What place will be nuked? Mecca, Jerusalem or Bodhgaya?Malcolm wrote:Will wrote:While I have no sympathy for and am hostile to the Jihadists, the choice of a homeland by the Jews is odd. They had other offers and there was even a small counter-Zionist group working for a non-Jerusalem centered nation.
It is curious that Islam has sacred turf - Mecca - as do the Jews of Israel. Revering a sacred site is normal in all religions, but Buddhists have not, for example, made the Bodhi Tree into a site for nation building.
The priority of sacred dirt for the two groups, to the point of armed conflict, is sad and ridiculous. So I see no peaceful resolution at all - for now and the next century - at least.
Ever, that place is going to be the the site of the first use of nuclear weapons since WWII, you mark my words. It's all going down in flames.
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Jerusalem.AlexanderS wrote:What place will be nuked? Mecca, Jerusalem or Bodhgaya?Malcolm wrote:Will wrote:While I have no sympathy for and am hostile to the Jihadists, the choice of a homeland by the Jews is odd. They had other offers and there was even a small counter-Zionist group working for a non-Jerusalem centered nation.
It is curious that Islam has sacred turf - Mecca - as do the Jews of Israel. Revering a sacred site is normal in all religions, but Buddhists have not, for example, made the Bodhi Tree into a site for nation building.
The priority of sacred dirt for the two groups, to the point of armed conflict, is sad and ridiculous. So I see no peaceful resolution at all - for now and the next century - at least.
Ever, that place is going to be the the site of the first use of nuclear weapons since WWII, you mark my words. It's all going down in flames.
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What makes you say that?
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NYC or Washington DC are more likely targets. America has been doing much more than killing a few Palestinians. Good luck protecting port cities.
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AlexanderS wrote:What makes you say that?
It is the most sacred place to all three religions, ergo, it is the one that will most likely be the object of a terrorist attack.
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For me it makes less sense that anyone would nuke a place that is sacred to them. I can't see anyone other than religious nutcases being mental enough to use nuclear weapons in the modern world.Malcolm wrote:AlexanderS wrote:What makes you say that?
It is the most sacred place to all three religions, ergo, it is the one that will most likely be the object of a terrorist attack.
Without being that knowledgeable about Islam, I was under the impression that their most sacred place is Mecca.
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The dome of the rock is in Jerusalem.AlexanderS wrote:For me it makes less sense that anyone would nuke a place that is sacred to them. I can't see anyone other than religious nutcases being mental enough to use nuclear weapons in the modern world.Malcolm wrote:AlexanderS wrote:What makes you say that?
It is the most sacred place to all three religions, ergo, it is the one that will most likely be the object of a terrorist attack.
Without being that knowledgeable about Islam, I was under the impression that their most sacred place is Mecca.
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Islam's most sacred place is Mecca, the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem is sacred to Islam in a secondary way.AlexanderS wrote:For me it makes less sense that anyone would nuke a place that is sacred to them. I can't see anyone other than religious nutcases being mental enough to use nuclear weapons in the modern world.Malcolm wrote:AlexanderS wrote:What makes you say that?
It is the most sacred place to all three religions, ergo, it is the one that will most likely be the object of a terrorist attack.
Without being that knowledgeable about Islam, I was under the impression that their most sacred place is Mecca.
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