[yankeedame]

It wasn't the Greeks, Romans, or Christians that burned the contents of the Library of Alexandria.

Or blew the nose off the Sphnix--- with that new weapon of mass destruction: the cannon -- in an attempt to destroy the "heathen idol". (It proved to be a lot more difficult then expected, which is why we have what is left. Had it been easier to destroy, or the Muslims better armed, you can rest assured it most certainly would have been.)

IMHO, Islam will have a good deal to answer for when it is called before the bar of History.

[muawiyah]

Burning the supposed Library of Alexandria will not be on the list of sins for which Islam will be called to account.

Doggonit, read some of the authoritative references provided by some of the other Freepers.

Now, who blew the nose off the Sphinx. That'd probably be Imhotep - in fact, he erased the original face!

Islam and the Turks do not have to answer for the nose which is believed to have originally been that of a lion!