| Tuesday, April 8, 2003 |
09:17 - Evil Oppressors Part II
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2918453.stm
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What was that again about how this is a war against Islam?
It is a sound which has echoed down the centuries but which has not been heard here for 15 years - the wailing call to prayer.
On Friday however, at 0430 (0130 GMT), in the minutes before the desert dawn, the voice of the Imam rang out.
What Saddam's Baath party had forbidden, the British Army had restored.
The townspeople, whose mosque was destroyed years ago, prayed in the privacy of their own homes.
But instead of their worship being a secret and dangerous thing, it was freely performed with new joy.
The 1st Battalion Royal Irish secured a public address system for the Imam and men from their attached Royal, Electrical and Mechanical Engineers installed it on Thursday night in time for Friday prayers.
Not that anybody will notice.
Via The Command Post.
Meanwhile, someone on Ar-Rahman posts these pictures, under the subject line "A New Crusade is going on!!"
Yeah, wouldn't you just love it if it were? There's only one problem: it's a horrific paranoid fantasy from Bizarro World.
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