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Posted on 12/20/2011 3:43:27 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Experts say among the manuscripts lost are maps of Napoleon's conquest of Egypt in 1798, as well as a map used in the 1989 Israeli withdrawal from Taba.
Hundreds of rare manuscripts and maps, including the maps used in 1989 Israeli withdrawal from Taba, were destroyed this week, as rioters set fire to a library in the Cairo's Scientific Complex in the fourth day of renewed clashes between protesters and security forces...
Mamdouh al-Masry, an Egyptian archaeology professor also speaking with Al-Arabiya said the country's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces was responsible for the destruction, criticizing for failing to apprehend those responsible.
"How can the SCAF allow such farce to continue until the library is consumed by the flames? How come they did not arrest the saboteurs right away?" Masry said.
Maj. Gen. Adel Emara, a member of the council that took power after Hosni Mubarak's February ouster in a popular uprising, defended the use of force against protesters.
"There is a methodical and premeditated plot to topple the state, but Egypt will not fall," said Emara. "The media is helping sabotage the state. This is certain," he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
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http://www.firstpost.com/world/egypt-institute-burns-scholars-try-to-rescue-manuscripts-160827.html
[snip] The volunteers, ranging from academic experts to appalled citizens, have spent the past two days trying to salvage what’s left of some 192,000 books, journals and writings, casualties of Egypt’s latest bout of violence. [/snip]
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It warms my heart to islamic terrorists destroying themselves. Now if they could just exterminate each other!
The Assad regime has gunned down over 5,000 Syrians, but...
Failure to protect Egyptian historic sites could trigger foreign intervention, warn experts
al arabiya via drudge | Mustafa Suleima
Posted on 12/19/2011 7:37:30 AM PST by MontaniSemperLiberi
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2822316/posts
Another milestone for the Obama administration.
I think I’m changing my position on repatriating the Elgin Marbles.
We need only be a little patient, and they will devour themselves.
The bloodletting will be massive with Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Lybia, all consumed. I am hoping Turkey and Tunesia are smarter.
In the spirit of Caliph Omar, who reportedly burned the Library at Alexandria, noting that if the books contradicted the Koran, they were heretical, if they agreed with it, they were superfluous. An interesting point of view: all writings were religious, including Ptolmey, transcriptions of ancient Babylonian astronomical observations, history, poems. No wonder Islam bans music.
Up capturing a city, he was asked what to do with its inhabitants, some Mulsims, some infidels, and he said - wait for it - kill them all, let Allah sort them out.
It has begun ... as predicted. When they are done, there will be nothing left which predates Mohammad.
The Assad regime has gunned down over 5,000 Syrians
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Given the length of time of the revolt, the scale of miltary intervention, the death quotas, the 5,000 number may be short a zero ...
Historic scientific documents...we don’t need no stinkin’ historical scientific documents!
The ignorant inbred savages will destroy Egypt’s rich history, then they will be nothing but another barren Islamic hell hole.
Tragic loss. And the Cairo museum? Is that next?
These rioters care nothing for their people’s heritage. And tourism was the only thing they had. Nice going, morons.
These pisants will only be happy when the entire world is living in the 8th century again.
Tragic loss. And the Cairo museum? Is that next?
These rioters care nothing for their people’s heritage. And tourism was the only thing they had. Nice going, morons.
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Nothing makes them happier than being able to kill and destroy.
Wonder how Zahi Hawass feels about this.
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The Egyptian Arabs of today constitute the world’s biggest fire ant mound. Nothing but trouble from them.
Time to nuke the Aswan High Dam and flush them all into the Mediterranean.
That's the parallel that came to my mind. Anyone wondering how Islam has changed in the 1300 years since that man-caused disaster will see that the faith has stayed true to its roots. This is very much like the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan:
Before Taliban on left, after Taliban on right.
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