ALEXANDRINE LIBRARY DESTROYED - Tyrants, including Islam, seek to destroy every vestige of institutional memory of a society leaving only the darkness of ignorance in its place (JLO)

" And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:" 2 Thessalonians 2:11

    The Alexandrine library was destroyed A.D. 642. The citizens pleaded with the Saracens in vain to spare this treasury of literature. At first Omar yielded. "But stay, we have a duty to perform as Mus- selmen. Examine the books. Burn such as blaspheme the prophet. And those that accord with him are useless. Let them all be burnt!"     

The conflagration lasted for days and the Mss. furnished 4,000 baths with fuel for six months. 

    The books, according to some estimates, numbered about a quarter of a million.