Blast destroys Al-Asqariya Golden Mosque"

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/22/iraq.main/index.html ^

[Bubbatuck]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- An explosion ripped through a Shiite holy site in Samarra Wednesday, destroying the golden dome of the al Askariya mosque, a U.S. military statement and a local security official said.

[Allegra]

Thanks.

The cats are safe at home with some friends, thank goodness.

I miss them, but this is no place for my fur babies.

(And yet, I keep coming back here...)

[sauropod]

I think this is a big deal.

Iraq will be in a civil war, started entirely intentionally.

[freeangel]

"you can't replace it"

And why would one want to? If islam is forgotten, it would be doing the world a favor.

[Cliff Dweller]

TROP = The Religion of Peace

[TXnMA]

When it reaches that point, if you'll shoot the other one, the world will be in a much better place...

[TXnMA]

I, for one, am not going to bet against your prediction...

[newcthem]

I always find it amazing how every pile of crap is a muslim "holy" something or other and we can't touch it, or check it for arms, but the same rule doesn't seem to apply to the members of the religion of piece.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Wasn't this the same mosque that a band of islamo cutthroats held out in several months ago, after attacking American troops and we were not allowed [because of political correctness stupidity] to level it, or even shoot back?

[Echo Talon]

If islam is forgotten, it would be doing the world a favor.

well for that to happen you need to erase the minds of what a billion people?

[squirt]

I'm old also but I don't feel the loss,

[Dick Vomer]

Im not Muslim but this is a loss for everyone, this building was old.

Muslims are a bunch of pussy, whiney, camel humping, hide behind women/children, murderous, prisoner killing, lie to your face, back stabbing, two faced, little b*tches

There frickin temple got smoked....so what?

Christianity is a religion that can't be burned, killed, crucified or beheaded out of existence.... sorry Muzzies, now crawl back in your holes and prepare for death....

I wish the muzzies were as sad about this list as they are about their holey (mispelled on purpose) hovels..er shrines.

Dresden had a destroyed building, was the historic Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) which had remained a pile of rubble for decade

first Catholic church on Guam was constructed in 1669 under the guidance of Padre San Vitores. The original structure was demolished during WWII.

The cathedral of St. Volodymyr, which lies inside the territory of Chersonesos and marks the site where the prince of the Kievan Rus accepted Christianity for his people, was destroyed during WWII

Riga, Latvia... three hundred years ago there was pressure for Burghers and Barons to keep up with the Joneses, so to speak.....A good place to start any tour is atop the spire of St. Peter’s Church ...The church was destroyed during World War II

Coventry's medieval cathedral destroyed after an attack by the Luftwaffe in 1940 ©

St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral destroyed by the Soviet government in 1927

During the Viking raids of 991-1016 AD the city of Cantebury was pillaged and the Cathedral destroyed

the silver sarcophagus of St.Adalbert, the red marble tomb of Zbigniew Olesnicki and the bronze tomb of Archbishop Jakub. Gniezno's Cathedral is perhaps the most beautiful Gothic structure in Poland, destroyed during World War II and rebuilt from scratch with the same dedication and craftsmanship as Warsaw's Old Town.

but you don't see a bunch of bearded, little punks threatening suicide bombings for the desecration of Christian houses of worship... cause they don't RESPECT Christianity or Judaism. They only want to jihad, hump blonde prostitutes, smoke opium, drink vodka, watch porn and bend over 5 times a day to show their a## to us and there snout to mecca... in other words they are an enemy worth killing in order to protect ourselves and children. It's just too bad that we have liberal socialist/democratic/communists that think their power is more important than 3000 Americans and the future of our country.

[Echo Talon]

Is that how you would have felt if those terrorist would have blown up the Church of the Nativity?

[Dick Vomer]

My goodness not much over 140 years Christianity was all for Slavery and genocide of the poor Indians here in America. Lets not jump to a bunch of silly conclusions on the actions of a minority

that's a load of shi' ite.... brotha

[Dick Vomer]

that was nice...

[Petronski]

Because "caring" about this would affect our survival. Riiiight.

[Lauretij2]

"caring" affects judgement. It's the Jimmy Carter/Neville Chamberlain line of thinking.

Weakness hurts us. Pure strength and military dominance is what we need. Conventional dominance only does so much.

[Tokra]

Had someone from Leningrad blown up the Kremlin during the cold war, I'd have shed no tears then either. Enemies are enemies.

And irreplaceable architectural gems are irreplaceable architectural gems.

Anytime a beautiful building is destroyed - its a loss for the entire world.

Your comments are reminiscent of the old "Ugly America" stereotype - "If it ain't in the good ole US of A then I don't give a flying fig".

I suppose that if you didn't like Italians, you wouldn't care if St. Peters or the Coliseum were blown up. Or if you don't like the French - then you wouldn't care if the Eiffel tower were toppled. Sheesh!

[Dick Vomer]

Is that how you would have felt if those terrorist would have blown up the Church of the Nativity?

I'm a Catholic... and a Christian....albeit a very poor one....but I wouldn't give a rat's a@# if they blew up the Basilica as long as nobody was killed.

It's all "stuff".... not important. People's lives are important, my family is important, those people hoping to bomb and kill my friends are important..

I've seen people die and I've yet to have one die with the words "My house was beautiful...or my car was bitching or... I wish I'd made more money... they all are were concerned about saying "I love you" or "I was thinking of them"... that's why I think that material stuff that leads to killing is the work of God's opponent.... murdering over cartoons, buildings, money, etc..... they are worldly things and we aren't to concern ourselves with much more than letting the Big Guy's life that he has provided to us, honor him by doing the best we can with what rotten material we have...(speaking of myself).

So in answer to your question... I don'think you'd find me or my kids in the streets with balaclavas, C-4 strapped to our chests, beating our heads with machetes and screaming about a Holy Crusade against the muzzies....

But you might find most of my older relatives and family, learning close order drills, field stripping a weapon, learning trigger pull and breathing, learning fire and maneuver, small unit tactics, and singing weird songs about "shores of Tripoli and some place with Halls of Monte...something"

We'd stand up and defend our country, family and friends..... but not about a cartoon or a building, but for freedom...... that's what libs don't understand about why you fight battles in foreign lands..... so they don't even think about doing it here...unfortunately the last guy in office was more worried about humping an intern and his "legacy" than our country.

[Lauretij2]

Good lord, how wrong you are!

Only islamic stuff goes. The rest is ok. islam's a horrible cancer on the planet. Look around.

The Buddhist temples, the Hindu stuff.. The old Christian and Jewish stuff. A lot of them have been overrun with islamic horrors.

Destroy the islamic stuff, keep the rest.

[Petronski]

It's the Jimmy Carter/Neville Chamberlain line of thinking. That's simple-minded bullshit.