Who will save the monuments?

Seriously. Who will save the monuments?


The question came up at Dhimmi Watch about a month ago, & I stumbled upon the post this afternoon while playing hooky from my required stuff. It's a really good question.

Already statues have been vandalized by Muslims in public places, and in churches, in both France and Italy. The destruction of the monuments and artifacts and hence part of the histories of Infidels, that so many Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Hindus, and Buddhists in the Middle East, in North Africa, in the Balkans and southeastern Europe, in Central Asia and Hindustan and in southeast Asia know well, now has come to Western Europe. What will happen in Italy, where every street corner in Rome has something that could be damaged by determined Muslims? What will happen to the churches, to the frescoes (including that which Muslims have been taped planning to destroy in Bologna), to the paintings in the Louvre, the Prado, the National Gallery, the Rijksmuseum, the Alte Pinakothek, the Uffizi? Has any organized association of museum curators, or of art scholars, even dared to think of organizing a conference on the protection of art in Europe, and the prohibitions of Islam against sculpture of all kinds, against paintings of living creatures?

I fear that too many of the things which soothe the soul will be smashed beyond redemption, and then what is left of us will be lost. It is worth asking if museum curators, art scholars, and even the artists at large are willing and able to contribute to the protection of that which makes us human.