Sunday, March 17, 2019

Waging War against the Dead

Via Susan Lee>


Destroying history will not make you feel good about the present.

The 21st century is in danger of becoming an era of statue smashing and historical erasure. Not since the iconoclasts of the Byzantine Empire or the epidemic of statue destruction during the French Revolution has the world seen anything like the current war on the past.

In 2001, the primeval Taliban blew up two ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan on grounds that their very existence was sacrilegious to Islam.

More @ NRO

2 comments:

  1. What goes on in NZ I care not for their treason but what treason goes on in my country, I do:
    https://federalobserver.com/2019/03/they-are-coming-for-everything/
    Despicable beyond words. Rats in the pantry.

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    1. https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2019/03/they-are-coming-for-everything.html

      Thanks.

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