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Destruction Of Mosque By Muslims In Islamic Nation - Guest - 08-19-2005

Please list Mosque and other buildings destroyed by Musilms in Saudi Arabia and other part of world.

Destruction Of Mosque By Muslims In Islamic Nation - Guest - 08-19-2005

House of Ali-Oraid, the grandson of the Prophet, which was identified and excavated by Dr Angawi. After its discovery, King Fahd ordered that it be bulldozed before it could become a pilgrimage site.

"The bulldozer is there and they take only two hours to destroy everything. It has no sensitivity to history. It digs down to the bedrock and then the concrete is poured in," he said

Destruction Of Mosque By Muslims In Islamic Nation - Guest - 08-19-2005

Saudi royals destroying home of Muhammad

However, since it is written by a Paki, a lot of Anti-India Stuff is thrown in (of course, one has to bear in mind, that this is a Canadian Paper and Canada is the Last Refuge for Terrorists from all over the world, particularly the Mohammedan kind)

Destruction Of Mosque By Muslims In Islamic Nation - Guest - 08-19-2005

Similarly, finds by a Lebanese professor, Kamal Salibi, which indicated that once-Jewish villages in what is now Saudi Arabia might have been the location of scenes from the Bible, prompted the bulldozers to be sent in. All traces were destroyed.

Destruction Of Mosque By Muslims In Islamic Nation - Guest - 09-26-2005

Headline News September 21, 2005
Ahmadiyah mosques destroyed in attack
Yuli Tri Suwarni, The Jakarta Post, Bandung

Hundreds of people in West Java vandalized on Monday night houses, mosques and cars belonging to members of the Indonesian Ahmadiyah Congregation (JAI), a Muslim group whose teachings differ from the central tenets of Islam.

No casualties nor injuries were reported in the attack.

West Java Police said on Tuesday the vandalism had been localized to Campaka district in Cianjur regency, some 100 kilometers southeast of Jakarta, which is home to hundreds of Ahmadiyah followers.

The attackers, mostly from the neighborhood and the nearby Darul Rahman Islamic boarding school, destroyed or damaged four mosques, 33 houses and four Islamic schools, and set fire to three cars.

The mob of Muslims dispersed after the 90 minute attack at around 9 p.m.

West Java Police chief Insp. Gen. Edi Darnadi said the Cianjur Police had arrested 48 people in relation to the attack.

Five of them, he said, had been declared suspects. They have been identified as Deni Hidayat, 35, Yopi Suhendar, 32, M. Yohadi, 35, Dani Hamdani, 27 and Nurdin, 22.

Darul Rahman boarding school head Muhammad Hardian Nawawi, who is believed to have led the attack, is being questioned by the Cianjur Police.

The attack was the latest against Ahmadiyah, which has been branded a heretical group by the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) through its fatwa issued recently.

In 1984, the Ministry of Religious Affairs issued a circular to provincial offices across the country, declaring that Ahmadiyah was misleading and against Islam.

The group believes that another prophet, its founder Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, came after Muhammad, the last prophet of God in Islam.

In July, thousands of people attacked the Ahmadiyah compound in Parung, Bogor, West Java, in a protest against the groupâs teachings.

The attack was condemned by Muslim organizations and leaders, who said that faith differences must not be resolved with violence.

However, nobody was arrested for the Parung violence.

Destruction Of Mosque By Muslims In Islamic Nation - Guest - 02-22-2006

Yesterday - Shia's most important historical mosque
Samarra: Shia pilgrimage centre 

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Iraq shrine blast sparks protests 

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Destruction Of Mosque By Muslims In Islamic Nation - Guest - 02-22-2006

QUOTESeven killed as tension raises after Samarra blast
(Updated at 2250 PST)
SAMARRA:Â A bomb attack Wednesday destroyed the dome of one of the world's holiest Shiite shrines, prompting reprisal attacks against 27 Sunni mosques in Baghdad that left seven people dead.

In Baghdad, mobs killed four clerics and three worshippers in their assaults on 27 Sunni mosques, an Iraqi security officer told media.

Crowds machined-gunned and set fire to some of the religious sanctuaries, he added.

