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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (89238)	4/2/2003 4:18:15 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

> That's why the Wahabbis think the Shi'a are heretics, and the Shi'a return the favor. Pretty true...I think the official Shia stance is that Wahaabis will go straight to hell and there is no point in dealing with them other than preventing their spread. There is really no interest at all in either discussing or fighting over their differences. This is another reason why it was absurd to suggest Al-Qaeda-Iran link. They are oil and water. ST

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (89238)	4/2/2003 5:27:31 PM
From: kumar	Respond to of 281500

if true, the desecration of the Prophet Mohammed, crosses Shia/Sunni/whatever faith within Islam, and there will be turmoil like we have never seen. The Saudis and Wahabis will be hard pressed to stake the claim of being custodians of Mecca & Medina. Once again : IF TRUE. I really hope it is not true.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (89238)	4/2/2003 7:53:55 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 281500

Just as Christian iconoclasts went about destroying icons as blasphemous, I'm fairly ignorant about Islam in this regard, but it's well established how the Church in Europe during the middle ages had something like a 100 year project to knock down, break up, and bury all the "menhirs", or pagan megaliths. The irony was this ended up preserving them, possibly better than if they'd been left exposed to the elements or taken for construction materials. There are sites in the Morbihan department of France (in Brittany) where they've unearthed many of these in the past 8 years or so.