Once a place has been used for Muslim worship it is ipso facto a mosque
We are posting this article from March 2015 in view of the recent furore over a Muslim woman reading from the Koran in St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow.
by Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith, Catholic Herald:
[…] No Christian church, if it wants to remain a Christian church, and no other church property, even a church hall, should ever be used for Muslim worship. The reason is a straightforward one: once a place has been used for Muslim worship it is ipso facto a mosque – or so some Muslims tell us. So it is clearly not a good idea to let your church be converted into a mosque, because once it is a mosque, it cannot be converted back, or so it is claimed.
This story – Muslim prayers in Christian buildings – is a remarkably common one, and it keeps on popping up again and again in the media. It is a running saga in Spain, where, it seems, a group of Muslims are keen to reclaim their perceived rights over Cordoba Cathedral.
AM Comment: A clue into the reasoning behind the action at St Mary’s Cathedral may be gleaned from their website:
We are young, we are old. We are straight, we are gay. Some are single, some are married, some are partnered, some are single again. We are men and we are women. Some live alone, some live with others. We have different abilities. We have different understandings of the truth. We have all kinds of different reasons for choosing to make this our spiritual home.
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