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Archaeologist Uncover Possible Medieval Mosque In Sicily
Physorg.com ^ | 7-30-2007 | North Illinois University

Posted on 07/30/2007 8:41:07 PM PDT by blam

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1 posted on 07/30/2007 8:41:10 PM PDT by blam
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To: SunkenCiv

GGG Ping.


2 posted on 07/30/2007 8:41:33 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: blam

Great. All we need is another Muslim “Holy City.”


3 posted on 07/30/2007 8:45:04 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: blam
Arabs ruled the island for roughly 200 years ... In an archaeological sense, the Arab or Islamic phase in Sicily is ephemeral—its duration was short

How many of us think of the US Revolution as being a short time ago?

4 posted on 07/30/2007 8:46:19 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (It's not the heat, it's the stupidity.)
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To: blam

This mosque city island is ours! It is the will of Allah that it be returned to the Islamic people. There will be no peace until the occupiers are gone!

5 posted on 07/30/2007 8:56:58 PM PDT by SIDENET ("IT'S A COOKBOOK!!!")
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To: Grizzled Bear

Every city where muhammed(may pigs be upon him) shat is holy.


6 posted on 07/30/2007 8:57:51 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: blam

Moorish architecture is mixed with the cathedrals in Spain, too, so it makes sense that it also would be uncovered in Sicily.

I read in a book that Sicily was invaded by so many different peoples that the Sicilians themselves are a mixture. Which is not big news, I’m sure, to anyone. :-) Scottish (which explains the red haired Sicilians, they say) and Arabic are among the mixture. According to the book, there was a tradition of families painting the doors to their home a certain color. They didn’t know it, but, at one time, different colors signified different ethnicities. Families continued that tradition even after they forgot why. But anyone else could drive through pointing out the ancestry of the families in each home without even meeting them.


7 posted on 07/30/2007 9:02:52 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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To: blam
I vote for reburial...
8 posted on 07/30/2007 9:03:20 PM PDT by gdc314
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To: SIDENET

tee hee didn’t the sicilians use the place as pig farm?


9 posted on 07/30/2007 9:04:41 PM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile.)
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To: blam
Everybody knows that is not a mosque-ito!

It's a vertical multi-level chianti press.

fool

10 posted on 07/30/2007 9:05:32 PM PDT by shadowcat
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To: Eagles6

The true believers insist that any place which was ever under Sharia Law must be restored to Islam even before they get the rest of us! That means they want Sicily and southern Italy, along with Spain, Portugal, and southwestern France, not to mention southeastern Europe, from Greece to the walls of Vienna.


11 posted on 07/30/2007 9:06:36 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (A person who does not want the best for America)
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To: blam; Cacique

The Mori were a significant portion of the population in Palermo for hundreds of yesrs...


12 posted on 07/30/2007 9:07:24 PM PDT by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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To: Grizzled Bear

‘medieval castle of Salemi’

My home made garage urinal is now designated as the ‘Funnel to Allah’.


13 posted on 07/30/2007 9:08:29 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: Tired of Taxes
Yes, and which is why you see many Sicilians that look almost Scandanavian (thanks to the Norman conquest).

My maternal ancestral hometown was inhabited by Greeks, Romans, Phoenecians and (finally) the Spanish.

14 posted on 07/30/2007 9:08:50 PM PDT by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

I’m sure that they will say that about the New World too. What don’t the useful idiots get? It’s not about the Jews, it’s not about foreign policy, it’s about conquest, slaughter and plunder.


15 posted on 07/30/2007 9:11:49 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Westlander
‘medieval castle of Salemi’

My home made garage urinal is now designated as the ‘Funnel to Allah’.


Before using it you should shout, “Hey Muhammad! I got your stinkin Salemi right here!”

16 posted on 07/30/2007 9:12:31 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

I don’t think they ever had portugal. I think portugal held out against everyone...even the spanish.


17 posted on 07/30/2007 9:15:38 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: Westlander

Isn’t that the “HOLY Funnel to Allah”?


18 posted on 07/30/2007 9:19:48 PM PDT by Moonmad27
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To: Tired of Taxes
"I read in a book that Sicily was invaded by so many different peoples that the Sicilians themselves are a mixture. Which is not big news, I’m sure, to anyone. :-) Scottish (which explains the red haired Sicilians, they say) and Arabic are among the mixture. According to the book, there was a tradition of families painting the doors to their home a certain color. They didn’t know it, but, at one time, different colors signified different ethnicities. Families continued that tradition even after they forgot why. But anyone else could drive through pointing out the ancestry of the families in each home without even meeting them."

That's an amazing story...I love'em!

I posted an article recently (can't find it now) about a festival that is held anually in a region of England that uses reindeer horns and everyone parades around all day with these horns on their heads. Problem is, no-one can remember why they do it...and declare that they had done it as long as anyone can remember. A scientist dated the horns and they're 900 years old. After the 'parade' the horns go back into storage until the next years parade.

BTW, We can now 'paint the doors' again using DNA.

19 posted on 07/30/2007 9:24:34 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: SIDENET

No doubt.


20 posted on 07/30/2007 9:30:51 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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