According to Syrian state news agency Sana and the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Asaad was beheaded in front of dozens of people on Tuesday in a square outside the town’s museum. His body was then taken to Palmyra’s archaeological site and hung from one of the Roman columns.
“He was a fixture, you can’t write about Palmyra’s history or anything to do with Palmyrian work without mentioning Khaled Asaad,” he said. “It’s like you can’t talk about Egyptology without talking about Howard Carter.
The world truly lost a giant. This is terrible. This 'Caliphate' is a joke. Totalitarianism hiding behind the skirts of religion. Studying our past is apostasy? This is mindbogglingly delusional. Any one who wants to take or change your history is out to enslave you. These people are just trying to bring the world back to the Middle Ages. This is a war of attrition we cannot afford to loose.
Ironically, when Muhammad founded the religion, he encouraged people to explore and question their world, because only by knowing the world better can one truly know god. While Europe was in the dark ages, the arab muslim world was flourishing in a golden age of science and enlightenment. Then fundies happened.
Fuck fundies of all stripes. They're abusing the actual teachings of most of these religions in order to achieve political power.
Oh I couldn't agree more. So much of our science and knowledge stemmed from these times. Algebra, the scientific method & even some basic hygienic practices in medicine are just a few examples that come to mind off the top of my head.
Fundamentalism in any form is detrimental to the safety and prosperity of everyone on Earth. Taking any belief structure as a word for word dictation of how things should be is a recipe for disaster that flies in the face of the 'Golden Age of Islam.'
The world truly lost a giant. This is terrible. This 'Caliphate' is a joke. Totalitarianism hiding behind the skirts of religion. Studying our past is apostasy? This is mindbogglingly delusional. Any one who wants to take or change your history is out to enslave you. These people are just trying to bring the world back to the Middle Ages. This is a war of attrition we cannot afford to loose.
Ironically, when Muhammad founded the religion, he encouraged people to explore and question their world, because only by knowing the world better can one truly know god. While Europe was in the dark ages, the arab muslim world was flourishing in a golden age of science and enlightenment. Then fundies happened.
Fuck fundies of all stripes. They're abusing the actual teachings of most of these religions in order to achieve political power.
Oh I couldn't agree more. So much of our science and knowledge stemmed from these times. Algebra, the scientific method & even some basic hygienic practices in medicine are just a few examples that come to mind off the top of my head.
Fundamentalism in any form is detrimental to the safety and prosperity of everyone on Earth. Taking any belief structure as a word for word dictation of how things should be is a recipe for disaster that flies in the face of the 'Golden Age of Islam.'