Islamic Salafists Destroy Ancient Morocco Carvings: NGO (Carvings Date Back 8,000 Years)

AFP ^ | October 18, 2012 | AFP

[DogByte6RER]

Salafists destroy ancient Morocco carvings: NGO

RABAT — Stone carvings in Morocco's High Atlas mountains dating back more than 8,000 years and depicting the sun as a pagan divinity have been destroyed by Salafists, a local rights group said on Wednesday.

"These stone carvings of the sun are more than 8,000 years old. They were destroyed several days ago," Aboubakr Anghir, a member of the Amazigh (Berber) League for Human Rights, told AFP.

"One of the carvings, called 'the plaque of the sun,' predates the arrival of the Phoenicians in Morocco," Anghir said.

"It lies in a well-known archaeological site in the Yakour plain south of Marrakesh, 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Mount Toubkal."

"There are several Salafist groups active in the region and it's not the first time these pre-Islamic sites have been attacked. We have sent a message to the ministry of culture, but have not yet received a reply," he added.

Salafists, Muslims who adhere to a hardline Sunni interpretation of Islam similar to that practised in Saudi Arabia, which strictly prohibits "idolatry," have enjoyed a surge in strength in Arab Spring countries, benefiting from wider freedom.

Late on Monday, one of Tunisia's main Sufi mausoleums was burned down in an overnight arson attack, seemingly the latest in a spate of attacks on unorthodox Sufi shrines by the country's increasingly assertive Salafists.

In northern Mali, which is close to Morocco, radical Islamists have destroyed ancient World Heritage shrines they consider idolatrous since seizing control of the region earlier this year.

[DogByte6RER]

RABAT — Stone carvings in Morocco's High Atlas mountains dating back more than 8,000 years and depicting the sun as a pagan divinity have been destroyed by Salafists, a local rights group said on Wednesday. "These stone carvings of the sun are more than 8,000 years old. They were destroyed several days ago," Aboubakr Anghir, a member of the Amazigh (Berber) League for Human Rights, told AFP.

"One of the carvings, called 'the plaque of the sun,' predates the arrival of the Phoenicians in Morocco," Anghir said.

[healy61]

If it’s in the Q’ran, we already know it.
If it’s not in the Q’ran, we don’t need to know it.

Burn it.

This was said by the true infidel.

[Jonty30]

All in the name of ensuring nobody knows that anything exists prior to 500 AD.

[Inyo-Mono]

I’m sure the pyramids and the Sphinx are next.

[ConservativeInPA]

We can all read about or see pictures of the carvings in books. The real problem here is with the people in North Africa and the Middle East. let them kill each other. The world will be a better place with fewer Muslims.

[rmlew]

Salafis have been doing this for centuries. Heck, they destroy Muslim art. During the first Saudi kingdom, the Wahabbis destroyed shrines in Mecca. This desecration led to many Hijaz Arabs allying with the army of the Ottoman Sultan/Caliph to expel them from the holy sites and send them back to the wastland of the Nejd. The Qutbist faction of the Muslim Brotherhood is even worse. But even local North Africans did this type of this during the Almohad (al-Muwaḥḥidun)Calpihate in North Africa and Al-Andalus.

[BenLurkin]

8,000 year old carvings destroyed by Muslims.

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[Pontiac]

I really wonder if the civilized countries have the tools necessary to combat these extremist Muslims.

Modern states constrained by laws that these Muslims do not recognize or respect keep the lawful governments from properly disposing of these terrorist Muslims.

The Imams that sped the hate filled Muslim religion are protected by constitutional rights from imprisonment or deportation and so are free to be recruiters for the terrorist groups that send out suicide bombers, rapist and killers.

Civilization is at a great disadvantage and I have to wonder if it has a chance.

Either we give up some of our ideals or we loose. I can’t see it any other way.

[rawcatslyentist]

Any "religion" that declares a death penalty for leaving it is not a "religion"!

Ban the queeran!!! Ban it now! Stop molesting our citizens at the airports! Deport slimes NOW!

[Gene Eric]

Islam is a war plan.

[null and void]

All in the name of ensuring nobody knows that anything exists prior to 500 AD.

Of course. islam looks bad compared to pretty much any primitive culture.

[Gator113]

A disgusting shame.

[windsorknot]

Islam has a long history of mutilation, death, and destruction.

[publius911]

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[huldah1776]

Your post just gave me an idea to study how God judges nations.

[huldah1776]

Couple years ago I thought that the European art galleries should be replicating the masters and hiding the originals.

[faithhopecharity]

WOW!
8000 year old carvings ... now just wrecked, gone? Carvings don’t go out and hurt anybody... but just think of the history that’s now lost.

What primitive savages we have on earth today!

Awful!

[Unam Sanctam]

Cultural barbarians, or, in a word, “savages”, as you can no longer say in ads in the New York subways and buses.

[Advil000]

Remember THIS?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/12/pictures/111220-egypt-cairo-protests-fire-scientific-complex-world-science/

Does anyone even remember this news from Egypt?

This was one of the greatest repositories of ancient texts in the world. Its destruction should have sent the civilized world on the warpath. The loss of history from this building was incalculable. There just aren’t words to describe it.