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    99Telep☺dpr☹blemsHannah Gold
    7/04/16 3:07pm

    Wish I had the superpower to remove religion from the world for like a few years as an experiment in human behavior. What would we be if we just focused on a purely human equation? Would the absence of good that religion does cancel out any benefit to the absence of the evil it inspires?

    Not sure.

    Plus there aren’t any shortage of various non-religious ideologies which give people the excuse to fuck each other up.

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      Armageddon T. Thunderbird99Telep☺dpr☹blems
      7/04/16 3:11pm

      A world without religion would just have radicalized sports fans.

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      benjaminallover99Telep☺dpr☹blems
      7/04/16 3:11pm

      Religion is just extremely effective packaging for malevolent, bullshit ideologies. People would find a way to market these ideologies without religion.

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    Jane, you ignorant slut.Hannah Gold
    7/04/16 3:10pm

    For people who don’t understand Islam: this is roughly the equivalent of a Catholic trying to bomb a Catholic mass in Rome two days before Christmas.

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      TownaceNoahJane, you ignorant slut.
      7/04/16 3:17pm

      I don’t understand the Sunni/Shiite conflict, beyond knowing that it exists, but isn’t this bombing likely rooted in that somehow? Which would make it more like a Protestant bombing said Catholic mass?

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      YourFunnyUncleTownaceNoah
      7/04/16 3:20pm

      in general terms, the divide is basically as stupid as did he sit under a tree or not

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    Netflix and ShillHannah Gold
    7/04/16 3:16pm

    Maybe this will turn out to be moderate Muslims’ “have you no decency?” moment like the Army McCarthy hearings.

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      MysTerriNetflix and Shill
      7/04/16 3:26pm

      Or maybe it will be that moment for the moneyed interests on either side of Shia-Sunni devide and they’ll stop funding a global chess match to become the dominant form of Islam.

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      Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)Netflix and Shill
      7/04/16 3:40pm

      You mean apart from all the moments the media has ignored over the years? I think you need to watch this.

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    Dr.Strangelove'sChildHannah Gold
    7/04/16 6:16pm

    The House of Saud is going to fall. I give it, optimistically, 5 years. They are already in super-deep shit, and a bomb in MEDINA, of all places, is a sign of this. This is huge. Globe-altering.

    I expect a surge in oil prices and a resumption in the expansion of domestic production that was halted by the recent oil glut.

    We are going to have half a million troops there inside 5 years to hold the oil fields, which of course means a huge increase in the size of our military.

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      sui_generisDr.Strangelove'sChild
      7/04/16 6:46pm

      The House of Saud is going to fall. I give it, optimistically, 5 years.

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      Cool story, bro.

      I’ll file this under, “Things people have been saying for decades...”

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      Dr.Strangelove'sChildsui_generis
      7/04/16 7:37pm

      This is different, and you know it. Popularity of the royal family is at an all time low, corresponding with the drop in oil prices, the failing intervention in Yemen, their cold/proxy war with Iran, and the emergence of Daesh and the increasing popularity of the Wahabist movement could be too many plates to juggle. And if they can’t keep the holy cities safe, what’s the point of the regime?

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    EatTheCheeseNicholsonHannah Gold
    7/04/16 3:05pm

    Please nobody promote any of the Trump Youth out of the grays.

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      Armageddon T. ThunderbirdEatTheCheeseNicholson
      7/04/16 3:08pm

      But how will they receive their yuuge compensation?

      Unless, of course, they do this for free. Which is sad.

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      Deadly the EternalEatTheCheeseNicholson
      7/04/16 5:39pm

      Yet, one douchebag promoted Iowafan1 and 17 other douchebags starred it so far. At least Gawker’s possible shuttering would mean one less place for him to get his rocks off at.

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    Sid and FinancyHannah Gold
    7/04/16 3:15pm

    During Ramadan? That’s cold, Medina.

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      the actual bajmahalSid and Financy
      7/04/16 3:26pm

      And kinda' funky.

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    HerniaSandersHannah Gold
    7/04/16 3:07pm

    Hope they’re not surprised, considering Saudis both encourage and condone this kind of behavior.

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      e.nonHerniaSanders
      7/04/16 3:13pm

      well, as long as it is happening in someone else’s backyard... gotta think some of those princes are getting very nervous.

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      SulaymanFHerniaSanders
      7/04/16 6:48pm

      Citation needed. Saudi is a terrible dictatorship but they’ve been actively fighting this stuff for decades, ever since they were attacked by terrorists in the 1960s. That’s like saying Americans encourage this behavior because our CIA does some pretty awful similar stuff.

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    KulturVulturHannah Gold
    7/04/16 3:16pm

    Those minarets are cool. I wonder if you can climb to the tops.

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      IvrinielKulturVultur
      7/04/16 8:00pm

      Given that the call to prayer is sung from the top of the minarets, I imagine they have stairs.

      Whether they just let anyone climb them, no idea.

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      KulturVulturIvriniel
      7/04/16 8:07pm

      Eheu.

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    Dr. OpossumHannah Gold
    7/04/16 3:33pm

    For those wondering why Muslims would bomb their own holy site, it isn’t too surprising. There is a view in some of Islam, especially in the more radical branches, that feels preservation and veneration of sacred places, even Muslim ones, is idolatrous.

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      SulaymanFDr. Opossum
      7/04/16 6:51pm

      You’re really stretching here, nobody knows the culprits yet and yet you think you’ve cracked the case? The Wahhabi ideology has pushed to demolish certain places like graves of sahabas or Muhammad’s 1400 year old house because people pray there or to them, but they would absolutely never touch the Medina Mosque, which the wahhabi leaders also deem sacred. Your theory falls short.

      It is however more possible that this is an attack on Saudi’s shia minority, which many Saudis think are Iranian puppets or are to blame for the massive violence in Iraq etc. (they’re wrong though)

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    HPnutHannah Gold
    7/04/16 3:57pm

    But how close was it to Elie Wiesel’s funeral?

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