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How can we stop ISIL destroying our cultural treasures? (Will destroy the Pyramids & Sphinx!)
The London Telegraph ^ | June 30, 2015 | Dan Cruickshank

Posted on 07/03/2015 9:45:50 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

ISIL is obliterating the Middle East's cultural landmarks. But should we arm ourselves in order to save threatened sites, asks Dan Cruickshank.

‘When Egypt comes under the auspices of the Khalifa [Caliphate], there will be no more Pyramids, no more Sphinx, no more idolatry.” This, I was told by British Muslim political activist Anjem Choudary, “will be just”.

This chilling recent interview with Choudary in east London was part of a journey that started in early 2002. I went to Afghanistan in March of that year, just after the fall of the Taliban, to report for a television programme on the events leading to the destruction of the pair of giant, 1,500 year-old statues of the Buddha in Bamiyan. A few months later I went to Iraq – just before and just after the fall of Saddam Hussein – to make programmes about ancient art, archaeological sites and museums threatened, and in some cases ultimately damaged or destroyed, by conflict.

These travels took me to the heart of this ancient land – to the Assyrian cities of Nimrud and Nineveh, to Babylon, to the 2,000 year-old ruins of the great Arab city of Hatra, and to internationally important museums of Mosul and Baghdad....

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Egypt; Government; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; anjemchoudary; assyria; assyrians; babylon; culturalmarxism; culturewar; egypt; fatwa; godsgravesglyphs; iran; isil; isis; islamicstate; nimrud; nineveh; pyramids; qatar; shiites; unitedkingdom; waronart; waronterror
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To: Jedidah

Thanks goodness I saw them in 2010. They are so neat it will be a shame to see them go, but maybe that will finally be the wakeup call needed. Never know.


21 posted on 07/03/2015 10:40:26 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

22 posted on 07/03/2015 10:54:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Pack them full of explosives.

Turn them into a pile of rocks not a pyramid.


23 posted on 07/03/2015 11:10:02 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Slings and Arrows
Kill them.

Yep, kill them all.

24 posted on 07/03/2015 11:32:32 AM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Check out the fourth pyramid on the plateau. That is how you destroy a pyramid.


25 posted on 07/03/2015 11:54:35 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Neutron bombs. Kills the vermin. Leaves the stuff.


26 posted on 07/03/2015 12:09:10 PM PDT by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A: Um, kill them.


27 posted on 07/03/2015 12:33:43 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Jedidah
‘When Egypt comes under the auspices of the Khalifa [Caliphate], there will be no more Pyramids, no more Sphinx, no more idolatry.” This, I was told by British Muslim political activist Anjem Choudary, “will be just”.

Our liberal elites are destroying the history of the South, the flag of that region, and any Confederate statues. ISIS and our liberal elites would both burn books if they could... they have much in common.

28 posted on 07/03/2015 1:37:03 PM PDT by GOPJ (The left's perfectly happy with slavery so long as they're holding the whip..Billthedrill)
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To: garjog

Maybe it wasn’t so bad that Europe took all the cultural art objects from the Middle East to Museum in Europe. Maybe they can be saved from the fanatics hammers. Egypt will never fall. The moslem Brother hood is a minority in the Land of the Nile. They blew it when they tried to rule and were kicked out.


29 posted on 07/03/2015 1:50:23 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

After ISIS has blown up St. Peter’s and the Sistine Chapel, and while they are sawing off his head, the Pope will be apologizing for the Crusades.


30 posted on 07/03/2015 1:57:27 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Tupelo

“the Arabs need to take care of their own problems. “

The Egyptians WILL take care of the ISIS problem IMO, and quite sternly. Egypt does not have oil, but they do have ancient artifacts which bring in BIG money from tourists, and they will not allow their economic lifeblood to be destroyed.


31 posted on 07/03/2015 10:01:12 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Just planting explosives will turn them into unrecognizable shapes.

The big Buddhist statues carved into hillsides were blown apart so the faces were gone.


32 posted on 07/03/2015 10:08:24 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: Falcon4.0

It is cultural Marxism. Sometimes it disguises itself as Democratic, other times Christian as in the WCC and NCC, and other times as Islamic.

It is purely Satanic.


33 posted on 08/02/2024 3:16:04 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“These travels took me to the heart of this ancient land – to the Assyrian cities of Nimrud and Nineveh, to Babylon, to the 2,000 year-old ruins of the great”

I think he’s full of it.

I was at Camp Alpha, Babylon at the time he claims to have visited and the base was not open to ‘journalists’ sight seers, etc.


34 posted on 08/02/2024 3:27:05 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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