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‘Derogatory’ Champollion statue in Paris angers Egyptians

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Ahram Online:

Statue of Jean François Champollion, who deciphered hieroglyphics, provokes criticism 135 years after it was placed in Collège de France in Paris

Nevine El-Aref , Tuesday 26 Feb 2013
Champollion

Champollion

A statue in Paris of Jean François Champollion, the French archaeologist who deciphered hieroglyphics, has been condemned as “derogatory” and “shameful” by Egyptian Egyptologists.

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi carved the marble statue depicting Champollion standing with his left foot on a pharaonic head in 1875.

It was put on display in the Parc Egyptian created by French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette for the Universal Exhibition of 1877.

It was originally intended to be transported to Figeac, the birthplace of Champollion, but the project did not find sufficient support and it remained in Paris. In 1878, the statue was placed in its current location in the courtyard of the Collège de France.

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Germany: Moroccan Muslim Occupies Statue of Don Juan of Austria, Demanding it be Taken Down

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Islam Vs. Europe

16:27 | Posted by Cheradenine Zakalwe

A Moroccan Muslim has defaced the statue of Don Juan of Austria (victor in the battle of Lepanto, one of Europe’s decisive victories in the struggle against Mohammedanism) in Regensburg, Bavaria, with Moroccan and Turkish flags. He mounted on to the statue and remained there for three hours, threatening to cut his throat if the police tried to remove him forcefully

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‘A priceless heritage destroyed by Islamic barbarians’: Dawkins outrages Muslims with comments over extremists damaging library

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Daily Mail:

  • Richard Dawkins’s tweet over library in Timbuktu, Mali, causes offence
  • Some of 600,000 followers say professor was unjustly attacking Islam
  • Later clarifies he ‘does not of course mean all Muslims are barbarians’

By Mark Duell

PUBLISHED: 06:14 GMT, 31 January 2013 | UPDATED: 09:07 GMT, 31 January 2013

Atheist Richard Dawkins has managed to outrage another religion after calling Muslims ‘barbarians’.

The 71-year-old author of The God Delusion was referring to the severe damage caused by Islamist extremists to a sacred library in Timbuktu, Mali, but his remarks were seen as insulting to all Muslims.

Oxford University academic Professor Dawkins told his 600,000 Twitter followers on Tuesday: ‘Like Alexandria, like Bamiyan, Timbuktu’s priceless manuscript heritage destroyed by Islamic barbarians.’

Comments: Richard Dawkins said Timbuktu's manuscript heritage was 'destroyed by Islamic barbarians'Comments: Richard Dawkins said Timbuktu’s manuscript heritage was ‘destroyed by Islamic barbarians’

But his comments were criticised, with some followers claiming he was unjustly attacking Islam and others saying he should be considering vandalism acts by Christians, reported the Daily Telegraph.

Muslim Twitter user ‘Shawa5i Al Nasseri’ from the United Arab Emirates said: ‘You call us barbarians, truly no respect’, before later adding: ‘How do you explain this “destroyed by Islamic barbarians?”’

 

 

Professor Dawkins responded to the comments by saying: ‘You mean you were one of those who burned the books in Timbuktu? No? I thought not. So I wasn’t calling you a barbarian was I.’

He also said to all of his followers: ‘I was calling Islamic barbarians barbarians’, adding: ‘By “Islamic barbarians” I mean those Muslims who are also barbarians. I do not of course mean all Muslims.’

 

Backlash: Professor Dawkins's comments on Twitter were criticised, with some followers claiming he was unjustly attacking Islam and others saying he should have considered vandalism acts by ChristiansBacklash: Professor Dawkins’s comments on Twitter were criticised, with some followers claiming he was unjustly attacking Islam and others saying he should have considered vandalism acts by Christians

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Palestinians desecrate Jewish holy site

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For those who do not already know, Islam teaches that all things, and especially religious artifacts from before the time of Islam, are considered to be “from the time of ignorance” and must be destroyed. Therefore these actions are not isolated incidents, nor are they proxy-targets due to anger or geopolitical forces.

They are in fact part of Islam’s war on history itself, as the Afghan 100 foot Buddha statues and literally thousands of Hindu temples can attest.

Golem Bar, who sent this link, has this to say:

the incident in question is nothing new, as it has occurred many times before, not Just in Israel of course but in any nation that Islam has triumphed, where the local holy sites were destroyed and razed to the ground in order to extinguish the culture and religion of the natives.

However what is endemic in this continued assault on non-Islamic-heritage sights, whether it is in Mali, Afghanistan, the Maldives, Egypt, The Byzantine Empire etc.. is the hypocrisy and deafening silence on the part of the West to condemn these incidents.

