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Guanxi8810/23/2009 2:55:49 pm PDT

re: #182 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Well, ya gotta give ‘em credit for at least choosing a wide variety of fodder.

Reminds me of the story of the last destruction of the library at Alexandria (the one in Egypt).

Caliph ‘Umar shows up with his boyos, and grabs a scribe.

“Hey,” he says “What do all these writings say?” (I’m paraphrasing, but you get the gist.)

Now, old scribe’s a cagey guy - he’s seen fanatics before, and he knows just how to answer them.

“They agree wholly and in all parts with your Holy Book,” he says.

“Excellent,” says ‘Umar. “Burn them.”

“Why?” asks the scribe. “They say that same thing as your Holy Book.”

“If they contradicted the Holy Book, they’d be heretical, and so they’d have to be burned. Because they agree with the Holy Book, they are unnecessary, and could lead to confusion, and so they have to be burned.”