I hope something survived. Even more I really hope they cataloged it.
DocAmazing:
January 28th, 2013 at 11:26 pm
That is the winning hat.
Winch:
January 29th, 2013 at 12:39 am
–The French in Mali are now being shot at by islamists with with the very same weapons that France airdropped into Libya. Either those or the weapons that France sold to Gaddafi.
Between Somalia and Nigeria, Salafis jihadis has a huge presence in Africa. But Mali is its biggest footprint yet.
Winchester:
January 29th, 2013 at 12:42 am
Al Qeada is alive and well !!
Winchester:
January 29th, 2013 at 12:45 am
France is getting no support from Washington fighting in Mali now. The drones aren’t flying there either and neither is much of anything else. The Obama régime’s people have said that they support the French operation but that they’re still waiting to get a “clear picture” of the mission, the enemy and how much this will offend the Morsis of the islamic world.
Winchester:
January 29th, 2013 at 12:48 am
John Protevi would say that comment is quasi-racist.
The torching of Timbuktu manuscript library by islamic supremacists was an act of islamic piety.
Remember, caliph Umar allegedly said, while ordering the library of Alexandria to be burned:
“If the books agree with the Qur’an, they are superfluous. If they disagree with it, they are heretical.”
not quite correct, as i understand it from the news. the US is supporting the french air mission, by providing air re-fueling planes. not sure who the pilots are though, american or french.
cpinva:
January 29th, 2013 at 4:53 am
man, i am getting wayyyyyyy too good at this, i mentioned algeria, in a post elsewhere, a couple of days ago. frankly, i’m surprised it hasn’t had more prominent mention in the dailys.
Manju:
January 29th, 2013 at 4:58 am
This is like the most intense Farley stare-down ever. One wonders, who was his Thesis Advisor? Roberto Duran?
Gandalf:
January 29th, 2013 at 6:28 am
It”s not “Islamic supremists” It’s members of a particular ect of Islam, the Wahhabis, who have lots of money due to their connection with the Saudi royal house, but who otehrwise don’t get along with most of the followers of Islam in the world . . .
And of course, there have been plenty of Christians who did similar things (Google “iconoclasm”) including the Puritans who were instrumental in founding the US.
Uncle Kvetch:
January 29th, 2013 at 6:54 am
Holy Mother of God…are you suggesting Winchester doesn’t have his/her/its facts straight. I’m going to need to sit down with a big stack o’ pancakes and sort through the implications…
Winchester:
January 29th, 2013 at 7:02 am
Wahabism is a revivalism. Cf the difference between salafism and wahabism. The jihadists we see in Mali are Salafists, like al-Qaeda.
As per iconoclasm in Christianity: Iconophily WON the battle. Iconoclasm is an evil heresy.
Winchester:
January 29th, 2013 at 7:04 am
that’s NOTHING.
Winchester:
January 29th, 2013 at 7:16 am
Besides, that incident largely preceeds wahabism. It has occurred in any nation that islam has triumphed by way of the sword, where sites were destroyed and razed to the ground, whether it is in Mali, Afghanistan, the Maldives, Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh, The Byzantine Empire, etc.
Malacylpse:
January 29th, 2013 at 7:17 am
Your clever use of CAPSLOCK is indeed convincing, but you need more Foucault, and some reflexive Protevi-hatred.
Uncle Kvetch:
January 29th, 2013 at 7:21 am
Needs moar Deleuze.
Malacylpse:
January 29th, 2013 at 7:22 am
The lack of any reference to Habermas is evidence of the all-pervasiveness of Habermas’ thought.
Barry Freed:
January 29th, 2013 at 7:27 am
The quote, and action, attributed to Umar is false. Furthermore the library of Alexandria was long gone by the time the Muslims conquered Egypt. Bernard Lewis, of all people (one of the least sympathetic scholars to Islam) comprehensively refuted it in his “The Arab destruction of the Library of Alexandria: Anatomy of a myth.”
rea:
January 29th, 2013 at 7:41 am
Salafism is just a more polite word for Wahhabism–they don’t like being called after Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab for more or less the same reasons they don’t like monuments.
