Posted on 11/13/2011 5:52:12 AM PST by IbJensen
Library of Alexandria to Be Burned Again; Food for Half-Price
The Royal Library of Alexandria in Egypt, the largest and most significant library of the ancient world, is now being targeted by radical Muslims who seek to replace it with a mosque.
Radical Islamic groups claim that the library's art programs, which include music and ballet dancing, spread "depravity" in Egyptian society. » If you like this article, please subscribe to our daily newsletter
Library_of_Alexandria_great_hallThe Islamist campaign against the library is taking place under the looking eyes of Egypt's military dictators, who are burying their heads in the sand and refusing to see the danger, noted columnist Mohammed al-Hamamsi.
"Is the Supreme Military Council waiting until the Islamists come to power and demand, through their parliament, that the library be demolished and that a mosque be built on its site?" al-Hamamsi asked rhetorically.
The destruction of the library will mark the beginning of Egypt's fall into the hands of the Islamists, who seek to take the Arabs and Muslims back to dark ages.
Fears over the fate of the legendary library surfaced following a dispute between the director and the majority of his workers.
Director Ismail Serageldin has been under fire for his alleged affiliation with the former regime of President Hosni Mubarak and crackdown on freedom of speech in the library.
But he and many Egyptians are convinced that the campaign is part of a scheme by Muslim extremists to take control over one of the world's most important cultural and scientific institutions.
The campaign against the library is taking place on the eve of the first parliamentary election in the post-Mubarak era.
For the first time, the Muslim Brotherhood and other fundamentalist groups are contesting the elections, scheduled for November 28.
Arab journalists report that Alexandria, the second-largest city of Egypt with a population of more than four million, now appears to be under the full control of Muslim extremists.
Khaled al-Shami, a correspondent for the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, said that visitors to the city could no longer ignore the "social, political and physical changes" that have taken place, first and foremost the large number of women covering their faces with the niqab [full head covering, not just the headscarf, hijab] and men wearing beards.
According to the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, "The Brotherhood have spent the last few months mobilizing their half-million plus members for intense electoral campaigns up and down the Nile river, which the group hopes will deliver it 40% of the seats in Parliament."
The paper pointed out that the Islamists have been "wooing voters not only with their trademark slogan of "Islam is the solution," but also with the tangibles of meat and vegetables that they sell to poor Egyptians at half the market prices."
The paper also found that in the months since the fall of Mubarak, "Brotherhood-friendly preachers have made their way back into some strategic mosques, using the podiums to recruit new converts and give confidence to hard-core supporters."
Needless to say, the majority of the mosque sermons focus on the need to "defend Islam against Jews, Christian crusaders and Western colonialism."
In simple words, the message coming out of Egypt's Islamists is that Israel, the US and the entire West remain the number one enemy of Muslims.
Revolutions like this, from the insane left, make our phony muslim president happy.
Islam has been an insane murder cult since Mad Mo crawled from the bat cave and barked at the moon.
Be that as it may, unfortunately the first burning was from Christians.
Muslims going full retard—again. And, of course, the rest of the world is cowed into silence.
Islamists? Nah, they’re just progressive students clamoring for democratic reform. NPR said so, and they tell the truth - ask any mindless, unthinking, talking-point spewing zombie. (this would be a great spot to embed that classic Bob Hope clip)
Ayman al-Zawahiri (from his cave) and Sayyid Qutb (from his grave) are smiling.
You know it’s a jacked-up cult situation when they cover up the women and get rid of the music, knowledge, history and art by having them burnt or blown up or shot up or stoned to death. Submit to that?!? Hell no!
Yep.
We Christians just didn’t burn enough.
Where is MB getting their funding? That's a question that would provide a solution. Who is subsidizing them? The Saudis? The Chinese (in hopes of creating problems to occupy the US and keep our attention away from China)? WHO?
It was pagan Romans that burned Alexandria’s library.
Ultimately, it comes from the very civilization they seek to destroy.
Without oil, they would still be in tents.
..... A trend painfully and obviously predictable to all except our president, our state department, their mainstream media handservants and the clinically comatose.
Sayyid Qutb is easily one of the major architects and “strategists” of contemporary Islamic revival. Along with Maulana Maududi, the founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, the revivalist movement in South Asia, and Imam Khomeini, the leader of Iran’s Islamic revolution, he gave shape to the ideas and the worldview that has mobilized and motivated millions of Muslims from Malaysia to Michigan...
Barry is doing what he can to be the most popular president amongst jihadi islamists.
And when it happens, the silence from the American Left will be deafening.
Uh maybe. Actually, there are several times the library was damaged, from 48 BC when Caesar was fighting in Alexandria, to the 3rd century when Alexandria was again under siege, to the destrustion of the Serapaium by Theodosius to finally the Muslim conquest where MULTIPLE Mohammedan sources mention it’s destrution. IMHO the Moo’s finished it off.
“If those books are in agreement with the Quran, we have no need of them; and if these are opposed to the Quran, destroy them.”[35]
Caliph Omar
Iran is subsidizing them. All a part of Ahmanutjob’s belief that he is destined to usher in the Mahdi. He’ll fund anything and everything that will create enough chaos, and bloodbaths to cause his global war. 12th Imam can’t show up until he does, ya know. Freaks.
Bull Sh*t
Quiz question 1: What American president lost Egypt as a US ally?
Bull Sh*t
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