Word: shrine
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Outside the city, a huge gold-domed shrine marking the tomb of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who died in 1989, is all but complete, and on weekends families flock there. But apart from a few offering fervent prayers near his tomb, most of the visitors chat and play with their children, unawed by the presence of the revolutionary imam's earthly remains...
...stories they recount in the refugee camps in the Iraqi town of Safwan are appalling. "Iraqi troops sent a tank to knock down the door of the holy shrine of Najaf," recalls Hajj Hattin. "Then they began looting all the deserted homes. They shot people at random in front of the crowds." Hajj Mohammed remembers a helicopter gunship shooting at civilians in the streets of Najaf. Iraqi soldiers "went into schools to threaten small children into giving the names of relatives they could accuse of being rebels," he says. "If the child did not answer, they shot...
Mozart's native Salzburg is the high shrine of Mozartism. The festivities started Jan. 2, when the celebrated Salzburg Marionettes presented the first of the seven Mozart operas that the 78-year-old troupe has in its repertoire. It will tour Europe this spring and the U.S. in November. The Landestheater offers a new Magic Flute as well as a restaging of Peter Shaffer's popular but preposterous Amadeus. For those seeking knowledge, an international symposium will provide 130 scholarly papers in four languages...
...marched toward a 462-year-old Muslim mosque in Ayodhya, a site holy to both Hindus and Muslims in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Shouting "Break the mosque! Break the mosque!" about 100 stone-throwing crusaders pulled plaster from the walls and planted saffron-colored flags atop the shrine before they were driven off by police and paramilitary troops armed with tear gas, riot sticks and guns. At least six militants died; next day an additional 16 were killed as police used bullets and bamboo staves to hold back the crowds...
...Palestinian version. That morning, Faisal Husseini and a few thousand other Palestinians had gathered on the Temple Mount to defend the Islamic shrine from a group of ultra-nationalist Jews, called the Temple Mount Faithful, that planned to lay a cornerstone on the site to prepare for a third Jewish temple. Despite an Israeli court order banning the group from the site, Muslims were unnerved. As rumors spread that the Jewish radicals were approaching, Palestinians began shouting slogans. When police replied with tear gas, Palestinians retaliated with stones. The police then charged onto the Temple Mount, went berserk and gunned...