Your clever use of CAPSLOCK is indeed convincing, but you need more Foucault, and some reflexive Protevi-hatred
The Society of CONTROL essay reveals in code, if you use geometric logic, that Protevi stole Winchester’s strawberries.
Lurker:
January 29th, 2013 at 8:18 am
Iconophily won the battle in the Catholic church (including both the Eastern Orthodox and Roman). However, it has never been completely trampled out, and after Zwingli and Calvin, it has had a prominent following in the Reformed and Baptist churches.
Malaclypse:
January 29th, 2013 at 8:22 am
Yes, but Dagney/Winchester labors under the belief that his particular beliefs about the Imaginary Sky Wizard are OBJECTIVE TRUTH. Because Foucault.
Winchester:
January 29th, 2013 at 8:31 am
So it’s not; ain’t the same at all.
Cf. the etymology of the word salafi.
Wahabism is a doctrine held and sponsored now by the House of Saud, inspired by Mister Wahab. Docrine says that there will be a revival of islam at the end of each century to come.
witless chum:
January 29th, 2013 at 8:35 am
He learned that stare from the main armament on the U.S.S. Missouri.
Isn’t it more likely that most of the weapons used by former Ghadaffi mercenaries are Soviet-made? As it turns out, LIbya has a history that goes back further than the Bush administration, and for almost all of the Ghadaffi era, it was a Soviet client.
Ghadaffi’s weapons have been killing Africans to Libya’s south for decades. Ask the people of Sierra Leone or Liberia.
Inshallah, this will be the last chapter of that ugly story.
Yes, wouldn’t it be terrible if we helped the Socialists prevent the religious fundamentalists from taking over a country?
Simple mInd:
January 29th, 2013 at 9:33 am
Free market reforms encouraged by Sarkosy that dismantled Mali’s educational and heath systems and moneymaking state industries left a big gaping hole that Islam filled. France is reaping what it sowed.
Uncle Kvetch:
January 29th, 2013 at 10:04 am
I’m loving this…suddenly the new line from the neocon he-men is that we should be standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the French. The effete, cheese-eating surrender monkeys of old Europe. The decadent defeatists of crumbling socialist Eurabia.
Doublethink the pleasure, doublethink the fun!
witless chum:
January 29th, 2013 at 10:05 am
Nobody knows exactly what happened to the classical great library.
It is variously claimed by ancient sources have been destroyed accidentally in the 200s by the Romans putting down an Egyptian revolt, accidentally by Julius Caesar in 48 BC, on purpose in 391 by the local Christian authorities, on purpose in 393 by an anti-Arian Christian mob and, lastly, in 642 by a Muslim army on the orders of the Caliph.
If only we could somehow puzzle out why a 21st century moron chose one of the alleged destructions to be upset about in 2013. Let’s put a team of monkeys to work around the clock on this one.
rea:
January 29th, 2013 at 10:12 am
who was his Thesis Advisor? Roberto Duran?
It was Duran for a while, but then Roberto announced, “no mas!” and another advisor had to be found.
rea:
January 29th, 2013 at 10:13 am
Plutarch said Caesar burned it, and he was writing well before Mohammed was even born.
John Protevi would say that comment is quasi-racist.
Watching a conservative try to play a race card is like watching a monkey that’s gotten ahold a field researcher’s cell phone. The little dear is doing its best to imitate her actions and gestures, but it just doesn’t work.
John Proveti would not say any such thing. You just can’t understand him.
Keaaukane:
January 28th, 2013 at 10:28 pm
Why not Ghana?
Barry Freed:
January 28th, 2013 at 10:34 pm
This is unbelievably tragic:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/28/mali-timbuktu-library-ancient-manuscripts
I hope something survived. Even more I really hope they cataloged it.
DocAmazing:
January 28th, 2013 at 11:26 pm
That is the winning hat.
