And it happens too damn often.

I have no need to learn about these vandals' "issues" when they do this. They're getting attention but no sympathy.

They will be heroes

......
Meet his little hussy with his ghost town approach
Her face is sans feature, but she wears a Dali brooch

Sweetly reminiscent, something mother used to bake
Wrecked up and paralyzed, Diamond Dogs are sableized

I could never make out some of the lyrics. David Bowie has some really good lyrics. Recognize this one?

"Cop melts and kisses the feet of a priest
and the queer threw up at the sight of that"

you may be a dinosaur if you remember this talk show ;

I was just a baby when it came out. Amazingly I chanced to hear it "again for the first time" as a teenager, and it was the weirdest feeling because I had obviously heard it a million times in early childhood, but then never heard it again until I was a teen.

The entire album is kind of ...timeless. Definitely in my top 10.

imo,
Bowie has a wide brush in the music world

then they should change the way they look .

What is it about religious nutjobs that they feel compelled to destroy graves? What kind of anger makes someone do something like that?

Human history is littered with destruction caused by overzealous religious beliefs. Seems we really haven't come very far in all these thousands of years.

One stop shopping: inspiration (presumably) and exercise.


In a possibly snarkier note, the ground they're on is probably considered public property: waqf or some such. That said, the shrine a religious monument on public property, and a monument that the current government considers offensive and inappropriate (even if others don't). Perhaps if the worshippers moved it to private property and didn't make a public spectacle of it, an accommodation could be worked out.

all over the world.

New religions so often roar in with such egotistical zeal and trash the temples of their predecessors and ancestors.

Rather than appreciating and preserving the continuum of religious imagination in their history.

I hope more countries go ahead and separate church and state, in the interest of religious freedom and diversity in our imaginations.

I hope Americans mucking things up, allowing hateful Christianists to permeate our government too, won't crush the goals of countries that want to establish democracies that consider citizens' religious views their own private affair...

...I just found out it was a real place a few months ago!

Mali Islamists to continue destroying UNESCO sites

By BABA AHMED, Associated Press – 11 minutes ago

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Islamist rebels said Sunday they will continue to destroy historic sites in Mali's northern city of Timbuktu before they implement strict Shariah law, as Mali's government compared the destruction to "war crimes" and said they would seek international justice.

Ansar Dine spokesman Sanda Abu Mohamed said Sunday that Islamists will continue the destruction they started Saturday.

"We're going to destroy everything before we apply Shariah in this city," he said.

Resident Moussa Maiga said the Islamists have expressed disapproval of what they think is worship of the tombs of the Muslim saints.

more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jApYcMMCRSeeI_-iCOuZccLRr6tQ?docId=86e21e2efbe34fcab2357a1c839a24f8

keeping preserved false gods in the form of saint/scholar recognition is considered a form of idol worship
and that is forbidden in the more 'intimidating' sects of islam


http://www.newsy.com/videos/islamist-fighters-destroy-timbuktu-tombs/#ooid=tiMzVhNTq_WrAoAqmkJgRW6x5-Ed-eL8


might makes right

I myself wouldn't lose my head over a promise they made 11 weeks ago.



Fighters in Timbuktu announce Islamic state
Apr 13, 2012

Source: Reuters