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2005-05-19 Afghanistan/South Asia
Monumental Dispute Raging Over Taj Mahal
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Posted by Fred 2005-05-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 A sealed basement - somebody call Geraldo Rivera's agent!
Posted by Pappy 2005-05-19 00:31||   2005-05-19 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 The Taj Mahal, the 327,645th Holiest Place In IslamTM...
Posted by Raj 2005-05-19 09:03||   2005-05-19 09:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Thar's gold in them thar temples.
Posted by ed 2005-05-19 09:16||   2005-05-19 09:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Now, now, you do recall that two Catholic religious orders are fighting over who controls the roof of one of the holy sites in Israel. One side has had a monk sitting in a chair on the roof for several years now.
Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins  2005-05-19 09:19|| http://blog.simmins.org]">[http://blog.simmins.org]  2005-05-19 09:19|| Front Page Top

#5 "Don't touch! It's mine, mine, mine!" - unknown 3 year old at the playground, 2005.
Posted by Tkat 2005-05-19 09:22||   2005-05-19 09:22|| Front Page Top

#6 How cool would it be if the monk in the chair on the roof kept a blog...
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2005-05-19 09:30||   2005-05-19 09:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Chuck - I'm so glad to hear we've got a 24/7 monk-watch on the Holy Shingle of Antioch!

I find it fitting that a temple of Shiva "The Destroyer" was razed for the Taj. No irony there!
Posted by Dar">Dar  2005-05-19 09:41||   2005-05-19 09:41|| Front Page Top

#8 I have heard, although I cannot confirm, that in the process of building the Taj Mahal, one of the workers discarded a wooden box. Turned out he'd discarded Mumtaz Mahal's coffin, and her body with it; so that she never was inside the tomb.

So, if that story is true, does the Taj Mahal actually contain any Muslim graves?

Does anybody have some further information on this?
Posted by mom 2005-05-19 10:21||   2005-05-19 10:21|| Front Page Top

#9 The Moghul emperors were Muslim, from Persia.
Posted by mojo">mojo  2005-05-19 10:31||   2005-05-19 10:31|| Front Page Top

#10 More info available here.
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2005-05-19 10:32||   2005-05-19 10:32|| Front Page Top

#11 Read Ernie Gann's Fate is the Hunter about a severely overloaded cargo plane in WWII. It took off from a field near the Taj Mahal on a hot day and was wallowing away in the air and heading right for the site and a certain crash. "What will we do?" Cried the crew. "Full flaps!" cried the captain, and they hopped over the Taj Mahal with a few feet to spare.
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2005-05-19 11:36||   2005-05-19 11:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Not going to matter all that much long if India doesn't take better care of the thing. I was there ~3 years ago and lets just say their maintenance ain't the best I've ever seen.
Posted by Laurence of the Rats  2005-05-19 11:57:09 AM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/]  2005-05-19 11:57:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 But the Sunni Waqf Board, which oversees Sunni Muslim..

After seeing just the title, I had suspected that Muslims were involved in this "dispute". Seems my suspicions were correct.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-05-19 12:04||   2005-05-19 12:04|| Front Page Top

#14 It's damn cold up here much of the year Sister Em.
Posted by Brother Carmel Delight">Brother Carmel Delight  2005-05-19 12:05||   2005-05-19 12:05|| Front Page Top

#15 ;)
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2005-05-19 13:05||   2005-05-19 13:05|| Front Page Top

#16 Chuck, as I recall, it isn't the entire roof, only part of it that the monk is guarding for his sect.
Posted by trailing wife 2005-05-19 19:56||   2005-05-19 19:56|| Front Page Top

#17 answer: STFU
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-05-19 21:44||   2005-05-19 21:44|| Front Page Top

#18 I am glad that all those nutcases have nothing better to do then fight over who owns a grave.
Posted by 3dc 2005-05-19 23:25||   2005-05-19 23:25|| Front Page Top

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