[GauchoUSA]

“The Holy city of Qom”

Just how many holy cities do these muslims have?

[DesertConservative]

Any sh*thole Muhammed parked his camel counts, apparantly.

[JasonC]

Qom is a center of Shiite Islam and its theological center specifically. The "Oxford" of Shia theology. (The main Sunni theological center is in Cairo).

And yes, the fractured political history of Islam has meant numerous disparate sites important to this or that sect.