“Militants inside the Al Qadir Al Kilami mosque fired small arms, machine guns and rocket propelled grenades at U.S. forces…” – from this news item
The entire Muslim conquest resulted in the destruction, or appropriation, of synagogues and temples and churches. Many think it all happened long ago. They flip through a book on Islamic Art and discover that the first mosque known to have been built in India was built over what remained, after destruction by Muslim conquerors, of a Jain temple. Hindu scholars have compiled a two-volume work, its pages filled merely with a laconic list of the thousands of Hindu temples, and vast temple complexes, with their artwork as well, destroyed by the Muslims, their carved stones quarried for the erection of mosques.
All over the Christian world, too, tens of thousands of churches and Christian libraries and other structures were destroyed, or were turned into mosques if the structure was famous enough. Think of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, built partly on what was once the Church of John the Baptist. Think of the Hagia Sophia, its crosses ripped out, its wall-paintings vandalized, itself turned into a mosque until finally Ataturk managed to make it into a museum. (But suggest to even the outwardly most advanced, most secular Turks that Hagia Sophia should be returned to use as a church, and they look at you as if you were completely mad -- and in a sense, they are right). Think of the hundreds of churches in Constantinople alone, destroyed. There is a maquette of Constantinople in 1453, showing all of those churches on the second floor of the Museum of Greek and Roman Antiquity in the Topkapi complex. Few visitors ever go there -- the day I went, I was the only one. But there you will see those churches, and a list of all those known to have once existed and then wiped from the face of the earth by Muslims.
But that was then, some will say. That was in the bad old days. Those things don't happen now.
Don't they? What about the Hindu temples in present-day Pakistan and Bangladesh? What about the Hindu temple razed just last month in "moderate" and "forward-looking" Malaysia, the big economic success story in the Muslim world? (Its success, of course, is owed to the Chinese and Hindus who are forced to pay, through the Bumiputra system, a disguised Jizyah to the Muslims.) What about those synagogues in the Old City of Jerusalem, every single one of them destroyed by the Jordanians when they held that city from 1948 to 1967, in addition to their razing of the entire Jewish Quarter? (That is why, when you visit it, you notice that it consists almost entirely of new buildings, though done in the old manner.) What about the ancient tombstones in the old Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, ripped up and used to line the Jordanian army latrines?
What about the destruction of Orthodox churches and monasteries in Bosnia and Kosovo, wherever Muslims have been able to have their way? And what will happen if they get full control of formerly Serbian areas, as they may get because of the idiotic appeasement of local Muslims by the American and the other Western governments? All of those governments should be standing by Serbia, at this point, all the way.
The American soldiers who went off to Iraq did not know that mosques would be centers from which they would be attacked. They did not know that mosques were used as barracks -- as places where, the Muslims understood, they could exploit the innocence of the Infidels and their desire not to offend. They knew that the Infidels had made the choice not to offend, and to treat mosques as merely "houses of worship" rather than as what they are -- centers for the promotion of the duty of Jihad, places where people are not given sermons using words such as "charity" and "mercy" and "hope" and "love" but rather different words -- "struggle" and "war" and "Infidel" and "umma al-Islamiyya" and "Jihad" and "Jihad" and "Jihad." This happens today in so many mosques, in too many mosques, in so many places, in too many places, for it to be merely a matter of this or that singularly fanatical imam.
Start seeing mosques for what they are. They are far more than "houses of worship." Far more, and therefore far less entitled to be treated as if that is what they are. If Hizballah holes up in a building, that building is not sacrosanct. Sunnis blow up Shi'a mosques, and Shi'a blow up Sunni mosques, in Iraq and in Pakistan. Mosques are attacked all the time, from those who seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca in November 1979 (which hastily-converted French troops finally managed to dislodge), to those who attack the mosques of their political, sectarian, or ethnic rivals whenever the spirit moves them. And it so often moves them.
