<!--QuoteBegin-ramana+Jul 30 2007, 11:50 PM-->QUOTE(ramana @ Jul 30 2007, 11:50 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->That library at Alexandria was burnt after the Islamic takeover and marked the decline of Alexandria.
St Augustine was also from Alexandria.[right][snapback]71705[/snapback][/right]
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->There were several libraries at Alexandria. Most of them (including the Great Library of Alexandria) were burnt down by christians (priests no less).
The last library of antiquity - of the Ancient Greeks in this case - was burnt down by islamis.
Christoislam is one religion after all: the islamis had unknowingly acted in the same manner as their christian predecessors - guided as they were by the same meme.
http://freetruth.50webs.org/A1.htm
http://www.ysee.gr/index-eng.php?type=en...ovestories
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>391</b> (391 ce)
On 24th February, a new edict of Theodosius prohibits not only visits to Pagan Temples but also looking at vandalised statues. New heavy persecutions all around the Empire. In Alexandria, Egypt, the Gentiles, led by the philosopher Olympius, revolt and after some street fights, finally lock themselves inside the fortified Temple of God Serapis (The Serapeion). After a violent siege, the christians occupy the building, demolish it, burn its famous Library and profane the cult images.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> http://www.bandoli.no/tolerance.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->With pious enthusiasm the ancient pagan temples, works of art and libraries were destroyed, and trampled by rampant Christians in a frenzied religious demolition craze. Under the command of bishops and abbots Christian monks were often the most active. The Greek called them "swinish black-cloths", because "they looked like men but lived like pigs".
A contemporary writer tells us
"armed with clubs or stones and swords they ran to the temples, some without these weapons only with their bare hands and feet"
-- (Libanios "Pro temples" 389 AD).
As soon as they had destroyed one temple, they dashed away to the next. They toppled over walls, smashed idols, statues and art-objects and altars, and stole the temples wealth for themselves.
Link<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->eventually Alexander's city fell to Moslem conquerors who, of like mind to their Christian predecessors, had the last of the library burned in 686 CE - as fuel in the bath-houses<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
St Augustine was also from Alexandria.[right][snapback]71705[/snapback][/right]
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->There were several libraries at Alexandria. Most of them (including the Great Library of Alexandria) were burnt down by christians (priests no less).
The last library of antiquity - of the Ancient Greeks in this case - was burnt down by islamis.
Christoislam is one religion after all: the islamis had unknowingly acted in the same manner as their christian predecessors - guided as they were by the same meme.
http://freetruth.50webs.org/A1.htm
http://www.ysee.gr/index-eng.php?type=en...ovestories
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>391</b> (391 ce)
On 24th February, a new edict of Theodosius prohibits not only visits to Pagan Temples but also looking at vandalised statues. New heavy persecutions all around the Empire. In Alexandria, Egypt, the Gentiles, led by the philosopher Olympius, revolt and after some street fights, finally lock themselves inside the fortified Temple of God Serapis (The Serapeion). After a violent siege, the christians occupy the building, demolish it, burn its famous Library and profane the cult images.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> http://www.bandoli.no/tolerance.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->With pious enthusiasm the ancient pagan temples, works of art and libraries were destroyed, and trampled by rampant Christians in a frenzied religious demolition craze. Under the command of bishops and abbots Christian monks were often the most active. The Greek called them "swinish black-cloths", because "they looked like men but lived like pigs".
A contemporary writer tells us
"armed with clubs or stones and swords they ran to the temples, some without these weapons only with their bare hands and feet"
-- (Libanios "Pro temples" 389 AD).
As soon as they had destroyed one temple, they dashed away to the next. They toppled over walls, smashed idols, statues and art-objects and altars, and stole the temples wealth for themselves.
Link<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->eventually Alexander's city fell to Moslem conquerors who, of like mind to their Christian predecessors, had the last of the library burned in 686 CE - as fuel in the bath-houses<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->