From Wikipedia:
The destruction of the Library of Alexandria ended the Library of Alexandria, one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world.[1] The library is famous for having been burned, resulting in the loss of many scrolls and books, and has become a symbol of "knowledge and culture destroyed". Although there is a tradition of the burning of the Library at Alexandria, the library may have suffered several fires or acts of destruction, of varying degrees, over many years. Different cultures may have blamed each other throughout history, or distanced their ancestors from responsibility, and therefore leaving conflicting and inconclusive fragments from ancient sources on the exact details of the destruction.
Ancient and modern sources identify four possible occasions for the partial or complete destruction of the Library of Alexandria: Julius Caesar's fire during his civil war in 48 BC; the attack of Aurelian in AD 270 – 275; the decree of Coptic Pope Theophilus in 391 AD; and the Muslim conquest of Egypt in (or after) AD 642.[2]
I guess burning people doesn’t matter that much.
Limbaugh, Hannity, and Levin have all been saying it feels like 1938 again.
Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.
WWRTLHD (What Would Richard the Lion Hearted Do)? Boil da Muzzie b*tches in bacon grease.
There is a new, shiny Library of Alexandria, but of course the scrolls can never be replaced.
I read in the last few days the thugs emptied out Mosul’s library to take away for burning. Only Islamic texts left.
I can support burning over half of all books in existence, such as ‘50 shades of Gray’ and CRAP like that! (Just thought I’d shake up the thread a bit).
In the Middle East that is like, what, a bonfire of dozens of books?
Their books suck anyway. No sex.
I find it ironic that this book burning is occurring in an area once considered the “Cradle of Civilization.”
The “disease” of Islam has reduced the people of this area to a lower degree of civilization than they were 5,000 years ago, and the disease is spreading at pandemic levels.
Reading is “un-Islamic” don’tcha know. So is everything else that results in human progress.
Since Obama and Shemp say they are not Muslim, I guess they also threw the korans into the fire too, eh?