300-Year-Old Minaret Toppled to Make Way for Road Expansion in Iraq

Smithsonian Magazine ^ | July 19, 2023 | Christopher Parker

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Hum. Progress!

[SunkenCiv]

The rest of the minaret keyword, sorted:

• Iraq Declares End of Caliphate After Capture of Mosul Mosque [06/30/2017]
• Iraq Declares End Of ISIS Caliphate With Recapture Of Grand Al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul [06/29/2017]
• IS destroys Mosul mosque where Baghdadi declared 'caliphate' [06/22/2017]
• Anger in Mosul as Islamic State Destroys Historic Mosque [06/22/2017]
• Terror group blows up the famous al-Nuri mosque in Mosul where leader al-Baghdadi [tr] [06/22/2017]
• Museum of Lost Objects: Aleppo's Minaret [03/03/2016]
• Iran-backed Tawhid-Salam network targeted NATO radar base in Turkey [03/03/2015]
• Video of Small Girl's Reaction to Muslim Call to Prayer Goes Viral [09/07/2014]
• Sweden: Mosque to Blast Prayer Calls from Minaret [10/01/2012]
• Likud Ministers: Noisy Mosques? What about Synagogues? [12/12/2011]
• The Mysterious Minaret of Jam [07/10/2011]
• Cardinal Koch says, "German Politicians Have Fearfully Underestimated Islam-Problem [10/29/2010]
• Obama's 'Outreach': Millions to be Spent Restoring Islamic Sites Worldwide [08/25/2010]
• Help me to understand.. Symbology of a Minaret ? (Vanity) [08/16/2010]
• California: Pro-Sharia Mosque Gets OK to Build 64 Ft Minaret [08/13/2010]
• Report: 36 dead in Morocco minaret collapse [02/19/2010]
• Why are the Swiss upset by Minarets? [12/12/2009]
• t whose idea was Swiss minaret ban anyhow? (a Turk) [12/09/2009]
• The Swiss should have voted against the Minaret ZOT! [12/06/2009]
• Fr. Samir: The refusal of the minarets, an opportunity to rethink Islam and Europe [12/04/2009]
• Europe's press says Swiss ban sends wrong signal [12/01/2009]
• Swiss Minaret Ban Anti-Libertarian [11/30/2009]
• Europe unites to deplore Swiss ban on minarets (euro elites deeply upset) [11/30/2009]
• Report: Swiss Pass Ban on Minarets [11/29/2009]
• Switzerland appears to have backed minaret ban [11/29/2009]
• Switzerland appears to have backed minaret ban (Swiss slap down Muslims) [11/29/2009]
• Zurich allows anti-minaret poster [10/08/2009]
• New mosque, Islamic center at Boston [07/25/2009]
• Swiss far right forces vote on minaret ban [07/08/2008]
• Muslim Grievance Theater: Hijab Women Dissed @ Obama Rally Are Muslim Terror Front-Group Activists [06/19/2008]
• In Oxford, Muslim call to prayer sounds strained note [03/15/2008]
• Don't Meet Me in St. Louis, Part II (Islamic prayer tower under construction) [02/18/2008]
• In a Europe Torn Over Mosques, A City Offers Accommodation {ROP-European socialist barf alert} [12/09/2007]
• Spiraling out of control [10/22/2006]
• Israel Complacent - Muslims Seek to Strengthen Hold on Mount [10/12/2006]
• Israel unopposed to building of 5th Temple Mount minaret [10/11/2006]
• Synagogue Planned For Temple Mount, Hashemites to Add Minaret [10/10/2006]
• Writer facing jail for mosque threat [06/06/2006]
• "Islam: What the West Needs to Know" [documentary film, 2005 (2006?)] [01/26/2006]
• From Tapes, a Chilling Voice of Islamic Radicalism in Europe [11/17/2005]
• Gun found in bag of Iraqi woman, plane flies safely [11/16/2005]
• The crescent of fear [11/10/2005]
• Will London burn too? [11/10/2005]
• The Season of Jihad [11/10/2005]
• Gunships Level Minaret As US Cancels Assault [04/26/2004]

External article:

• Afghanistan, 800 year old Minaret of Jam: A Call to Save a 12th-Century Minaret, Heard Far and Wide | Rod Nordland | New York Times | 11/25/2014
  
  (no wonder it's tipping over, is a Jam Minaret, for cryin' out loud)