Jun 28, 2008 at 03:37

No, I didn't know that's what they had in store for Rome. That's one of the good things about this forum - so many ideas and facts get viewed.

I can imagine the childish glee - if they think they have the slightest chance of bringing that about. What a way to rub it in eh? Build a huge monstrosity that could house 50 times the actual number of Muslims in Rome. What can't Saudi petrodollars not do?

The only way it would be possible wouldbe to go over the heads of the Italians - by complaining to the shadowy , faceless, career bureacrats of the EU hyperstate in Brussels - that somehow their (Muslim) human rights (the same rights they'd deny others if Sharia was brought in) were somehow being denied by not allowing them to site a mosque anywhere they felt like it. I'd expect this is more likely to happen if Turkey gets EU membership as there would be a huge increase in the numbers of disgruntled Muslims in the EU who weren't happy that the EU was not an Islamic state or showing signs that it was well on the way to becoming one.

I think the Italians should demand that a new basillica be allowed to be built in Mecca

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