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ISIS Burns 8000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul
Yahoo News ^ | 23 Feb 2015 | Riyadh Mohammed

Posted on 02/24/2015 9:14:14 AM PST by NRx

While the world was watching the Academy Awards ceremony, the people of Mosul were watching a different show. They were horrified to see ISIS members burn the Mosul public library. Among the many thousands of books it housed, more than 8,000 rare old books and manuscripts were burned.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: albaghdadi; bookburning; epigraphyandlanguage; frontpagenews; godsgravesglyphs; idolatry; iraq; isis; isisbookburning; jihad; jihadi; jihadis; mosul
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Bringing back the Dark Ages, one book burning at a time.
1 posted on 02/24/2015 9:14:14 AM PST by NRx
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To: NRx

Alexandria anyone?


2 posted on 02/24/2015 9:16:05 AM PST by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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To: Ray76

The Muslims burned Alexandria already...


3 posted on 02/24/2015 9:16:57 AM PST by AnalogReigns (Real life is ANALOG...)
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To: NRx

Boko Haram means “Books Forbidden”.

They’re basically the same as Isis/Daesh.

You know, Moslems.


4 posted on 02/24/2015 9:17:01 AM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: NRx

ISIS: bringing the 7th century to you, TODAY!


5 posted on 02/24/2015 9:17:39 AM PST by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: NRx

Islam always destroys knowledge.


6 posted on 02/24/2015 9:17:41 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Westbrook
Aside from editions of their holy drivel, I wonder how many books are published in the caliphate each year. I bet not many.
7 posted on 02/24/2015 9:19:14 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: NRx

Burning Christians and books, no one notices. If they burned a few fags, liberals and Hollyweird would go nuts.


8 posted on 02/24/2015 9:20:09 AM PST by tuffydoodle (Shut up voices, or I'll poke you with a Q-Tip again.)
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To: NRx

Further proof that Islam and Nazism are tied at the hip.


9 posted on 02/24/2015 9:20:26 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: NRx

“Net Neutrality” as practiced by Hussein’s best friends....


10 posted on 02/24/2015 9:20:29 AM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Ray76

Alexandria.

That’s a liberal, leftist and occultist meme about those evil close minded Christians.


11 posted on 02/24/2015 9:20:35 AM PST by ifinnegan
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To: NRx

Every time Islam took a city they did that beginning with the library in Alexandria.


12 posted on 02/24/2015 9:22:57 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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To: NRx

I mean it’s not like muslims can read.

These “people” are just plain stupid. What do they think that accomplishes?

Afghan Taliban leader orders destruction of ancient statues

AFP, Feb.26, 2001

http://www.rawa.org/statues.htm

Remember this? They do nothing but kill and destroy.


13 posted on 02/24/2015 9:24:57 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: NRx

Nothing paralyzes Islam with fear more than freedom of thought. Muslims are book phobic, whatever that is called.


14 posted on 02/24/2015 9:26:02 AM PST by pallis (I like white people)
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To: NRx
What a tragic development for thousands of ISIS doctors!
They were on the verge of finding cures for cancer, diabetes, heart disease, ALS, and other maladies. :-(

In all seriousness...this is a very unfortunate development.
ISIS maniacs may disagree with the books, yet one would think they would wish to keep them for historical significance.
15 posted on 02/24/2015 9:27:03 AM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: NRx

At what point does Obama and his Islamic American ideals take over and the Library of Congress is burned?


16 posted on 02/24/2015 9:27:11 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Obama used to be against people who cling to guns and religion.)
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To: pallis

Bibliophobia


17 posted on 02/24/2015 9:27:21 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: NRx

Now now the Islamist apologists insist that the muslims didn’t really destroy the library at Alexandria...


18 posted on 02/24/2015 9:28:07 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Westbrook

Boko is a tricky word. It refers to books in the general sense of collected knowledge. More specifically collected western knowledge of science, culture, government, and art.

Not just books are forbidden. Any knowledge that “corrupts” Islam.

If that knowledge is in your head... goodbye head.


19 posted on 02/24/2015 9:28:29 AM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
At what point does Obama and his Islamic American ideals take over and the Library of Congress is burned?

They will do this to the internet in the name of "net neutrality".

The archives of FR and other opposition sites must be purged. They did not contain enough 'equal time' airing of liberal views and 'facts'.

20 posted on 02/24/2015 9:30:12 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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