Pictures may be found here. From Hebron News:
Hebron Arabs, celebrating the impending conclusion of the month of Ramadan, today desecrated dozens of Jewish holy books, at Ma'arat HaMachpela, the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs. Hebron residents discovered the remains of the books, torn to pieces, in the garden behind the "Gutnick Center," which is in front of Ma'arat HaMachpela. Ripped-up books were discovered on the ground, spread out throughout the garden, and in a garbage pail....A Hebron spokesman issued the following statement: It seems that military and political leaders are more concerned with "Arab sensitivity" as opposed to desecration of Jewish holy books. One can only imagine the response had Arabs discovered 'desecrated Korans' in the vicinity of Ma'arat HaMachpela. It should be remembered that an Israeli woman, Tatiana Soskin, was jailed for two years for 'desecrating' a Koran. It is unheard of that such a desecration should be left unpunished. We demand that Ma'arat HaMachpela be closed to Muslim worship until the culprits responsible for this crime are apprehended, tried and punished.
Here is the link for photos of the desecrated holy books.
http://www.hebron.com/news/desecratebooks.htm
It is just a book.
The history of Muslim conquest is the history of destruction. Bamiyan Buddhas were spared until recently only because in the past, machine-guns and Western-invented explosives were not available. The tens of thousands of Hindu temples, listed in a 2-voulume work by Sita Ram Goel and others, the churches of Constantinople alone (go to the second floor of the Archeological Museum at the Topkapi Complex, and you will see a diorama of Constantinople just before it was comquered by Mehmet Fatih on May 29, 1453, and a color-key will show you the hundreds of churches that existed then, and that no longer exist). And the same was true all over the Middle East and North Africa -- destroyed, the stone quarried to build mosques. Or in some cases a building that was not Islamic at all was appropriated for Islam -- thus the Dome of the Rock, it now appears from the convincing work of Christoph Luxenberg (see his essay in the just-published "Die dunkle Anfänge"), while it has Arabic writing, the writing is neither Qur'anic, nor even Islamic, but rather Christian in its significance. Too many people confuse Arabic writing with Islam, but Arabic is independent of Islam, and certainly was in the first century of Islam. And the Omayyad Mosque in Damascus is nothing but a reworked version, an expansion upon, the Church of St. John the Baptist. And those who worked on it were Byzantine craftsmen working in the Byzantine tradition.
Of course, if the Muslim Brotherhood had its way in Egypt, the pyramids themselves, those pre-Islamic monuments, would be destroyed. The face of the Sphinx was defaced, over time, as it had to be according to Islamic tenets (statutes are impermissible unless defaced or vandalized -- see Al-Qaradawi's book on the haram and the halal for easy confirmation). Yet almost no one has pointed out how, and why, the Sphinx's face was defaced -- though the first and second generation of Western archeologists, Austen Henry Layard, Howard Carter, Leonard Woolley, and all the others, knew exactly what Islam caused people to do.
Now some Jewish holy books ahve been destroyed. But perhaps more telling would be to show pictures of the attacks on the tombs of Rebecca and Joseph, and especially the chilling mound of rubble to which one of them -- I forget which -- was reduced by "Palestinians" (i.e. local Muslim Arabs), prompted by the teachings of Islam to behave in the way that we did.
We already know what would happen to the Jewish sites in Jerusalem. After all, between 1948 and 1967 even the "good" Jordanians, with the British-led Arab Legion (Gluff Pasha, Alec Kirkbride), managed to rip up the ancient Jewish tombstones from the cemetary on the Mount of Olives and use them to line the floor of Jordanian army latrines. They managed to blow up nearly every single synagogue (perhaps one was left) in the Old City.
Query: why didn't they do more damage to the Christain sites? Well, back then, before the oil revenues, and back when local Christians, both Arab and non-Arab clergy, could be easily manipulated and exploited to do the bidding of local Muslims, to push the Muslim agenda in order to win favor, so the local Christians thought (and some still do) for their own interests, even possibly their own survival, and back when the Westeern governments were still needed (now, with the OPEC money, and the thirty years of Jihad that it has funded, there is a lot more naked expression of that hitherto erly disguised -- for Western audiences -- Jihadist impulse.
But where the Muslim Arabs to again take possession of any part of Jerusalem, given what they have done, have been doing, to Christians in Iraq and Egypt and Jordan and Lebanon, given what has been happening even to the most appeasement-minded Arab Christians among the "Palestinians," there is no doubt that the mask is off. The Jews of Israel are a warm-up for the Greater Jihad. And Christian sites, of every kind, should expect no mercy, no quarter.
