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1 posted on 03/25/2015 8:05:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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They destroy them because they’re savages. Also it’s un-islamic.


2 posted on 03/25/2015 8:07:55 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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They want to cut culture and humanity adrift from anything/everything that is NOT Muslim. PERIOD!


3 posted on 03/25/2015 8:07:55 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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Retribution for the crusades?


4 posted on 03/25/2015 8:10:52 AM PDT by Paul46360 (..)
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It's the same totalitarian mindset that inspired Pol Pot to declare the year of his resolution as "Year Zero"
5 posted on 03/25/2015 8:11:08 AM PDT by Maceman
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Moslems destroying history / Jihad since the 7th Century.

Including destroying Buddhist statues in Afghanistan, Hindu temples in India a thousand years ago, etc.


6 posted on 03/25/2015 8:17:08 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Pipes is awesome. But there's a simple answer to his question. They are a puritan fundamentalists sect, who believe that everything that is not in their holy scripture is not only less pure, it is positively evil. therefore in their eyes, all art and all non scriptural literature is an idol that should be destroyed. The West went through this same phase during the reformation.

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 country’s 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 you’d 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 Christ’s 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 figure’s right arm, legs, and feet they stopped their foul work. I’d like to believe that it is a tribute to the artist’s 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.

7 posted on 03/25/2015 8:17:58 AM PDT by edwinland
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8 posted on 03/25/2015 8:20:21 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Point of well, OK!)
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Because, like liberals, they don’t want history and its inevitable patterns to exist.


10 posted on 03/25/2015 8:29:08 AM PDT by lurk
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Democrats do to. No American flag, no parades celebrating America. Electronic tablets in schools so history can be erased.


11 posted on 03/25/2015 8:30:24 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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**St. Catherine’s 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?


12 posted on 03/25/2015 8:30:46 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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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.


14 posted on 03/25/2015 8:36:18 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Simple ...

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

17 posted on 03/25/2015 8:43:36 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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There’s several reasons:

1. Not made my Muslims.

2. Tangible refutation of their lies.

3. Envy.

4. They’re savages.


18 posted on 03/25/2015 8:43:45 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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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?


19 posted on 03/25/2015 8:48:04 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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History is an affront to Islam.
It is not in the Koran or the Hadiths.
It is the story of civilization to which status Islam cannot aspire.
Hoistory is glaring evidence that most other cultures are wealthier and more successful than Islamic society can ever be.
It thus is intolerable temptation in the faces of Moslems.
20 posted on 03/25/2015 8:57:16 AM PDT by arthurus (it's true!)
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Because they know d*mn well they can’t compete with other cultures, ideas etc. Real reason they hate joooos.


22 posted on 03/25/2015 8:58:50 AM PDT by Let's Roll (Before it can get any better it has to stop getting worse - vote 4 most conservative available)
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