Friday, January 06, 2006

The difference between Jihadi Islam and other major religions

Read this from the AP and answer the questions at the bottom:
An eight-story building collapsed here yesterday, killing at least 20 people in the latest tragedy to mar the annual gathering of millions of Muslims in Islam's holiest city.

The Interior Ministry said 59 people were injured, but nobody would say — or knew — how many more were trapped in the rubble of Lulu'at al-Khair, which housed shops and restaurants and was rented out as a hostel during pilgrimages.

Talha al-Nizi, a Tunisian guide for pilgrims, said his group had just finished midday prayers and returned at about 1:10 p.m. to their hotel, adjacent to Lulu'at al-Khair, just 200 feet from the Grand Mosque, a focal point of the hajj pilgrimage.

"As I moved to step into my hotel, the whole building collapsed in front of my eyes. The whole street was full of dust," said al-Nizi.

About 1,000 rescue workers, medics and police scrambled over and around the collapsed building.

"Fortunately, the building was almost empty when it collapsed, because most of the residents were in the holy shrine at that time," said civil-defense Maj. Gen. Alwani, who did not provide his first name.

The hajj has been hit with tragedies frequently in recent years. The worst occurred in 1990, when 1,426 pilgrims were killed in a stampede in an overcrowded pedestrian tunnel leading to holy sites in Mecca.

Part 1: Is there any dancing in the street of Tel Aviv or any city in Israel? What about New York or Washington or London or Madrid or Bali?
Part 2: Should Ariel Sharon die, will there be dancing in the streets of Mecca? Ramallah? Baghdad or Damascus or Amman or Kabul or Gaza?



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