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Iraq
In Iraq's Mosul, library rises from ashes of IS reign
2022-02-10
Good for them. The next step to to get everything scanned and distributed, so the next time jihadis come through their book burning is only annoying instead of erasing history as intended.
. [Rudaw] The storied library of Iraq's djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
University boasted a million titles before Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group jihadists rampaged through it, toppling book shelves and burning ancient texts.
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