Can We Stop YET ANOTHER Islamist Crime Against Human History?

To add to the sickeningly long list that stretches from the torching of the Alexandria Library to the demolition of the Ayodhya Temple to the smashing of Joseph's Tomb to the dynamiting of the Bamyan Buddhas and even the obliteration of Muhammed's birthplace, the Islamists have picked yet another revered ancient site to destroy. The Tomb of Cyrus the Great in Pasargad is set to become the bottom of a new Islamic lake, thus serving to blot out the tangible evidence of an historically greater, and more humane non-Muslim Persia:

A young Iranian, code-named "Cyrus," who has secretly been in contact with the Omedia editorial board for several months, directed our attention to an interesting campaign related to the Persian king who his code name was based on.

The young man claims the ayatollah regime in Iran is endeavoring to sever the link between the Persian people and its historic heritage through measures including the destruction of archaeological sites that are significant to this heritage.
The Iranian government is in the final stages of constructing a dam in the country's south that will submerge the archaeological sites of Pasargad and Persopolis – the ancient capital of the Persian Empire. The site, which is considered exceptional in terms of its archaeological wealth and historical importance, houses the tomb of the Persian King Cyrus. It was Cyrus who liberated Babylonian Jewry from their exile in the famous Declaration of Cyrus (which is mentioned in the book of Ezra in both Hebrew and Aramaic).

In response to the plan to submerge this historic site, in the process covering up the treasures of the past – including Cyrus' tomb – a group of Iranian academics established the Pasargad Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit organization that undertook an international campaign to salvage the important site. On the foundation's website they observe Cyrus Day (on October 29) and are asking people to sign an international petition calling for worldwide intervention, including the involvement of UN agencies like UNESCO, in order to "halt this inhuman cruelty to the extant treasures of human culture."


I believe it was Arthur Koestler who said that the final struggle would pit the Communists versus the ex-Communists. [And he was right!! Gorbachev vs. Yeltsin!!] Now a new kind of struggle is upon us, much less cerebral and much more atavistic and primal. I have concluded that the true dividing line of this struggle is historical truth, and the archeological "artifacts" that evidence it.

OUR final struggle will be between those who love archeology and those who hate it.

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