How Propaganda Breeds Hate

I happened to be in the room earlier when some books were being unpacked. Among them was The Librarian of Basra: A True Story from Iraq. I flipped through it and thought it a rather unlikely account, but was not concerned about it. It was a short time later that I happened to read Alia’s Mission. I was going to leave what I write below as a comment, but I decided instead to write it here, and let Trackback do it’s job. It is probably a little harsher than what I usually write around here, but I felt it is important to say it. Khaled, you really ought to take some time to examine the facts before you get so upset over some long discredited propaganda. Only 26 items have ever been confirmed as missing, and they may be included in some 3000 objects that had been stolen from Iraqi museums and sites by 1996. The biggest problem in the world day are the people who allow hatred to blind them to facts. I sincerely hope you will rethink what you wrote.