RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - BBC --- Timbuktu Islamic Manuescripts Not Burned

"The Great Tuareg did not burn any Islamic manuscript.......
They know that to do so will mean Hell Fire or Jahannama."

So you really believe in the tooth fairy- and Santa Claus, too.

Let us thank the quick thinking Malians who were smart enough and swift enough to hide some of the manuscripts from
vandalism and bonfires. Even so, a few of the manuscripts were actually destroyed.

By the way AZAWAD welcomed the French but warned that Black Africans should not enter their city.
See BBC News Jan 30, 2013. I guess they did not get their wish.



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Mwalimu Kenneth Harrow and those anti-Muslims/Islam who wanted to see the worst in the Tuareg, I have again been vindicated. The Great Tuareg did not burn any Islamic manuscript in Timbuktu. They know that to do so will mean Hell Fire or Jahannama. For us Muslims, the Torah, the Bible, the Qur'an, the Hadith and other Islamic texts are very dare to us.
Timbuktu manuscripts 'have not been destroyed'
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Since Islamist militants were driven out of Timbuktu, there have been conflicting reports about the state of thousands of priceless ancient manuscripts, dating back to the 15th and 16th centuries.


Researchers now believe that most of the documents had been moved to safe locations and have not been destroyed, as was feared.

Peter Biles reports.


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