I see book burning is back in fashion

[Robert]

No surprise, it's everyone's favourite bunch of absurdly terrifying, medieval, religious-mass-murder bastards:

Isis militants have reportedly ransacked Mosul library, burning over a hundred thousand rare manuscripts and documents spanning centuries of human learning.

Initial reports said approximately 8,000 books were destroyed by the extremist group.

However, AL RAI’s chief international correspondent Elijah J. Magnier told The Independent that a Mosul library official believes as many as 112, 709 manuscripts and books, some of which were registered on a UNESCO rarities list, are among those lost.

What a lovely bunch of folk.

 

[cecilia]

yes, I read about that.

pigs, the whole lot of them.

 

[cecilia]

https://twitter.com/x/status/570880240030863360

the barbarians are at it again

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

No surprise, it's everyone's favourite bunch of absurdly terrifying, medieval, religious-mass-murder bastards:

No surprise at all. The Taliban did the same thing to the giant Buddhas of Afghanistan and another bunch of religious loonies did the same to the great library at Alexandria.

 

[cecilia]

No surprise at all. The Taliban did the same thing to the giant Buddhas of Afghanistan and another bunch of religious loonies did the same to the great library at Alexandria.

believe me, no one is surprised.

we are just disgusted.

 

[Robert]

No surprise at all. The Taliban did the same thing to the giant Buddhas of Afghanistan

Indeed they did and I was probably even more appalled at that than I am at this.

and another bunch of religious loonies did the same to the great library at Alexandria.

That one was a wee bit before my time.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Oh oh. These two must be ISIS members!!

 

[cecilia]

nah, they are just stupid, bimbo, ugly Americans