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2015-12-02 India-Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2015-12-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 When Adam, a Hindu believer,
Laid eyes on the figure of Eva,
The first masturbator
Invented a Veda --
"You, madam, were sacred to Shiva!"

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2015-12-02 03:24|| 2015-12-02 03:24|| Front Page Top

#2 As I recall, it was originally a mausoleum for a favored wife. If the moose have their way, multiple factors will lead to it being bulldozed.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-12-02 06:36|| 2015-12-02 06:36|| Front Page Top

#3 If they call it a Hindu Temple it will be bombed. If they call it a mosque it will last forever.

Posted by jvalentour 2015-12-02 10:13|| 2015-12-02 10:13|| Front Page Top

#4 pick three of the lawyers and disappear them forever. The rest won't be such asshats

Posted by Frank G 2015-12-02 11:55|| 2015-12-02 11:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Something odd in this story. Says it is not a Hindu temple but then says built by Mughal Emporer Shah Jahan. I thought the Mughals were Muslims? It also says Muslims be restricted from offering prayers at the location.

Sounds like they are saying it was determined to not be a Muslim temple.

Anyway, saying it is not a temple won't get the Muslims to spare it if they get the chance.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-12-02 16:25|| 2015-12-02 16:25|| Front Page Top

#6 rjschwarz, the Wikipedia article on the Taj Mahal addresses all those questions. Key to the Hindu temple claim, Wikipedia reports:

In 2000, India's Supreme Court dismissed P. N. Oak's petition[64] to declare that a Hindu king built the Taj Mahal.[61][65] In 2005 a similar petition was dismissed by the Allahabad High Court. This case was brought by Amar Nath Mishra, a social worker and preacher who says that the Taj Mahal was built by the Hindu King Parmar Dev in 1196.[66]

The Moghuls are what the Mongols became after they converted to Islam and began conquering northern India. Muslims are currently allowed to pray at the on-site mosque between twelve and two p.m. on Fridays. If the site was originally a temple to Shiva, that ended when the local maharajah accepted a city palace in exchange for the land almost four centuries ago.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-12-02 17:43|| 2015-12-02 17:43|| Front Page Top

#7 This controversy over the Taj Mahal has been going on forevar! since I was a kid.

Nice to know that in 2015 it still hasn't abated, nor been resolved.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-12-02 22:07|| 2015-12-02 22:07|| Front Page Top

#8 They werent that good of a band either

Posted by Cheaderhead 2015-12-02 22:40|| 2015-12-02 22:40|| Front Page Top

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