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A year after attack, a Shiite treasure still lies in ruins
International Herald Tribune ^
| 13 February 2007
| Anon
Posted on 02/17/2007 1:37:04 AM PST by 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 ...
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: goldendome; iraq; samarra
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posted on
02/17/2007 1:37:09 AM PST
by
BlackVeil
To: BlackVeil
I'm waiting for a new World Trade Towers!!!!!!!!
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posted on
02/17/2007 1:50:19 AM PST
by
shadowcat
To: BlackVeil
here ya go muslims.....
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posted on
02/17/2007 1:55:31 AM PST
by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
To: BlackVeil
It has been a year, by the Muslim calendarLast 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.
To: shadowcat
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posted on
02/17/2007 2:12:40 AM PST
by
tgambill
(I would like to comment.....)
To: Dick Vomer
Man that must've been some curry!
To: ReignOfError
"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.
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posted on
02/17/2007 2:22:11 AM PST
by
TN4Liberty
(Sixty percent of all people understand statistics. The other half are clueless.)
To: BlackVeil
"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.
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posted on
02/17/2007 2:25:52 AM PST
by
endthematrix
(Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.)
To: BlackVeil
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
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posted on
02/17/2007 2:28:52 AM PST
by
dennisw
(What one man can do another can do -- "The Edge")
To: BlackVeil
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!
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posted on
02/17/2007 2:38:45 AM PST
by
djf
(Democracy - n, def: The group that gets PAID THE MOST ends up VOTING THE MOST See: TRAGEDY)
To: BlackVeil
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!
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posted on
02/17/2007 2:39:48 AM PST
by
Herakles
(Diversity is code word for anti-white racism)
To: Dick Vomer
Hey Dick,
Which branch of the srvice did you choose?
Army, Navy, Air Force or Marines?
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posted on
02/17/2007 2:43:20 AM PST
by
Nitro
(A)
To: dennisw
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.
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posted on
02/17/2007 2:43:55 AM PST
by
sure_fine
( • not one to over kill the thought process™ •)
To: sure_fine
How do you know when a muslim is an adult?
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posted on
02/17/2007 2:45:42 AM PST
by
djf
(Democracy - n, def: The group that gets PAID THE MOST ends up VOTING THE MOST See: TRAGEDY)
To: BlackVeil
Why would the Shiites want to repair it? It makes a great recruiting monument for raising forces to attack the Sunni.
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posted on
02/17/2007 2:46:20 AM PST
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
To: BlackVeil
"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 hasnt 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.
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posted on
02/17/2007 2:51:17 AM PST
by
WorkerbeeCitizen
(Religion of peace my arse - We need a maintenance Crusade - piss on Islam)
To: djf
"How do you know when a muslim is an adult?"
is there such, in civilized world standards anyway?
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posted on
02/17/2007 2:54:12 AM PST
by
sure_fine
( • not one to over kill the thought process™ •)
To: ReignOfError
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.
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posted on
02/17/2007 3:00:04 AM PST
by
Cheburashka
( World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
To: sure_fine
The mosque Fred Flintstone and Wilma go to
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posted on
02/17/2007 3:00:27 AM PST
by
dennisw
(What one man can do another can do -- "The Edge")
To: sure_fine
Before and after Sunni StyleTV did a makeover
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posted on
02/17/2007 3:04:09 AM PST
by
dennisw
(What one man can do another can do -- "The Edge")
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