Murdering Babylon

“ISIS Burning Ancient Rare Books and Manuscripts”
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hate so hungry for holocaust
infidel flesh blood and bone
insufficient to satisfy specious
pretensions to doctrines of
muslim haram pre-Muhammadan
relics of civilized culture must
die disappear be denied all
acknowledgement cleansing
the caliphate evil distilled to a
purity only the cruelest dull mind
could enjoy wreak destruction
tear down the fine totems of
sculptured antiquity smash the
stone brains of the mesopotamian
kings who gave order to chaos
run bulldozers through cherished
remnants of cities erected when
human society first stood emergent
from primitive infancy burn every
manuscript scroll with its record
of organized thought the ideas
who were seeds of philosophy
science mathematics and art
erase every trace of men’s seminal
history hold to your fictions your
brutalized bargains of malpracticed
faith make your world upon ruin
of ruins you need not behead me
for all your destruction has already
brought me to drown in my tears