Zahi Hawass

[Minimalist]

A new article in Smithsonian.

Egyptian antiquities are in danger and the Muslim Brotherhood government may have to bring Hawass back to save their stupid asses.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-ar...rals-1.jpg

But even Hawass can't bring back the tourists while Egypt is falling apart.

[popeyespappy]

Hawass possibly did some questionable things while he held his previous position, and a lot of Egyptologists didn't really think highly of his skills as an archaeologist. Many didn't approve of his management style either. That doesn't mean he wasn't good at his job though.

[Minimalist]

He is/was an arrogant bastard. Sometimes you need that though. After all, one of the things he was doing was running around convincing foreign museums to return Egyptian artifacts that they had stolen fair and square. Now, he can sit back and watch the cretins of the Islamic Brotherhood declare them "idols" and destroy them because of fucking allah.

[Jackalope]

How fucking insecure would one have to be to feel threatened by artifacts from a long-dead religion?

[Minimalist]

How insecure indeed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...amite.html

After failing to destroy the 1,700-year-old sandstone statues of Buddha with anti-aircraft and tank fire, the Taliban brought a lorryload of dynamite from Kabul. A Western observer said: "They drilled holes into the torsos of the two statues and then placed dynamite charges inside the holes to blow them up."

The operation to wreck the statues carved into a cliff in the Bamiyan Valley in the Hindu Kush mountains of central Afghanistan was supervised by Mullah Obaidullah, the Taliban defence minister. There has been an international outcry since Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban leader, issued a special edict on Feb 26 ordering the destruction of all non-Islamic statues.

Oh, yeah....the religion of "peace," again.

[Cyberman]

Hawass... now that's a name I've not heard in a looong time. A long time...

Never could stand the bloke.

[little_monkey]

There are too many things crazy about Islam to enumerate, but one that stands out is the pathetic claim that the Koran predicted the Big Bang Theory. Yep, Mohammed knew differential geometry, the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric and the equivalence principle to solve the Einstein's equations of General Relativity.

[Cyberman]

And in a move of breathtaking parsimony decided to encapsulate all those fields of study into simple phrases about the heavens and Earth being clove asunder etc. Sheer genius!

[Minimalist]

Yep, Mohammed knew differential geometry, the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric and the equivalence principle to solve the Einstein's equations of General Relativity.

Not too shabby for an illiterate child fucker.

[John V]

Hawass... now that's a name I've not heard in a looong time. A long time...

Never could stand the bloke.

Wow, whajja do to Kichigai? I thought she'd kudo any pile of crap dropped by any atheist, but you were skipped twice.
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