muslims can't ever accept western culture

abu_rashid wrote on Jun 27^th, 2012 at 8:21pm:

Islamist rebels say they will continue to destroy historic sites in Timbuktu before they implement strict Shariah law, as Mali's government compared the destruction to "war crimes".

Ansar Dine spokesman Sanda Abu Mohamed said that Islamists will continue the destruction they started on Saturday.

"We're going to destroy everything before we apply Shariah in this city," he said.


Resident Moussa Maiga said the Islamists have expressed disapproval of what they think is worship of the tombs of the Muslim saints.

"They say that the population loves the saints like God," he said.

But resident Bouya Ould Sidi Mohamed said the historic city has long had Muslim roots.


"Timbuktu was an Islamic city since the 12th century, and we know what the religion says about the saints' tombs," he said.

"Contrary to what the Islamists or the Wahabis of Ansar Dine say, here in Timbuktu, the people don't love the saints like God, but just seek the saints' blessings because they are our spiritual guides."

Mali's government condemned the destruction, which they say is akin to "war crimes".

"The council of ministers has just approved, in principle, the referral to the International Criminal Court and a working group is working to this end," the government said in a statement.

The UN cultural agency on Saturday called for an immediate halt to the destruction of three sacred Muslim tombs. Irina Bokova, who heads the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, cited in a statement Saturday reports the centuries-old mausoleums of Sidi Mahmoud, Sidi, Moctar and Alpha Moya had been destroyed.

On Thursday, UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, meeting in St Petersburg, Russia, placed the mausoleums of Muslim saints on its list of sites in danger at the request of Mali's government.

Islamist fighters from the Ansar Dine group have declared that they now control the northern half of Mali after driving out an ethnic Tuareg separatist group. The rebel groups took advantage of a power vacuum created by a March coup in the capital to seize ground in the north.

The Islamists' growing reach is more worrying news for the landlocked West African nation.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the attacks on the mausoleums "totally unjustified" and urged all sides to preserve Mali's cultural heritage, according to a statement.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA lololololololololololololol

And here i was I thought you had no sense of humour.

SOB

I would never degrade the good name of Islam by associating it with these disastrous ideals of freedom and democracy.

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Jul 1^st, 2012 at 5:55am:



Here it is from the camel's mouth, mother.

abu_rashid wrote on Jun 27^th, 2012 at 8:21pm:

There are enough Muslims out there who oppose freedom and democracy to keep two wars going for a decade. There are enough of them to keep a big chunk of the world's population living in oppression. That is real oppression, not the 'oppression' you feel because everyone disagrees with you and you don't get your own way.

For someone who claims to oppose all religion, you make an awful lot of excuses for Muslims.

Do you think the Americans invented freedom and democracy?

Do you think we should ignore it when people actively campaign for the dismantling of freedom and democracy, in case we make them angry?

Would you defend Nazism as automatically as you defend Islam?

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I haven't seen you defend Avram or sprint yet. I have only ever seen you defend Muslims and attack all other religions, while pretending you are opposed to all religion.