And now: Kaaba-Bar Rage. Does anyone know if this bar even actually exists?
“Kashmir students decry US insult to Kaaba,” from IRNA (thanks to Twostellas):
Students in Northern Kashmir today held demonstrations to decry a bar built in the shape of the holy Kaaba in New York.
Hundreds of students of the local Degree College took out a protest march through the streets of Baramulla town, chanting anti-American and pro-Islam slogans.
The students said that building a wine-shop or a bar like the Kaaba amounted to the desecration of the holy sites of Islam. “Muslims all over the world should protest at this,” they said.
They demanded that the US should apologise to the Muslim world over the Kaaba replica, and close down the bar immediately.
UPDATE: Many have noted that the Kashmiri students may be upset about what is not a bar at all, but which was reported as being one when we posted pictures and a story almost a year ago. Wonder why it has taken them so long to notice. Maybe they had to clear a few more pressing outrages off their list.