Muslim world

But as time proceeded, the Muslim power got less and less tolerant and eventually pushed these out to where they are protected now because they will be destroyed if they are found.

Yeah, there's a ton of videos of some of the Islamic sects and stuff going into ancient temples and just destroying everything.

I mean, there's videos of them taking hammers and mallets and bats in there and just tearing everything up.

Any type of statue and ancient relic that is contrary to their narrative, they're going to try to destroy it.

And it's really weird whenever someone, you know, even in biblical times when a nation gets conquered, the first thing they do is they go to all of their holy relics and gods or whatever and they try to destroy everything so that there's no more memory of it here on the earth.

And so that's what the U.S. has been doing.

That's what the Islamic nations have been doing and trying to, you know, to push their agenda and their narrative.

So years later, we don't understand what's what anymore.

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... to where they are protected now because they will be destroyed if they are found.

Yeah, there's a ton of, of videos of, uh, some of the is- is- Islamic sects and stuff going into ancient temples and just destroying everything.

I mean, there's videos of them taking hammers and mallets and bats in there and just tearing everything up.

Any type of statue and ancient relic that, uh, is contrary to their narrative, uh, they're gonna try to destroy it.

Whenever, uh, someone, you know, even in biblical times, when a, a, a nation gets conquered, the first thing they do is they go to all of their holy relics and gods or whatever, and they try to destroy everything, um, so that there's no more memory of it here on the Earth.

And so that's what the US has, ha- has been doing.

That's what the Islamic nations have been doing and trying to, you know, to push their agenda and their narrative.

So years later, we don't understand what's what anymore.

... to where they are protected now because they will be destroyed if they are found.

Yeah, there's a ton of, of videos of, uh, some of the is- is- Islamic sects and stuff going into ancient temples and just destroying everything.

I mean, there's videos of them taking hammers and mallets and bats in there and just tearing everything up.

Any type of statue and ancient relic that, uh, is contrary to their narrative, uh, they're gonna try to destroy it.

Whenever Uh, someone, you know, even in biblical times when a, a, a nation gets conquered, the first thing they do is they go to all of their holy relics and gods or whatever, and they try to destroy everything, um, so that there's no more memory of it here on the Earth.

And so that's what the US has, ha- has been doing.

That's what the Islamic nations have been doing in trying to, you know, to push their agenda and their narrative.

So years later, we don't understand what's what anymore.

People, if you watch the news, it's like some giant country over there oppressing the tiny little Middle Eastern countries, the tiny little Arabs.

Um, Israel is, uh, is a tiny speck in the middle of a giant and powerful, uh, world of Middle Eastern nations, all the Islamic nations that wanna see Israelis dead.

So they've had to become powerful.

They've had to get their military dialed in because they've been wanting to kill Jews as long as they've been a nation, since 1948.