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Old 08-04-10, 09:00 PM   #13
krashkart
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Originally Posted by The Third Man View Post
It is hard to get the image of Muslims cheering when the towers came down out of my head.
I was meaning to quote/reply to this one earlier but I got sidetracked. I remember the news clips of some of those naughty little celebrations they were having over there, and the resentment that welled up inside as I watched. At the same time I felt sorry for those people. Why is it that humans are so easily twisted to such fervent displays of lunacy, by the whims and ambitions of so very few?

I also remember this treasure:



This was a painting that was hanging in an Iraqi barbershop. Note the lack of destruction and aircraft. I wonder why the shop keeper would risk his neck by putting it on the wall, when it would have been much more fashionable to display a work similar to this one from Nasiriya:



Charming ain't it?


Source articles below for anyone interested.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/...in546437.shtml
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/me...ral/index.html

Sorry to dogleg back into the topic like this. But for every bad, there is at least one good. That is the thrust of my post.

Last edited by krashkart; 08-04-10 at 09:36 PM. Reason: The ending needed a bit of work. All better now.
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