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The destruction of Mecca: Saudi hardliners are wiping out their own heritage
06 August 2005
| Daniel Howden
Posted on 08/05/2005 8:03:02 PM PDT by mdittmar
Historic Mecca, the cradle of Islam, is being buried in an unprecedented onslaught by religious zealots.
Just a link.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iconoclasm; iconoclasts; mecca; petra; saudiarabia; wahhabism
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To: FreedomCalls
Interesting. Do you know how old that first photo is?
To: Pookyhead
When they have destroyed everything they worship, then islam will be purified, because they worship nothing.
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08/07/2005 9:26:56 PM PDT
by
philetus
(What goes around comes around)
To: wideminded
I don't know for sure, but I can read the Arabic numbers "1371" at the bottom (
based on this), which would
correspond to the year 1951 in our calendar.
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08/07/2005 9:44:54 PM PDT
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FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: mdittmar
Hmm. What do you get when you have 1 billion or so people, who have no future, and who also now have no history?
IMHO, if you put that many people in an entirely untenable situation, and convince them there is only one way out, many will choose that one way.
Even if that way means losing one's own earthly life.
Sadly, for the civilized world, that one way involves killing as many of us as possible so they can achieve matyrdom.
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08/08/2005 8:44:41 AM PDT
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Hegemony Cricket
(No rolling stone ever says, "I want to be a Bryologist when I grow up!")
To: FreedomCalls
Seeing your picture in #19, one must wonder what a daisy cutter would look like.
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08/08/2005 9:26:58 AM PDT
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jb6
( Free Haghai Sophia! Crusade!)
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