Posted on 07/19/2014 3:22:50 PM PDT by markomalley
Corrected.
If this is what they did, then they aren’t true Muslims. I always understood that Muslims held Mary in high regard.
Christians have been at war with Muslims for 1400 years. The Muslims have done this type of thing many times when Christians forget their strength.
Their regard for Mary is of little import; Islam has for the most part, been very iconoclastic, opposing most, if not all anthropomorphic representations. It was in fact a Sufi mystic who busted the nose of the Sphinx, despite later efforts to blame Napoleonic cannoneers. About the only exception was a brief flourishing of art under the Safavids, whose manuscript art rivaled that of the finest European illuminators.
Father Jonathan Morris on Facebook asked us to pray for the Iraqi Christians.
Many do but you can't refer to Muslims as a monolithic block. ISIS wantonly destroys even religious symbols of Islam if they can somehow tie them to sectarian opposition.
I think Rivera is the guy who also courageously revealed the existence of the giant supercomputer beneath the Vatican with all the Protestant names and locations. Sadly he was eventually slain by albino monk assassins bent on pink-eyed revenge for divulging such unholy secrets of Rome.
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Salvaion, I believe you are not correct here. Sunni Muslims, in particular, -— and other groups as well -— are violent iconoclasts. They would not allow to exist a statue of Mohammad or Ali Bakr, let alone Mary. The Sunnis dynamite the mosques of Shiites and Sufis because they contain paintings/murals of representative art; the Sunnis allow only calligraphy and geometric design, no representation of angel, human or animal.
So are the Sunnis part of what we know as the violent Wahhabis?
Do not trust the judgement of the followers of Mad Mo.
Bloody savages, the whole cursed lot!
Jesus said, “By their fruits ye shall know them.”
A distinction needs to be made between Mary and visual representations of Mary. Everyday Muslims of all stripes in India tend to hold Miriam or Mariam in high regard as Salvation suggested. What sentiments they harbour regarding art depicting Mary is not immediately apparent — such depictions are not at all rare and certainly not all are vandalized on a daily basis.
Many FR members would do the same.
Most Wahhabis are on the Arabian Peninsula (Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia.) Half of the Emiratis and Qataris are Wahhabists, and maybe a fifth of all Saudis are, too.
Obama’s Arab Summer
Idols of Mary are idols, but were I or anyone else to destroy one, faithful Catholics would just make a replacement. The goal should be for them to repent of worshipping idols in the first place. That takes persuasion and education rather than just brute force, something that thugs don’t have the patience for.
Wahabi’s in the late 1800’s almost destroyed the Ottoman empire because they believed that other muslims were committing shirk. The House of Saud would not exist today if the House of Saud did not come to a formal arrangement with this group back then. Wahabists marched from Turkey to what is now Isreal all in the name of pushing the Jews into the sea. There is a book by Dori Gold should you be interested in reading about the Wahabists, the most violent sect in Islam. Today, most deny the existance of the Wahabi’s but they exist under the protection of the House of Saud in Saudi Arabia.
Catholics don’t worship Mary, statues, popes, or popeye.
Protestants did the same. Protestants both in Europe and in what is now the US attacked statues of the Virgin and the saints and also destroyed altars and churches. There are Catholic monasteries in Spain that are still doing reparation on behalf of the English and the Napoleonic French for the devastation that they wrought on the churches in various attacks and invasions.
Protestantism, like Islam, was essentially Arianism in a new garb. Islam was more destructive because it combined with pagan religions and tribalism. Protestantism usually combined with the State or, as in the case of the Calvinists, wanted to be the State.
And in addition, about 700 years separated the two, so society had changed and paganism no longer existed on a large scale.
Arianism may seem pretty abstract and innocent, but...as they say, ideas have consequences.
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