Destruction Of Mosque By Muslims In Islamic Nation - Guest - 04-25-2006

Shame of the House of Saud: Shadows over Mecca

Destruction Of Mosque By Muslims In Islamic Nation - agnivayu - 04-25-2006

Maybe this whole thing in Iraq was planned to create a civil war in the muslim world. Afterall, what's better than having muslims kill muslims ?

QUOTE(Mudy @ Apr 25 2006, 05:49 AM)Shame of the House of Saud: Shadows over Mecca
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Destruction Of Mosque By Muslims In Islamic Nation - Bharatvarsh - 05-02-2006

QUOTEOur heritage at stake

By Irfan Husain

ALTHOUGH 13 years have passed since the destruction of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the desecration still reverberates in both Muslim and secular Indian minds.

At the time, protestors rioted across the subcontinent; furious editorials and op-ed articles were written; and Muslim countries formally registered their protests with the Indian government. But now, a far worse act of disrespect and desecration is about to take place, and there has not been a single mention or objection from anybody that I know of, at least here in Pakistan.

It took an article in the Toronto Star, e-mailed to me by a reader, to alert me to the fact that the Saudi government plans to demolish the Prophet Mohammadâs [PBUH] 1,400-years old home in Makkah. According to the article, written by Tarek Fatah, a founding member of the Muslim Canadian Council, the house is being destroyed to make way for âa parking lot, two 50-storey hotel towers and seven 35-storey apartment blocksâ as part of the Jabal Omar Scheme, just around the corner from the Grand Mosque.

I must confess that I have not made the pilgrimage to Makkah, but the idea of the religious cradle and centre of the Muslim world being dominated by a crassly commercial project is repugnant. The Saudi royal family claims to be guardians of the holy places of Islam, and profit hugely from the centuries-old traffic of believers to Makkah and Madina. And yet, they are party to this barbaric desecration of the holiest sites in the Islamic world.

In the 1920s, the Saudis levelled the graveyard in Madina that contained the graves of the family and companions of the Prophet. A few years ago, they demolished an old Ottoman fort in Makkah, in spite of the protests of the Turkish government. This disrespect for ancient monuments is a hallmark of Wahabi thought, but one would have thought the Prophetâs home would have been exempt. Clearly, the interests of property developers outweigh religious or historical considerations.

Why has there not been a single significant protest from anywhere in the Muslim world? Or, as Tarek Fatah asks, âWhy is it that when the Babri mosque was demolished, hundreds of thousands of Muslims worldwide took to the streets to protest, but when Saudi authorities plan to demolish the home of our beloved Prophet, not a whisper is heard?â

The writer speculates on the reason for this silence: âIs it because Muslims have become so overwhelmed by the power of the Saudi riyal currency that we have lost all courage and self-respect? Or is it because we feel a need to cover up Muslim-on-Muslim violence; Muslim-on-Muslim terror; Muslim-on-Muslim oppression?â

I suspect âall of the aboveâ is the right answer. We constantly rail against any wrongs inflicted on fellow-Muslims by non-believers, but hold our peace when Muslims kill, exploit and terrorize other Muslims. Thus, when the Americans kill Iraqis, or the Russians persecute Chechens, we are rightly indignant. But when Saddam Hussein slaughtered Kurds and Shias for years, Muslims around the world maintained a discreet silence. Ditto for other dictators in most of the Muslim world.

In his article, Fatah quotes Niaz Salimi, president of the MCC, from a letter she wrote to the Saudi envoy in Canada: âThe sacred places of Islam, regardless of where they are located, belong to the Muslim community worldwide. The countries where they are located are simply trustees and have no right to destroy them.â

A Google search on the internet led me to an article by Mirza Beg, posted on the Web on August 21. Writes Beg:

â...destroying our precious heritage because of less than perfect understanding of some Muslims [read Wahabis], would be a great loss to the Islamic civilization, ethos, history and the future generations of Muslims. Destruction of the most precious sites of Islam for fear of idolatry by some, is akin to killing a child for fear that he may grow up to be less than pious...â

Now obviously, the Saudis are free to fill their cities with tasteless buildings. But considering the size of the country, one would expect them to show some respect for our collective heritage and build their new, ostentatious plazas, hotels and shopping malls on the outskirts of ancient cities like Makkah and Madina.

