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Extremists burn ancient texts in Mali
State Journal Register (Illinois) ^ | Jan 28, 2013

Posted on 01/28/2013 6:40:19 AM PST by KeyLargo

Extremists burn ancient texts in Mali

The Associated Press Posted Jan 28, 2013 @ 07:32 AMSEVARE, Mali (AP) — Islamist extremists torched a library containing historic manuscripts in Timbuktu, the mayor said today, as French and Malian forces closed in on Mali's fabled desert city.

Ousmane Halle said he heard about the burnings early today.

"It's truly alarming that this has happened," he told The Associated Press by telephone from Mali's capital, Bamako. "They torched all the important ancient manuscripts. The ancient books of geography and science. It is the history of Timbuktu, of its people."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Philosophy; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bookburning; islamists; mali; muslims
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To: KeyLargo
"Floore tells the Bellville News-Democrat that the gunmen got away with money and other items. He says investigators are working to determine exactly what was taken from the churchgoers."

Yeah ... it's an insurance case now, not a criminal one.

What?
You want we should LOOK for the crooks?
Hey .. dis is eeloo

21 posted on 01/28/2013 7:34:42 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: JoeProBono

All I see are cowards wearing dresses and obeying their faces. I can shoot a weapon and turn their dresses crimson just the same.


22 posted on 01/28/2013 7:34:54 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001

All I see are cowards wearing dresses and covering their faces. I can shoot a weapon and turn their dresses crimson just the same.


23 posted on 01/28/2013 7:36:16 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: KeyLargo

What do you think?
Maybe they torched the books because they were pissed off that the pages had already been colored in.


24 posted on 01/28/2013 7:37:10 AM PST by Tupelo (Hunkered down & loading up)
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To: KeyLargo

Interesting how the media get knotted undies when artifacts get destroyed yet rarely a mumble when Christians and other innocents get beheaded, bombed etc.

islamists should be as rare as smallpox.


25 posted on 01/28/2013 7:38:34 AM PST by soycd
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To: KeyLargo
Muslims just emulating their heroes


26 posted on 01/28/2013 7:40:50 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: soycd
Islamists are going high tech with limb amputations!

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27 posted on 01/28/2013 7:48:46 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

Islam is an extreme religion. Sooner or later, Islam makes extreme stupidity happen.


28 posted on 01/28/2013 7:52:37 AM PST by pallis
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To: KeyLargo

That was my first though. They just didnt have enough room. Lol. These vermin are so predictable.


29 posted on 01/28/2013 8:00:51 AM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: KeyLargo

In a Moslem world there will be no traces of history prior to the time that Islam arose or was imposed, nothing outside of Islam. If Islam conquers all than knowledge and evidence that anything else ever existed will be effaced. The world will become semi arid sheep lands and desert with a a very small number of relatively opulent cities- where he rulers live and rule. The technology will continuously decline because nothing is added to it and things wear out and Mohammed did not use flush toilets, anyway.


30 posted on 01/28/2013 8:08:30 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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To: KeyLargo

Islam is pure EVIL!!

This is not the first time this Pedophile Cult has destroyed non Islamic antiquities.

Anyone apologizing for Islam is reserving their space in hell.


31 posted on 01/28/2013 8:14:57 AM PST by SeminoleCounty (GOP = Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: KeyLargo

Islam is pure EVIL!!

This is not the first time this Pedophile Cult has destroyed non Islamic antiquities.

Anyone apologizing for Islam is reserving their space in hell.


32 posted on 01/28/2013 8:15:32 AM PST by SeminoleCounty (GOP = Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: KeyLargo

When I was young, it was hammered into my head that the Christians burned the library of Alexandria.

Then, it was revealed that the burning of the Alexandrian library happened after the Moslem takeover of the city.


33 posted on 01/28/2013 8:23:19 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Click my name! See new paintings!)
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To: arthurus

Historical note:

Caliph Umar, destroyed the Alexandria Library shortly after the conquest of Egypt in 639 AD. The account states that the caliph, when informed about the institution, declared that if the books it contained agreed with the Koran, then they were superfluous, and if they disagreed, then they were heretical. In either event, they were worthless and should be obliterated.


34 posted on 01/28/2013 9:06:56 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: arthurus

Afghanistan Taliban Muslims destroying Bamiyan Buddha Statues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYYBlPWYb7Y


35 posted on 01/28/2013 2:00:52 PM PST by KeyLargo
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To: pallis

Islam is an extreme religion. Sooner or later, Islam makes extreme stupidity happen.

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As yesterday,today and tomarrow - The Sword to islam and islam to the Sword.


36 posted on 01/28/2013 3:09:27 PM PST by S.O.S121.500 ( Nothing so vexes me as a Democrat above ground...ENFORCE THE BILL OF RIGHTS.)
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