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Comment by AlexanderDhoore | Hacker News Reader

This stuff makes my blood boil!!! They already destroyed tons on ancient buildings and relics in Timbuktu. When I saw them putting their axes in a 1000 year old temple... I WANTED TO SCREAAAAAAM.

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The books survived though. Now we just need to keep them preserved until they can be returned.

Indeed. I am definitely donating some money.

Re-whatnow? Return them to the place where they were almost destroyed? This kind if item should be viewed as a part of humanity's common history and carefully protected, not sent back into a barely stable area where they would act as a prime target for the people who were duped into letting them go.

Same here. When I heard about the large Buddha sculptures in Bamyan Valley (Afghanistan) destroyed by the Taliban, my heart sank.

You should be aware that while it was bad, it was also used as propaganda. There's no accident that there's multiple clips about the statues on the offical NATO YouTube channel. The event is nothing compared to what happened during the Iraq war for instance.

http://www.cemml.colostate.edu/cultural/09476/chp04-12iraqen...

That an event was used as propaganda does not make it less real.

It's shocking how someone is able to disrespect someone else's religion and still demand respect for his or her own.

I WANTED TO SCREAAAAAAM

That's useless, the right reaction would be to shoot them.

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