[Rebelbase]

I read this yesterday and today read FReeper Bahbah's comment on another thread about how sick he was of hearing about the "holy city of Najaf.".

I like the title. Give me a break!

[Rebelbase]

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[Constitution Day]

BTTT!! I am sick of it too, hence my tagline. :)

[conserv13]

Najaf IS holy, to Siite Muslims. It is Al-Sadr, NOT us, who is desecrating the Mosque.

[SMARTY]

Right, Holiness and Hatred. What a wholesome combination and so worthy of the respect of other cultures. NOT!

[biblewonk]

If you don't destroy people's "Holy" cities, how are they ever going to realize they are not really holy.

[Aquinasfan]

When was the last time that you heard of the Vatican or Bethlehem referred to as "holy cities"? Yet we constantly hear of "holy" Mohammedan cities.

When was the last time you heard of a "holy church"? Yet we constantly hear of "holy mosques."

It's an obnoxious double standard. Besides, in reality, these Christian sites truly are holy, whereas the Mohammedan "holy" sites aren't truly holy. They're only regarded by Mohammedans as holy.

[PGalt]

We should take a page out of the previous administration's playbook. Dial 1-800-WACO. Can you hear me now?

[Rummyfan]

So what makes Iraq’s Najaf a “holy city” other than the fact that there is a big mosque there? What, for that matter, makes every grain of sand in Saudi Arabia “sacred”?

Why the bass-ackward Religion of Peace!

[John Jorsett]

Over at Belmont Club, Wretchard has posted a partial list of actual "Holy Cities":

Buddhism Bodh Gaya Sarnath Kushinagar Lumbini	Christianity Bethlehem Jerusalem Nazareth Antioch
Eastern Orthodox Constantinople (Istanbul)	Russian Orthodox Moscow
Latter-day Saints Independence Nauvoo Salt Lake City	Islam Mecca Medina Jerusalem
Hinduism Benares Mathura	Shi'a Islam Karbala Najaf Qom
Judaism Jerusalem	Shintoism Kyoto
Unitarianism Boston	Roman Catholicism Rome Santiago de Compostela Lourdes Fatima
Mahayana Buddhism Lhasa

[Rummyfan]

And right now, the Saudis have launched a public relations campaign to tell us what good friends of ours they are. With friends like these, who needs enemies?

I find those radio ads for the Saudi government - played during Hannity's show for example - disgusting. Wish the stattions would decline the business.

[Manic_Episode]

But Najaf IS a holey city, but just not quite holey enough.
It needs just one more hole, a really big one right in the middle of where that mosque used to be. THEN perhaps it will truely be holey.

[Rummyfan]

Great post. We are living in times not too different from the Renaissance and the late Middle Ages where the geographic area from the Levant and further East was a 'no-go' zone. Only when the Islama-whackos are soundly defeated will we have any semblance of peace.

[RightOnline]

Love it. Dead-on.

Every time I see the video from that s**thole and see these vermin dancing around and thumping their little Arab chests, I just think "Don't you DARE talk to me about 'holiness' as you wave that damned gun and booby trap your own "holy" shrines, you miserable piece of walking excrement!"

[The Great RJ]

I think we need the Holy MOAB of Najaf to make a few holy relics of Mookie.

[jolie560]

..."...Islam so suffuses the lives of Muslims throughout the Middle East and elsewhere, they are utterly blind and indifferent to the fact that it has consigned them to backwardness, poverty, and the mercy of whoever is in charge."...

That is why it is so revealing that Muslims sit silently by while strongmen like Sadr and Zarqawi bring back dictatorial rule. I would expect a country sick of a tyrant like Saddam would recognize a "New Tyrant" IMMEDIATELY and do something to prevent another Saddam.

Instead, many Iraqis have chosen to sit back and watch the fight, as if they had no stake in the outcome and were watching a soccer match.

Their future is at stake, and they treat the entire scenario as "Inshallah" (It is god's will).

For expressing the above, I have been banned from posting to some Iraq blogs.

[ARCADIA]

I never really noticed it ... but ...why are Muslim cities important from a religious point of view called "holy." While cities important to other religions are not. This is especially true of Christian cities.

I agree media hype and political correctness is behind this.

But, there's another reason. Christian holy cities -- like Jerusalem, Rome, Salt Lake City and Moscow -- have a lot more going for them than merely being religious centers. Thus you can't call Rome "holy" because many parts of it are not.

Muslim holy cities are basically a mosque and a place of pilgrimage. Nothing else.

[Sender]

Well I live in the Holy City of Cumming. I'm just going to shrine it off right now. And I am the Cleric. Stay out, infidels!

[smith288]

Only Muslims should be addressing the city as "holy". The media continually calling it that are recognizing the holiness of the city when most of them believe themselves as a god.

I will recognize that city as holy only when Christ Himself walks its streets blessing it. Until then, its a rathole crawling with terrorists.

[TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa]

I haven't heard from Janet Reno lately. Do you think she would like a go at these religious extremists?

[Cronos]

Other than pure arrogance, what gives Islam the right to claim Jerusalem as an Islamic holy city when Muhammad never physically stepped foot there, nor anywhere else outside of Arabia?
Good point!