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I've always been fascinated bit Martin Luther King Jr's words on the subject:
quote:Throw us in jail and we shall still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and we shall still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into our community at the midnight hour and beat us and leave us half dead, and we shall still love you. But be ye assured that we will wear you down by our capacity to suffer. One day we shall win freedom but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process and our victory will be a double victory.
Individuals, regardless of faith, who view conquest as a solution to their own vulnerability -- perceived or real -- are always doomed to walk the path of the jackhole.
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Major news outlets aren't touching this story. Mostly, it seems, because there's nothing to it. It's mostly right-wing blogs with Front Page Mag at the forefront. According to the Egypt Daily News, it started from a parody twitter account.
Also, the bit about the Muslims burning the Library of Alexandria is pretty sketchy. If it happened at all (which is itself highly unlikely) there probably wasn't a whole lot left to burn as much of the library and its contents were destroyed or lost in the First, Third, and Fourth Centuries AD.
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quote:Originally posted by p e t e: Major news outlets aren't touching this story. Mostly, it seems, because there's nothing to it. It's mostly right-wing blogs with Front Page Mag at the forefront. According to the Egypt Daily News, it started from a parody twitter account.
Also, the bit about the Muslims burning the Library of Alexandria is pretty sketchy. If it happened at all (which is itself highly unlikely) there probably wasn't a whole lot left to burn as much of the library and its contents were destroyed or lost in the First, Third, and Fourth Centuries AD.
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Man I hope your right. I do recall that the Taliban destroyed some Buddhist statues of substantial antiquity in Afghan i think...so. Crazy is as crazy does I guess is my fear.
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Some context is appropriate, it isn't that the Egyptian government wants to raze the pyramids all of a sudden. It's that now that the Brotherhood is theoretically the majority political party, and a handful of the fringe imams are making more noise than they used to make about wanting to destroy them.
Considering the military still runs the country, and it's questionable how much influence those imams have with the Brotherhood leadership, it's a bit breathless and overblown.
In a theoretical future where Egypt completely devolved into anarchy and chaos, it might be on the table, but if that happens, we have much, much bigger problems.
As to why it got play in the outlets it did: they know their audience. Fearmongering stories of Islamic extremism drives pageviews. Got to get those pageviews.
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Also, if you are a new government in a country where the old government was just forced out, the first thing you do isn't going to be to destroy an industry which is vital to your economy.
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