Dome Haters?

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/middle_east_enl_1140622457/img/laun.jpg
From BBC article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4739444.stm)

deja vu, anyone?

[MF]

personally I think this is much worse then a mohammed cartoon.

it actually kind of angers me why muslims dont massivly unite and protest against something like this in the same proportions as they did against the cartoons.

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personally I think this is much worse then a mohammed cartoon.

it actually kind of angers me why muslims dont massivly unite and protest against something like this in the same proportions as they did against the cartoons.

It's more complex than that.

Domes built over the graves of pious individuals have been favorite targets of a lunatic fringe.

As far as this fringe is concerned, destroying the dome is a religious duty.

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PS: PM me if you want to decipher the orange words.

[MF]

aha, I didnt know, its too complicated for me and I'm glad I dont have any religious duties.

[lumumba_s]

Religious duties compel people to do things that they otherwise would not (acts of charity) and not do things that they otherwise would (acts of aggression), but the sorts of religious "duties" that the people who commit atrocities like these fulfill are of a completely different nature and origin.

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The Dome-Fetishers strike again:



...The deadliest attack on Monday was the car bombing in the Sinak district, near the Abdul Qadir al-Gailani mosque.

AP Television News footage showed dozens of astonished people wandering among the scorched cars and debris that littered the scene. Firefighters in yellow helmets struggled to extinguish the fire as ambulances rushed to evacuate the wounded.

Ghaith Karim, a 38-year old cloth merchant, was heading to a nearby bus station when he heard the blast. “It was tremendous. I felt the ground was shaking,” he said.

“When I reached the scene, I found legs, charred pieces of bodies and pools of blood. Casualties were being evacuated by civilian cars.”

The television footage showed damage to the mosque’s minaret, while the in-charge of the shrine, Mahmoud al-Issawi, said the blast damaged the building’s dome as well. “The enemies of Iraq are the only ones who benefit from this bombing. These enemies have targeted our homeland, religion and our brotherhood,” al-Issawi told Iraqiya TV.

The blast also wounded 66, including three traffic policemen.
http://www.dawn.com/2007/05/29/top13.htm


What's next? The Green Dome of the Prophet's Mosque (http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/b/burton/richard/b97p/chapter17.html)?