But we all know the Saudi mindset, and given their recent windfall in the shape of unprecedented oil prices, it is unlikely that they will listen to reason. What concerns me more is our reluctance to criticize this uncouth behaviour. Our Islamic parties, for instance, are so eager to take up real and imaginary Muslim causes, but have not uttered a squeak in the face of this flagrant contempt for our history and the Prophetâs memory.

What explains this blatant hypocrisy? While many of our major religious politicians have long been recipients of Saudi largesse (allegedly often in the shape of visas and work permits that they sell), what explains the silence of people and parties who are not influenced by petro-dollars?

Fortunately for us, Pakistan has a (relatively) free media, but I have yet to come across any news or commentary relating to this impending horror in either the newspapers, or the private TV channels. So why this conspiracy of silence? This question brings us back to our reluctance to criticize other Muslims, while screaming threats at non-Muslims.

Thousands demonstrated against the alleged desecration of the Holy Book at Guantanamo a few months ago. Several people were killed in the accompanying violence. Where are those zealots now? Why arenât preachers at mosques demanding that the Saudi government halt their destructive plans?

Alas, these double standards are what now define the ummah. We have become completely neutered when it comes to criticizing other Muslims. I have often received e-mails from readers, accusing me of washing our dirty linen in public when I have written of the many problems afflicting the Islamic world. But these things need to be said out loud and often.

According to Mirza Beg, if you want to protest against the destruction of historical sites in Makkah, you can log on to the following website: www.petitiononline.com/rasul/petition.html

But while I am going to do my bit, I do not plan to hold my breath...

http://www.dawn.com/weekly/mazdak/20050903.htm

Destruction Of Mosque By Muslims In Islamic Nation - agnivayu - 05-03-2006

Did these same disgusting hateful muslim countries protest the destruction of a Hindu Temple in Malaysia.

Bunch of hypocritical lying dirtbags, why should Hindus show any respect towards Muslims, bunch of wild barbarians come into Hindusthan and push their filthy middle eastern hateful religion, and they are suprised that people will retaliate.

The Islamic ring of fire will be their undoing, there is a conflict on every land where the Islamic world meets the Non-Muslim world.

Destruction Of Mosque By Muslims In Islamic Nation - Guest - 11-25-2006

Mosques torched after worst Iraq bombingQUOTEGunmen bent on revenge burned mosques and homes in a Sunni enclave of Baghdad on Friday as Iraq's leaders pleaded for calm, a day after the worst bomb attack since the US invasion.
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Gunmen bent on revenge burned mosques and homes in a Sunni enclave of Baghdad on Friday as Iraq's leaders pleaded for calm, a day after the worst bomb attack since the US invasion.


Iraqis Burned Alive In Revenge AttacksQUOTEIn Hurriyah, the rampaging militiamen also burned and blew up four mosques and torched several homes in the district, Hussein said.

Residents of the troubled district claim the Mahdi Army has begun kidnapping and holding Sunni hostages to use in ritual slaughter at the funerals of Shiite victims of Baghdad's raging sectarian war.

Destruction Of Mosque By Muslims In Islamic Nation - Guest - 12-02-2006

QUOTEIsmaili holy site torched
Dailytimes.com
PESHAWAR: Unknown miscreants burnt down a holy site belonging to the Ismaili community in Chitral district, which has seen sectarian violence in the past, police said on Thursday. The incident took place on November 25 when an Ismaili place of worship was reduced to ashes in Rech village, Torkhow tehsil, 170 kilometres away from Chitral city. âWe are investigating the incident,â DSP Headquarters Sultan Bacha told Daily Times over the phone from Chitral. Police have not arrested anyone yet and Bacha declined to say whether the incident was linked to past sectarian violence. Prince Karim Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili sect, has spent billions of rupees on community development projects across the district and continues to invest in the development of the area. staff report

Destruction Of Mosque By Muslims In Islamic Nation - Guest - 01-22-2007

QUOTEPak demolishes two mosques 
PTI | Islamabad
Security cited as reason; religious leaders flay 'US appeasement'
Two mosques were demolished in Islamabad after it was feared that they could be used to launch attacks, particularly after military strikes on a suspected terrorist hideouts in Pakistan's South Waziristan earlier this week.