American soldiers in or returning from Iraq now know what they should expect from inside those mosques. And so do the security services who have raided, and who have monitored, and who keep under surveillance mosques in England, mosques in France, mosques in Italy, mosques in Germany, mosques everywhere.
Stop pretending that a mosque is merely an innocent "house of worship." Stop fooling yourself, and others.
And one more, also of archeological interest:
Gaza is not exactly a top tourist destination and most of its attractions have taken quite a beating during the past 50 years. The following are all in Gaza City:
The obligatory Great Mosque (Jamaa al-Akbar) makes up for its lacklustre appearance with an interesting history: it's a converted Crusader church built on the site of a Hellenic temple with pillars from a 3rd-century Jewish synagogue.
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(From Wikitravel's Gaza Travel Guide)
Since the Koran preaches hate and murderous ideology, all mosques are nothing but military targets. it seems muslims are allowed to kill other muslims in their own mosquesm, and have destroyed other muslim's mosquea. so when infidels are shot at by muslim terrorists, no respect of their location should be given.
Donny George, former head of Antiquities in Iraq has fled to Damascus and is saying that supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr are indifferent to the protection of Babylonian and Sumerian antiquities. The Washington Post, BBC, Guardian and the Art Newspaper report on this.
At the bottom of the comment on my blog is a very interesting petition to revert the Haga Sophia back to a church before Turket is allowed into Europe
http://illustratedpig.blogspot.com/2006/07/politically-incorrect-guide-truly-rare_29.html
Should I say that it is heartening to see sane people. I wish someone gets enough courage and resource to make movies on the brutalities of Islamic conquest. Non-Islamic population of the world are complacent and are satisfied with the rhetoric about religion of peace. A movie about just one day of a brutal islamic conquest in India, constantinople or other place will go a long way in waking up the people to reality.
mosque = base for Jihad in all all it's permutations including slow Jihad and demographic Jihad
mosque= Islamic armory
mosque = fire base
Hugh-
Who knows, but there may come a day when this demented madness called Islam will be rolled up and sealed in its Arabian cradle and all the Hindu temples will come back, the churches come back, the Jewish temples come back, and the mosques torn down like Lenin statues. The Reconquista may have begun with Israel. Maybe some Israeli scientist will invent the alternative energy that will release us all from this Dar-al-Abandon-Reason-Islam-Submission madness. We can call Mecca on the cell-phone (which was invented in Israel) and tell them, "Don't call us-we'll call you. Bye".
It has occured to me that if I am right, and if the temples and churches get up from their long sleep, that people might say in that future time (when they are angry at someone for something), "Go to hell or go to Arabia".
And not forgetting to mention the destruction of countless Churches and Monasteries in the turkish ooccupied areas of north Cyprus, some Churches being used as barns for animals, others as ammunition depots for the occupying army, with icons and precious Church property being looted and sold on the black markets whilst the 'luckier' Churches are kept as museums. This is only a foretaste of what is to come, and what is going to be happening all over Europe once Turkey joins - but then I guess why would Europeans care anyway - most have left God and Christianity for quite some time now. Unfortunately , when Europeans do wake up and realise all that has been lost, it will be too late. No longer will we be awoken by the sounds of beautiful Church bells which but rather to the wailing of muezzins calling the Muslim majority to Friday 'prayer'.
'Forgot to mention perhaps the most important or topical one - the infamous Al-Aqsa mosque which was provocatively built on the Jewish holiest site - Solomon's temple.
This is analogous to building a church or synagogue near Islam's holiest site - the Kaaba in Mecca - which Muslims would never allow.
We infidels are forbidden to even enter Mecca, talkless of having a Hindu temple or church there.
The Taliban destroyed centuries old Buddhist monuments, claiming they were just stones...but then so is the Kaaba - a black stone / rock !!
As an African, I fear that iconoclastic Muslim fundamentalists would one day destroy our monuments of ancient Egypt.
I think this porton of scripture from Ezekiel 13:10,12 in the Message Bible says it best.
