Timbuktu - Destruction of Rare Islamic Scrolls by Al Qaeda
Jason P
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I don't get it. Some preacher in Florida burns a book in a 5 gallon bucket and there is a total freakout world wide. Should the recent destruction in Timbuktu be the flipping point where the Muslim communty totally turns on them?
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(Reuters) - The burning of a library housing thousands of ancient manuscripts in Mali's desert city of Timbuktu is just the latest act of destruction by Islamist fighters who have spent months smashing graves and holy shrines in the World Heritage site.
The United Nations cultural body UNESCO said it was trying to find out the precise damage done to the Ahmed Baba Institute, a modern building that contains priceless documents dating back to the 13th century.
The manuscripts are "uniquely valuable and testify to a long tradition of learning and cultural exchange," said UNESCO spokesman Roni Amelan. "So we are horrified."
But if they are horrified, historians and religious scholars are unlikely to have been surprised by this gesture of defiance by Islamist rebels fleeing the ancient trading post on the threshold of the Sahara as French and Malian troops moved in.
"It was one of the greatest libraries of Islamic manuscripts in the world," said Marie Rodet, an African history lecturer at London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
"It's pure retaliation. They knew they were losing the battle and they hit where it really hurts," she told Reuters.
http://news.yahoo.com/fleeing-islamists-leave-legacy-destruction-timbuktu-073255120.html
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(Reuters) - The burning of a library housing thousands of ancient manuscripts in Mali's desert city of Timbuktu is just the latest act of destruction by Islamist fighters who have spent months smashing graves and holy shrines in the World Heritage site.
The United Nations cultural body UNESCO said it was trying to find out the precise damage done to the Ahmed Baba Institute, a modern building that contains priceless documents dating back to the 13th century.
The manuscripts are "uniquely valuable and testify to a long tradition of learning and cultural exchange," said UNESCO spokesman Roni Amelan. "So we are horrified."
But if they are horrified, historians and religious scholars are unlikely to have been surprised by this gesture of defiance by Islamist rebels fleeing the ancient trading post on the threshold of the Sahara as French and Malian troops moved in.
"It was one of the greatest libraries of Islamic manuscripts in the world," said Marie Rodet, an African history lecturer at London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
"It's pure retaliation. They knew they were losing the battle and they hit where it really hurts," she told Reuters.
http://news.yahoo.com/fleeing-islamists-leave-legacy-destruction-timbuktu-073255120.html
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no.. theyre just dicks. the manuscripts represent knowledge and these people cant have those theyre trying to subjugate anywhere near them. any knowledge they want the people to know, theyll tell them. just by their existence those manuscripts are dangerous(to the subjugators).
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Yep Catefrances. You hit the nail.
Sad.