Tag Archives: Mali

History Rhymes

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: A number of people here have noted that yesterday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Well, in Mali they were burning books. The Christian Science Monitor reports: Fleeing Islamist extremists torched a library containing historic manuscripts in … Continue reading →

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Silencing Timbuktu

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner. I cannot say that I know that much about Mali, but my ipod knows its music. Enter the Islamists. The Guardian reports: The pickup halted in Kidal, the far-flung Malian desert town that is home to … Continue reading →

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Barbarism

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

The New York Times reports: DAKAR, Senegal — Radical Islamists who control northern Mali extended their campaign of enforcing harsh Shariah law on Monday, amputating the hands and feet of four young men they accused of robbery in the main … Continue reading →

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Same Script, Different Stage

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-Posted on the Corner: Remember the Buddhas of Bamiyan? Well, here we go again… Via the Guardian: Islamists armed with Kalashnikovs and pick-axes have destroyed the centuries-old mausoleums of saints in the Unesco-listed city of Timbuktu in front of shocked … Continue reading →

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