It goes back further than that, with the burning of the great Library of Alexandria.
“It goes back further than that, with the burning of the great Library of Alexandria.”
Mostly accepted as being accidently burned by Julius Caesar but I take it you believe it was the Moslem Caliph Omar?
“The Caliph has been quoted as saying of the Library’s holdings, “they will either contradict the Koran, in which case they are heresy, or they will agree with it, so they are superfluous.”
Interesting comment.
http://ehistory.osu.edu/world/articles/ArticleView.cfm?AID=9
12 posted on Thursday, January 12, 2012 8:54:13 PM by Fred Hayek: “It goes back further than that, with the burning of the great Library of Alexandria.”
You're absolutely right.
We can probably work with liberal Muslims and those who don't take their religion seriously. They're inconsistent, but not everyone who claims to follow Islam wants to kill infidels and destroy pre-Islamic art and education.
The problem is that the people who are serious about Islam want to do exactly that, and have been doing it for more than a millennium — the burning of the library at Alexandria is an early example right from the earliest days of Islam and it shows what Islamofascism is like when it gains power.
30 posted on Sunday, January 15, 2012 12:06:53 PM by Nowhere Man: “If Islam does not have their own version of a Reformation, I do foresee that there will be a backlash such as this either by the Western World and/or the Hindus. There has to be realization that such practices they espouse will not work in a modern world and they need to change.”
I see no way that will happen.
The Reformation was a claim to “reform” Christianity by returning to the practices of Christ and the early church as recorded in Scripture. I'm well aware that Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox will disagree on whether Protestants succeeded in doing so, but all three main streams of Christianity concur in their desire to be faithful to the original vision of Christ and the early church.
It is impossible to read the Koran and the history of early Islam and not come to the conclusion the Islamofascists have correctly understood at least the main points of Mohammed's teaching and that of early Islamic leaders. We can argue about details, but holy war with the sword against the infidels is not a minor part of Islam.
Not every Muslim is an Islamofascist. The problem is that those who are have correctly read their Koran and their history, and seek to repeat it.