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To: Hugin
This was standard operating procedure for Muslims for centuries. Destroying other religions holy sites and building mosques on them, at which point they become "Islamic Holy Sites". Just like the Temple Mount in Jeuruselem.

Here's another: the "Hagia Sophia Church" in Constantinople, the finest architectural masterpiece of its historical era. At least the Turks didn't tear it down...

13 posted on 04/09/2002 2:32:11 PM PDT by Map Kernow
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To: Map Kernow
The Turks are not Arabs.
14 posted on 04/09/2002 2:33:34 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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