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Islamists burn ancient manuscripts in Mali’s Timbuktu
Ousmane Halle said he heard about the burnings early Monday.
“It’s truly alarming that this has happened,” he told The Associated Press by telephone from Mali’s capital, Bamako, on Monday. “They torched all the important ancient manuscripts. The ancient books of geography and science. It is the history of Timbuktu, of its people.”
The mayor said Monday that the radical Islamists had torched his office as well as the Ahmed Baba Institute – a library rich with historical documents – in an act of retaliation before they fled late last week.
He said he didn’t have further details as communications to the city have been cut off.
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Barbarians inside the gates.
peski on January 28, 2013 at 6:08 PM
Yuppie. Religion of peace. The only way to pacify them is to break their foundation, mecca, just as we did the Japanese and their sun god.
AH_C on January 28, 2013 at 6:10 PM
Let this be yet another example of what Islam is – not radical Islam or any other attempt to soften the ragged edged sword.
Islam, all of it, is an evil visited upon mankind.
turfmann on January 28, 2013 at 6:12 PM
Well the rop type devil’s spawn are at it again! I am beyond surprised the mb has trashed pyramids in egypt! The whole blooming bunch are almost as evil in what they do as bho!
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letget on January 28, 2013 at 6:18 PM
This should certainly come as no surprise.
How can you continue to live in the 4th Century – with all sorts of “modern” influences cluttering up your brain?
Gah! /
Hill60 on January 28, 2013 at 6:21 PM
You should be happy then since the Great Library was an Islamic library.
lexhamfox on January 28, 2013 at 6:26 PM
Just another day in Islam.
OldEnglish on January 28, 2013 at 6:30 PM
Tourism is probably Egypt’s main source of income. My guess is that tourism is way off since the unrest over the last year.
SC.Charlie on January 28, 2013 at 6:31 PM
I hope somebody digitized them… And if not we need to start digitizing and copying all the other ancient manuscripts before they get burned as well…
Including the US Constitution.
Skywise on January 28, 2013 at 6:40 PM
Hmmmm… I see it listed described as a library built by the Ptolemy II which has nothing to do with Islam. Nice try though.
Hill60 on January 28, 2013 at 6:40 PM
^^^ err should be:
The library is described as having been built by Ptolemy II – which predates Islam.
Hill60 on January 28, 2013 at 6:41 PM
You should be happy then since the Great Library was an Islamic library.lexhamfox on January 28, 2013 at 6:26 PM
RickB on January 28, 2013 at 6:43 PM
You should be happy then since the Great Library was an Islamic library.
lexhamfox on January 28, 2013 at 6:26 PM
RickB on January 28, 2013 at 6:44 PM
I guess that is why the library that they burned is called Ahmed Baba Institute of Islamic Advanced Studies and Research in Timbuktu.
lexhamfox on January 28, 2013 at 6:49 PM
Didn’t we see this behaviour before? Like when the Taliban destroyed religious sites in Afghanistan?
But that can’t be. The Religion of Peace is tolerant of others, no?
Mitoch55 on January 28, 2013 at 7:08 PM
More than a millenia of first cousin marriage cannot be good for intelligence and cognition.
tom daschle concerned on January 28, 2013 at 7:34 PM
You got caught lying so now you’ve switched your story. That crappy little muslim library is not the Great Library you mentioned first. Nice bait and switch attempt, you would make a great muslim with your complete lack of integrity and honesty.
Flange on January 28, 2013 at 7:39 PM
iT’s part of the same complex you stupid phuking khunt.
lexhamfox on January 28, 2013 at 11:43 PM
No idiot, the Great Library was in Alexandria, Egypt. That is not part of the same complex as Timbuktu you moron. You got called out on a lie and you are still a liar and now a moron. The Great Library is long gone idiot, and is not part of Ahmed Baba Institute of Islamic Advanced Studies and Research in Timbuktu. Again, you are an idiot to say they are part of the same complex. And a lousy speller too.
Flange on January 29, 2013 at 2:48 AM