[Foundation-l] Wikimania and the Muhammad pix

[daniwo59 at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/24/2008 4:57:14 AM Eastern Standard Time,  
stephen.bain at gmail.com writes:

It's  showing express support for the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the
spiritual  successor to the Library of Alexandria, and all that  it
represents.



Is it? Or is it just a big building that happens to be built on the site of  
an important intellectual site of two thousand years ago. This article is  
telling: _http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-1552769_ITM_ 
(http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-1552769_ITM) ,  as is this 
_http://books.google.com/books?id=yxVNO_oFmWUC&pg=PA392&lpg=PA392&dq=bibliothe
ca+alexandrina+censorship&source=web&ots=mAuHFVtPeM&sig=CNK55Q9HPInLU3vVDHsmx-
vE1tM#PPA392,M1_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=yxVNO_oFmWUC&pg=PA392&lpg=PA392&dq=bibliotheca+alexandrina+censorship&source=web&ots=mAuHFVtPeM&sig=CNK55
Q9HPInLU3vVDHsmx-vE1tM#PPA392,M1) 
 
As for spiritual successor, I would imagine that to be the LIbrary of  
Congress, the Vatican Library, the Bibliothèque nationale, the Russian State  
Library, or perhaps even the Internet itself.
 
Danny
 



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