tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post4619751978891830476..comments2024-03-27T04:46:33.198-07:00Comments on Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Some CBS Viewers: "Why Looting takes Place" Paul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-5676952906362147582012-10-11T10:56:39.364-07:002012-10-11T10:56:39.364-07:00person confirmed there was, but I choose not to pu...person confirmed there was, but I choose not to publish their anti-Moslem comment here.<br /><br />I think we can find examples of various groups, religious, political or social destroying each other's monuments - the United States where this Pastor Terry Jones wannabe lives no doubt is no exception. Paul Barfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-71192879769451958102012-10-10T19:53:59.152-07:002012-10-10T19:53:59.152-07:00The sites are being"protected" or not?
...The sites are being"protected" or not? <br /><br />As I said this blog contains reference to a whole host of sites in the US looted to get artefacts to collect or sell, there was one about "twitchers" in the Ozarks, there has been the scandalous Four Corners case, I have mentioned several BDM investigations, there was the Alaskan mammoth tusk the other day. The rock art was mentioned because most of it was out in the "desert". <br /><br />Is there any reason the examples you cite all come from the Moslem world "Moneyjihad"? <br /><br />Paul Barfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-16213407085128271482012-10-10T18:20:42.243-07:002012-10-10T18:20:42.243-07:00The articles you linked to deal more with discrete...The articles you linked to deal more with discrete acts of vandalism than a major black market of smuggling relics (like we saw in Iraq and see in Syria now) or a systematic attempt to eliminate artifacts for religious reasons, as we saw with the Taliban in Afghanistan with Buddhist statues, the threats of current Egyptian leadership against pharaonic sites, and in Mali.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com