Polish lawmaker: Saudis can build mosque in Warsaw “once they agree for Poland to build a cathedral in Saudi Arabia”

August 31, 2018, 09:41 AM

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Originally posted by SevenPlusOne:
Long live Poland.

100% fact or not, Michener's novel POLAND is a long but enjoyable read.

Yep, it sounds like a common-sense approach.

August 31, 2018, 11:39 AM

TomS

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Proud Polack.

As am I.

Grandfather came here by himself at age 13.

His family wanted to spare him from WWI.

Worked hard all his life and invested wisely.

Grandma ran coal/paint store.

Mom learned to drive in coal truck!

When grandpa died he left my mother a $5,000,000 estate!

August 31, 2018, 11:44 AM

erj_pilot

Sounds like someone in Poland has a set of balls. Great to hear!!!

"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24

August 31, 2018, 11:50 AM

JALLEN

Frim wikipedia,

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In the 1970s and 1980s Poland attracted a number of students from many socialist-aligned Arabic-speaking states of the Middle East and Africa. Many of them decided to stay in Poland. In the late 1980s this community became more active and better organized. They have built mosques and praying houses in Warsaw, Białystok, Gdańsk (built by the Tatar community), Wrocław, Lublin and Poznań. There are also praying rooms in Bydgoszcz, Kraków, Łódź, Olsztyn, Katowice and Opole.[13]

Since the overthrow of Communism in 1989, other Muslim immigrants have come to Poland. Relatively prominent groups are Turks and Muslims from the former Yugoslavia. There are also smaller groups of immigrants from Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and from other countries, as well as a refugee community coming from Chechnya.

The Polish Shia minority includes immigrants, foreign students, and embassy staff, mainly from countries such as Iraq, Iran, Bahrain, Lebanon, along with native converts to Islam. Currently, Shi'ites in the country do not have their own freestanding mosque, but they do meet for weekly Friday prayer and major Islamic holidays.

The exact number of Muslims living is Poland remains unknown as the last all-national census held by the Central Statistical Office in 2011 did not ask for religion.

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Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown