A year after attack, a Shiite treasure still lies in ruins

International Herald Tribune ^ | 13 February 2007 | Anon

[BlackVeil]

There is still no gold dome on the Mosque of the Golden Dome. It has been a year, by the Muslim calendar, since an attack on one of the Shiites most sacred shrines here shattered this ancient mosque, ripping a hole to the heavens in its once glorious dome. Now, it is a hulking shell of its former self, gnarled and twisted metal snaking around the crumbling concrete structure. The blue and gold tiles that adorned the facade of the Al Askariya Shrine, covered with graceful Arabic script from the Koran, are in tatters, the broken pieces still on the ground in the empty courtyard. Not a single brick moved since the attack on Feb. 22, 2006. There has been no rebuilding and no healing. But the blast did not just destroy a building. More than any event since the American invasion in 2003, it set this country on its present course, unleashing a tide of sectarian bloodletting that has left tens of thousands of Iraqis dead and hundreds of thousands more displaced from their homes as the result of sectarian cleansing. On Monday, the first anniversary of the attack by the Muslim calendar, bombings at two Baghdad markets, evidently targeting Shiites, killed at least 67 people. There are ongoing discussions about a reconstruction project for the mosque and the United Nations has been approached about being involved. But ...

[shadowcat]

I'm waiting for a new World Trade Towers!!!!!!!!

[Dick Vomer]

here ya go muslims.....

[ReignOfError]

It has been a year, by the Muslim calendar

Last time I checked, the Earth orbited the sun once every 365.25 days or so. It didn't go any faster or slower for Muslims than for the rest of us; a year is a year.

[tgambill]

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0702/S00079.htm

[Dave Elias]

Man that must've been some curry!

[TN4Liberty]

"Last time I checked, the Earth orbited the sun once every 365.25 days or so. It didn't go any faster or slower for Muslims than for the rest of us; a year is a year."

Maybe their years are longer, which would explain why they live in the 12th century.

[endthematrix]

"More than any event since the American invasion in 2003, it set this country on its present course, unleashing a tide of sectarian bloodletting that has left tens of thousands of Iraqis dead and hundreds of thousands more displaced from their homes as the result of sectarian cleansing."

B.S. I recall the bomb/motor and the stampede on the Aima Bridge where hundreds died. Shias then were wanted heads to roll....and they did.

[dennisw]

Islam means permanent Jihad. They make permanent Jihad on Israel and Sunni terrorists make permanent Jihad on Shi'ites who they call infidels, apostates, polytheists. It's that insane Muslim lynch mob rage BUT channeled against other Muslims

[djf]

So am I supposed to give a turd?

Now I'm supposed to feel guilty because I don't give a turd?

The attacking was done by muslims.
As far as I am concerned, the more they kill each other, the better.

F 'em!

[Herakles]

They have other things to do; like blaming everyone for their sick, sad, pathetic lives and then trying to enlist support by killing everyone.

Anywhere else in the world and this thing would have been rebuilt in a month if need be.

Iraq; another religious shit hole on the planet earth!

[Nitro]

Hey Dick,

Which branch of the srvice did you choose?

Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines?

[sure_fine]

I think I recently read it takes an average of 17.5 years for the average muslim to achieve the same enlightenment as Homer on any given situation, IOW, there is still almost 13.5 years to go before they will say " DOH! ", and stop enviting Jihadist to their weddings.


and folks, that is just one instance.

[djf]

How do you know when a muslim is an adult?

[R. Scott]

Why would the Shiites’ want to repair it? It makes a great recruiting monument for raising forces to attack the Sunni.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

"t has been a year, by the Muslim calendar, since an attack on one of the Shiites most sacred shrines here shattered this ancient mosque, ripping a hole to the heavens in its once glorious dome. Now, it is a hulking shell of its former self, gnarled and twisted metal snaking around the crumbling concrete structure."

Good deal!

The reason it hasn’t been rebuilt is because they have fanaticized themselves to the stone age and killed everyone who knows how to rebuild it.

Now we need to start on the rest of them.

[sure_fine]

"How do you know when a muslim is an adult?"




is there such, in civilized world standards anyway?

[Cheburashka]

As just another of the hints that Mohammad might have been making it up as he went along was that he set the Moslem year at 354 days Why 354 days? The only answer is: why not 354 days?

The people with common sense in the crowd when he announced this little gem were thinking, "Wow, what a moron." Unfortunately, they all got their throats cut when they actually said it out loud.

[dennisw]

The mosque Fred Flintstone and Wilma go to

[dennisw]

Before and after Sunni StyleTV did a makeover