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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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“Boko Haram means “Books Forbidden”.”
Well, maybe not.
arabs were all too happy to support the nazis throughout WWII. They burned books too.
Nothing therein has really changed but for the thawb over Hugo Boss.
From 2001:
After 1,700 years, Buddhas fall to Taliban dynamite
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/1326063/After-1700-years-Buddhas-fall-to-Taliban-dynamite.html
From 2005:
Looters Destroy Gaza Greenhouses:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9331863/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/looters-strip-gaza-greenhouses/
From 2013:
10 years after looting, Iraq national museum long way from public opening, despite renovations
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/04/11/10-years-after-looting-iraq-museum-far-from-opening/
Those books and Manuscripts were really hard to read but that is no excuse for burning them!
Funny, when a few things went missing from museums in the wake of the US invasion of Iraq in ‘03, the liberal media went apenuts.
Now?
Crickets.
Thanks to Obama’s ISIS, the folks won’t need books over there. It’s tough to read when your head is no longer attached to your body.
Just a note -- the library of Alexandria was *not* burned by Julius Caesar in fact was around during Roman times, and was finally consigned to the flames by the Moslems.When the original papyrus scrolls were replaced by parchment copies in the Roman era, it's possible that the old ones were dumped in some pit in the desert, and are still there...
by Luciano Canfora
tr by Martin Ryle
Cleopatra's Signature DiscoveredThe handwriting of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra has emerged from a Greek papyrus stored for more than a century in a mummy casing in the Egyptian Museum in Berlin, Germany, a Dutch scholar claimed yesterday. "Cleopatra's signature can be found in just one word: 'genestho,' which means 'Make it so!' It is the formula for the royal authorization, and had to be added by the ruler's own hand," said Peter Van Minnen, a Dutch Academy research fellow in religious studies at the University of Groningen... Van Minnen insists the document he discovered is an original. The main text was the work of a secretary, while the subscription "genestho," written in a different hand, was signed by the queen herself. Moreover, at the top of the page, the Alexandrian office where the text was received added a note about the date they received it, around 33 B.C... "The text dates from 33 B.C. and clearly shows how Cleopatra tried to strengthen Canidius' allegiance to her. He is allowed to export (tax-free) Egyptian wheat up to 10,000 sacks and to import wine to Egypt up to 5,000 amphorae," said Van Minnen.
by Rossella Lorenzi
October 3, 2000
Discovery.com News
God will not be mocked. There will be a punishment for this.
There have been 107 Nobel prizes awarded for literature. Of those, only two were awarded to Muslims.
Oh, they publish lots and lots of books. However, they're all the same.
>> they throw homosexuals off buildings <<
Indeed. And they’ve announced that once they occupy Italy, they’ll throw them off the “Tower of Pizza.”
(Unless they get stuck in cheese on the way up?)
Unless the book contains the words of the "Holy Koran" [sic], then it doesn't contain anything worth keeping. That's how they think. It's the same logic they used for destroying the Library of Alexandria.
Bringing back the Dark Ages, one book burning at a time.
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Book burning is wrong, just think of the possible loss to history and knowledge these books had but are no more. B-(
When compared to their other barbarous crimes the book burning looks pretty trivial. But I have to admit that there is something deep inside me that reacts with visceral horror to the deliberate destruction of books, artifacts and cultural heirlooms.
Pen envy
Agreed. The book burning to me is just another visceral horror in addition to the murders these “mooselimbs” have done. I was just as sick at what the Taliban did when they shot up that huge Buddha in Afghanistan.
Since "terror" isn't a useful tool against American flyovers, maybe they are trying to disarm us with their bizarre, if twisted, humor.
What is your point? Are you suggesting that the Islamic world remained an open, tolerant society that valued scholarship through the middle ages?
The muslims did a great thing when they copied the works of Aristotle (especially Aristotle) and other greek minds into arabic, preserving them. And their own great scholars like Averroes in the 12th century provided medieval christian scholars like Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas key ideas in their works which led to the scholastic system and formed the basis of Western intellectual knowledge and study for centuries to come.
But by then the Muslims had already rejected anything that wasn't in the Koran. Indeed by the end of his life Averroes himself saw his own works burned in front of him and was forced into exile.
So yeah, Islam had a good run where they merged extreme militarism and scholarship for some 500 years. Good for them. All that ended 800 years ago.
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