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Timbuktu mausoleums “destroyed”
BBC News ^ | 23 December 2012 | Last updated at 11:07 ET

Posted on 12/23/2012 9:23:24 PM PST by Olog-hai

Islamists in Mali have begun destroying remaining mausoleums in the historic city of Timbuktu, an Islamist leader and a tourism official said.

“Not a single mausoleum will remain in Timbuktu,” Abou Dardar, a leader of the Islamist group Ansar Dine, told AFP news agency.

Islamists in control of northern Mali began earlier this year to pull down shrines that they consider idolatrous. …

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ancientegypt; godsgravesglyphs; islam; kenyanbornmuzzie; mali; muslim; muslims; muslimworld; radicalislam; religionofpieces; rop; timbuktombs; timbuktu
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To: Olog-hai

Sad. Mali is a beautiful country. Hate to see what is happening there.


41 posted on 12/24/2012 5:59:49 AM PST by rusty millet
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To: TigersEye

If I could push one button to obliterate that entire group of subhuman, murderous filth, I’d do it.


42 posted on 12/24/2012 6:00:20 AM PST by Carriage Hill (Have A Very Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year!)
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To: Olog-hai

“The other significant 5th-century event in Britain was the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons.”

That was a critical point in Britain’s history, and left a much deeper impression on the island (most specifically the English language itself - spoken much more widely than Italian). Immediately prior to the Norman invasion, the Saxon king Harold had just defeated a Viking invasion and had to double-time to meet the Normans; accounts of the battle of Hastings, in which Harold was killed, indicate a battle the Normans very nearly lost. The Saxons snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by breaking their shield wall (which had held for the duration of the battle) and charging. A special Norman unit was then able to kill Harold, and rather than be driven back to Normandy for lack of supplies the Norman forces were able to win the day.

These were hardly barbarian invasions; William was familiar with Harold and thought he was the rightful heir to Harold’s throne (they had made some agreement years earlier).


43 posted on 12/24/2012 6:01:25 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
my personal suspicion... it will be done by a hot head dot head. some day, some hindu is going to conclude the assault by muslims is TOO MUCH, and will pursue what he feels to be the karmic equivalent of the 72 muslim virgins. and a muslim holy site will get completely wiped out.

India's capital is currently in their third day of riots over Muslim gang-rapists.


44 posted on 12/24/2012 6:08:13 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Olog-hai

Ah, the cosmopolitan Mohammedan pigs strike again—part of their never-ending quest to bring back the 7th century.


45 posted on 12/24/2012 6:15:33 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: The Antiyuppie

“Other than weapons and hovels, have these people actually built anything recently...”

Iranian goat pen

http://www.iranzoo.byethost33.com/Goat/goat.html

Egyptian outhouse

http://www.travellerspoint.com/photos/stream/photoID/2082124/features/countries/Egypt/

Afghan hookah

http://www.google.com/search?q=afghan+%2B+hookah&hl=en&tbo=u&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=aWTYUIj9AcuF0QGOv4HADw&ved=0CFMQsAQ&biw=1096&bih=605


46 posted on 12/24/2012 6:28:59 AM PST by sergeantdave (The FBI has declared war on the Marine Corps)
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To: The Antiyuppie

Refugee camps...


47 posted on 12/24/2012 9:08:12 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Olog-hai

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks Olog-hai.

Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


48 posted on 12/24/2012 7:36:50 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: The Antiyuppie

Buzzing Prayer Rugs (2003) invented by a Jordanian.


49 posted on 12/25/2012 12:35:15 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Olog-hai

I had heard that this was going on.

When are people going to say enough is enough?

HHC’s husband.


50 posted on 12/25/2012 12:41:41 PM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: Olog-hai
Just to dwell on this fact: these are monuments to Islamic culture. Not French, not Christian, not pagan, not Buddhist, not Marxist: ISLAMIC culture.



The tomb of Sidi Mahmoud Ben Amar in January 2008. Photo: Martha de Jong-Lantink

Desecration of a grave is a heinous sin in Islam.

Sidi Mahmoud Ben Amar (also known as Sidi Amar, Cadi Sidi Mahmoud, or Sidi Mahmoud) is a revered Muslim scholar who is one of the 333 Sufi saints said to be buried in Timbuktu. The tomb of Sidi Mahmoud Ben Amar is among 16 cemeteries and mausolea that are a part of Timbuktu, which is classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Sidi Mahmoud Ben Amar

These people have gone insane.





Timbuktu Mosque, in happer days.

51 posted on 12/25/2012 1:09:09 PM PST by annalex (fear them not)
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