"The fact is that they've lied to my people. They've said, 'No problem; everything's just fine,' when things are not at all fine.
When people build a wall, they're right behind them slapping on whitewash.
Tell those who are slapping on the whitewash, 'When a torrent of rain comes and the hailstones crash down and the hurricane sweeps in and the wall collapses, what's the good of the whitewash that you slapped on so liberally, making it look so good?"
Wake up people, we sleep under the spell of political correctness much longer and all will be chaos and bloodshed. Deception will be the death of us all. Islamic conquest will continue unabated unless and until we fight the battle with the same ruthless intensity as those who wish us harm.
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Yank-
What happened several weeks ago on the plane in England, the one where folks just said in so many words, "We're not taking it anymore" and simply deplaned, regardless of what the authorities said, is what is likely coming in the future. I think ordinary folks get it and the governments will follow. The logicphobia of the authorities and Muslims will come to an abrupt end. For them, it will be like looking at an endless crowd of Mike Savages shouting, "I can't take it anymore"!
Here's a VERY interesting picture from the islamic dome of the rock (Jerusalem). No Way! do I think this has been doctored or photo-shopped.
http://levitt.com
Click on Left Side "Levitt Letters - Aug 06 - will be in pdf format) - go to page 3 and see the photo.
I think this proves:
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." Eph. 6:12
God, it must be VERY difficult to restrain one's self knowing the enemy has no moral compass what-so-ever.
The first thing the Palestinians did upon the pull-out was destroy the temples there. They also destroyed most of the greenhouses. The ones they left standing, they can't grow anything and have asked Israel to send someone to help! It ain't gonna grow if it's not God's land. That was a promise.
The destruction of holy places of other religions by Muslims must be told to the wider world.
Wherever muslims have gone, they have done that.
In Maldives, the Buddhist and Hindhu temples were made into mosques. Since the temples were aligned to the sun, turning to Mecca was a sideways thing in these converted mosques.
Now in recent times Arab/Muslim educated dictator and friend of Arafat,Saddamand Gaddafi and admirer and devotee of Syed Kutb Dictator/President Mullah Gayoom has destroyed the final remains of these temples and built mosques aligned to Mecca with money from the arab kings.
There cannot be any solution to the Islamic problem with the scale and necessary finality that would pass mustered with Westerners. The days of the West are numbered.
"There cannot be any solution to the Islamic problem with the scale and necessary finality that would pass mustered with Westerners. The days of the West are numbered" - have_mercy
I wouldn't be so pessimistic.
Its only a matter of time before Muslims perpertrate another 9/11 style atrocity...that will shock we infidels out of our present complacency.
Then we will act decisively to eradicate Islam.
Non-Muslim tolerance of Muslim tantrums is fast diminishing.
Muslims have no regard for the holy places of other faiths but got so worked up because of cartoons.
Grateful1,
I felt like crying as I read Hugh's article about the churches that have been defiled by satan's hordes, but to hear that Zola Levitt died is a shock. I knew I wasn't receiving his newsletter lately, but I had no idea he had cancer. He's free...but we are the poorer for it.
Don't forget what they did to the archaeological remains and culture of Ancient Egypt. And that there was a fatwa issued this year against its priceless statuary.
And, of course, the Parthenon on the Athens acroplis wouldn't be quite the ruin it is if the Turks hadn't used it to store gunpowder, and it hadn't then exploded.
Accident?
