• Malian militants burn thousands of ancient manuscripts before fleeing, as coalition troops enter Tim
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[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;39395061]Timbuktu is like..the Oxford of the Muslim world in ancient times. These fuckers claim to be enforcing a form of Islamic law and they torch a library containing priceless manuscripts that some may have once belonged to Muslim scholars.[/QUOTE] Do you really believe these idiots are educated enough to know that? Do think they've ever even read the Quran?
Heard the mayor of the town speak on NPR this morning: he said that while many of the artifacts were destroyed, most were managed to be saved by people and many of the others were taken outright by the militants, who knew that they were valuable and could be a source of wealth later on. Despite the fact that the destruction of any of these things is bad, I would like to thing the most important things or the most valuable things were either saved or taken.
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