The Islamabad district administration and Capital Development Authority (CDA) demolished the two mosques near the Islamabad Highway and Murree Road after intelligence reports indicated they could be used to launch terrorist attacks, the Daily Times said on Sunday.

Zafer Iqbal Zafer, the CDA Urban Planning Director, had issued notices to administrators of 10 mosques and their adjacent seminaries to remove unauthorised constructions from green areas within 15 days, sources said.

The intelligence agencies had reported to the Interior Ministry that mosques in green areas near Murree Road and Islamabad Highway could be used by miscreants to target VIPs and foreign dignitaries, sources told the daily.

When the mosque administrators did not heed the notices, the CDA anti-encroachment staff demolished Amir Hamza mosque near Murree Road and another mosque on the Islamabad Highway.

Religious leaders flayed the demolitions and alleged that the Government had done so to appease the US and European countries.

The clerics called an emergency meeting at Madni Mosque on Murree Road, at which Maulana Abdul Rauf and Qari Saeedur Rehman said the religious parties would protest the demolitions on Wednesday.

They condemned the CDA for issuing notices for removal of mosques that had been built even before the creation of Pakistan. They claimed that Madni Mosque had been constructed in the early 1980s with the approval of the CDA. 

Now, Indian Muslim will start rioting on Friday.

Destruction Of Mosque By Muslims In Islamic Nation - Guest - 06-13-2007

Iraq bombers hit key Samarra mosque QUOTEBAGHDAD - Saboteur bombers destroyed the two minarets of a revered Shiite shrine in Samarra early Wednesday, in a repeat of the 2006 attack that shattered its famous golden dome and unleashed a wave of retaliatory sectarian violence that still bloodiesÂ Â Â Â Iraq. Sunni extremists of al-Qaida were quickly blamed.

The assault on the Askariya Shrine, one of the holiest in Shiite Islam, immediately stirred fears of a new round of intra-Muslim bloodshed, and prompted the 30-member bloc of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to suspend its membership in Iraq's parliament, threatening a deeper political crisis.

To ward off a surge of violence, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki quickly imposed an indefinite curfew on vehicle traffic and large gatherings in Baghdad

Destruction Of Mosque By Muslims In Islamic Nation - Guest - 08-13-2007

Mecca's hallowed skyline transformed QUOTEMECCA, Saudi Arabia - These days it's easier to find a Cinnabon in Mecca than the house where the Prophet Muhammad was born.

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The ancient sites in Islam's holiest city are under attack from both money and extreme religion. Developers are building giant glass and marble towers that loom over the revered Kaaba which millions of Muslims face in their daily prayers. At the same time, religious zealots continue to work, as they have for decades, to destroy landmarks that they say encourage the worship of idols instead of God.

As a result, some complain that the kingdom's Islamic austerity and oil-stoked capitalism are robbing this city of its history.

"To me, Mecca is not a city. It is a sanctuary. It is a place of diversity and tolerance. ... Unfortunately it isn't anymore," said Sami Angawi, a Saudi architect who has devoted his life to preserving what remains of the area's history. "Every day you come and see the buildings becoming bigger and bigger and higher and higher."

Abraj al-Bait is a complex of seven towers, some of them still under construction, rising only yards from the Kaaba, the cube-like black shrine at the center of Muslim worship in Mecca. "Be a neighbor to the Prophet," promises an Arabic-language newspaper ad for apartments there.

The towers are the biggest of the giant construction projects that have gone up in recent years, as the number of Muslims attending the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, has swelled to nearly 4 million last year. Saudi Arabia is trying to better serve the growing upscale end of the pilgrimage crowd, while investors â many of them members of the Saudi royal family â realize the huge profits to be made.

Saudi Arabia boasts that Abraj al-Bait â Arabic for "Towers of the House," referring to the Kaaba's nickname, "the house of God" â will be the largest building in the world in terms of floor space. Developers have said the completed building will total 15.6 million square feet â more than twice the floor space of the Pentagon, the largest in the United States.

