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“We are a city that has had Islam for one thousand years. We had the greatest teachers and universities. And now these Bedouins, these illiterates, these ignoramuses, tell us how to wear our pants, and how to say our prayers, and how our wives should dress, as if they were the ones who invented the way?”

Religion Prayer Education Islam Africa Literacy Mali Timbuktu

Book:The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts

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“No, forget it. You people took the village and drove away all our business, it's you who must submit to Shariah.”

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Book:The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts

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“We pushed it, but when the State Department says 'you're being a bunch of assholes' what are you going to do?”

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Book:The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts

Source: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts