Posted on 12/09/2004 9:50:50 AM PST by Jane_N
Thank you for posting those pictures. I have to learn how to bookmark one of these days.
Actually, Muslims destroying, as opposed to grabbing, Christian churches is a new phenomenon. Traditionally, despite their objection to imagery, Muslims would seize Christian churched intact, burn any relics they found, whitewash the icons (not destroy, just cover) and convert them into mosques.
The penchant for blowing up churches and defacing icons is new, and stems from the importation of ideas from Western secularism into Islam (as does suicide bombing--the Islamic injunction against suicide gets trumped by existentialist 'absolute commitment' importe into Islam by Sayeed Qutb--in previous rounds of jihad, the Muslim fanatic had to get an infidel to kill him in battle to claim the 72 houri).
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