# NYC Mosque **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 24, 2010, 9:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nyc-mosque/254128 "2010-08-24T09:19:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 34
**Author:** ![Hang\_Your\_Cross](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/hang_your_cross/32/6381_2.png) [@Hang\_Your\_Cross](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hang_Your_Cross)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 10:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nyc-mosque/254128/34 "2010-08-24T10:42:50Z")
> [@The Bimmer is donezo, and I want to cry. (Pics PG. 5)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-bimmer-is-donezo-and-i-want-to-cry-pics-pg-5/34544/62): > > Just google it if you need a reference. There are hundreds of articles written about it. Here is the excerpt from which I got the information. > > [FONT=georgia]Cordoba was, of course, the seat of the caliphate established in what is now modern Spain after the Islamic invasion from North Africa in the 8th century A.D. The medieval occupation of Spain – “al-Andalus” – is considered by Islamic theorists to have been an inevitable step in the manifest destiny of Islam, and its eventual reversal through the lengthy European “Reconquista” a tragic but temporary triumph of the infidels. The great mosque at Cordoba was built on the foundation of a Christian cathedral, and when Europeans retook Cordoba in the 13th century they turned the magnificent mosque back into a cathedral.[/FONT] It wasnt built and named in terms of conquest; it was to be a unity of the two cultures. Unlike the Christians (Catholics I will use loosely) the Muslims allowed other religions to be practiced within their territories without consequence. The Ottoman and Safavid Empires were for tolerant of other peoples’ religion and culture unlike that of the Catholics. So much so that even the Ottoman Empire helped out the Protestant side during the Thirty Years War aka the Holy Wars in the 1500s. The Muslim faith has been very welcoming of others unlike that of Catholic who would go, kill and destroy that went anything remotely against their faith, be it Muslim, Jew, then Protestant, then Scientific Revolution. So don’t talk about Muslim conquest, when the Christians have been doing it since the death of Jesus well before the start of the Islamic faith in 617. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nyc-mosque/254128)._