Winch:
January 29th, 2013 at 12:39 am
–The French in Mali are now being shot at by islamists with with the very same weapons that France airdropped into Libya. Either those or the weapons that France sold to Gaddafi.
Between Somalia and Nigeria, Salafis jihadis has a huge presence in Africa. But Mali is its biggest footprint yet.
Winchester:
January 29th, 2013 at 12:42 am
Al Qeada is alive and well !!
Winchester:
January 29th, 2013 at 12:45 am
France is getting no support from Washington fighting in Mali now. The drones aren’t flying there either and neither is much of anything else. The Obama régime’s people have said that they support the French operation but that they’re still waiting to get a “clear picture” of the mission, the enemy and how much this will offend the Morsis of the islamic world.
Winchester:
January 29th, 2013 at 12:48 am
John Protevi would say that comment is quasi-racist.
The torching of Timbuktu manuscript library by islamic supremacists was an act of islamic piety.
Remember, caliph Umar allegedly said, while ordering the library of Alexandria to be burned:
Crackity Jones:
January 29th, 2013 at 1:12 am
Good.
Leeds man:
January 29th, 2013 at 1:23 am
Robert Fisk always worth a read.
cpinva:
January 29th, 2013 at 4:44 am
not quite correct, as i understand it from the news. the US is supporting the french air mission, by providing air re-fueling planes. not sure who the pilots are though, american or french.
cpinva:
January 29th, 2013 at 4:53 am
man, i am getting wayyyyyyy too good at this, i mentioned algeria, in a post elsewhere, a couple of days ago. frankly, i’m surprised it hasn’t had more prominent mention in the dailys.
Manju:
January 29th, 2013 at 4:58 am
This is like the most intense Farley stare-down ever. One wonders, who was his Thesis Advisor? Roberto Duran?
Gandalf:
January 29th, 2013 at 6:28 am
It”s not “Islamic supremists” It’s members of a particular ect of Islam, the Wahhabis, who have lots of money due to their connection with the Saudi royal house, but who otehrwise don’t get along with most of the followers of Islam in the world . . .
And of course, there have been plenty of Christians who did similar things (Google “iconoclasm”) including the Puritans who were instrumental in founding the US.
Uncle Kvetch:
January 29th, 2013 at 6:54 am
Holy Mother of God…are you suggesting Winchester doesn’t have his/her/its facts straight. I’m going to need to sit down with a big stack o’ pancakes and sort through the implications…
Winchester:
January 29th, 2013 at 7:02 am
Wahabism is a revivalism. Cf the difference between salafism and wahabism. The jihadists we see in Mali are Salafists, like al-Qaeda.
As per iconoclasm in Christianity: Iconophily WON the battle. Iconoclasm is an evil heresy.
Winchester:
January 29th, 2013 at 7:04 am
that’s NOTHING.
Winchester:
January 29th, 2013 at 7:16 am
Besides, that incident largely preceeds wahabism. It has occurred in any nation that islam has triumphed by way of the sword, where sites were destroyed and razed to the ground, whether it is in Mali, Afghanistan, the Maldives, Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh, The Byzantine Empire, etc.
Malacylpse:
January 29th, 2013 at 7:17 am
Your clever use of CAPSLOCK is indeed convincing, but you need more Foucault, and some reflexive Protevi-hatred.
Uncle Kvetch:
January 29th, 2013 at 7:21 am
Needs moar Deleuze.
Malacylpse:
January 29th, 2013 at 7:22 am
The lack of any reference to Habermas is evidence of the all-pervasiveness of Habermas’ thought.
Barry Freed:
January 29th, 2013 at 7:27 am
The quote, and action, attributed to Umar is false. Furthermore the library of Alexandria was long gone by the time the Muslims conquered Egypt. Bernard Lewis, of all people (one of the least sympathetic scholars to Islam) comprehensively refuted it in his “The Arab destruction of the Library of Alexandria: Anatomy of a myth.”
rea:
January 29th, 2013 at 7:41 am
Salafism is just a more polite word for Wahhabism–they don’t like being called after Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab for more or less the same reasons they don’t like monuments.
rea:
January 29th, 2013 at 7:44 am
Oh, nonsense.
