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Horse Statues Demolished in Jazan
Arab News ^ | Thursday 13 June 2013

Posted on 06/12/2013 3:29:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Officials in the southern province of Jazan have demolished horse sculptures on a roundabout after Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh denounced them as "sinful" and against the tenets of Islam, local online news websites said.

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Another news website, sabq.org, said the grand mufti earlier wrote the governor of Jazan demanding that “the sculptures be removed because they are a great sin and are prohibited under sharia (Islamic law).”

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1 posted on 06/12/2013 3:29:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

This, from the culture that gave us some of the prettiest horses in the world (Arabians).


2 posted on 06/12/2013 3:31:43 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: nickcarraway

Barbarians.


3 posted on 06/12/2013 3:32:58 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: nickcarraway

Muslims are no fun.


4 posted on 06/12/2013 3:33:37 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Q: The worst president in US history?)
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To: nickcarraway

What the h*ll ISN’T “sinful” according to these cretins? Oh, beheading infidels and beating ones wives, I see.


5 posted on 06/12/2013 3:34:48 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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6 posted on 06/12/2013 3:37:33 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: nickcarraway

Interestingly, many Arab leaders including the Sheikh of Bahrain spend fortunes on oil paintings of their Thoroughbred racehorses. And there is a substantial market for paintings of Salukis, Arab and Berber horses, and hunting hawks among Arabs.


7 posted on 06/12/2013 3:39:23 PM PDT by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare--now a Marine Mom)
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To: nickcarraway

They will never be allowed back in that P.F. Chang’s again.


8 posted on 06/12/2013 3:39:41 PM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: beethovenfan

What the h*ll ISN’T “sinful” according to these cretins? Oh, beheading infidels and beating ones wives, I see.

Let’s see, sex with underage boys and animals should not be forgotten either, or stoning to death the women they raped. All in the name of and glory to allah, that’s right the little god of psycho’s and pedophiles! I wonder when I will get my visit for comments hurtful to islam?


9 posted on 06/12/2013 3:40:26 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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I wonder when I will get my visit for comments hurtful to islam?

They'll be leaving here in a few.

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10 posted on 06/12/2013 3:47:49 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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At least I won’t have any trouble seeing that coming my way.


11 posted on 06/12/2013 3:57:53 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: nickcarraway

So now, AQ is not allowed to use hysterical horse-screams in their nasheeds anymore.

Horses are sinful. Next: goats.


12 posted on 06/12/2013 4:21:50 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama equals Osama))
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I misread the title. Whew! Horse statues are still safe in Japan. For now.


13 posted on 06/12/2013 4:27:33 PM PDT by CaptainMorgantown
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To: nickcarraway

That’s funny, the destroy the horses and elevate the horse’s asses


14 posted on 06/12/2013 4:29:45 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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I’m waiting for them to bury the Pyramids.


15 posted on 06/12/2013 5:22:06 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Plan "B" is now Plan "A")
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