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2013-06-13 Arabia
Saudi Arabia smashes 'sinful' horse statues on cleric's orders
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Posted by Fred 2013-06-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top

#1 Like the Buddah statues a few years back.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-06-13 01:51||   2013-06-13 01:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Smash Grand Mufti Abdulaziz al-Sheikh, he's "Sinful".
Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-06-13 01:55||   2013-06-13 01:55|| Front Page Top

#3 The Wahabis came to town in Libya during the revolution and blew up a couple of famous shrines and defaced some revered statues in some towns.

The locals chased them away but the debate lingers on...what is idolatry? When does a shrine become worshipped itself and stop being a memorial to a famous person?

The problem with Islam is that every cleric's pronouncements are treated with equal veracity. There does not seem to be any kind of vetting or ranking system to separate the ignorant fanatic from the learned holy man.

I went to dinner the other night and one of the other guests was an Imam. He and I had a dandy discussion of theology and faith. He was very dismissive of the jihadists and their theological leaders as being ill-informed and intellectually diminished.

Too bad this guy isn't on TV here preaching some common sense to the masses instead of the guys who seem to get all of the press in Egypt and elsewhere.
Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-06-13 05:54||   2013-06-13 05:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Were the Horse statues "Romanticly Involved"?
Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-06-13 08:36||   2013-06-13 08:36|| Front Page Top

#5 RJ, to a Muzzie, especially a "Grand Mufti" that's a given.

Now, if they had been goats then they'd still be there.
Posted by AlanC 2013-06-13 09:36||   2013-06-13 09:36|| Front Page Top

#6 the religion does allow artworks depicting plants and landscapes

Posted by Au Auric 2013-06-13 09:51||   2013-06-13 09:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Bill,

rather than your friend preaching 'nice Islam' to infidels, it would be better if he preached 'no Islam' given that a large % of imans do preach Islam with fangs and there is no way of eliminating that preaching
Posted by lord garth 2013-06-13 10:51||   2013-06-13 10:51|| Front Page Top

#8 They'll get my Dalecarlian horse when they pry him from my cold dead hands !
Posted by Besoeker 2013-06-13 10:58||   2013-06-13 10:58|| Front Page Top

#9 The most destructive country in the world re ideology and we do nothing to change them!

Is there a more intolerant country in the world re freedom of religion?
Posted by Paul D 2013-06-13 11:03||   2013-06-13 11:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Thank you Besoeker!!

I've been dusting my wife's " Dalecarlian horse" for years and never knew it had a name.

My wife (ex-equestrianne) has many horse sculptures but never knew that this one had a name.
Posted by AlanC 2013-06-13 11:28||   2013-06-13 11:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Were the statues anatomically correct?
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-06-13 11:33||   2013-06-13 11:33|| Front Page Top

#12 Probably like this.
Posted by swksvolFF 2013-06-13 11:53||   2013-06-13 11:53|| Front Page Top

#13 We talk about Islam as though it's one entity. I'm trying to think about Salafism (and its allied schools of thought like the Deobandis) as opposed to Islamic strains, which are mostly ineffective bullshit. Brelvis and Sufis and such aren't a threat to civilization.

Moslem Brotherhoodlums are making Egyptians sick of them already and my guess is that they'll be unable to govern effectively, possibly at all. They're just another strain of authoritarianism.

Shiites are a religious phenomenon only to the extent the holy men control Iran. The problem is more political than religious.

The "moderate" Moslems provide the sea for the Salafist fish to swim in. They'll cheer for the home team and they don't seem to mind being killed when they're innocent bystanders--human life is cheap under Islam after all--but the money and the driving force is Salafist and it lives in Arabia.
Posted by Fred 2013-06-13 12:09||   2013-06-13 12:09|| Front Page Top

#14 >We talk about Islam as though it's one entity.

While it's not one entity it does have a common risk of turning malignant compared to superior cultures.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-06-13 13:13||   2013-06-13 13:13|| Front Page Top

#15 human life is cheap under Islam

Human life is cheap throughout the East.
Posted by Pappy 2013-06-13 13:37||   2013-06-13 13:37|| Front Page Top

#16 I have been awarded 3 of those, swksvolFF. Called Kick-Ass awards here.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2013-06-13 15:34||   2013-06-13 15:34|| Front Page Top

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