That is why, one suspects, the Armenian Patriarch carefully put the Armenian Quarter of the Old City under Israeli and not "Palestinian" control (earning the fury of the local Arabs). He knew about Islam. He had reason to know.
"It is just a book.
Tell that to Muslims.......
I would.
Reports are coming in of enraged Jews rioting and killing in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Miami Beach, West Palm Beach, Skokie, and West LA.
Goyim and Moslems have apparently been murdered in large numbers. Many, many injured. Developing...
Anyone waiting breathlessly for enraged Jews around the world to start rioting over this?
...er, no, eh? Didn't think so. But I guess Jews just haven't been sinned against as much as Muslims to be able to legitimately hold such feelings.
Some would have it that we're all equally bad, but there are certain excuses and dispensations available to some of the equally bad under certain select criteria.
Re: "We demand that Ma'arat HaMachpela be closed to Muslim worship until the culprits responsible for this crime are apprehended, tried and punished."
And when that is accomplished, then the Palestinian thugs behind the desecration of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlemem should be apprehended and treated in a similar manner.
Typo above - should be Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
Yes waterdragon52,
Where are the headlines in the MSM until there is a riot? When a qur'an is just rumored to have been handled without a gloved hand the media can't wait to breathlessly, incessantly, harp on the subject until there is a riot. Abu Ghraib!
This is a great post -- one that could form a kind of Q&A parable illustrating the difference between the Muslims and all the rest:
You're in a conversation with everyman -- and posit these two scenarios:
Korans found desecrated by Jews behind a mosque ...
Jewish texts found desecrated by Arab Muslims behind a Synagogue...
Ask everyman what the responses would be from the Mosque goers...
Ask everyman what the responses would be from the Synagogue goers...
I wonder how many people honestly believe the reactions from these two disparate communities would be exactly the same? The answers would be very telling! (Pun alert)
It is just a book.
Yes and to elevate an object to this level of concern is nothing more than fetishism for both parties involved.
Indeed.
f.g. and toobad:
Merely showing the complete lack of respect the desecrators hold for the other "people of the book" isn't quite a fetish on the part of the Jews. It's to remind the world of the nature of the people they are being told to make peace with.
It should be remembered that an Israeli woman, Tatiana Soskin,was jailed for two years for 'desecrating' a Koran.
Very strange,but a few days ago,I made a comment about this case at another site as a follow up to the 12 Danish drawings.
Tatiana Soskin did not desecrate a Koran,she drew a picture of mohammed.
you can see it here
http://www.fomi.nu/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1627&start=30
and scroll down
To viewers intolerant of gory scenes I advise caution in viewing all the pages on this thread
Actually, Tatiana Soskin was jailed for 2 years for distributing a flyer with artwork with a pig that said "Muhammad," and because she belonged to a banned extremist group that was throwing stones at cars near where she was distributing the flyers. 2 years in jail seems a bit harsh since in the US he might have gotten a ticket for littering or loitering, if that.
Strange but the left, if you ever visit their sites, ask similar questions like "Where is the MSM in all of this stuff" (only they have different stuff, sometimes).
MSM is so obfuscatory, considering that it completely ignores who OWNS it and thus who controls it. For instance Salzberger owns the NY Times, Katherine Graham Myer owns the Washington Post, Saudis have a major controlling interest in ABC, GE and Westinghouse of Defense and Nuclear weapons/energy own NBC, and CBS in that order.
And all of them are conservative, status quo, capitalists whose primary motivation is the bottom line and the stock market.
And in case you are interested it is a common belief amongst the antisemites (which includes of course Muslims) that the MSM is owned and controlled by Jews. My argument to the contrary has made not a dent, and even facts like the Saudis owning ABC, through their control of Disney is totally ignored.
In fact that was one of the rants of the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Matahair, that the Jews control the media or MSM as everyone puts it.
Of course that is nonsense, but one thing about beliefs and the need to believe, or to catalog and characterize, facts are no impediment to prejudice and belief.
I would.
Posted by: TooBad
Before you go telling muslims that the koran is "just a book", you might want to update your will.
Seventeen muslims die when a rumor of a Gitmo koran-mishandling appears in the press.
How many people of any faith have died in circumstances arising from this incident? (Hint: you wont need both hands to get a final tally)