---In [email protected], <mdixon.6569@...> wrote :
Yep!, that's what we have to look forward to. Remember, the great Mosque in Istanbul was a beautiful byzantine church. How about the Taliban blowing up the ancient statues of the Buddha. Now ISIS does this. Erase the past to prepare for the future Caliphate. Egypt has cause to worry. Hideous. The destruction of cultural beauty, history and irreplaceable artifacts is the real sign of barbarians and an utter lack of the finer feelings that are supposed to characterize human beings. It is cruel-spirited and it is also based in superstition that by destroying the images of others you take away their power. It's also the kind of act more often seen on a school playground where the bully takes a girl's doll and stomps on it right in front of her as she cries and pleads for him to stop. From: salyavin808 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, July 3, 2015 12:18 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Islamic State takes sledgehammer to ancient Palmyra ruins ---In [email protected], <s3raphita@...> wrote : Islamic State takes sledgehammer to 'irreplaceable' ancient Palmyra ruins http://tinyurl.com/qhaw75w http://tinyurl.com/qhaw75w Islamic State takes sledgehammer to 'irreplace... http://tinyurl.com/qhaw75w Isil militants have released images showing a civilian being forced to destroy priceless artefacts from the Roman city of Palmyra as the head of Unesco warned ... View on tinyurl.com http://tinyurl.com/qhaw75w Preview by Yahoo “It cannot be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.” The Terminator (1984) This makes me so depressed. I know they are killing and torturing people with a passion rarely seen but this stuff is part of history, it's totally irreplaceable, it portrays a different life we'll never see, their art and culture, it's a reminder of where we came from, the birth of civilisation, a time when the first cities were built and it's now gone forever. Hard to believe these Islamic state arseholes actually exist in the 20th century. When did evolution start going backwards? Sooner or later somebody is going to actually have to do something about them because, as you say, they aren't going to give up any time soon. The contagion is spreading.
