The Baghdad librarian's story (BBC) {trying to save secular culture}

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By Jane Beresford
Taking A Stand, BBC Radio 4

The head of Iraq's National Library returned from exile to help rebuild the country's secular heritage, a task which he continues today despite death threats and the murder of colleagues.

Saad Eskander was watching television in London as Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled.

"It was the most important event of my life - certainly the happiest," he says.

At that moment he had one dream, to return to Baghdad.

"Like thousands of Iraqis I wanted to participate in building a new society, a new Iraq... based on equality, on cultural and ethnic diversity," he says.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7177208.stm

[nightrider767]

1. Here's an Iraqi hero advocating secularism..

While secularism is being demonized in this country.

Ahh, the hypocrisy of it all....