This is what Democratic Progressives endorse. The Islamists have done this for a millennium. They are just completing what they started by the last burning of the Library of Alexandria.Do you expect any condemnation of this from the Executive Office, State Department, or even NPR? (crickets...)
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Short answer: No, I do not...well maybe. But only in the same CYA-fashion that Hillary, for example, remained silent as Obama purposefully unleashed chaos in the Middle East, but now she safely chooses to chastise Egypt's new leaders of mistreating women.
If there is any utterance from the USA on this tragedy, we can expect similar shell-game pronouncements (Don't look there at the big picture; look here at our talking points].
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From the article:
"What we are seeing here is not a battle for power, but rather, a battle for perception, memory, heritage and historiography; that is, the writing of history."
Fixing it:
"What we are seeing here is not a battle for power, but rather [and preeminently,] a battle for perception, memory, heritage and historiography; that is, the writing of history."
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Tragically, for Egypt, the Middle East, and Western Civilization, this is a global phenomenon. Look only to the USA for proof that we are in "a battle for perception, memory, heritage and historiography; that is, the writing of history."
Don't miss the source article for this thread's article:
Welcome to Cairostan: Egypt’s radicals eliminating country’s connection to West, but does anyone care?
646 A.D. - When the Arab commander Saad ibn-e Abi Vaghas faced the huge Persian library of Cteciphon (capital city), he wrote to Omar (Calif/Ruler of Arab Muslims): what should be done about the books?. Omar replied that the “blasphemous” books are not needed, as for us only Koran is sufficient. Thus, the huge library was destroyed and the books or the product of the generations of Persian scientists and scholars were burned in fire or thrown into the Euphrates. Later by the order of another Arab ruler (Ghotaibeh ibn-e Moslem) in Khwarezmia, those Persians who were literate with all the historians, writers and Mobeds were massacred and their books burned so that after one generation the people were illiterate. Other libraries in Ray and Khorassan received the same treatment and the famous international University of Gondishapour declined and eventually abandoned, and its library and books vanished. Only few books survived, because the Persian scholars quickly translated them into Arabic in order to save them.
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