Posted on 04/12/2015 8:00:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin
(Puppies would be about the same as ancient artifacts. Either way, painful death upon them and their ilk, and maybe even their progeny.)
How can this be???? I thought all cultures were supposed to be equal and everyone was “one” in the world. This report is all lies, I tell you.
AINA News
Brick By Brick, Person By Person, ISIS is Erasing Assyrians From Their Homelands
http://www.aina.org/news/20150306202218.htm
Like the Muslim general who around the 8th century ordered the destruction of the library of Alexandria. He said everything one needed to know was in the Koran
That was the great catastrophe of the Middle Ages (other than the rise of Islam itself); over the centuries the muzzies have continually called for the destruction of the Giza pyramids, and at least one of the caliphs tried, causing damage to Menkaure’s.
Naturally, I followed Rev. J.P. Fletcher's narrative using modern mapping and photography, learning a great deal along the way about conditions in 1850 and those conditions immediately before these clowns became the latest army to burn and pillage the ancient Christians and their artifacts. Alexander even fought a battle nearby, and his bunch could be considered Modern.
The Mar Jacob Church in Nisibis seemed pretty much the way it looked in 1850, no old the dust and debris outside had half buried the ground floor. And that's just one example, from the Cenotaph of Jonah to a thousand mounds still waiting to be dated.
If there were really important clay tablets or artwork to be easily found and within the range of these idiot's sledge hammers and dynamite, it's very unlikely they aren't already carted off to the British Museum, or to Berlin, or Paris, or Chicago, long before World War I, discounting the cuneiform equivalents to scratch pads and loose leaf school notes or shopping lists.
That's a good thing. Without it we wouldn't have deciphered the older Akkadian and then the Sumerian kings lists. Grave robbing goes back a long way.
Anyway, I highly recommend Rev. Fletcher's 1850 narrative for anyone interested in the area, and the Christians who had lived under Muslim occupation since the seventh century. Even Catholicism was just then doing mission work there. Both Volumes of his highly readable work can be found and downloaded at archive.org
Narrative of a Two Years' Residence at Nineveh,
and Travels in Mesopotamia, Assyria, and Syria
Vol. 1 & Vol. 2
By The Rev. J.P. Fletcher - London 1850
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