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Offline Sanguine

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3,000 years ago, it ruled the Mideast, now blown to pieces
« on: December 31, 2016, 04:03:13 pm »
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By LORI HINNANT
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NIMRUD, Iraq (AP) -- The chilly December wind whipped rain across the strewn wreckage of a city that, nearly 3,000 years ago, ruled almost the entire Middle East. Rivulets of water ran through the dirt, washing away chunks of ancient stone.

The city of Nimrud in northern Iraq is in pieces, victim of the Islamic State group's fervor to erase history. The remains of its palaces and temples, once lined in brilliant reliefs of gods and kings, have been blown up. The statues of winged bulls that once guarded the site are hacked to bits. Its towering ziggurat, or step pyramid, has been bulldozed.

The militants' fanaticism devastated one of the Middle East's most important archaeological sites. But more than a month after the militants were driven out, Nimrud is still being ravaged, its treasures disappearing, imperiling any chance of eventually rebuilding it, an Associated Press team found after multiple visits in the past month....

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ISLAMIC_STATE_ANTIQUITIES_ABRIDGED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-12-31-07-10-59

It's AP so I can't vouch for its accuracy. 

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Re: 3,000 years ago, it ruled the Mideast, now blown to pieces
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2016, 04:19:14 pm »
I'm glad that replicas are available to some of these landmarks but it is sad what these savages have done.
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Re: 3,000 years ago, it ruled the Mideast, now blown to pieces
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2016, 04:24:59 pm »
Quote from: TomSea on December 31, 2016, 04:19:14 pm
I'm glad that replicas are available to some of these landmarks but it is sad what these savages have done.

No. It isn't sad. It is an effing crime against all of humanity and all of these animals need to be scourged from the planet. ALL of them.
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Re: 3,000 years ago, it ruled the Mideast, now blown to pieces
« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2016, 04:30:09 pm »
Quote from: bigheadfred on December 31, 2016, 04:24:59 pm
No. It isn't sad. It is an effing crime against all of humanity and all of these animals need to be scourged from the planet. ALL of them.

It seems as though muslims are begging for the rest of the world to exterminate them.
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Re: 3,000 years ago, it ruled the Mideast, now blown to pieces
« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2016, 04:32:45 pm »
Quote from: skeeter on December 31, 2016, 04:30:09 pm
It seems as though muslims are begging for the rest of the world to exterminate them.

It's almost like they find their raison d'être in being anti- everything good, isn't it?
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Re: 3,000 years ago, it ruled the Mideast, now blown to pieces
« Reply #5 on: December 31, 2016, 04:35:27 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on December 31, 2016, 04:32:45 pm
It's almost like they find their raison d'être in being anti- everything good, isn't it?

I don't know how they could possibly make themselves more universally hated.

By the normal well-adjusted, that is.

Someone once said that they were destined to be "wild donkeys" of men.
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Re: 3,000 years ago, it ruled the Mideast, now blown to pieces
« Reply #6 on: December 31, 2016, 04:54:44 pm »
What a damn shame.

I understand Agatha Christie and her second husband spent a lot of their money helping to restore this city.
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Re: 3,000 years ago, it ruled the Mideast, now blown to pieces
« Reply #7 on: December 31, 2016, 05:08:06 pm »
Quote from: skeeter on December 31, 2016, 04:30:09 pm
It seems as though muslims are begging for the rest of the world to exterminate them.

"He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers."
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Re: 3,000 years ago, it ruled the Mideast, now blown to pieces
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2017, 07:43:01 am »
Quote from: skeeter on December 31, 2016, 04:35:27 pm
I don't know how they could possibly make themselves more universally hated.

As the great parliamentarian Edmund Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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