These men have a perverted view of Islam. They are fundamentalists. They worship death and destruction. They’ve already taken pickaxes to ancient mausoleums all over the country. They see them as idol worshipping, and they say that the Quran prohibits that; thus they believe they must destroy them. They see the manuscripts as idol worshipping, too.” He paused and looked at the others. “But it is also more than that. They want to erase the history of our people. They want to erase our ancestors. Wipe them all away and replace them with the memory of the Arab. It is a false jihad against the
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