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.
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Alexandria's libraries in 48 BC...Cairo's libraries in 2011...it's time to stop putting Egyptians in charge of precious documents. : ]
As with communist terrorists, Islamist terrorists consider economic destruction's effects on their own people a positive. The more miserable they can make the general population, the easier it is to recruit desperate youth with no reason to live. Popular suffering is a source of power for terrorist leaders, and they go out of their way to build their power.
Obamas records....?
The religion of pieces: burning libraries since the seventh century.
If they want to destroy cultural itms with religious significance other than Islam, give them some copper tools and set them on the pyramids to reverse engineer them.
That should keep them busy for a while until they run out of gas.
No historical sites,no beer,no bikinis come visit our lovely
country!
I deliberately used the term “reportedly”. Still, the mindset that tries to eradicate the past, or burn books, or outlaw dance and non-religous music is to be feared. Allah extracts an enormous cultural price from his votaries.
One of the reasons that Islamists react so violently against Western culture is the seductiveness of its music.
2 And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
Egypt imports half its calories. Her chief source of foreign exchange is tourism. If you don’t make nice to Americans and Germans visiting the Pyramids, you cannot eat, stupid.
LLS
The islamic groups like the muslim brotherhood have always hated and disavowed the ancient Egyptian works and culture because they are considered pagan. This has been known for a long time. They don’t care about tourist dollars made off of the ancient culture. They only care about their insane religion which demands all non-islamic cultures be made subservient or wiped out.
It is a pity because we WILL lose the ancient Egyptian works in the coming decades.
Savages. They are incapable of democracy.
These people are just as bad as the book burning Nazis.
muslims reverting to type.
Why?
I've been thinking about that, and I think you're wrong.
Better to cut a channel and re-establish the Nile's historic flow across the Sahara to the Atlantic.
That most perfect of countries, the jewel of islam, Saudi Arabia, has no rivers.
Every muslim country should strive for such perfection...
I think of the loss of Alexandria’s great library back in the day. Nothing seems to have changed.
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