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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I thought Julius Caesar accidentally burned the library at Alexandria.
WE MUST LIKE RUDY GUILIANNI STAND ANND SPEAK WHENEVER THE OPPORTUNITY ARISES
friends, neighbors.... congressmen...the occasional mercenary
Folks Folks....now THAT would be TERRORISM!!
What a carbon dioxide crime against the atmosphere. You’d think they would know better.
I wouldn’t have thought there were 8000 books, much less rare ones, in all of Arabland.
I have seen on YT of a Koran being burned at one time.
In muslim dominated countries, yes it is. At one time early on, there were muslim scholars and they were actually leading the west. Then there was a debate and it was determined that the only truth is the Koran; if there is anything in the world which contradicts the Koran it must be a lie and if you pursue it you are evil. And so around 700 years ago the golden era of Islamic scholarship we are always hearing about came to a sudden and permanent stop.
Since then Islam is only about ignorance, stagnation, and aggression.
If they burned a few fags, liberals and Hollyweird would go nuts.
Muslim scholars who borrowed the best of Greek, etc. thought.
If you were royalty you could get away with that.
Attempts to “democratize” Islamic society eliminates the only escape valve it knows, i.e. the privilege of royalty.
They are not of one mind on the matter, thank goodness.
6th Century Islamic edict: If something is in the koran, it is unneeded - burn it. If something is not in the koran - it is anathema - burn it.
Thus passed classical literature - Greek, Roman, Egyptian. You know, when they say such and such a manuscript is “lost” - really means: destroyed by muslims circa 632 -732 AD - history academia’s loath to acknowledge.
That and plain old bloodymindedness.
That was just the first of several fires. Mentioned, and shown, in Caesar and Cleopatra (1945).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038390/?ref_=nv_sr_1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_and_Cleopatra_%28film%29
I guess it stands to reason that buildings full of dried papyrus might fall victim to more than one fire over the centuries.
I’D CONSIDER IT , but I;m not going to consider spending a dime on koran’s for fuel.
And these are the savages that the state dep’t flunky, Marie Harf says need jobs? No, Marie. They need killin’.
From CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA (1945)
THEODOTUS (on the steps, with uplifted arms). Horror unspeakable!
Woe, alas! Help!
RUFIO. What now?
CAESAR (frowning). Who is slain?
THEODOTUS. Slain! Oh, worse than the death of ten thousand men!
Loss irreparable to mankind!
RUFIO. What has happened, man?
THEODOTUS (rushing down the hall between them). The fire has
spread from your ships. The first of the seven wonders of the world perishes. The library of Alexandria is in flames.
RUFIO. Psha! (Quite relieved, he goes up to the loggia and
watches the preparations of the troops on the beach.)
CAESAR. Is that all?
Yet for some reason, the Muslim empire went on for a few more centuries................Hmmmmm.
Return to cave dwelling...
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