a 1000 year old mosque was bombed, why no muslim protest?
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I must say, I cannot understand why bombing the site of the Mahdi's disappearance rates an, "Oh, that's too bad!" while some childish drawings causes Imams to put out million dollar contracts on Infidels.
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Because they don't have a temple to sacrifice them in, anymore. The Temple of Solomon was destroyed by the Romans around the first century.
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The mosque was destroyed on December 6, 1992, by a crowd of 75,000 people  (karsevaks) of the VHP and other associated groups. However, some estimates put the number at 200,000 (Growth & Change, Spring 2000). The destruction occurred at the end of Advani's rathayatra, and there is some evidence that it was pre-planned by nationalist groups.
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No, sadly enough they have contributed nothing.  That is why they are so frustrated.  5 or 6 hundred years ago, they did beautiful artwork.  There is a castle in Spain called the Alhambra that was built by the muslims.  Other than that, no.  Their religion does not allow them to do anything positive.
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Muslims have waged war against non-muslims for some 1400 years now, ever since islam began. While they (or their "leaders) may say they dont feel safe, it is all words. It would be better off put that muslims will not feel safe until they have converted the entire planet to islam.\nNot too suprisingly, other people dont want to convert to islam...\n\nbak2the - just to let you know, muslims DO demand that you become a muslim and during a muslim wedding, the non-muslim wife (as women are not allowed to marry non-muslim men) is AUTOMATICALLY converted to islam during the ceremony.\n\ntheluke - You really need to study world affairs before you state that islam ONLY hates the usa and england... indeed islam is attacking many non western countries, from the sudan were 200,000 christians were murdered by muslims, to thialand, to the phillipeens, to india... and other countries as well. Islam is attacking all over the planet, This behavior has nothing to do with the "west" as it has been going on since 1400 years ago.
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Because Makkah, Medina and the Dome of the Rock are places of worship, not tourism.\n\nThere is only one purpose of visiting those places and that is worship.  If you are not there to worship, you have no purpose there.\n\nYour Visa into these places is to declare: There is no God but the One God and Muhammed is His Last Messeneger
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I still don't understand why some people feel that violence is warrented or acceptable as a form of protest.  It was a cartoon, sure it was offensive but isn't a violent reaction more so?  Muslims are always complaining about being painted with a broad brush of being violent.  How is this helping to dispurse that stereotype?
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Because if they had it the muslim faith would vanish
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once again excuses and no real action, and even one poster blames israel for muslim terrorism.. so muslims where are the "million" muslim march against terrorism? why are their bigger protests against cartoons than against 9/11??? why dont a million or more muslims from the usa march in washington demanding and end to worldwide muslim terrorism?\nislam must reform! stop justifying. stop blaming worldwide muslim terrorism dating back 1400 years on israel, or bush..
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Because Islam exists.
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Funny how religions cling to their books screaming it is historical until something is found to disprove it.  Then they say history is crap.  \n\nYou just can't win against the brainwashed.
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They believe! Yes it is difficult for us to think that way. We are free and were not raised Muslim. I'll give it the them on the HARDCORE ness of their faith but its whacked. I don't know of any god that says blow crap up. We are not dealing with a westernized civilization. This people are stuck in a religious time warp. We don't have their commitment. And it ain't going to be easy to stop them. It will be too late by the time you see one.
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Because Islam isnt a religion of Peace.  It is a violent Terrorist religion.
