Posted on 05/12/2017 6:50:03 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Dominican friar has stayed a step ahead of militants bent on the destruction of evidence of pre-Islamic history.
At an undisclosed location, Dominican priest Fr. Najeeb Michaeel is painstakingly digitizing his collection of ancient manuscripts documenting Iraq’s cultural heritage, including its Christian history, according to a report at the website Circa.com.
Scanning these texts, the oldest of which date from the 7th century and which include manuscripts on Christian and Muslim spirituality, may be the only way to save these records of Iraq’s history from destruction by Islamic State groups. As part of former Mesopotamia, Iraq has a rich Christian tradition.
In fact, Fr. Michaeel, who is director the Digital Center for Eastern Manuscripts in Iraq, is responsible for rescuing them from destruction more than once.
ISIS has left a path of destruction in its wake as it carries out its mission to systematically destroy any record of the region’s pre-Islamic history, including precious artifacts in Palmyra, Mosul, Nimrud and Nineveh.
So when Islamic State militants seized the city of Mosul in Iraq in June of 2014, Fr. Michaeel knew his collection was in grave danger.
He had already smuggled the texts out of the Dominican library in Mosul to the ancient Assyrian Christian town Qaraqosh, during an Islamic insurgency in 2008.
“It was imperative that these manuscripts, conserved in the Dominican library in Mosul and then in Qaraqosh, escape the systematic destruction of the non-Muslim cultural heritage,” Fr. Michaeel told AFP.
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Hmmmmm. The Common Core Ayers-type are erasing Christianity in our public schools and normalizing satanism (which could morph into any Marxist, islamic, socialist slave ideology, like in Iraq, which are all irrational totalitarian systems).
Just like what the muslims and Marxist do—rewrite history—warp all ideas so that Vice is Virtue, Slavery is Freedom and Up is Down. That is what “Common” “Core” does-—destroy all natural instincts, all traditions of Western Civilization so children are ignorant and irrational as any slave or tribal or serf of yesteryear or today.
Children will be so ignorant about truth (God) and our history, so every “lie” will be a “truth”, like two males who sodomize each other can constitute a “marriage” (lol) or that killing your own genetic offspring is “natural” and “good’.
We are actually as bad as the muslims in the USA, since we banned only Chrisitanity from the public square and public schools as we force irrational religions like Marxism and Atheism onto our children using taxpayer money to destroy reason and logic and virtue in our children.
Without virtue formation (Classical Christian curricula), there is no ability for critical thinking or abstract rational thought—NONE. Only Christianity created the Age of Reason and the US Constitution and Justice (virtue) System.
This priest has done great work.
God Bless that priest.
Good news. We have now in the USA a new sheriff in town by the name of Donald J. Trump.
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