the statues and art works are history, hence knowledge, ...islamists don't much care for knowledge

Submitted by Phil Greend (Canada), May 9, 2010 at 14:37

We saw when the nazi people took control of France, one of the first things they did was to destroy art work ruling them to be decadent.

All extremist ideologies have a fear of alternative knowledge. They actively strive to censor anything that is even slightly different then the info they are peddling.

All cults have this same thought process. The insane need to control what people know, as a means to control the people.

We in the West, saw this in the form of murder of Theo Van Gogh, attempted murder of Salmon Rushdie and the man who drew the "prophet" mohammed with a bomb in his turbin.

Knowledge scares bad people.

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