{"id":8246,"date":"2013-01-29T04:24:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T04:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8246"},"modified":"2013-01-29T04:24:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T04:24:07","slug":"history-rhymes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/history-rhymes\/","title":{"rendered":"History Rhymes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Burning-Books.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Burning-Books-300x238.gif\" alt=\"Burning Books\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8284\" \/><\/a>Cross-posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/339011\/history-rhymes-andrew-stuttaford\">the Corner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>A number of people here have noted that yesterday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day.<\/p>\n<p>Well, in Mali they were burning books.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Christian Science Monitor<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Latest-News-Wires\/2013\/0128\/Islamists-burn-ancient-manuscripts-in-Mali-s-Timbuktu\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fleeing Islamist extremists torched a library containing historic manuscripts in Timbuktu, the mayor said Monday, as French and Malian forces closed in on Mali\u2019s fabled desert city. Ousmane Halle said he heard about the burnings early Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s truly alarming that this has happened,\u201d he told The Associated Press by telephone from Mali\u2019s capital, Bamako, on Monday. \u201cThey torched all the important ancient manuscripts. The ancient books of geography and science. It is the history of Timbuktu, of its people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heinrich Heine (1821):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026[D]ort wo man B\u00fccher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen (\u201cWhere they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people\u201d). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/history-rhymes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[711],"tags":[804,932],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8287,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246\/revisions\/8287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}