Where Is The Chapter On Vandalism In The Koran?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-31760656
Did these guys get some sort of joke version by mistake?

[mikey4444]

Troll alert !

[-Talbot-]

Blackadder...off topic again !

If you want to start a new topic on Blair, go ahead, but this has nothing whatsoever to him.



Spot the double standard?
Either stop telling others about going off topic or stop going off topic yourself.
Wouldn't that be fair?

[ladybirder]

Just speechless here. How dare they, what the hell is the matter with them? Idiots, morons, half wits. Lost for words.

[naomi24]

Mikey, calling people who disagree with you trolls isn’t nice, it isn’t fair, and it's childish - and actually Talbot is right. Only a few days ago when I said something you didn’t like you told me to stay on topic - even though I was on topic. These people are making this world rotten and their actions are an insult to every right-thinking man, so here is hardly an appropriate place for a jolly little travelogue.

[Canary42]

Of course we didn't vandalise Dresden - or Nagasaki - or Hiroshima . . . . . .

Yes, the ISIS action is despicable - but so was the above.

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

[naomi24]

^Balderdash!

[Brenden]

Ditto

[Peter Pedant]

Yeah !


however the chinese routinely think we vandalised the Summer Palace in 1854 -we ( united forces ) thought we were specifically punishing the Emperor for being a bad boy. - now recognised the westerners did NOT understand the function of Emperor in chinese society

however other facts are coming out: videos taken n Jan - and as someone said O well the originals ( winged lions ) are in the British Muserum and those are reproductions....

Did anyone see the head of constantine ( stuck 10' up a wall) being er beheaded ? I almost cried...

[TWR]

What the hell is this world coming to? surely these cranks can be observed by Satellite? If so get rid.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah ! bomb them or gas them !

[TWR]

Might just give them a pat on the back Eh peter?

[sandyRoe]

I'm reminded of the great Buddhist statues in Afghanistan that suffered a similar fate.

[Peter Pedant]

gassing them is better
bombing might er destroy the artefacts and objaaaayz we are trying to preserve

however flattening something to save it, is not a new idea
( Caen 1944 springs to mind )

but hey isnt Assad gassing them already ..... ?

[Peter Pedant]

It is said, Sandy the bits have been collected by er Buddhists and the statues will rise again ( in around 200 y )

[sandyRoe]

Aren't there churches scattered across England that still bear the scars of damage caused by Puritan iconoclasts?

[Peter Pedant]

Empty niches mainly

I am sure there are some faceless statues around

all the wooden fitting were taken out and burnt ( statues font covers rood screens etc ) and the colours white washed

[DTCwordfan]

How about Henry VIII and his cohorts on the churches of Mediaeval England and Wales?

Canary's comment is rubbish though - What were the numbers of Allied troops that were saved by not invading Japan - MacArthur estimated over a million deaths could have accrued. And Dresden was all about softening up the German underbelly - and just as well with what was going on a few miles away.

[Peter Pedant]

The Japanese couldnt work out where the Americans had got their information from and concluded it was from POWs. So the order had gone out to massacre them in Sept 1945.

They only realised the diplomatic code and the main naval code JN 25 was read, when they were told. They had previously thought the Americans and British wouldnt bother

So those lives were saved for a start

Macarthur was budgeting on a million American casualties on a mainland invasion...

[ToraToraTora]

gawd know what is going on in canary's head.

[DTCwordfan]

The difference between the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the Puritans was that was 350 years ago, ISIS reckless and all-embracing cultural destruction is against the second code of war when it comes to humanity and it's happening NOW.