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the tradition of muslims killing muslims is as old as islam itself
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"No golden tombs, no fancy ziggurats. Four thousand years ago city builders in the Indus Valley made deals, not war, and created a stable, peaceful, and prosperous culture."\n"No golden tombs, no fancy ziggurats. Four thousand years ago city builders in the Indus Valley made deals, not war, and created a stable, peaceful, and prosperous culture."\n\n\nThe railway linking Lahore to Multan in Pakistan is 4,600 years old. In truth, the rails were laid down in the middle of the nineteenth century, but to build the railway bed, British engineers smashed bricks from crumbling buildings and rubble heaps in a town called Harappa, halfway between the two cities. Back in 1856, Alexander Cunningham, director of the newly formed Archeological Survey of British India, thought the brick ruins were all related to nearby seventh-century Buddhist temples. Local legend told a different story: the brick mounds were the remnants of an ancient city, destroyed when its king committed incest with his niece. Neither Cunningham nor the locals were entirely correct. In small, desultary excavations a few years later, Cunningham found no temples or traces of kings, incestuous or otherwise. Instead he reported the recovery of some pottery, carved shell, and a badly damaged seal depicting a one-horned animal, bearing an inscription in an unfamiliar writing.\n\nThat seal was a mark of one of the world's great ancient civilizations, but mid-nineteenth-century archaeologists like Cunningham knew nothing about it. The Vedas, the oldest texts of south Asia, dating from some 3,500 years ago, made no mention of it, nor did the Bible. No pyramids or burial mounds marked the area as the site of an ancient power. Yet, 4,600 years ago, at the same time as the early civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt, great cities arose along the flood plains of he ancient Indus and Saraswati rivers in what is now Pakistan and northwest India. The people of the Indus Valley didn't build towering monuments, bury their riches along with their dead, or fight legendary and bloody battles. They didn't have a mighty army or a divine emperor. Yet they were a highly organized and stupendously successful civilization. They built some of the world's first planned cities, created one of the world's first written languages, and thrived in an area twice the size of Egypt and Mesopotamia for 700 years.\n\nTo archeologists of this century and last, Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, a neighboring city some 350 miles to the southwest, posed an interesting, if unglamorous puzzle. Excavations revealed large, orderly walled cities of massive brick buildings, with highly sophisticated sanitation and drainage systems and a drab, institutional feel. The streets of Harappa, remarked British archeologist Mortimer Wheeler, "however impressive quantitatively, and significant sociologically, are aesthetically miles of monotony." The archeologist and popular author Leonard Cottrell, a contemporary of Wheeler's, wrote in 1956, "While admiring the efficiency of Harappan planning and sanitary engineering, one's general impression of Harappan culture is unattractive... One imagines those warrens of streets, baking under the fierce sun of the Punjab, as human ant heaps, full of disciplined, energetic activity, supervised and controlled by a powerful, centralized state machine; a civilization in which there was little joy, much labor, and a strong emphasis on material things."\n\nSuperior plumbing and uniform housing, no matter how well designed, don’t fire the imagination like ziggurats and gold-laden tombs. "But there's more to society than big temples and golden burials," argues Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, an archeologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. "Those are the worst things that ancient societies did, because they led to their collapse. When you take gold and put it in ground, it's bad for the economy. When you wast
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No, if it was free then when a muslum,minanite ect. lady walks down the street wearing her head covering she would'nt get stares or racial slures . Or the church bells would not be the only anounment of religous practice (calling the adthan call of prayer by the muslums ) would be alloud . Then Friday would be a religous Holiday just like Saturday and sunday is due to the fact that Friday is the holy day for  muslums . Also the books written about how the Jews are killing muslum/chirstians in Palastine would not be taken off shelves in book stores . The list goes on and on .
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They WERE. Don't be naive and ignorant behind any religion, that isn't what any faith teaches, especially Islam.\nIn Sri Lanka alone, 528 places of worship were destroyed, of which 97 were mosques. Look at some of the pictures\nin the 'sources' section.\n\nIn Somalia the town Mosque of Brava was completely destroyed.\n\nIn this website (http://www.islamic-relief.com/submenu/appeal/aliyar.asp) it is simply all about how BADLY the mosques were affected throughout this region.\n\nIf you base this question on the (single) report of the mosque being the only standing structure in Banda Aceh, then you really need to research more. This is true but it was also the ONLY building made of reasonable materials in the entire area.\n\nEven so, the very same building wasn't left 'untouched'.\n\n"The 58-year-old sultan was accompanied by Indonesian Welfare Minister Alwi Shihab _ who is in charge of the relief operations in the province _ on the hour-long flight from the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, and back.\nHassanal visited a tsunami-damaged mosque near a beach north of Banda Aceh and announced that he was considering paying for its repairs, Shihab told The Associated Press.\nHe said the sultan, a devout Muslim and an ardent aviator, also brought 2,000 copies of the holy Muslim book Quran for distribution at several mosques. "\n\nI'll leave the rest for you to research yourself. \nPlease, please, research things for yourself before making blatantly false and misleading statements.