From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 22 18:25: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtpe.ha-net.ptd.net (smtpe.ha-net.ptd.net [207.44.96.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59E2A37B407 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 18:24:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 21262 invoked by uid 50005); 23 Oct 2001 01:19:52 -0000 Received: from tms2@mail.ptd.net by smtpe with qmail-scanner-1.00 (uvscan: v4.1.40/v4166. . Clean. Processed in 0.505784 secs); 23 Oct 2001 01:19:52 -0000 Received: from du111.cli.ptd.net (HELO mail.ptd.net) ([204.186.33.111]) (envelope-sender ) by smtpe.ha-net.ptd.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 23 Oct 2001 01:19:51 -0000 Message-ID: <3BD4C6D2.A012EC43@mail.ptd.net> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 21:24:34 -0400 From: "T.M. Sommers" Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Islam (was: Religions (was Re: helping victims of terror)) References: <1003617187.3bd1fba3d31ff@webmail.neomedia.it> <20011021101345.A28033@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1003661097.3bd2a72959115@webmail.neomedia.it> <20011022094739.F99042@wantadilla.lemis.com> <1003795076.3bd4b2841fae7@webmail.neomedia.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Salvo Bartolotta wrote: > > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > Yes, you should have done. The library in Alexandria was burnt down > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > I had, I have, and I always will. RTFM^WUnix is a way of life. :-) > > > > in 412, hundreds of years before the birth of Mohammed, by Christian > > monks in the name of Christianity. > > http://members.iinet.net.au/~nicke/library/library.htm . > > This link is not available now. I'll try again later. > > AFAIR, my history textbooks attributed the destruction of the library to the > Muslims; and my high school teachers gave me this version. Let's go on. Alexandria was sacked many times. This page: http://www.bede.org.uk/library.htm purports to look at the sources, and concludes that the library's books were burned by Caesar's troops. I can't vouch for it, but it sounds credible. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message