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Israeli police have arrested an American tourist at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem after he hurled works of art to the floor, defacing two second-century Roman statues.
The vandalism late Thursday raised questions about the safety of Israel’s priceless collections and stirred concern about a rise in attacks on cultural heritage in Jerusalem.
Police identified the suspect as a radical 40-year-old Jewish American tourist and said initial questioning suggested he smashed the statues because he considered them “to be idolatrous and contrary to the Torah.”
The man’s lawyer, Nick Kaufman, denied that he had acted out of religious fanaticism.
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Athena and Athens by proxy are probably older then the Torah, jackass. Shesh some people are just fucking idiots.
Anyways, the Athena imagery from the ancient times is always so cool. She was one of the gods that actually looked out of the people, why would you want to destroy something dedicated to her?
Arachne and Medusa says WTF do you mean Athena looked out for people? Athena was petty AF
I hope he gets to pay a badrillion dollar or they make him in to an art piece or something.
Why is there no pictures of the statues?
why are they always Americans? if i ever travel abroad, I’m gonna say I’m Canadian. Heck, I’m already a Habs fan, I say ‘eh’ in conversation, and drink Tim Hortons coffee, I’m halfway there!
Sounds like the religious fanatic part is more relevant than the nationality
you’d think that, but they didn’t say ‘a jewish man’ or ‘a jew’, or just ‘a man’, and they mentioned another American who did the same thing. So Nationality matters.
It’s not always Americans, for example the kid who cut down the tree at Hadrian’s wall last week was English.
@greaterthanstupid ISIL bulldozed and dynamited World Heritage sites to rubble. The Taliban blew up the Bamiyan Buddahs. It’s not always Americans.
America doesn’t practice secularism basically at all. As a result, religious fanaticism plays a huge role in American politics and thus American mentality.
