Why are they doing this? Would those wicked Islamophobes roaming all over Iraq target Baghdad mosques? Or might it be because...Muslims themselves might target them? What are you, some kind of Islamophobe?
"Baghdad bolsters security before holiday," from AP (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):
BAGHDAD - Security will be increased at Baghdad's mosques and other holy sites ahead of the Eid al-Adha holiday that begins Wednesday, an Iraqi official said.Extra bomb-detecting equipment will be deployed throughout the capital's places of worship, along with other sites, such as amusement parks, that are likely to attract crowds during the four-day holiday, chief military spokesman for Baghdad, Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Mousawi, said at a news conference on Tuesday....
A time of joy.
A time of celebration.
A time to blow shit up.
Looks like the adherents of the religion of peace and tolerance know themselves too well.
It's probably just a precaution, just in case one of the handful of Christians left in Iraq attempt to infiltrate a mosque and indoctrinate Muslims to embrace Christianity.
pr126 has it right on target.
You can't have World Peace without breaking a few Omlets.
I only hope none of our soldiers have to stand this duty.
Scary thought, Christmas Eve is a full moon. So is Good Friday 2008. Do the moonbats react to the full moon?
Do the moonbats react to the full moon?
Posted by: Aunt Bea at December 18, 2007 12:38 PM
Only if it's perceived to be operating on the right. Then they get hysterical.
If Muslims want to blow up their houses of prayer, I say let them, but no American/Coalition forces should be deployed to protect mosques - in Baghdad or anywhere else in Dar-al-Islam. Neither should American dollars, manpower, or material be spent to repair or rebuild any mosque damaged or destroyed by Muslim-on-Muslim violence. Instead, we should shrug our collective shoulders and say: "Let Allah provide."
Yes muslim will blow up muslim but it'll be the Americans fault.
Moslems say that Mohammad was the "perfect man", and he was a killer, so how better to celebrate a Mohammadan holiday than by imitating him and killing people?
Notice that there's no tightened security right before Christmas as a defense against Christians. Of course not, that's because such careful measures are reserved for the one, the only, RELIGION OF PEACE.
Did I spell that right - peace? Maybe it's spelled PANIC.
Hunker down and lock your doors because the Muslims are taking a Religious Holiday. No one is safe when they begin to pray & worship.
Where's the merry go round?
Amusement parks? Muslims have amusement parks? We can only imagine the kind of amusements they have in there. I shudder to think about what amuses muslims,
and to know they have parks dedicated to these amusements boggles the mind...
Notice that there's no tightened security right before Christmas as a defense against Christians. Of course not, that's because such careful measures are reserved for the one, the only, RELIGION OF PEACE.
Did I spell that right - peace? Maybe it's spelled PANIC.
Posted by: champ
I think it's the religion of pieces.
BAGHDAD - Security will be increased at Baghdad's mosques and other holy sites ahead of the Eid al-Adha holiday that begins Wednesday, an Iraqi official said.
It's because the small Christian population gets so violent around Christmas time. The muslims just can't be too careful when it comes to rampaging Christians ya know.
/sarc
"Security boosted at Baghdad mosques in anticipation of Islamic holiday"
...Muslims know the most violent people around (you know....the kill just to kill type of people) are other Muslims.....To a a Muslim, happiness is the barrell of a warm gun....
....it is but one of many reasons you do not want them in your neighborhood...Ban Muslim Immigration....
The Infidel is always careful to treat the enemy's command posts, armories, barracks, and fortresses as if they were somehow sacred places. The "Believers" are not that willfully stupid.
Funny, I don't recall Orthodox Jews attacking the Reform Temple over on Broadway during the Chanakah party last week.
And somehow I don't see Methodists blowing up Our Lady of Lourdes during midnight mass, or the Catholics fire-bombing St. Paul's Episcopal at Christmas morning services.
Fridays after Mosque tend to be a dangeous time in Muslim countries, where angry mobs of worshippers have often been whipped up by the latest bellicose sermon. Apparently Eid, often posited as Islam's most joyous holiday, is no different.
Did you know the US Post Office has issued festive Eid stamps?
http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2007stamps/definitives/images/eidstamp.jpg
Remember Eid al-Adha is traditionally "celebrated" at the best of times with a great bloody slaughter.
Holiday in Cambodia was the best of the Dead Kennedy's discography. Jane Fonda, Lt. John Kerry USN, Walter Cronkite, assurances that we were the problem and once we surrended everying would be alright would be ok. Holiday in Cambodia with millions slaughtered.
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Islamic Holiday is is one of singer-songwriter Mohammed Muttalib's best numbers, a real classic replete with hatred, declamations, threats, bloodlust, torture, murder. Holiday in Dar al Islam with millions killed - year after year; century after century.
In honor of Eid al-Adha I shall put my fireplace to good use with a burnt offering. I don't want to offend anyone, so I promise to sacrifice the paperback version ONLY out of respect for allah & and his minions.
Kudos, duh_swami.
OT, I see that the SiteMeter has passed 17 million. There sure are alot of us extreme-right-wing evangelical Christian fanatics out there [*1]. Maybe those of us who believe that the Qur'an is built on core elements of violence, intolerance, and hatred are well on our way to becoming our own "tiny minority" of "youths".
[*1] For those lacking a funny bone, or at least a sarcastic bone, that is meant ironically.
" Security boosted at Baghdad mosques in anticipation of Islamic holiday "
To me its like watching an animal eating its own,
religion my a-s,,, its a cult pure and simple!!!
Why would muslims need security at mosques? Surely they have nothing to fear from their peaceful muslim brethren, you know, religion of peace and all that. Perhaps they know better, that there is nothing peaceful about Islam, and that there never will be.