But by then the media had become so preoccupied with the Ed Stone's whereabouts that the destruction of the stone had to be postponed.
But might it not also seem repugnant that judging by press and social media reaction many of us find the destruction of a stone building at least as shocking as the decapitation of a human being?
The recent trend of globalization has seen massive construction leading to the radical destruction of natural stone deposits.
Six months after the destruction of the stone mound, the earth mound disappeared, too.
We too found that the destruction of the stone to be a slow process not sufficiently completed after two esophagogastroduodenoscopies and more than two hours of total endoscopy time needed.
Thereafter, the determination to prevent any further restoration was evidenced by the more thoroughgoing destruction of roods, vestments, stone altars, dooms, statues and other ornaments.
The starting point of this panIslamic humiliation is not personal experiences of would-be terrorists in Europe; it is the final straw on the proverbial camel that carries a very heavy burden of the daily humiliations inflicted on everyday Palestinians by Israel, the occupation of holy places, the destruction of homes, the killing of stone-throwing children by soldiers in uniform.
"Close-up images of the temple of Baalshamin after its destruction show that many of the individual blocks of stone remain.
The destruction of the 300-foot sculpture, a stone pearl held by six sweeping arches, was part of a chain of events that, in a matter of days, turned the country from a symbol of hopeful pro-democratic protest into one of repression.
While it is clear that pigment deposits lead to joint destruction, renal stone formation and cardiac valvulopathy respectively, the significance of ocular findings is still unclear.
