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| Israel razed more than 100 mosques |
| 2007-07-07 |
| Israel destroyed more than 100 mosques in Palestinian villages incorporated into the state, including the site where the head of Imam Hussein was allegedly buried, a leading daily reported on Friday. According to archives quoted by the Haaretz newspaper, Israel’s legendary general Moshe Dayan — himself an avid amateur archaeologist — gave the order to blow up the mosque while he was a young lieutenant colonel. Haaretz said the Mashhad Nabi Hussein in Majdal, now Ashkelon, dated back to the 11th century and was where tradition had it that the head of Imam Hussein, killed in 680 by armies of the Sunni caliph Yazid in Karbala, was interred. Around 9,000 Arabs who lived in Majdal fled during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and 3,000 who remained in a ghetto were subsequently forced out by Israel. The Mashhad Nabi Hussein mosque was blown up deliberately as part of a broader operation that included at least two additional mosques, one in Yavneh and the other in the nearby Mediterranean city of Ashdod, Haaretz said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #17 sympathy level i sq rt of -1 |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-07-07 20:41 |
| #16 Oh,,, the Jews and Israel... so what about the tomb in Hebron along with many other holy sites.... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-07-07 18:43 |
| #15 And Saint Sophia was returned to the Orthodox when? The early church in Damascus was returned to the Catholics when? The churches in East Timor were rebuilt with Muslim aid when? The bishops in the Philippines were restored to life when? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-07-07 18:41 |
| #14 We really need a Sympathy Meter with negative values. xbalanke, I believe RB has one but here, Sympathy Meter: [minus sign: '–' ] [numbers: 1 • ∞ ] >: |
| Posted by: RD 2007-07-07 17:08 |
| #13 Sympathy Meter? We really need a Sympathy Meter with negative values. |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2007-07-07 12:01 |
| #12 Good job, now keep going. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-07-07 11:21 |
| #11 It was a terrible strategic mistake to allow any Muslims, or their buildings, to remain. After the 1967 war, every square inch of the new territories should have been cleansed then integrated into Israel as part of its permanent lands. You invaded. You lost. Ours now. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-07-07 10:40 |
| #10 Moshe Dayan — himself an avid amateur archaeologist — gave the order to blow up the mosque while he was a young lieutenant colonel General Dayan always kept a good eye on the worthless bastards. Too bad we don't have warriors around today like Dayan. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-07-07 10:01 |
| #9 Sympathy Meter? |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2007-07-07 09:56 |
| #8 Inshallah |
| Posted by: newc 2007-07-07 09:36 |
| #7 What Scooter said. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-07-07 09:05 |
| #6 They were empty at the time though. Pity. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-07-07 07:51 |
| #5 Yeah, but they left the other 99,900 standing so it's no big deal. |
| Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-07-07 04:09 |
| #4 I don't believe it, but wish it were true. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2007-07-07 03:48 |
| #3 Seethe, seethebots, seethe! |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-07-07 01:58 |
| #2 Considering the genocidal filth preached in so many mosques, I can hardly blame Israel. All of this resembles nothing more than that well-known bus full of lawyers on the lake-bottom. Namely, a good start. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-07-07 00:27 |
| #1 Around 9,000 Arabs who lived in Majdal fled during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war Are these part of the 'Palistinians' who voluntarily, of their own free will, left Israel before the war with assurances that they would be able to return after Israel is destroyed and get in on the spoils? And now they want the right of return.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2007-07-07 00:18 |