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UmmWafi
04/19/03 at 12:54:56
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This has been reported in the papers but I don't really know whether we can share news info or we can only post articles per se.  If I understood wrong, please forgive me and delete this.

Iraq has had a colourful history of invasions by external forces.  They were invaded by the Ottomans and the Mongols, years ago.  Now, they are again under siege.  However, there is one significant difference between sieges of yesteryears and the siege today.  The knowledge of what is truly valuable in Iraq.

In the past, despite the fierce fighting and carnage, there is still that deep appreciation and respect for Iraq's most valuable treasure :  the collection of artefacts, manuscripts and items in the museums that tell stories of who we are as Muslims and what we have gone through to be where we are today.  As barbaric the Mongols were, knowledge was preserved.

Fast forward to 2003.  Iraq fell under attack and chaos reign supreme.  Millions of Muslims cried at the sight of death and maiming.  How many cry for the looting of the museum ?  How many hearts broke to see evidences of civilisation destroyed and stolen ?  How many felt sorrow that Muslims themselves didn't know the value of their own identity ?

The American troops spent exactly 12 minutes in the museum.  When asked why they left, the reply came simple and short.  "We have to go to the oilfield".

The oil in the Arabian Peninsula will dry up maybe in 30 years time but those artefacts survived for centuries.  Artefacts that served as links to our Beloved Prophet  [saw] Unknowingly, we have just deprived our children and a whole future generation of their rights to knowledge.  I think the price paid for 30 years of oil was just way too high.

Wassalam.


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