Posted on 03/25/2015 8:05:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
They destroy them because they’re savages. Also it’s un-islamic.
They want to cut culture and humanity adrift from anything/everything that is NOT Muslim. PERIOD!
Retribution for the crusades?
Moslems destroying history / Jihad since the 7th Century.
Including destroying Buddhist statues in Afghanistan, Hindu temples in India a thousand years ago, etc.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/10344483/Art-Under-Attack-Tate-Britain-review.html
The exhibition starts with the familiar story of the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII, then moves on to sacrilegious annihilation of religious imagery by the government of Edward VI. So effective was the order to utterly extinct and destroy religious images, that the first gallery is relatively empty, apart from a sad miscellany of mutilated fragments of sculpture, shards of stained glass, and savagely defaced paintings each and every one a sickening reminder of how much of this countrys visual culture was lost during the Reformation. The deliberate destruction of any work of art is distressing, but since the reformers focused on sacred images, the sense of violation is even more acute. In front of a decapitated Madonna or the viciously scratched face of Christ, your instinct is to avert your eyes as youd do in front of a mutilated corpse.
As it happens a mutilated corpse (or the representation of one) is the most eloquent work of art in the entire show, a limestone figure of the Dead Christ carved by a Netherlandish sculptor working in this country in the first quarter of the 16th century. No reproduction can begin to suggest the overwhelming power of the realistically carved torso and head of Christs body in transitu (that is, during the period between His death on the Cross and the Resurrection when the flesh was subject to corruption like any other corpse). We look down not on a divine personage but on a human cadaver in the early stages of rigor mortis. After the reformers had hacked off the figures right arm, legs, and feet they stopped their foul work. Id like to believe that it is a tribute to the artists skill that they could not bring themselves to smash a face that with its half -closed eyes and open mouth is so expressive of vulnerability, suffering and resignation.
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NOT unlike the ongoing assault that American Liberals have been conducting against traditional America for DECADES... Only the American Liberals don’t use sledge hammers.... yet!!
All totalitarian fanatics revert to type like this, in the end. It’s just a matter of time.
Because, like liberals, they don’t want history and its inevitable patterns to exist.
Democrats do to. No American flag, no parades celebrating America. Electronic tablets in schools so history can be erased.
**St. Catherines Monastery in the Sinai,**
St Catherine’s has a mosque built into a wall supposedly to keep moslems from destroying it, and don’t they have a historical document signed by one of the founders of islam declaring the Monastery off limits to destruction?
“Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both...Action is a unifier.” E. Hoffer
From the web page..
http://www.sinaimonastery.com/en/index.php?lid=1
“The monastery has been honoured by rulers throughout its history. These include the Empress Helena, the Emperor Justinian, MOHAMMED the Founder of Islam, Sultan Selim I, the Empress Catherine of Russia, and Napoleon Bonaparte.”
Dare ISIS touch it? I’m sure they will find a reason.
The Crusades were no more "aggressive" than the landing of Allied troops at Normandy.
The moozlums do this so that no one can co9mpare previously advanced civilizations with their loser civilization.
Satan desires God's throne and he knows God built the Earth so he want's the Earth just as it was "in the beginning" ... nothing
There’s several reasons:
1. Not made my Muslims.
2. Tangible refutation of their lies.
3. Envy.
4. They’re savages.
The embarrassing question is who created ISIS with funds, what US senator visited them, and why aren’t the treated to the Stukas over Dunkirk when they bulldoze treasures?
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