Three of the towers, each nearly 30 stories, are already completed, and the others are rapidly going up. A mall at their base has already opened, where customers â many of them in the simple white robes of pilgrims â shop at international chains such as The Body Shop and eat at fast-food restaurants. Other nearby complexes include upscale hotels.

The building boom is in some cases destroying Mecca's historic heritage, not just overshadowing it. In 2002, Saudi authorities tore down a 200-year-old fort built by the city's then-rulers, the Ottomans, on a hill overlooking the Kaaba to build a multi-million-dollar housing complex for pilgrims.

The holy sites have also been targeted for decades by the clerics who give Saudi Arabia's leadership religious legitimacy. In their puritanical Wahhabi view, worship at historic sites connected to mere mortals â such as Muhammad or his contemporaries â can easily become a form of idolatry. (Worship at the Kabaa, which is ordered in the Quran, is an exception.)

"Obviously, this is an exaggerated interpretation. But unfortunately, it is favored among officials," said Anwar Eshky, a Saudi analyst and head of a Jiddah-based research center.

The house where Muhammad is believed to have been born in 570 now lies under a rundown building overshadowed by a giant royal palace and hotel towers. The then king, Abdul-Aziz, ordered a library built on top of the site 70 years ago as a compromise after Wahhabi clerics called for it to be torn down.

Other sites disappeared long ago, as Saudi authorities expanded the Grand Mosque around the Kaaba in the 1980s. The house of Khadija, Muhammad's first wife, where Muslims believe he received some of the first revelations of the Quran, was lost under the construction, as was the Dar al-Arqam, the first Islamic school, where Muhammad taught.

At Hira'a Cave, where Muhammad is believed to have received the first verses of the Quran in the mountains on the edge of Mecca, a warning posted by Wahhabi religious police warns pilgrims not to pray or "touch stones" to receive blessings.

In Medina, 250 miles north of Mecca, Muhammad's tomb is the only shrine to have survived the Wahhabis, and a monumental mosque has been built around it. But religious police bar visitors from praying in the tomb chamber or touching the silver cage around it.

"You shouldn't do that," a bearded policeman tells pilgrims trying to pray at the site.

Outside the Prophet's Mosque, Wahhabis have destroyed the Baqi, a large cemetery where tombs of several of the Prophet's wives, daughters, sons and as many as six grandsons and Shiite saints were once located. Grave markers at the site have been bulldozed away, and religious police open the site only once a day to let in male pilgrims. The visitors are prevented from praying.

"It is pretty sad that our imams do not even have tombstones to tell where they are buried," said Indian pilgrim Zuhairi Mashouk Khan, who was weeping because he was barred from praying at the site. "They deserve a shrine as monumental as Taj Mahal."

Several Islamic groups, such as the U.K.-based Islamic Heritage and Research Foundation and the U.S- based Institute for Gulf Affairs, are campaigning to restore ancient sites. Khaled Azab, an Egyptian expert on Islamic heritage at the Bibliotheca Alexandria, suggests that the Saudi government should bring in UNESCO to help.

But after years of campaigning, Angawi is on the verge of giving up.

"I have been saying this for 35 years but nobody listens," he said. "It is becoming hopeless case."

Destruction Of Mosque By Muslims In Islamic Nation - Guest - 07-04-2008

China demolishes mosque for not supporting Olympics
QUOTEChinese authorities in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have demolished a mosque for refusing to put up signs in support of this August's Beijing Olympics, an exiled group said on Monday.

QUOTE Oil-rich Xinjiang is home to 8 million Turkic-speaking Uighurs, many of whom resent the growing economic and cultural influence of the Han Chinese.

Dilxat Raxit added that the mosque, which had been renovated in 1998, was accused of illegally renovating the structure, carrying out illegal religious activities and illegally storing copies of the Muslim holy book the Koran.

"All the Korans in the mosque have been seized by the government and dozens of people detained," he said. "The detained Uighurs have been tortured."

The Olympic torch relay passed through Xinjiang last week under tight security, with all but carefully vetted residents banned from watching on the streets and tight controls over foreign media covering the event.
I trust Brinda and Prakash Karat treat this as an internal affairs issue of China which would be in sharp contrast to the world wide trips they have taken to speak out on Indian affairs on such matters.