Petrol bombs strike British embassy in Iran

Scores of Iranian demonstrators hurled petrol bombs at the British embassy on Tuesday in renewed protests over the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad and Western opposition to Tehran's nuclear ambitions.

The protesters, mostly religious seminary students, chanted "Death to Tony Blair", "Death to Britain" and Death to America" while throwing hundreds of stones at the embassy buildings, smashing many windows.

The Danish cartoons have been reproduced by only a handful of British media outlets, but much more widely in other European countries. Violent protests have also taken place outside the Tehran embassies of Denmark, Norway, Austria, France and Germany.

Among the crowd outside the British embassy were at least five donkeys draped with the flags of countries such as the United States and Denmark, and a dog wrapped in an Israeli flag. The crowd later burnt the flags.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/14022006/325/petrol-bombs-strike-british-embassy-iran.html

this for all its worth. Just like our own fundies do whenever they get the chance.

They're having their Spanish Inquisition.


And I don't mean Islam in general...just the radicals that seem to garner power and wield like a weapon.

That is when Islam stopped being ahead of Europe in learning and the sciences. Up until then, the Middle East was a center of learning. 1301 marked the total control of Asia Minor by the Ottoman Empire (just looked it up in my history book). After that it was all downhill.

They have a lot of time and intellectual territory to make it to their Enlightenment; they have about 700 years of inerta to overcome. Look at Europe: 1300 to 1700 is 400 years! The world does not have the luxury of time now. The fundies of all types either get with the present and future or they will send us all back to the Dark Ages, if not Stone Age. And the End Time they seek may not be the one they wanted.

-history geek mode /off

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ready to blow. When will the western world wake up to that fact?

...I'm speaking of the muslim/islamic fundies

:eyes:

Sure.