Good News From Iraq

[Zeno]

From an AP News article posted in the Seattle Times:

KUFA, Iraq — A Shiite Muslim cleric threatened on Friday to launch suicide attacks if U.S. troops attack him and his forces in the holy city of Najaf.

Muqtada al-Sadr, was speaking during the Friday prayers sermon in Kufa, another Shiite Muslim holy city few miles from Najaf. The area is mostly controlled by his Al-Mahdi Army militia, whose members have clashed with U.S. troops several times since their uprising began on April 4.

"Some of the Mujahideen brothers have told me they want to carry out martyrdom attacks but I am postponing this," al-Sadr said in front of thousands of worshippers. "When we are forced to do so and when our city and holy sites are attacked, we will all be timebombs in the face of the enemy."

He condemned suicide bombings Wednesday in the southern city of Basra that killed 73 people because they targeted Iraqi police and civilians.

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What makes a place Holy?

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Ethical Formalism - A type of ethical theroy which defines moral judgements in terms of their logical form (for example, as 'laws' or 'universal prescriptions') rather than their content (for example, as judgements about what actions will best promote human well-being).


Ethical Relativism - The view that moral appraisals are essentially dependent upon the standards that define a particular moral code, the pracitices and norms accepted by a social group at a specific place and time.

Comments?

[andyfox]

"What makes a place Holy?"

See the movie Holes.

[PuppetMaster]

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"What makes a place Holy?"

See the movie Holes.


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Is that the one where the cable guy interupts an all girls college reunion

[Cyrus]

That guy Sadr calls it the Al-Mahdi army. Does anyone remember Alec Guiness as Al-Mahdi, with a huge prosthetic schnoz, in Khartum? Charlton Heston dies in it.