Fox News Live Coverage: Cairo Museum Reportedly Catches Fire After Molotov Cocktail Thrown

Fox News ^ | February 2, 2011

[Zakeet]

All that's in at the present time is the announcement and a link taking the viewer to the live satellite feed.

[melsec]

Funny - I was thinking the same thing!

[curiosity]

Wow. Very sad. I've been there; the place is amazing.

[The Pack Knight]

This is exactly why the west should NEVER give back priceless historical artifacts to these backwards pedophile worshiping countries.

I agree 100%. I was thinking something very similar when I was in the Egyptian and Pergamon museums in Berlin last year. I got to see the famous Nefertiti Bust, which Egypt has been demanding back for years.

Thank God the Germans haven't given in. They've refused even to loan the bust to Egypt, clearly for good reason. Likewise with the British and the Rosetta Stone.

[thesearethetimes...]

Apologies for jumping in here mid thread, but I saw your post and it mirrored a discussion with DH last night - Essentially that if this country experienced riots in D.C., that yes, the Smithsonian would sadly, probably be looted...because we have arrived at a place where (for the most part- thankfully not all), the citizens have experienced a total disconnect with their own history, just as the Egyptians have : /

May God give us the strength we will need.
Tatt

[refreshed]

I’m surprised Freepers would be taken in on all of this. Here we have the MB (has nobody looked up the history of this organization and their radical plan to make the Quran the sole authority of state?), who will take control as an interim power. They will have ousted the moderate authoritarian in favor of radical islam. This will not be good for us, the historical artifacts, or the regular people of Egypt, especially the women and any Christian.

Why don’t people realize the end will be worse than the beginning?

I guess we’ll all see.

[Allthegoodusernamesaregone]

Supposedly the mummies were beheaded as a sign of disrespect, because anything dating to the time prior to Mohammed is considered by Muslims to be evil.

They are beyond barbarians!!!

These people need to be dealt with the same way Genghis Khan dealt with Suleyman the Magnificent or Vlad Tepes with the Ottoman Empire.

[kittymyrib]

Lesson: Don’t bring a poster to a knife fight.
There will be shooting in short order, and the best place to be is at home.

[ZULU]

Attacking priceless artifacts which are a tourist draw and an income source clearly reveals the intent and inspiration of these maniacs.

To a true Muslim, the only history which matters is Mohammad and the spread of his sickness.

Our best hope is for a transition government which is supported by the Military and replaces Mubarack with a more intelligent and pro-western dictator.

[Allthegoodusernamesaregone]

I remember some years back when the word went out that some anti-war sleaze balls wanted to desecrate the Vietnam War Memorial and literally thousands and thousands of people descended into DC from all over the country to protect it. It was some sight, thousands of patriots against a handful of progressive scum.

I would like to think that like-minded patriots will guard the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress the same way.

[Ouderkirk]

You didn't read it to the end,

The heritage of Egypt on Egyptian soil belongs to Egyptians and should remain in Egypt. It is up to the Egyptian people to decide whether to preserve or destroy it.

NO... numbnuts, it is not up to them to either preserve or destroy these things. They will destroy them because the mohammadans do nothing but destroy everything within their grasp. The world should step in, and guard/retrieve these things rather than let them be destroyed by these cockroaches.

[Qbert]

“While you all joke there is a bloodbath going on with those who have been there for days fighting for democracy being fire bombed by the government’s interior police.”

Uh, no. I’m not ‘joking” in any way.

So, let me ask you: Did the protesters quietly disperse after POTUS spoke? Why are they still out there after Mubarak announced he wouldn’t seek re-election?

