OPINION: Waging War against the Dead

Posted on AllSides March 14th, 2019
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OPINION

Destroying history will not make you feel good about the present.

The 21st century is in danger of becoming an era of statue smashing and historical erasure. Not since the iconoclasts of the Byzantine Empire or the epidemic of statue destruction during the French Revolution has the world seen anything like the current war on the past.

In 2001, the primeval Taliban blew up two ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan on grounds that their very existence was sacrilegious to Islam.

In 2015, ISIS militants entered a museum in Mosul, Iraq,...

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https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/destroying-history-confederate-statues-christopher-columbus/

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