Aaron Hanscom has a great piece about Muslim attempts (successful and not) to appropriate Catholic churches in Europe as de facto mosques.
“Some people wish to place us in the year 711,” remarked Spanish archbishop Cardinal Antonio María Rouco a few years back. Rouco’s warning remains urgent today. Spanish Muslims are determined to pray in the Córdoba Cathedral, which was an important mosque during the 500 year Muslim rule of Spain beginning in 711. Luckily for Spain, the Roman Catholic Church isn’t prepared to give in to Muslim demands, as it recently revealed when it rejected a petition to the Pope from Spain’s Islamic Board for the right to share the Cathedral with Catholics. ...Belgium’s bishops could learn a thing or two from Asenjo. Paul Belien of The Brussels Journal has documented how they have opened up their churches to mostly Muslim illegal immigrants in an effort to pressure Belgian authorities into allowing the immigrants to stay in the country. This has led to nothing less than a transformation of these cathedrals into mosques. While Muslims immigrants feel safe in these churches because they know respect for the Catholic Church prevents the authorities from entering to arrest them, they see no problem in desecrating these holy buildings. Photographs taken in the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succor in Brussels reveal Muslim squatters holding prayer services in the church, the statue of Our Lady covered by a cloth to hide her from the eyes of Muslims, and fires being set. Belien describes the 20 churches that have been opened as “dormitories for non-believers.” An estimated 300 Africans are staying in Antwerp’s Magdalena Chapel, which does not bother Monsignor Paul Van den Berghe, the Bishop of Antwerp. In fact, Berghe participated in a protest in favor of illegal immigrants last February. ...
Perhaps the best retort to Spanish Muslims who want to transform Córdoba Cathedral is a question posted by a Spaniard on a Catholic website: “Will Christians be able to pray in the mosques of Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Iran or Kuwait?”
Uh yeah, right! The request itself is intolerant and disrespectful to Islam! Saudi Arabia doesn't even allow Bibles into the country.
Feigning insult is a cheap rhetorical trick that we politically correct Westerners have let our violently intolerant enemies get away with for far too long. "You shouldn't have said/done that because someone could have been insulted!" And then when some specific individual is forced to claim real offense for the purposes of trial, we treat him seriously rather than laughing him out of court.
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