[Bastian]

Originally Posted by jon boy

well i dont think that just blowing them up in the name of fighting oppression is the answer.

History has proven otherwise.. actually, even recent history has:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/internatio...980980,00.html

and:

http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD141507

In a December 29, 2006 op-ed titled "Somalia: Time for Dhikr and Music" in the Awdal News, Somali journalist Bashir Goth discusses the history of the Union of Islamic Courts in Somalia, and calls on "the people of Mogadishu to reclaim their freedoms and their true religion."
The following is the article in full, in the original English.

[..] "Now it is time for the people of Mogadishu to reclaim their freedoms and their true religion. Time to read the Koran with piety and not with politics; time to perform Dhikr in the Sufi Qadiriya style; time to dance in weddings and listen to the music of our late melody queen Magool, which the Islamists wanted to burn. It is time to throw away the Arab head rags; the sign of the shabby dressed Islamists; and time to be proud of our native names, cleansing our ears of the alien Arab noms de guerre of the Islamists. It is time to let our women come out to the sunshine and swim with their children in the lido beach; time to shave the beards, watch cinema, and let our youth revel, sing, dance, and ring in the New Year with Mohammed Suleiman's eternal lyrics '…kii noo hagaagee, noqo loo hanweynyahay.' ('…Be a year that brings us good fortune and high expectations.' Amen."

Indeed. Amen.