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to be completed in the fall of 2009
The December 1, 2008 article from Christian Week says: "The downtown Toronto skyline is about to be punctuated by its first minaret."
I have previously written about minarets in the Toronto suburban skyline, but this article indicates that mosques, which have been camouflaging their presence in the downtown area behind nondescript corner buildings, are now getting more bold. This is just as I predicted.
But,there is something more insidious going on. From the same article in Christian Week, it appears that the mosque is being constructed on a the site of a former church.
Joe Boot, pastor of the nearby Westminster Chapel says:
If you look around the city of Toronto you see churches that have become mosques, Hare Krishna centres, condominiums and restaurants. This is simply another indicator of the de-Christianization of Canada.This is fast becoming a reality throughout the Western world. In Belgium, for example, Antwerp's deputy mayor, who has also observed this trend, actually encourages it. He says:
Churches were built as places of worship and they should not be used as shopping malls. We've had a positive response from members of the Muslim community, which is open to the idea of converting them.The spiritual laxness of Westerners has become the perfect entry point for a religion that will not only usurp Christianity, but will also make sure that everyone else, including those atheists and agnostics who abandoned their churches, will be under the thumb of Islam.
Such generous Westerners, such as the mayor of Antwerp, will be in for a shocking surprise when they are not given any leeway at the time of Muslim takeover. Their generosity will not be considered at all, and they will be expected to toe the Muslim line, like any other non-Muslim.
This generally involves dhimmitude, if not harsher measures.