That is so sad.

 

Whats wrong with a good old fashion book burning?

 

What's wrong with a good old fashion book burning?

Hopefully you meant that facetiously or sarcastically, but I'd like to point out something:

Just because the library was in an Islamic country doesn't necessarily mean all the texts and collections related to the religion of Islam. When Greece, Rome and Alexandria lost their texts and collections (not all by fire, btw) the world lost what we would call today "secular information." Mathematics, philosophy (under the ancient definition, not the modern association with religion and/or non-religion, to wit: observations on how nature worked), how they made pottery, how they made the beautiful colors and dyes for cloth which are just as brilliant today as they were 3,000 years ago. Some of it has been 're-discovered,' like the re-discovery of how to make cement, but "the recipe" was lost for between 1,200 and 1,500 years. Alhambra in Spain is considered by some to be one of the (if not the) most mathematically perfect manmade structures in the world. How the heck did they do that? The information is lost.

 

That's like when those statues were bombed and destroyed by al quaida (sp). Do those people have no respect for even their own history/heritage?

 

To call them animals would be an insult to animals.

 

Oh boy those revisionist history professors are gonna love this..

 

Who cares, none of our business, it's our fault.

Now that I've covered most of the statements made by board members regarding ISIS, hopefully they'll refrain.

 

They won't.....

 

Appalling. I will never understand the desire to destroy one's culture. Can you imagine storming the National Archives or the Library of Congress to burn Jefferson's library? Aside from the beheadings, shariah, convert or die...yet another reason they need to be wiped from the earth.

 

You burn your history if you want to re-write it. ISIS want 7th century history frozen in time and lived today and in the future. Anything that compromises that has to be destroyed.
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EDIT: BTW, this is another good reason why I'm happy that Google is digitizing all of the worlds historic texts.

 

They didn't have it on Zip Disk?

But seriously, what a tragedy.

 

Islam has a long tradition of destroying libraries. Look what they did to the Alexandrian Library in Egypt in the 7th century.

 

Hey, you're only off by three centuries. Great job! :thumb:

 

Net Neutrality will make a few thousand burned books seem mild.

That said, what do you expect from barbarians?
ISIS is nothing but the scum that grows under the waste of the scum in a polluted pond filled with feces.

 

The Abomination of Desolation.

"When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understandThen let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains...

 

I'm in favor of book burning, as long it's the quran and the hadiths going on the pyre.

 

oh you'll get in trouble with ISIS over that though...but feel free to burn any other book.

mike

 

Islam has worked to set civilisation back every chance they can. Islam has contributed little, if anything. Yet, President 0bastard insists that Muslims took part in founding America. What a load of bull****.

 

The beauty of propaganda at its finest. 1) Take a fact, embellish it slightly; 2) Add a dash of 'feel good' emotion; 3) Bake at 175 degrees F, remove it before fully cooked; 4) Serve to the General Public lukewarm.

Fact 1: There actually were Muslims in "Colonial" America. They were not a large segment of the population, but they were here. Fact 2: Thomas Jefferson had a copy of the Koran/Quaran in his library and it may well have influenced his ideas which he carried to Philadelphia. But owning a Koran/Quaran does not a Muslim make. Fact 3: Yes, there is a "representation" of Mohammed on/in the the Supreme Court building in Washington, DC. But he's one of 18, alongside Moses, Gaius, Confucius and others. And the depiction dates to 1935, not the founding of the country. Fact 4: There were more "Muslims" among the Native Americans (some of whom became Melugeons) than in the "civilized areas," such as New York, Boston, Williamsburg and Philadelphia. Both genetic testing and word research into the origins of "Allegheny" support this position. They avoided interaction with Europeans because the theory is either: a) they escaped slavery when the ships bearing them neared our shores or b) the ships they were galley slaves on ran aground, wrecked or sank then they made it to shore and got as far away from the oceanfront as possible as quickly as possible.

But the fact our less-than-stellar, royal-wannabe president hinged his assertion about Muslims' involvement in the founding of our nation?

The DoD/VA/other archivists were able to locate the military record of one revolutionary soldier whom they could definitively state was a practicing Muslim. Wow. Nice try, Mr. Prez. That was some truly creative writing there.

 

I wonder if a few old kurons got burned.

 

When you're going to raise the next generation to believe the version of history that you have rewritten in blood, it helps to remove all printed history of what really came before you.

 

Once they are digitized, they can be changed. . . .

 

You would think that a Photoshopped manuscript would be undetectable? Particularly after tens or thousands of pre-manipulated copies have been distributed. Or do you think that Google just changes them as they are scanned and none of their employees, investors or involved document professionals are all part of the scam?
Unbelievably paranoia.
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The Fedcoat Communist Commission regulating the web is equivalent to ISIS' book burning in my humble opinion.

 

Thank you! I just noted something to this effect elsewhere. Glad I'm not the only one seeing this analogy.

 

Isn't there a call from ISIS to destroy the pyramids as they are a symbol of paganism?

Ah yes, they did.. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...mids-sphinx-destruction-murgan-salem-al-gohary-egyptian-jihadist_n_2121446.html

 

Doesn't anyone remember this, from years ago

No, islam isn't violent.

For anyone who missed that little demolition demonstration:

It was March of 2001 in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan by the Taliban on orders from Mullah Mohammed Omar to destroy any non-Islamic statues. There were two Buddhas destroyed. (I thought there was an Islamic tenet to not create any art which depicts anything in nature -- no statues, no portraits, no landscapes -- lest they be worshipped as "an idol." Which explains why all well-known classical Islamic art is geometric in structure and appearance. But what do I know? )

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/1326063/After-1700-years-Buddhas-fall-to-Taliban-dynamite.html

Thank you, Bearack and TXHannah, for bringing these comments to the table. The mental gymnastics required to criticize only the loss of icons of the ancient world while giving a pass on the suppression of basic human rights is beyond my ability. :xeye:

 

Doesn't anyone remember this, from years ago

No, islam isn't violent.

 

Were books authored by Obama or Clinton any of the books burned in that library?

Maybe it's not a total loss.....................:xeye:

 

Posters on the news sites are more upset about this than the beheadings. Unreal.

 

It upsets me worse than the beheadings. At this point executions by states (I am using the term loosely here) of those they consider unworthy of life do not surprise, shock, or upset me much. I do feel bad for the person killed and his loved ones but every day dozens if not hundreds of people are executed by authority figures around the world. The complete destruction of knowledge, on the other hand, is a bit less common and makes me very sad.

 

Don't they have ebook versions already? What's the big deal if they lose the hard copies?

 

Electronic files can be changed, where the original is the original.

That is akin to stating that a copy of a passport/birth certificate/etc is the same thing as the original.

 

knowledge is the power of a people . destroy the amassed knowledge of a people, and control is easier. all you have to do is eradicate 1 generation, maybe 2 to be sure, and distribute the history YOU want them to learn........

 

Almost as bad as those animals that burned the library of Alexandria way back when.

 

It was 2001. The world at large hadn't yet discovered the filth that was and is the Taliban, other than an article in Playboy about the Taliban mutilating the gentials of little girls. I don't think many people read that, either.

I'd dare say most people on this forum were children in 2001. Probably were never aware of the early destruction of history and world heritage sites.

 

No surprise really, the Taliban did the same thing in Afghanistan when they were in charge. Anything that threatens the "history" ISIS is going to write and force the masses to accept will be destroyed.

What amazes me more is that no one took those items to a secure place before all of this ISIS business spread like cancer across Iraq.