thanks for your opinions guys.............but i reckon that as the many churches have not provoked such a response already(or the lack of mosques,synagogues,temples etc) then i dont think it would create such a fuss.
after all the original game was set in Europe so we expect churches....a desert map would surely benefit from a mosque for environmental authenticity.
keeping things in perspective... the violence of the game is surely more offensive than the presence of a preist(that we expect to find inthe existing churches!)?