However, what Zeinab had to say about the southern part of the camp was new. There, he said, separated from the rest of the facilities by a razor-wire fence, was a barracks used to house Islamic radicals, many of them Saudis from bin Laden's Wahhabi sect, but also Egyptians, Yemenis, and other non-Iraqi Arabs.Unlike the other parts of Salman Pak, Zeinab said the foreigners' camp was controlled directly by Saddam Hussein. In a telephone interview with The Observer, Zeinab described the culture clash which took place when secular Baathists tried to train fundamentalists: 'It was a nightmare! A very strange experience. These guys would stop and insist on praying to Allah five times a day when we had training to do. The instructors wouldn't get home till late at night, just because of all this praying.'
Muslims pray five times and bow five times a day to a black stone in Mecca, and encircle it seven times just as if the Kaaba were an idol.
Victoria, your observation is the most over-looked (dare I say "ignored"?) FACT-point in the entirety of the arguements regarding the Muslim religion. Idol worship!
Of course, the Muslims had no trouble destroying the Buddists monuments that "soiled" their land! In fact, the destruction was celebrated!