Another video that speaks volume, again, i am non-religious
and still, this does worry and upsets me.
You need to read the previous page, on fanatism...should this be of any interest to you.
That is just the tip of the iceberg too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuoY2_TEgQE&feature=player_embedded

HOW CHURCHES BECAME MOSQUES IN HISTORY
and it is still...going on.

Muslims are proposing a 13-story $100,000,000.00 Million Dollar Mosque
in the most prominent spot in America - the heart of downtown New York
City next to the World Trade Center site. Would this Mosque be an
example of America 's 'tolerance', or a Tribute to a great Muslim Conquest?

The past holds the answer:

In 630, Muhammad led 10,000 Muslim soldiers into Mecca and turned the
pagans' most prominent spot, the Ka'aba, into the Masjid al-Haram
Mosque.

In 634, Rightly Guided Caliph Umar conquered Syria and turned the
Christians' most prominent spot, the Church of Job , famous for being
visited by Saint Silva in the fourth century, into the Mosque of Job.

In 637, Caliph Umar conquered Hebron and turned the second-most
prominent spot in Judaism, the Cave of the Patriarchs, into the
Ibrahimi Mosque. (This was repeated by Saladin in 1188.)

In 638, Muslim generals Amr ibn al-As and Khalid ibn al-Walid
conquered Gaza and turned the prominent fifth-century Byzantine church
into the Great Mosque of Gaza .

In 638, Caliph Umar conquered Jerusalem . In 691, Caliph Al-Malik
ordered the Dome of the Rock built on the most prominent spot in

Judaism, the Temple Mount , followed by Caliph Al-Walid building the
Al-Aqsa Mosque there in 705.

In 651, Muslims conquered Persia and turned temples in Bukhara and
Istakhr into mosques.

In 706, after Muslims took Damascus from the Byzantine Empire , Caliph
Al-Walid turned the prominent Orthodox Church of St. John the Baptist
into the Umayyad Mosque.

In 710, Gen. Muhammad bin Qasim conquered Pakistan , defiled the
prominent Sun Temple in Multan , which housed the great idol "Sanam,"
and erected a Mosque.

In 784, after the conquest of Spain , Emir Abd ar-Rahman turned the
prominent Visigothic Christian Church of Saint Vincent into the Great
Aljama Mosque of Cordoba .

After the conquest of Egypt , Caliphs al-Mamun (813-833) and al-Hakim
(996-1021) turned prominent Coptic Christian churches and Jewish
synagogues in Cairo into mosques.

In 831, Muslims conquered Palermo , Sicily , and Asad ibn al-Furat
turned the prominent Church of Saint Mary of the Assumption into the
Great Mosque of Bal'harm.

In 1193, Muslims conquered Delhi , India , and Qutbuddin Aibak turned
the Red Citadel in Dhillika, the most prominent spot of the last Hindu
rulers, into the Qutb Minar Mosque.

From 1250-1517, Mamluk Muslims controlled the Golan Heights and used
the ancient Synagogue of Katzrin as a mosque.

In 1387, Turkish Muslims conquered Thessaloniki and turned the
Katholikon Monastery and the Church of Aghia Sophia , which housed the
relics of Saint Gregorios Palamas, into Mosques, as Symeon of
Thessaloniki recorded: "The greatest number of the buildings of the
churches fell to them, of which the first was the Holy Church of the
Savior. These were trampled underfoot and the infidels rejoiced in
them. Most of the religious buildings in the city were despoiled,
while altars were demolished and sacred things profaned."

On May 29, 1453, Sultan Mehmet II conquered Constantinople and turned
the great Byzantine church, Hagia Sophia, into the Ayasofya Mosque.
The largest Church in Christendom for a thousand years, the church's
four acres of gold mosaics were covered with whitewash and Quran
verses.

In 1458, Sultan Mehmet II conquered Athens and turned the Greeks' most
prominent spot, the Parthenon on Acropolis hill, into a mosque. When
Venetian Gen. Francesco Morosini drove the Muslims out in 1687, a
cannonball hit the gunpowder stored in the mosque, blowing it up.

In the 15th century, Ottoman invaders turned Saint Clement's
Macedonian Orthodox Monastery in Plaosnik, Balkans, into the Imater
Mosque.

From 1519-1858, Muslim Mughal rulers gained control of India and
turned over 2,000 Hindu temples into Mosques, including demolishing
the Temple of Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya, the birthplace of Rama, and
replacing it with the Babri Mosque.
India's Mughal Muslim ruler, Jahangir (1605-1627), wrote in
Tujuk-i-Jahangiri: "At the city of Banaras was a temple. I made it my
plea for throwing down the temple and on the spot, with the very same
materials, I erected the great Mosque."

In 1543, Hayreddin Barbarossa's 30,000 Muslim troops wintered in
Toulon, France, and turned the prominent Toulon Cathedral into a
Mosque.

In 1570, under Sultan Selim II Khan, Muslims conquered Paphos , Cyprus ,
and Gov. Mehmet Bey Ebubkir turned the prominent Christian church into
the Great Mosque of Paphos.

In 1571, Muslims invaded Famagusta , Cyprus , and turned Saint Nicolas
Cathedral, a rare Gothic church, into the Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque,
and Saint Sophia Cathedral in Nicosia , constructed in 1228, into the
Selimiye Mosque.

In 1588, Sultan Murat III turned the Eastern Orthodox Church of Saint
John the Forerunner in Constantinople into the Hirami Ahmet Pasha
Mosque.

In 1781, after having conquered the Old City of Acre, Ottoman Muslims
turned the Roman Catholic Church built by Crusaders into the Jezzar
Ahmet Pasha Mosque, where a hair from Muhammad's beard is preserved.
In 1923, Muslims expelled Greeks from Turkey and turned Orthodox
churches into mosques.

In World War II, Nazis allied with Bosnians and turned the prominent
Artists' Gallery Museum in Zagreb , Croatia , into a mosque.
In the 1950s, Muslims expelled Jews from Arab lands and turned
synagogues into Mosques.

Algerian Muslims warred against French colonial rule until the French
took their Leave in 1962, after which the Cathedral of St. Philippe
was turned into the Ketchaoua Mosque. Violence caused 30,000 Jews to
flee and the Great Synagogue of Oran was turned into the Mosque Abdellah Ben Salem .

In 1974, Turkish Muslims invaded northern Cyprus ,
and prominent Greek Orthodox Churches were turned into Mosques.

In 1981, Muslim immigrants to the Netherlands converted Amsterdam 's
historic Catholic Sint-Ignatiuskerk into the Fatih Mosque, and a
synagogue in The Hague into the Aksa Mosque.

On Sept. 11, 2001, Muslims attacked the most prominent spot in
America, the World Trade Center .
In less than 10 years, the number of Mosques in New York City
has skyrocketed to over 140. In light of History,
would a Mosque at Ground Zero be a sign of
clueless America 's 'tolerance',
or an obvious Monument to a Great Muslim Victory
over whoever does not think like them?