Gilles Deleuze:
January 29th, 2013 at 8:09 am
The Society of CONTROL essay reveals in code, if you use geometric logic, that Protevi stole Winchester’s strawberries.
Lurker:
January 29th, 2013 at 8:18 am
Iconophily won the battle in the Catholic church (including both the Eastern Orthodox and Roman). However, it has never been completely trampled out, and after Zwingli and Calvin, it has had a prominent following in the Reformed and Baptist churches.
Malaclypse:
January 29th, 2013 at 8:22 am
Yes, but Dagney/Winchester labors under the belief that his particular beliefs about the Imaginary Sky Wizard are OBJECTIVE TRUTH. Because Foucault.
Winchester:
January 29th, 2013 at 8:31 am
So it’s not; ain’t the same at all.
Cf. the etymology of the word salafi.
Wahabism is a doctrine held and sponsored now by the House of Saud, inspired by Mister Wahab. Docrine says that there will be a revival of islam at the end of each century to come.
witless chum:
January 29th, 2013 at 8:35 am
He learned that stare from the main armament on the U.S.S. Missouri.
MacGyver:
January 29th, 2013 at 8:47 am
and also doing strategic airlift and ISR support.
joe from Lowell:
January 29th, 2013 at 9:09 am
Isn’t it more likely that most of the weapons used by former Ghadaffi mercenaries are Soviet-made? As it turns out, LIbya has a history that goes back further than the Bush administration, and for almost all of the Ghadaffi era, it was a Soviet client.
Ghadaffi’s weapons have been killing Africans to Libya’s south for decades. Ask the people of Sierra Leone or Liberia.
Inshallah, this will be the last chapter of that ugly story.
joe from Lowell:
January 29th, 2013 at 9:11 am
Yes, wouldn’t it be terrible if we helped the Socialists prevent the religious fundamentalists from taking over a country?
Simple mInd:
January 29th, 2013 at 9:33 am
Free market reforms encouraged by Sarkosy that dismantled Mali’s educational and heath systems and moneymaking state industries left a big gaping hole that Islam filled. France is reaping what it sowed.
Uncle Kvetch:
January 29th, 2013 at 10:04 am
I’m loving this…suddenly the new line from the neocon he-men is that we should be standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the French. The effete, cheese-eating surrender monkeys of old Europe. The decadent defeatists of crumbling socialist Eurabia.
Doublethink the pleasure, doublethink the fun!
witless chum:
January 29th, 2013 at 10:05 am
Nobody knows exactly what happened to the classical great library.
It is variously claimed by ancient sources have been destroyed accidentally in the 200s by the Romans putting down an Egyptian revolt, accidentally by Julius Caesar in 48 BC, on purpose in 391 by the local Christian authorities, on purpose in 393 by an anti-Arian Christian mob and, lastly, in 642 by a Muslim army on the orders of the Caliph.
If only we could somehow puzzle out why a 21st century moron chose one of the alleged destructions to be upset about in 2013. Let’s put a team of monkeys to work around the clock on this one.
rea:
January 29th, 2013 at 10:12 am
who was his Thesis Advisor? Roberto Duran?
It was Duran for a while, but then Roberto announced, “no mas!” and another advisor had to be found.
rea:
January 29th, 2013 at 10:13 am
Plutarch said Caesar burned it, and he was writing well before Mohammed was even born.
joe from Lowell:
January 29th, 2013 at 10:18 am
Watching a conservative try to play a race card is like watching a monkey that’s gotten ahold a field researcher’s cell phone. The little dear is doing its best to imitate her actions and gestures, but it just doesn’t work.
John Proveti would not say any such thing. You just can’t understand him.
John F:
January 29th, 2013 at 11:20 am
no
Manju:
January 30th, 2013 at 1:13 pm
Guess he wasn’t expecting that left hook.