When Islamists attempt to erect a skyscraper mosque on the sight of the worst mass murder of American citizens by their fellow co-religionists they are coddled and supported to no end by liberal sycophants and a large portion of Western media, even going so far as to nominate the convicted felon behind the project as a “man of the year”,  but noted silence on actions such as these, where is the State Dept and the U.N to condemn this incident? Where is UNESCO? both issue angry and hostile proclamations anytime an Israeli so much as looks the wrong way at a “Palestinian”, yet muted silence is all we hear now

Israel Today:

Jewish worshippers visiting the tomb of the biblical patriarch Joseph in the Palestinian-controlled town of Nablus (Shechem) on Wednesday were shocked to find the holy site severely desecrated.

The group of some 2,500 Jewish pilgrims told Israel’s Maariv newspaper that Jewish holy books at the site had been burned, furniture smashed, the smell of urine was abundant, and there was evidence of an effort to burn down the structure.

“Only barbarians would do horrible things like this to such a holy site,” local Jewish leader Gershon Mesika told the newspaper. “Israel can no longer allow its holy places to be freely desecrated.”

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Islamist rebels torch Timbuktu manuscript library: mayor

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Yahoo News

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.

“The rebels sit fire to the newly-constructed Ahmed Baba Institute built by the South Africans … this happened four days ago,” Halle Ousmane told Reuters by telephone from Bamako. He said he had received the information from his chief of communications who had travelled south from the city a day ago.

Ousmane was not able to immediately say how much the building had been damaged. French and Malian troops were securing the city on Monday.

The mayor said the Islamist rebels, who had occupied the fabled trading town since a Tuareg-led rebellion captured it on April 1 from government forces, also torched his office and the home of a member of parliament.

The Ahmed Baba Institute, one of several libraries and collections in the city containing fragile ancient documents dating back to the 13th century, is named after a Timbuktu-born contemporary of William Shakespeare and houses more than 20,000 scholarly manuscripts. Some were stored in underground vaults.

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Here We Go Again

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Gates of Vienna:

Note: The following post accompanies Takuan Seiyo’s latest piece. Both are being kept “sticky” until tonight. Scroll down for other posts that have appeared since Wednesday.

Entrance to Auschwitz

Certain posts at Gates of Vienna, among them those by Takuan Seiyo, tend to attract the attention and comments of people who are preoccupied with the Jews. They frequently refer to “Holohoax” in World War Two, often supplementing their scornful references with obscenities or derogatory epithets.

I generally delete such comments without publishing them. One of them came in this morning, the second or third such screed submitted on Takuan Seiyo’s latest post. Before I deleted it, I sent it to Takuan, just to show him what was coming in. He suggested that I go ahead and post it, followed by his response.

So here’s the comment by “Anonymous” [typos in the original]:

Some interesting points, a lot of waffle and some errors. Your stated view that the WW2 ‘Holocaust’ resulted in the old 6 million dead Jews is well past its sell-by date. Top class, modern historians now regard that figure as grotesquely disproportionate. The Red Cross AND the German Government counted less than 150,000 for ALL deaths in ALL camps other than those behind Russian lines. It’s now commonly called the HOLOHOAX. It is one of the most successful internationsal businesses of all time.

A response from Takuan Seiyo:

You have the temerity to post this kind of Nazi apologist garbage in a comments thread of an article by a writer whose gentile grandparents had been murdered in a concentration camp and whose gentile mother spent two years in a labor-extermination camp, was a state witness in the post-war trial of its commandant, and relayed her wartime experiences to this writer directly. Moreover, a writer who was born and grew up one hour by car from Auschwitz and three kilometers from the plant where the firm Hoch und Tiefbau AG had built the crematoria for that camp. In which, alone, 2.5 million people were murdered, 1 million of them Jews. And that’s according to the testimony its commandant Rudolf Hoess, based on data from SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann.

Moreover, you desecrate the memory of Witold Pilecki plus other Polish officer escapees from Auschwitz who produced written reports, e.g. Jerzy Tabeau and Kazimierz Piechowski — all of them of impeccable “white” credentials way beyond what you and other White Nat lunatics may ever aspire to. I am omitting here reports by Jewish escapees, for example the Vrba-Wetzler report, as well as the fate of the Jewish part of my family during the war, so as to skirt the whole specious Joooos-tainted-it aspect of your comment.

It’s true that legitimate modern-day attempts to calculate the number of the Holocausts’ victims produce a range of numbers. The lowest for Auschwitz, for instance (by the Polish historian Franciszek Piper), cites 1.1 million victims, in contrast to the 2.5 million estimate — interesting, however, that even in that much-reduced number the Jewish victims component remains the same 1 million as in the bigger total-victim figures. The highest figure cited for Auschwitz is 4 million.

