NYC Mosque Gets the go!

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by The Third Man

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.