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To: cripplecreek

Can you imagine destroying all the rare treasures of Egypt because of one old man and his interpretation of some religious opinions hundreds of years old?

Will this be the straw that breaks the camel's back in Islamic countries? Or will it take a bombing to do it?


75 posted on 04/12/2006 3:01:53 PM PDT by wildbill
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To: wildbill

"Can you imagine destroying all the rare treasures of Egypt because of one old man?"

I may be remembering this wrong, but I think when a Muslim general entered Egypt, he was asked what to do with the great Alexandria library (which may have contained 200,000 manuscripts from antiquity). He said everything one needs to know is in the Koran, so burn it, and they did!!


78 posted on 04/13/2006 10:19:57 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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