A Tangled Web

THE UNHOLY OF HOLIES.



Am I the only person who has finds it odd the way in which hushed, almost reverential tones, are used by media talking heads to describe the "Holy" city of Najaf? Alan Caruba has latched onto this and asks a few heretical questions such as;



"So what makes Iraq’s Najaf a ''holy city'' other than the fact that there is a big mosque there? What, for that matter, makes every grain of sand in Saudi Arabia ''sacred''? Or makes Mecca and Medina more sacred than cities that preceded both by well over two thousand years, Jerusalem and Vatican City in the midst of Rome? Other than pure arrogance, what gives Islam the right to claim Jerusalem as an Islamic holy city when Muhammad never physically stepped foot there, nor anywhere else outside of Arabia? Returning to Najaf, the home base of Muqtada al-Sadr, the renegade Shi’ite mullah, just how holy is a mosque when it serves as a place to store weapons and plan military operations against an interim government?"