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[Timothy C. Klein]

* Sean LeBlanc (seanleblanc at americanisp.net) wrote:
> On 12-16 23:00, Kevin Cullis wrote:
> > If you want to know how the Palestinians view antiquities, see this
> > site:
> > 
> > THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT ANTIQUITIES
> > 
> > http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp483.htm
> > 
> > As one who's undergrad degree is in History and cringed when the Taliban
> > blew up the large Budda carved into the rock in Afganistan, I deplore
> > these atrocities.  I could go on, but I'll leave it to you all to take a
> > stand at some point.
> 
> I guess I'll never understand how anyone can come to the conclusion that
> wiping out something of such cultural significance, not to mention religious
> significance, is something that is okay. It's as if Americans decided to
> blast the Mesa Verde. Or the English decided to blast Stonehenge. You might
> not agree with it, but it's at least interesting - I guess there is little
> argument with fundies, though. Still, I must wonder how much of this link
> might be spin.
> 
> The Koran[*] has edicts against the "idolaters", correct? Even so, it just
> seems that some of their archeologists would cry out for a halt to this. I
> wonder if any of this has been directed at ancient Egyptian sites?

You ever notiece how a lot of Egyptian statues have broken noses?  Esp.
that one of the pharoah that looks like a sphinx?  Islamic folks did
that.  They considered it idolaatry.

> Oddly enough, I didn't even know about those statues until a co-worker was
> talking about it over lunch. He's of Egyptian descent, and said his parents
> left because they were Christian and were noticing anti-Christian sentiment
> there. He was talking about the injustices in the Islamic world, and talked
> about the Taliban doing that - this was about a month before 9/11.
> 
> At least when Christian fundies burned Beatles records, you knew they
> weren't depriving the world of those recordings.
> 
> [*] Another book in my loooooooooong queue of books to read...
> 

Tim
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