Culture? Spit. Respect? Spit. Tolerance? Spit.
You would think they would get dry mouth from spitting like llamas at everything harem & die.
Posted on 12/18/2011 9:44:16 AM PST by bayouranger
A fire that engulfed the building of the historic Egyptian Scientific Institute on Saturday morning has been extinguished. The extent of the damage has not yet been determined.
The fire started on the lower floors of the building, which is on Qasr al-Aini Street in central Cairo, but later reached the higher floors. The firemen, who arrived very late at the site, could not initially control the fire.
State news agency MENA said that firemen eventually managed to control it, but state TV reported that the fire damaged the whole building and all of its collections.
The building is adjacent to the Shura Council building, and both MENA and state TV accused protesters of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the institute.
Eyewitnesses were reported to have seen protesters throwing a Molotov cocktail at stone-throwing soldiers at the Shura Council building, but the projectile missed the intended target and instead landed in the Egyptian Scientific Institute.
The website of Youm7 newspaper alleged that a protester was set on fire after trying to set the building on fire. No other source confirmed this news.
The institute is considered the oldest scientific institute in Egypt. It was established as L'Institute d’Egypte in August 1798 by Napoleon Bonaparte during the French invasion of Egypt. Its mission is to advance high quality research in various fields, ranging from biology and mathematics to fine arts and archaeology. Its library contains more than 200,000 books, including the original volumes of the "Description de l'Égypte" (Description of Egypt), begun in 1798 by French scientists in Egypt.
Professor Mahmoud al-Shernoby, the president of the institute, told state TV in a phone interview that the damage is a “great loss” to Egypt and that those “who caused this disaster should be punished.”
Culture? Spit. Respect? Spit. Tolerance? Spit.
You would think they would get dry mouth from spitting like llamas at everything harem & die.
I figured this would happen. The only reason why the Egyptian antiquities survived the period of Muslim rule was that most of them were buried under the sand back then.
Now that they are in the museums and elsewhere, I think it is only a matter of time before the Muslim fanatics destroy them. They have a strong prejudice against any depictions of the human figure, which I think may mean the end of all those statues of Pharoahs and ancient gods. They will go the same way as the ancient statues of Buddha.
Thank you Obama, for all your gifts that keep on giving.
The Arab Spring marches on. The Koran is the only legitimate book. All others to be burned. Shariah law is the only legitimate legal system. All others to be destroyed. Muslims are the only legitimate people. All others to be ...
It’s going to be harder to bring down the Pyramids and the Sphinx, but mohammed’s army is certainly going to try.
Without the tourists, what is Egypt going to do for money?
Just following in the footsteps of their Nazi heroes.
Money...? Of course, through the US Foreign Service we will give the jihadis billions of US taxpayer money, as usual. Heck...I bet they are given bulldozers and flamethrowers by the US Foreign Service morons to more quickly get rid of the non-mooslim reminders (buildings, books, historic sites, etc.)that the moozlum culture and society sucks and has provided nothing other than early death to civilization.
This is a loss to all humanity, just like the loss of the ancient library at Alexandria. Knowledge and memory are what raises our species from the animal kingdom. The trouble is that we also were granted free will by God and too many of us abuse it be making terrible choices. Choices that can destroy as well as enlighten us.
Islam is a religion with possibilities of benefiting our world, but its Salafist interpreters are locked into keeping its only official interpretation an aberrant one that dates to 700 AD.
“Islam is a religion with possibilities of benefiting our world...”
Islam could most benefit this world by exiting same, asap.
Islam is always good for metaphors.
First the Library of Alexandria, now this.
“Islam is a religion with possibilities of benefiting our world, but its Salafist interpreters are locked into keeping its only official interpretation an aberrant one that dates to 700 AD.”
Which parts of the Koran and Hadith are being mis-interpreted?
Islam is a religion with possibilities of benefiting our world?
You are like the majority of America who assumes that Islam is a religion. The possibility that Islam can benefit our world is Zero, based on their history. Even modern history. How many Nobels has Islam received for the hard sciences????
I think you have a far better argument for the why the world should be Jewish; look at their peace prizes, look at their success, look at the fact that they are THE only democracy throughout the whole mideast....
The sooner mankind is rid of that false religion , the sooner the cancer is gone!
“Islam is a religion with possibilities of benefiting our world...”
ARE YOU SMOKING CRACK?
Islam is a cult of death, an ideology of hatred not a religion. A tenet of islam is the justified murder of infidels.
——Islam is a religion with possibilities of benefiting our world——
I challenge you to name one, just one thing Islam has done to benefit the world that wasn’t stolen or taken by mad moe and his hordes of barbarians
One can’t be that hard can it ?
Julius Caesar has been pilloried by history as a Philistine because he sacked Alexandria and burned the library there. Now the muslimes are burning their own.
I can’t remember who said it but,’in a country that burns book, they’’l someday soon burn people’
I’ve always said the only reason why the Saracens in Egypt tolerated the artifacts of their ancient ancestors is because the dictator Mubarak knew it bought in Western tourists and their money. As far as the Egyptian Saracen people themselves all they saw in this was the remains of their infidel pagan ancestors. I knew someday when they could they’d turn it into dust and ashes. Islam can only destroy, it can never build.
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