#MyJihad in Mali: Islamic supremacists torch Timbuktu manuscript library

Arguably more despicable than well-poisoning, library arson is a crime against our species, diluting humankind's prospects of perpetuated survival. Islam is a pathogen.

Another example of how Muslims are always continuing their tradition of destroying ancient knowledge in quest to bring jahilya of Islam all over the world!! For Muslims jahilya rules!! Morons!!

For these savages 'koran' is the encyclopedia 'for all, forever'.

No wonder they continue to destroy all other sources of wisdom and knowledge.

Supplementary.

"'No resistance' as troops retake Timbuktu."

(inc video clip.)

http://www.france24.com/en/20130128-mali-timbuktu-french-malian-troops-control-northern-city-islamists?autoplay=1

Muslims continue to destroy...it's what they like to do....

It's a wonder that the Egyptian pyramids and the Sphinx are still standing.

if these manuscripts were old korans (which I remember reading previous accounts about this library is that they were indeed korans) does that mean that its now OK to burn the koran?

"An act of Islamic piety. As the caliph Umar is supposed to have said when ordering the library of Alexandria to be burned: "If the books agree with the Qur'an, they are superfluous. If they disagree with it, they are heretical."

I think its important to point out that this account has been seriously challenged by ME experts such as Bernard Lewis:
http://mzone.mweb.co.za/residents/aasomers/libraryalexandria.htm

"To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic an event was unmentioned and unnoticed not only in the rich historical literature of medieval Islam, but even in the literatures of the Coptic and other Christian churches, of the Byzantines, of the Jews, or anyone else who might have thought the destruction of a great library worthy of comment. That the story still survives, and is repeated, despite all these objections, is testimony to the enduring power of myth."

Could you also please inform why you think the account of Omar buring the library are true and why Lewis is wrong?
Thank you

"Mali: French Troops Advance In Timbuktu.

"Sky News is inside the Malian city as French forces advance - and insurgents burn vast numbers of ancient documents as they flee."

http://news.sky.com/story/1044015/mali-french-troops-advance-in-timbuktu

(inc 4 min video).

#MyJihad in Mali: Islamic supremacists torch Timbuktu manuscript library
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Pious Muslims hate all books except for the vile Qur'an. Look at Nigeria's "Boko Harama".

And this is hardly the first massive destruction of art and literature by devout Muslims:

"Nearly 200,000 books in Egypt reduced to ashes at the hands of Islamic supremacists"

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/12/nearly-200000-books-in-egypt-reduced-to-ashes-at-the-hands-of-islamic-supremacists.html

This was probably the largest collection of books in the Muslim world—all gone.

More:

An act of Islamic piety. As the caliph Umar is supposed to have said when ordering the library of Alexandria to be burned: "If the books agree with the Qur'an, they are superfluous. If they disagree with it, they are heretical."
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Yes—whereas the Ptolemaic Greeks of Egypt offered huge breaks on tariffs for any ship that allowed scribes to copy any books they were carrying for the Library at Alexandria. Soon ships specifically brought books with them, for just that purpose.

Compare and contrast.

More:

DAKAR (Reuters) - Islamist fighters fleeing Mali's ancient Saharan city of Timbuktu as French and Malian troops closed in set fire to a South African-funded library there containing thousands of priceless manuscripts, the city's mayor said on Monday.
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Consider: here, the "Islamists" are on the run, but they take time out to destroy some Mali's heritage. *Ugh*.

When "Islamists" destroyed the National Museum in the Maldives, they destroyed all of that nation's Buddhist heritage:

"It begins: Muslims in Maldives smash Buddhist statues in National Museum"

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/02/it-begins-muslims-in-maldives-smash-buddhist-statues-in-national-museum.html

More:

Ousmane was not able to immediately say how much the building had been damaged. French and Malian troops were securing the city on Monday.
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I wish I could just celebrate this—but we all know what happens next. Let the Jihad terrorism begin!

God, I hate Islam.

Killers of history.

Muslims destroy their *own* history as well as that of everybody else.

The AFP account of this dismally typical Mohammedan book-burning, is reproduced here:

http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/45905

Monday, 28 January 2013
Mali: French troops encircle Timbuktu as fleeing Islamists burn ancient scrolls

I understand, from the article I've just linked, that one of the items destroyed was a 'history' book - "an ancient history of west Africa, the Tarikh al-Soudan". History written by victorious jihading Muslims, of course, and therefore probably full of tedious boastings, outright lies, exaggerations, and endless descriptions of killings, rapings, taking and trading of slaves, and plunderings, but still: the astute non-Muslim scholar can 'read between the lines' of such things, to find out *something*.

Linguistically, the materials would have been of interest: though most were in Arabic (and not necessarily classical Arabic, but the local/ regional dialect/s) some few were in local African languages - Songhai, Tamashek [which is related to the Berber languages of the Atlas Mountains] and Bambara. The oldest was, seemingly, from 1204.

Sure, the majority of these manuscripts would have been deadly-dull Qurans and Quran commentaries; but modern western textual scholars can find out all sorts of interesting things about the history of a text, by looking at such things. As the saying goes: BS is BS but the *study* of BS is scholarship. The more different manuscripts, old manuscripts, of the one text you have, the better chance you have of finding out what the original actually said. Which, in the case of the Quran, and most likely the Sira and Hadiths as well, could be...potentially embarrassing, for Muslims.

Perhaps. besides being motivated by the usual obsessive anti-intellectualism, these book-burning Mohammedans were afraid of something else: the prying eyes of sceptical non-Muslim scholars.

Invading muslim hordes have destroyed so many temples and statues in India. Many of them still exist, headless, to tell the tale of muslim ignorance about preservation of art and culture.