ya habibi, those people are bajem!

Did u really think that terrorists are educated people ? they are blinded by hatred and extremism , it’s it’s religious , all the the other religions , and their symbols are no good : expendable , so , u got my point :)

indeed, it was dogma, The same hatred that drove them to try to ‘erase’ the ‘others’.
so sad that some think that they’re the centre of this world and ‘others’ are to be marginalized or destroyed. be it religion, heritage, culture, art …etc

Good comparison.

However, I think the Samarra bombing is more comparable to 9/11 in that the attackers targeted a symbol. It just happens that the biggest symbol for Shia Iraqis is a piece of religious artwork whereas America’s symbol were two gravity defying tall office buildings.

Your comparison is apt, however, in that the structure destroyed was of far greater global cultural importance than the WTC. What was entirely unique, and it was unique to a particular sect.

The Shia will not be able to make a similar such gesture, and it would be truly terrible if they tried.

Absolutely tragic.

They don’t respect human life, in particular woman and children, why would we expect them to respect art.

dear m,

i’m with l.p. on that one. the taliban did their work out of iconoclasm, whereas the samarra bombing seems to have been done in order to provoke sectarianist reprisals & then counter-reprisals. it probably did not have much to do with the building itself, but with what could be achieved by provoking shi’ite arabs.

and the calculation seems to work - the tawafuq front already pulled out of the coalition talks … 150+ dead since yesterday … sistani is loosing his calm … etc.pp.

–raf*

well said mustapha…

The Bamian story occured to me when I saw the aftermath of the danish cartoons.

why didnt moslems or bhudists do anything when the Bamian statues were destroyed?

It is not purely dogmatic. It is a guided pre-planned attack aimed at “provoking sectarianist reprisals & then counter-reprisals” (raf*). The tools are these “uneducated and blinded people” (one). What I am afraid of is that this is a result of “democraticising” of the Middle East.

Anon 11:42, there were statements of protest from Lebanese Moslems of all sects, and Christians when the Bamian statues were destroyed, there was even a statement from Hizbullah.

“What I can’t understand is: Why can’t the terrorist appreciate the beauty and magnificence of works of art?”

The answer is quite simple: Wahhabism a.k.a. Neo-Hambalism the official dogma of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as well as the main source of inspiration for numerous Islamist groups such as the Taleban or the “Jamaa Islamiyya”, the Lebanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Jamaa was founded by a certain professor Fathi Yakan, a pro-Saudi bigot described by Rafic Al-Hariri as “the greatest Lebanese Sunni theologian of the 20th century”. In case you wonder, this is the same Sheikh Fathi Yakan who called for the cleaning of Tripoli and North Lebanon from the sullying presence of “dirty Christians and Alawites” back in the 1970s…No doubt the man was a visionary thinker!

It should be clear by now that Lebanese Prime minister Fuad Saniura and majority leader MP Saad Al-Hariri are Wahhabi wolfes in pseudo-modernist clothes: they wear clean-cut ties and suits but, deep inside, they’re just like the Taleban- or even worse for that matter.

Hariri and Saniura were actually both seen several times (on Saudi Arabia’s Channel 1 TV) attending Friday prayer services at Jeddah’s Central Mosque, where the residing Hambali preacher regularly calls for the “extermination of idolatrous Shiite and Christian dogs” or “Tassfiyatt al kilâb al mushrikeen al matâweelah wal-nasârah” in Saudi parlance!

As long as they don’t RENOUNCE PUBLICLY (preferably on Saudi TV) the intolerance and perversions of Wahhabi theocratic fascism, the leaders of Lebanon’s ruling Future party will remain under suspicion in the West and in Lebanon itself.

Upon his return to Beirut a week ago, Saad Al-Hariri held a press conference during which he only had harsh criticisms for Syria, Iran and Gen. Michel Aoun, Lebanon’s leading Christian politician…Tellingly, his final tirade was sycophantic praise for his Wahhabi handlers:
“L’Saudiyyeh mâ betsadder ella kheir” which literally means that “Saudi [Arabia] only exports goodness”!

Sure Saad, but what about crude oil and Islamist terrorism??