Skal muslimer da betale for alle de religiøse bygninger fra andre religioner de har destrueret?

Serb authorities in Bosnia-Hercegovina have been ordered to pay $42m (£26m) to local Muslims for the destruction of mosques during the Bosnian civil war.

All 16 mosques in Banja Luka, the main town of the Serb-run Republika Srpska, were destroyed in the 1992-1995 war.

A lawyer for the area’s Muslim community said the local court verdict was of historic importance.

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Ja det kunne jo være af historisk betydning, hvis det gjaldt begge veje – men det kommenterer BBC ikke. En stor del af den muslimske verden har jo været af anden religiøs observans en gang i fortiden. Og iøvrigt – hvad er en moske egentlig?

Jahiliyya

Tiden før islam er uvidenhedens tid. Mørkets tid. Jahiliyya. Dette er en del af muslimske teologi. Historien skal tjene teologien.

V.S. Naipaul, Nobelprisvinder.

Islamabad, 22 Feb. 2007 (AKI/DAWN) – Religious parties in Pakistan’s National Assembly are contesting the teaching of Pakistan’s pre-Islamic history in schools. Members of the six-party Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) staged a token protest walkout Wednesday over the inclusion of chapters about Hinduism, Buddhism and the ancient emperor Chandragupta Maurya in the history textbooks for senior classes after a heated discussion.

Five MMA members had raised the history textbook issue through a call-attention notice, but their claim that the inclusion of chapters they considered objectionable had caused a “grave concern amongst the public” was disputed by education minister Anisa Zeb Tahirkheli and some other ruling coalition members, who accused the religious parties of seeking to keep students ignorant about glorious periods of the sub-continent’s history such as the Indus Valley or Gandhara civilisations.

But the authors of the notice described the changes as part of what they saw as a government attempt to secularise the educational curricula.

“That may be your history, (but) … our history (starts) from Mecca and Medina,” MMA member Farid Ahmad Piracha shouted as he led his alliance’s walkout when the sessio chairman allowed party a Muslim League MP to voice his support for the chapters even after the speaker had referred the matter to a house standing committee for more discussion.

The speaker repeatedly said there was no harm in studying pre-Islamic history for the sake of knowledge as he and his contemporaries did in schools, colleges and universities but, to an apparent surprise of the treasury benches, accepted an MMA demand to refer the matter to the standing committee, which the alliance members could use to continue the controversy.

 The education minsiter earlier told the house that the decision to include the new chapters – the like of which existed in old history books but were removed at some later stage – was taken by an inter-provincial committee which also included ulema and rejected allegations that Islamic chapters were being deleted or curtailed from the curricula.

“If you don’t regard the history of Moenjodaro and Harappa as your heritage, then you may delete it. But if you are proud of it then students must know about it,” she said.

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Muslimer har i tråd med dette ødelagt historiske mindesmærker i Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libyen, og Cypern. For ikke at tale om andre religioners hellige steder de har vandaliseret. Mere hos Every Kinda People.

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