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Timbuktu mausoleums “destroyed”
BBC News ^ | 23 December 2012 | Last updated at 11:07 ET

Posted on 12/23/2012 9:23:24 PM PST by Olog-hai

Islamists in Mali have begun destroying remaining mausoleums in the historic city of Timbuktu, an Islamist leader and a tourism official said.

“Not a single mausoleum will remain in Timbuktu,” Abou Dardar, a leader of the Islamist group Ansar Dine, told AFP news agency.

Islamists in control of northern Mali began earlier this year to pull down shrines that they consider idolatrous. …

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ancientegypt; godsgravesglyphs; islam; kenyanbornmuzzie; mali; muslim; muslims; muslimworld; radicalislam; religionofpieces; rop; timbuktombs; timbuktu
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To: Olog-hai

First we had the “Arab Spring.”

Now we have the “Arab Spring Cleaning.”


21 posted on 12/23/2012 10:32:45 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: Olog-hai

Islam is stuck in the 5th century politically and culturally. They are doing the same stupid things throughout the ages. The word, “backward” comes to mind. Stuck on stupid also comes to mind.


22 posted on 12/23/2012 10:33:02 PM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: Olog-hai

Most fail to recognize the Christian heritage that gave us our individualism, our rights , freedoms and liberties codified in the Magna Carta.

This is something for which the muslim world has no comparison, explaining why they are so backwards.

And we have a backwards muslim driving America..... down the drain. Their hero. Their fraud.


23 posted on 12/23/2012 10:34:18 PM PST by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: jonrick46

That’s a bit of an insult to the fifth century, which had its highlights—most significantly the retreat of the Roman Empire, especially from Britain. (Opinions of the Hunnic Empire vary, of course.)

The ways of the “religion” in question don’t belong in any century, even the antediluvian ones.


24 posted on 12/23/2012 10:47:09 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: TigersEye

my personal suspicion... it will be done by a hot head dot head. some day, some hindu is going to conclude the assault by muslims is TOO MUCH, and will pursue what he feels to be the karmic equivalent of the 72 muslim virgins. and a muslim holy site will get completely wiped out.


25 posted on 12/23/2012 10:56:40 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: The Antiyuppie
built anything recently

piles of rubble

26 posted on 12/23/2012 11:04:17 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Olog-hai

Much of the positive contributions of Islam have come from Sufism - the people who built the mausoleums an mosques that are being destroyed. In India, a “golden age” was overseen by Sufi rulers. In that instance as in this one all the contributions were ground to dust mixed with blood by Islamic fundamentalists.


27 posted on 12/23/2012 11:17:48 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: HiTech RedNeck

That’s an interesting thought. I do think it’s more likely to not come from the west. I wouldn’t be surprised if it took several more decades.


28 posted on 12/23/2012 11:37:48 PM PST by TigersEye (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Olog-hai

The departure of the Romans from England was a highlight? That was a tragedy. They fell back into chaos, and stopped building roads until the Norman conquest.
The Romans were the best thing to ever happen to those isles.


29 posted on 12/23/2012 11:44:39 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Olog-hai
Islam — a stain on mankind and civilization for 1,400 years. Islam is like a rabid animal that needs to be put down once and for all — permanently.
30 posted on 12/23/2012 11:52:23 PM PST by MasterGunner01
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To: DesertRhino
No, that is quite wrong, and as a part Celt, I must confess to being offended by that. Especially given the purpose that the Romans put paved roads to. (There were always roads, but some people don't regard dirt roads as roads, as it appears.)

The other significant 5th-century event in Britain was the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons.
31 posted on 12/23/2012 11:52:51 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: DesertRhino

SPQR


32 posted on 12/23/2012 11:54:34 PM PST by chulaivn66 (Semper Fidelis in Extremis)
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To: Olog-hai

And the egyptians are wondering why their izlamist president is having a negative effect on tourism. Heh


33 posted on 12/23/2012 11:54:34 PM PST by grandpa jones (obama delenda est)
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To: chulaivn66

Indeed. A roman revival would not be a bad thing overall.


34 posted on 12/23/2012 11:55:49 PM PST by Monty22002
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To: jonrick46

The name Obama comes to mind immediately.

I am finally ready to waste Mecca.


35 posted on 12/24/2012 12:10:42 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Monty22002

I’m not sure regarding the return of the Roman Republic. We have a republic now, such as it is. However if we might dicuss the calling forth of a Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus-like personage from the ‘heartland’ I might be receptive of the idea. I find swearing loyalty and striking the breastplate in salute to the ‘Nero’ we have unspeakable, repugnant and beyond my ability. Cinncinatus? SPQR


36 posted on 12/24/2012 12:15:46 AM PST by chulaivn66 (Semper Fidelis in Extremis)
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To: Monty22002

I’m not sure regarding the return of the Roman Republic. We have a republic now, such as it is. However if we might discuss the calling forth of a Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus-like personage from the ‘heartland’ I might be receptive of the idea. I find swearing loyalty and striking the breastplate in salute to the ‘Nero’ we have unspeakable, repugnant and beyond my ability. Cinncinatus? SPQR


37 posted on 12/24/2012 12:17:51 AM PST by chulaivn66 (Semper Fidelis in Extremis)
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To: chulaivn66

Well, I meant the ideal. Power and justice and so on. Not Christian or Judaism for sure, but was strong and powerful for a long time. A great turning point in early history.


38 posted on 12/24/2012 12:51:03 AM PST by Monty22002
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To: Olog-hai

Muslims are the human equivalent of cockroaches.


39 posted on 12/24/2012 5:49:05 AM PST by Ouderkirk (Obama has turned America into an aristocracy of the unaccomplished.)
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To: DesertRhino

“The Romans were the best thing to ever happen to those isles.”

That’s just silly; there is no cultural trace that Rome had even been there. For Ireland/Scotland, Rome never WAS there.

If Latin (or Italian) was the worldwide language of business today, you’d have a point.


40 posted on 12/24/2012 5:54:42 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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