Top-Ranked Shrines
How do they choose the holiest sites in Islam?
By Melonyce McAfee
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Ranking of holiness is determined by popular devotion, not by any official list. And since Islam isn't very centralized, what's holy to one sect may not be as important to another. For example, some Muslims think Imam Ali wasn't even buried in Najaf, but in Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan. So they'd choose to visit Ali's shrine in Mazari Sharif before the one in Najaf. And Ismaili Shiites do not believe Musa was the seventh imam; they think it was his brother Ismail. So why bother going to Musa's tomb?
So if moslems believe that mohammad urinated on some stone in the middle of the Sahara, they would probably go there and worship that stone...
MOSLEMS, SUNNI OR SHIITE, THY NAME IS IDOLATERS
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007
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