http://www.hindujagruti.org/eng/phpnews/news.php?action=fullnews&id=720
"13th August 2006-In a 'Mosque' situated at the
foot of Nathsagar in Jaikwadi, a wall of the Mosque
collapsed with the onslaught of massive floods and
some remnants of an ancient temple along with 'Nandi'
head have been found.(‘Dainik Sanatan Prabhat’
(www.sanatan.org) in its daily published column of
‘The Temples Destroyed by Muslims and the Mosques and
Dargas built’ had on 12-08-2006 published about the
existence of a temple in that place and in the year
1630 and a Mosque was built there.The massive floods
have verified this truth - Editor) To suppress this
evidence of treasure of Hindu culture, Muslims
overnight tried to build the structure. (This is the
real nature of Muslims of trying to cover up their
misdeeds - Editor)
As the waters of the massive Godavari floods receded,
the remnants of the razed Mosque came to light. The
steps constructed of stones were also seen going
towards the river. In the morning some of the young
fishermen had gone to this area. At that time they
found carved pillars of the temple and idol of Nandi
in shattered state in the ruins of the Mosque.(Now
will the Government give permission to build Mosque or
allow the building of a temple where originally there
was a temple? Now Hindus do not remain under the false
illusion that the Muslim appeasing Congress based
ruling government would easily allow building of
temple there - Editor) .This news spread quickly like
air in the whole city of Paithan. Immediately
thereafter along with the Shivsena M.L.A Sandeepan
Bhumre, the Taluka chief Arun Kale, Shri Somnath
Pardeshi of the Durga Group,Khushal Bhavre, Nandalal
Kale, Shivsainiks rushed to the incident spot.
Thereafter the Tahsildar Madhav Nilawade was given the
news about this. The Police Inspector Balasaheb
Khillor and the officers of Archaelogy Department
inspected the site.
While the discussion of the discovery of remnants of
temple in the place of Mosque was going on the city,
later in the afternoon fanatic Muslims starting
immediately pulling strings. Hundred to one hundred
and fifty Muslims entered the site with construction
material. They started building a new wall after
excavating the collapsed mud heap. Moment the
Shivsainiks came to know about the construction by the
Muslims, in the evening, along with 25-30 Shivsainiks,
Raju Pardeshi, Deputy chief of the city Sagar Patil,
Vijay Acharya again came to the incident site. Seeing
the Shivsainiks coming the frightened Muslims fled the
scene. The mob of the Muslims directly went to the
police station. Then a big force of police appeared on
the dispute scene. The police did a severe assault of
lathis on the Shivsainiks who stopped the
construction. (Would the police have been so prompt if
it were Hindus in this place and would they have dared
to do such a lathi assault on the Muslims ? - Editor)"
Interesting exposé "Crows&Cows".
I'd like to know the official Muslim response to this Jaikwadi temple saga.
Would do they the right thing and apologise for their historic injustice and atrocities against non-Muslims in India ?
Or would they as usual engage in denial ?...fabricating all manner of bogus conspiracy theories.
Destruction of non-Muslim places of worship in India is child's play compared to the widespread genocidal massacres, which Jihadists conquerors of India historically perpetrated against Hindus and other non-Muslims.
The Indian subcontinent including Afghanistan used to have large Buddhist populations, until the Jihadists virtually exterminated them.
Which is why I don't understand why governments of modern India continually bend over backwards to accomodate Muslim tantrums...when the non-Muslim majority should actually put them in their place.
What happened to the non-Muslim population of Pakistan after the Muslims broke away to form their own nation in 1948 ?
We should appreciate Mosques. Their existence is actually quite convenient, in the way roach motels are.
The Muslims handle mosque building just like they handle non Muslims. BURY EM. Cover them up, make theme disappear. Put them under the feet of Muslims. It is the grand scheme.
The Muslims handle mosque building over previously built religious sites is just like they handle non Muslims. BURY EM. Cover them up, make theme disappear. Put them under the feet of Muslims. It is the grand scheme.
If an archaelogical survey was done, every mosque built in India pre-1800 would have a temple footprint
Attacks on Hindu temples still continues. About four years back, Islamic terrorists fired indiscriminately inside the Suryanarayan temple in Ahmedabad killing my worshippers. There have been attacks on temples in Varanasi (again a few casualties) and Ayodhya (where the cowards were gunned down before they could do any damage)
There are a few state governments in India (the Gujarat government of Narendra Modi) who have refrained from appeasing the Muslims and dealt with them firmly when required. Sadly, the same Modi was denied a visa to the US a couple of years back.