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Footage leaked of museum vandals destroying pre-Islamic artifacts

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Islam teaches that in all places, any history that takes place before total Islamic rule is, “The time of ignorance” and as such must be destroyed. Especially if it shows worship or even reverence for a system of thought other than Islam, (which does not concern itself with semantic niceties such as Buddhism or Hinduism more as cognitive tools than religions as we understand them.) such as the Afghan 100 foot high Buddha statues famously destroyed by devout Muslims.

This will be the norm in the decades to come if the rest of the world does not wake up and begin to protect its own interests.

H/T Arun

 

Minivan News:

 

By Ahmed Naish | January 14th, 2013 | Category: Politics, Society | 21 comments

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Private broadcaster Raajje TV has aired leaked security camera footage showing a group of men vandalising pre-Islamic artifacts in the national museum on February 7, 2012.

Around 35 exhibits were destroyed when  half a dozen men stormed into the museum amid the political chaos of February 7, after former President Mohamed Nasheed resigned under controversial circumstances during a police and army mutiny.

The footage shows a group of men entering the museum, knocking over glass cases and smashing Buddhist-era statues.

Local daily Haveeru reported today that it had learned the men were “religious extremists” who belonged to a local group.

In May 2012, police forwarded cases against four suspects involved in the vandalism to the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO). Police at the time declined to reveal any information regarding the identity of the four suspects.

Officials at the PGO were unable to confirm today if the cases had been filed at the Criminal Court.

According to museum director Ali Waheed, the vandals destroyed “99 percent” of the evidence of the Maldives’ pre-Islamic history prior to the 12th century, including a 1.5-foot-wide representation of the Buddha’s head – one of the most historically significant pieces at the museum.

An official at the museum told Minivan News following the incident that the group “deliberately targeted the Buddhist relics and ruins of monasteries exhibited in the pre-Islamic collection, destroying most items beyond repair.”

 

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CAIR chief claims Muslims discovered America first

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Truth was never a big part of the Islamic narrative.

H/T Fjordman

From DailyCaller:

Muslims discovered the Americas long before Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, the head of a D.C.-based jihad-linked Islamic lobbying group told a Saudi TV station Dec. 27.

“There are historical accounts according to which the Muslims preceded Columbus, who is said to have discovered the U.S.,” claimed Nihad Awad, the co-founder of the Council on American Islamic Relations.

“Some documents and accounts indicate that Muslim seafarers were the first to reach the U.S., [so] the bottom line is that Islam played a part in the establishment and development of the U.S.,” Awad told the Saudi interviewer, in an interview in a New York studio.

CAIR did not respond to The Daily Caller’s request for an explanation of Awad’s comments, which were recorded by the Middle East…

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Ottawa researcher’s firing derails Viking project

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Ottawa Citizen:

Ottawa researcher’s firing derails Viking project

Dr. Pat Sutherland working at an archeological site on Baffin Island known as Nanook. She believes the excavation was a building established by the Norse (aka Vikings) around 1300 or possibly earlier so they could trade for furs, narwhal tusks and walrus ivory prized by nobility in Europe. The story of Sutherland’s research will be told on the CBC show The Nature of Things on Thursday, Nov. 22.

Photograph by: Handout photo , 90th Parallel Productions

OTTAWA — This should be the best of times for Pat Sutherland. November’s issue of National Geographic magazine and a documentary airing Thursday night on CBC’s The Nature of Things both highlight research the Ottawa archeologist has been doing in the Canadian Arctic for the past dozen years that could fundamentally alter our understanding of our early history.

If Sutherland is right, Norse seafarers — popularly known as Vikings — built an outpost on Baffin Island, now called Nanook, centuries before Columbus blundered on to North America. Moreover, there’s evidence they traded with the Dorset, the Arctic’s ancient, now-vanished inhabitants, for as many as 400 years.

”That’s incredible,” says Andrew Gregg, who wrote, directed and produced The Norse: An Arctic Mystery, the CBC documentary that recounts Sutherland’s findings. “That rewrites all the history books.”

But Sutherland’s pleasure at the recognition her discoveries are receiving has been sharply tempered by a harsh reality. Last April, even as the documentary about her work was being filmed, the 63-year-old, then curator of Arctic archeology at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, was abruptly dismissed from her job.

