The Great Library Rescue of Timbuktu

If you want to help, the US-based organization supporting the efforts in Timbuktu (that I volunteered for a couple years back to set up their website and digital fundraising) is T160k: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t160k.org&#x2F;campaign&#x2F;libraries-in-exile&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;t160k.org&#x2F;campaign&#x2F;libraries-in-exile&#x2F;</a>

The story opens with the destruction of hundreds of ~15th century manuscripts. I, for one, would like to know what they were, what was in them and an explanation of what has been erased from the world, for all people, for all time for what may be the most oxymoronic reason ever conceived.

The irony of course is that jihadists seeking to burn down libraries will unwittingly desecrate copies of the Quran.