Holy City? Give Me A Break!

Opinionet.com ^ | August 18, 2004 | Alan Caruba

[Rebelbase]

I read this yesterday and today read FReeper Bahbah's comment on another thread about how sick he was of hearing about the "holy city of Najaf.".

I like the title. Give me a break!

[Rebelbase]

Ping

[Constitution Day]

BTTT!! I am sick of it too, hence my tagline. :)

[conserv13]

Najaf IS holy, to Siite Muslims. It is Al-Sadr, NOT us, who is desecrating the Mosque.

[SMARTY]

Right, Holiness and Hatred. What a wholesome combination and so worthy of the respect of other cultures. NOT!

[netmilsmom]

>>(...Reporting live from the Holy Barbecue City of Wilson, NC...) <<

I love it!!!!

[biblewonk]

If you don't destroy people's "Holy" cities, how are they ever going to realize they are not really holy.

[Aquinasfan]

When was the last time that you heard of the Vatican or Bethlehem referred to as "holy cities"? Yet we constantly hear of "holy" Mohammedan cities.

When was the last time you heard of a "holy church"? Yet we constantly hear of "holy mosques."

It's an obnoxious double standard. Besides, in reality, these Christian sites truly are holy, whereas the Mohammedan "holy" sites aren't truly holy. They're only regarded by Mohammedans as holy.

[PGalt]

We should take a page out of the previous administration's playbook. Dial 1-800-WACO. Can you hear me now?

[Rebelbase]

Check your yahoo.

[Rummyfan]

So what makes Iraq’s Najaf a “holy city” other than the fact that there is a big mosque there? What, for that matter, makes every grain of sand in Saudi Arabia “sacred”?

Why the bass-ackward Religion of Peace!

[Rebelbase]

"Reporting live from the Holy Barbecue City of Wilson, NC...) "

Ha! I might get a chance to eat at Kings in Kinston on Saturday.

[Non-Sequitur]

BEGONE HERITIC!!!! Everyone knows that the Sacred City of Barbecue is Kansas City. And if you don't think that we wouldn't hunker down in Arthur Bryant's or Jack's Stack to do battle with the infidels then you are sadly mistaken.

[Constitution Day]

Parker's BBQ | Wilson, NC

[Bahbah]

Thanks for the article, RebelBase. Words have effects and consequences. The "holy city" thing is pure PR, and it is a mistake, IMHO, to keep repeating this nonsense.

[John Jorsett]

Over at Belmont Club, Wretchard has posted a partial list of actual "Holy Cities":

Buddhism Bodh Gaya Sarnath Kushinagar Lumbini	Christianity Bethlehem Jerusalem Nazareth Antioch
Eastern Orthodox Constantinople (Istanbul)	Russian Orthodox Moscow
Latter-day Saints Independence Nauvoo Salt Lake City	Islam Mecca Medina Jerusalem
Hinduism Benares Mathura	Shi'a Islam Karbala Najaf Qom
Judaism Jerusalem	Shintoism Kyoto
Unitarianism Boston	Roman Catholicism Rome Santiago de Compostela Lourdes Fatima
Mahayana Buddhism Lhasa

[Rummyfan]

And right now, the Saudis have launched a public relations campaign to tell us what good friends of ours they are. With friends like these, who needs enemies?

I find those radio ads for the Saudi government - played during Hannity's show for example - disgusting. Wish the stattions would decline the business.

[Manic_Episode]

But Najaf IS a holey city, but just not quite holey enough.
It needs just one more hole, a really big one right in the middle of where that mosque used to be. THEN perhaps it will truely be holey.

[Rummyfan]

Great post. We are living in times not too different from the Renaissance and the late Middle Ages where the geographic area from the Levant and further East was a 'no-go' zone. Only when the Islama-whackos are soundly defeated will we have any semblance of peace.

[netmilsmom]

I am very impressed with the miracle of Tubular Hush Puppies. I think I'm ready for a pilgrimage.