[gg188]

You know that the AP would be having a total fit if it were a mosque, front page of the New York and LA Slimes.

Yup---if this had been done to a moham mosque, it would be considered the hate crime of the century. There would be a fit of backlash of sensitivity training and diversity and hate-crime awareness public service announcements and telethons. Editorialists and NPR commentators would be wringing hands and gnashing teeth over the permanently warped lives of moslem children who witnessed on their tv screens the site of their holy sites desecrated so vilely yadayadayada.

Personally, I'd like to see an equally "militant" Christian group march over to the Dome of the Rock with a couple of large bombs and bring the structure down to the consistency of CAT LITTER.

[drlevy88]

bring the structure down to the consistency of CAT LITTER

Then bring the cats over to use it, of course. Or better yet, pigs.

[pjb819]

Can you just imagine? A mosque taken hostgage by armed Israelis, or even worse, Americans? Where is the outrage? Where is the UN resolution condemning this act of sacrilege? They urinated, and who knows what else, on the birthplace of Jesus!!!! And we're not supposed to be upset because we'll be deemed racist; we are supposed to understand because "they have been oppressed." I am so sick of that excuse, "But you have to understand.....blah, blah, blah!" I can't take hearing that anymore. There is no excuse for this. And now the mayor of bethlehem is demanding that the US pay for the clean-up. (Some sheik from over there has already volunteered to pay for it; why are we supposed to?)Great lesson for terrorists: storm into a Christian place of worship, fully armed, desecrate the holiest of places and you too can win an all expenses-paid vacation at a beachfront hotel. And not only that, the Americans will pay for your clean-up!!!

What is it going to take for people around the world to realize what the Israelis already know; you cannot deal honorably with arafat or his people. The 26 palestinian militants who were supposed to go to jail in Gaza are riding around, with new guns, in a hero's parade. I'm sure they too will also be getting a beachfront vacation. And we are supposed to be compassionate because "you have to understand, we have been oppressed." ENOUGH! These are the same people who danced in celebration of 9-11.

Would it do any good to express our outrage anywhere? Who would listen and/or do anything? Kofi, yea right! What can we do?