But, since we're talking about The Religion Of Peace, this is all the coverage it'll get. Look quick, because you won't even be able to Google it by the Super Bowl.
Posted on 01/26/2005 9:50:40 AM PST by Cornpone
Somali militiamen have begun building a mosque on the site of an Italian colonial-era cemetery in Mogadishu, which they desecrated last week. The BBC's Mohammed Olad Hassan saw a small corrugated metal structure amid the coffins which litter the area.
He says the capital has been very tense since the armed militia group occupied the cemetery last week.
The Italian government has described the graves' desecration as barbaric.
The decision to build a mosque has been condemned by many local residents, as well as by local Islamic authorities.
Remains dumped
The militia exhumed the human remains of some 700 graves and dumped them near Mogadishu airport.
Facts and figures about life in Somalia
At-a-glance
The chairman of the Somali Clerics Council, Sheik Nur Barood Gurhan, said under Islamic law the militia men were not allowed to construct the mosque without the permission of the land's owners.
The militiamen told our correspondent that they were building the mosque for local people.
But residents near the cemetery said they were unhappy with the situation and threatened to kick the militias out.
Mogadishu was under Italian colonial control until World War II and many of the graves belong to Italian soldiers and expatriates.
Somalia has not had a functioning national government since 1991 and rival militias have divided it into a patchwork of fiefdoms.
A new Somali government has been named and is due to start relocating to Mogadishu from Kenya on 1 February.
But Mogadishu remains a dangerous city and its chief of police, in charge of investigating the cemetery's destruction, was assassinated by gunmen last week.
Religion of Peace ping.
Thank God we have the UN to keep things like this from going unpunished.
Nuke the place for morbid. It's the only way to be sure.
I don't know what to say.
Poltergiest ping.
Correct me if I am wrong, but even though it is a non muslim cemetary. Isnt it against there religion to do this?
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But Mogadishu remains a dangerous city and its chief of police, in charge of investigating the cemetery's destruction, was assassinated by gunmen last week.
Hey, sounds like an ideal vacation spot!
I am speechless. On the other hand, I have no idea why I am because this kind of travesty has come to be expected from the Somalians. What a group of animals.
But, since we're talking about The Religion Of Peace, this is all the coverage it'll get. Look quick, because you won't even be able to Google it by the Super Bowl.
It's part of their religion to destroy holy sites of other religions and build mosques on top of them. The epitome of this is of course the Al-Aqsa mosque built on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
I could only imagine Peter Jennings reporting this as a headline if it were the other way around. More cries from the left of muslim abuse.
Another "Holy SIte" underway?
What religion?
I understand that part, but the temple mount isnt a cemetary, and I thought they had something against disturbing cemetaries, much like Judaism.
No, let them build the damn mosque, wait until it's full, THEN nuke it.
Sheesh...didn't these people learn anything from the movie "Poltergeist"?
Nope. Guess you missed the stories about the Albanian Muslims tearing up Serbian cemeteries and scattering the remains. No surprise there, as the MSM completely ignored it.
If you've messed up your country, and are too incompetent to look after your people, then I guess all that's left is to act in a spitefull manner. Sure puts the spotlight on the inner workings of islam.
Bulldoze and sow salt. It worked for the romans.
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