Destroyed Partho-Sassanid Archaeological Site Believed to be Lost City...

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Originally Posted by king of thracia

However, destroying that of the preIslamic past and treating everything non Islamic as worthless is very much a part of Islam. Islam makes its own rep. Whatever the reasons may be in Iran, this is there there in Islam. (So called Muslim "scientists" of the past were mainly remnant non Muslims who had been conquered.)

Muslims are allowed to lie to infidels btw, if they feel themselves surrounded and outnumbered. Called taqiyya

Syria is ruled by a heretical sect. Egypt was originally a proponent of a sort of modernism in the 20th century (may change with a triumphant Islam in the 21st), is a tourist country and the pyramids are a bit hard to destroy. Look at why the stuff wasn't destroyed cause it sure wasn't for Islam's restraining hand

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I'm sorry but that is an ignorant bunch of bull, sure muslims have destroyed relics and ancient sites in the past but so have christians, hindu's and every other religion on the planet, that behavoir is indicitive of religious fanaticism in general and has nothing to do with the religion itself.

There are loads of pre islamic sites throught the islamic world that are completely unharmed, I don't see the ruins of babylon being smashed up in the name of islam? or persepolis, leptis magna, palmyra or innumerable others for that matter.

As for muslim scientists being non-muslim remnants I should point you in the direction of Ibn Khaldun, Geber and Avicenna who are counted among the most important scientists in history and who were very definatley muslim.

No, he's partly right. Not wholly, but partly still. However, there is no point in discussing any friggin' religion on these fora.


Also, bobbin, since you are an educated fellow: please say "definitely", not "definately". I hate it how everybody on the internet seems to make the same spelling mistakes. It hurts our eyes, yes it does. [/nitpick mode]

I've posted a message to his profile dealing with this. you can take a look at it.

now, let's let off the contraversial topic of religion, and move on to something known as the subject of the thread: how to best discuss, solve, and combat Iran's antiquity blues, without making idiots of ourselves. we best discuss what needs to be done about the ruins, and what can be done right now, not moan about the cause. resorting to character or religious assassination is not the solution.

I'll take the initiative: Is there some agency, bureau, or other means of contact we can use to deal with this?:book:

TPC hasn't been around lately, so don't expect a response from him.

This thread is off topic from EB, and since it has been an argument about religion I'm going to just close it to be safe.