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babygirl44 wrote:

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... There's no place for a mega-mosque in London just like there's no place for a mega-Church in Saudi Arabia.I doubt a Christian would ever even jokingly suggest the Arabs build a mega-Church in Saudi because it will never happen and nobody would expect it to. Everything was better in the 90s when peoplebasically kept their religion to themselves, now I can't seem to move without hearing about Islam. Theres also a mosque near me and every non-muslim is made to feel pretty much unwelcome in the neighbourhood by the P*kistani'son fridays at lunchtime when theyhold their biggest prayer. Anyway why do the mosques all have to be in East London?

Also if a religious place did have to be built on the Olympic site, then I think less people would have a problem if it was somehow designed to accomdate all faiths, why only Islam, are there onlyMuslims in East London?

There are no churches built in Saudi Arabia for the same reason that one cannot build Mosques in the Vatican City.But this probably challenges what your saying;

[size=Work has begun on the construction of Qatar's first purpose-built church in the desert outside Doha, the country's capital.][/size]

Although the country's native inhabitants are entirely Muslim - and are prohibited by law from converting to another faith - the new Catholic church will cater to the large number of Christian migrants who have come to the Arabia Gulf state in search of work.

Roman Catholics from all over the Arabian Peninsula - many of them migrant workers - are helping to pay for the $15m building, which is scheduled to open at the end of the year.

Overseeing the church is Paul Hinder, the Catholic Church's Bishop of Arabia. A Christian in the heart of the Muslim world, his diocese is the entire Arabian peninsular, encompassing six countries.

He oversees churches in Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Yemen and even in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam where Christianity is practiced behind closed doors.

Speaking about the Christian communities in Saudi Arabia, he said: "It's not an open church. Privately the Christians may gather in their houses in a very discreet manner."

"Of course it's not easy to be a bishop here [in the Gulf]," he said. "But at least regarding the church life it is full of vitality."

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/32CC5571-64DA-45AA-BDE5-A0CA68CD4616.htm