Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Samarra shrine

So today Iraqi insurgents blew up a Shiite shrine in the town of Samarra:
One of the most revered shrines in Shiite Islam was bombed early this morning, causing the collapse of its dome, police and eyewitnesses said. There was no immediate estimate of casualties in the latest in a series of sectarian attacks in the country.

The shrine in Samarra, a predominantly Sunni Arab city 60 miles north of Baghdad, contains the remains of two of Shiite Islam's most prominent Imams. The bomb is believed to have been planted a day earlier, said Capt. Basheer Qadoori, of the city's police force.
Talk about disrespecting religion. Now what are the odds this will attract more protests in the Muslim world than the publishing of some cartoons in Denmark? I bet it doesn't even get a fraction of the attention.

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