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Posted: **Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:05 pm**

Pulling a Reub...

[quote=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/isis-bur ... 00856.html]While the world was watching the Academy Awards ceremony, the people of Mosul were watching a different show. They were horrified to see ISIS members burn the Mosul public library. Among the many thousands of books it housed, more than 8,000 rare old books and manuscripts were burned.

“ISIS militants bombed the Mosul Public Library. They used improvised explosive devices,”? said Ghanim al-Ta'an, the director of the library. Notables in Mosul tried to persuade ISIS members to spare the library, but they failed.[/quote]

Posted: **Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:31 pm**

It's the Bamiyan Buddhas all over again.

Posted: **Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:36 pm**

That's what happens when cultural practices drive the population to intermarry first cousins at such an astoundingly high rate.

Posted: **Tue Feb 24, 2015 10:03 am**

I guess Google was too late to digitize them?

Posted: **Wed Feb 25, 2015 1:00 am**

Barbarians doing what barbarians do. Very depressing

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ISIS Burns 8000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul

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