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UNESCO now clearly a tool of the OIC and Islamic historical fictions

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From Israelhayom

Burying Rachel’s Tomb

Over the past several years, the Palestinians have been trying very hard to make Rachel’s Tomb disappear • Using deceit, they have succeeded in convincing UNESCO that Rachel’s Tomb is actually a mosque built to commemorate the Prophet Mohammed’s first muezzin • Meanwhile, historical documentation and hundreds of thousands of Jews who remain loyal to Rachel’s Tomb hinder the attempt to turn it into a Muslim site.

Nadav Shragai
The history of Rachel’s Tomb is under attack by Palestinians.

Photo credit: Keverrachel website

It is doubtful whether any other place between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River illustrates the concept of self-defense that has trickled into Israel’s security mindset as well as Rachel’s Tomb. The formerly picturesque site is engraved in the memory of many people as a stone building with a dome on top and an ancient olive tree in front of it, on the road between Jerusalem and Hebron.

Although Rachel’s Tomb has been depicted that way in countless art works, stamps and holy books, not a shred of that nostalgic image remains today. Israel’s defense establishment wiped it out, wrapping the ancient site in a robe of concrete and cement.

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At a time when 732 was still taught at school

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Translation by Michael Laudahn:

From Desouche:

At a time when 732 still was taught at school

They had crossed the Pyrenees and lunged at Gaul like a cloud of crickets.’

TEXT:

Charles Martel beats the arabs at Poitiers

Charles Martel at the battle of Poitiers

Observe: 1. Charles Martel, his costume, his arms.

2. Behind him, the franks, armed with axes, lances, short swords. 3. The arabs, their white burnousses, their scimitar with an extended blade.

1. The invasion of the arabs. – In 732, Charles was the Maire du Palais.

This was the time when the arabs wanted to expand the moslem religion by means of war and conquest. They had aready submitted northern Africa and Spain. They had crossed the Pyrenees and lunged at Gaul like a cloud of crickets. They burned, marauded Toulouse and Bordeaux. Then they turned towards Tours, capital of christian Gaul.

2. The two armies meeting for the first time. – The arabs’ was a strange army indeed. The chiefs and the princes, having fine tanned faces, wore silk. They wore long burnousses made of white wool and mousseline turbans. Their golden jewellery glittered. They were proud of their small, nervous and rapid horses, of their scimitars with jewel-decorated handles. Other arabs, less moneyed, only had rough burnousses, tightened around their heads with a cord made of camel hair. They rode dromedaries.

All of Gaul, Germania and the northern countries were seized by fear. Charles assembled a powerful army, quite different from the light cavalry of the arabs. Franks were there, tall and blond, who brandished the intimidating francisque; the alemanni armed with a lance which they held in the middle; the saxons, who held their large and heavy sword with both hands. Bishops went from rank to rank, giving their benediction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RÈfÈrences du manuel: Notre France, son histoire, par E. AUDRIN et M. et L. DECHAPPE, Cours ÈlÈmentaire des Ecoles Primaires, classes de 9Ëme et 10Ëme des LycÈes et CollËges. Editions Lavauzelle, 1951. 

New Threats to Free Speech

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 by Nonie Darwish
October 15, 2012 at 5:00 am

The problem with Islam is that Muslims riot and burn and kill those who repeat what is already in their scriptures.

The truth regarding that low-budget video, however, is that all the stories in it were taken from the Islamic books on Mohammed’s life, “Sirat Rasul Allah” [“The Life of the Messenger of Allah”], the earliest biography of Muhammad, as well as from quotes in the “Hadiths,” acts or sayings ascribed to Muhammad. The stories were not the invention of the producer of the film; they were tasteless and unholy, but they are all found in Muslim scriptures. The problem with Islam is that Muslims riot and burn and kill those who repeat what already exists in their scriptures.

When the life and acts of Mohammed were written and documented by Muslims, it was a source of pride for them; but in the 21st century it has become a source of shame, and now they cannot go back and remove what they already have written about the actions of Mohammed, so all they can do is riot burn and kill anyone who speaks about it. Their prophet has done a lot of unholy acts, but speaking about Islam and Mohammed’s actions in an analytical way has become a crime. United Nations Resolution 1618, “The Istanbul Process,” sponsored last December in a three-day, closed-door meeting in Washington D.C. by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, attempts to make it an international crime to discuss “religion” — code for Islam. This proposal to criminalize free speech was repeated in September at the UN by the Ambassador from Pakistan, its sponsor; and repeated again by Egypt’s new President, Mohamed Morsi.

The scary part now is that the U.S. president seems to agree.

It was difficult to listen to the President of the United States recent statement at the United Nations, that, “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” The president of the United States was declaring to the world that critics of Mohammed are wrong; that they do not have a rightful cause; that they must not be heard, respected, taken seriously, and that they will have no future in America.

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