This isn’t meant to exonerate violent actions of pro-Mubarak forces, but to pretend this is a one-sided affair is clueless. You might want to know that the protestors are hurling Molotov cocktails now:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/02/02/egyptian-military-calls-end-demonstrations-1705880116/

[chris_bdba]

Why would they quitely disperse when they are asking for him to go now?They know him and know if everyone goes home it will be buisness as usual.Fox is abotu 12 hours behind on news I’ve been tuning into posting from the protest itself to find out what is going on.The secret police were called out to kill as many as they could so that Mubarack can go back to buisess as usual.They are the ones with the firebombs and guns.

[DoughtyOne]

Chris, it’s my take that you have no way of knowing what this person’s real agenda is. They may say good things from time to time, but that could just as easily be to curry favor than to enlighten.

The person now says all the violence is being perpetrated by the secret police. Then who has committing the violence and destruction in the first days of this? Who was tossing rocks through store fronts then?

Sorry, I’m not buying all of this. It’s my take that the government is likely behind the counter protesters today. I’m still not convinced that they are the only bad party out there.

The people who organize and foment unrest are often not the little guy. The little guy isn’t coordinating all efforts from Tunisia to Yemen to Egypt to Jordan to Lebanon.

You just watch who takes over when all is said and done. Will it be the common man, or the purveyors of evil?

What’s your friend going to say when the Muslim Brotherhood solidifies it’s hold on Egypt?

[thesearethetimes...]

I agree, and am grateful to know that you and I and many others here would answer the call, but I fear that our numbers are dwindling, and that in a flashpoint situation that no such hesitation would exist within the mob.

My prayer is that the current threat presented WITHIN our borders will be enough of a near miss, that it will bring about a rebirth of Americanism.

May God bless.
Tatt

[Redcloak]

Such rage against “pagan” artifacts is typical of Islamofascists. (Remember Bamiyan?) No wonder 0bama loves this mob. He thinks they’re on his side in his fight against America.

[The Pack Knight]

The irony would be delicious if the circumstances weren't so tragic. From the article at your link:

These events make Mr. Hawass's quest to return all Egyptian objects to Egypt misguided or at least poorly timed. Last week he again demanded the return of the bust of Nefertiti from Berlin. The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum has long been on Mr. Hawass's wish list, along with the Zodiac Ceiling in the Louvre and statues in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and museums in Hildesheim, Germany, and Turin, Italy. And a few weeks back he complained bitterly that the obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle, a gift to the U.S. from the Khedive of Egypt that has graced Central Park since 1881, was in poor condition and might have to be reclaimed. He has made similar demands for the repatriation of Egyptian artifacts around the world, whether purchased, donated or stolen. But can Egypt even look after what it has? This question is now out in the open.

Somehow I doubt even this will have any effect on Hawass's demands, though it certainly gives the British Museum, the Met, the Louvre, and the Neues Museum a big "I told ya so" moment. Then there's this:

Might Mr. Hawass be wondering if the contents of his museums would be safer in Europe or America? Though perhaps justifiable in the sense of preserving artifacts, such a scenario is incredibly unlikely if not inconceivable. The heritage of Egypt on Egyptian soil belongs to Egyptians and should remain in Egypt. It is up to the Egyptian people to decide whether to preserve or destroy it.

What a load of crap. I mean, are they actually saying that the heritage of ancient, pagan, Pharaonic and Hellenistic Egypt is truly the heritage of modern, Muslim, Arab Egypt? I wonder what the Copts have to say about that.

[The Pack Knight]

Yet Egypt has the gall to claim them as their cultural heritage, as if eradicating an ancient culture makes that culture a part of yours.

[Spunky]

"I remember when thousands came out to save Vietnam Memorial"

That may have been in Philadelphia because the one in DC was desecrated

Vietnam War Memorial in DC desecrated

[Berlin_Freeper]

“You didn’t read it to the end,”

You make a wrong assumption based on faulty logic: A particular quote is not an endorsement of the whole item.

[brityank]

Al Jazeera TV is live with many details. Seems the pro-Mubarak forces are fomenting the violence as instigated by the Egyptian govt.

(I trust AJTV a little more than I do Gibbs and Soetoro/Obummer!)