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'Britain's Atlantis' - a hidden underwater world swallowed by the North Sea - has been discovered by divers working with science teams from the University of St Andrews.

Doggerland, a huge area of dry land that stretched from Scotland to Denmark was slowly submerged by water between 18,000 BC and 5,500 BC.

Divers from oil companies have found remains of a 'drowned world' with a population of tens of thousands - which might once have been the 'real heartland' of Europe.

A team of climatologists, archaeologists and geophysicists has now mapped the area using new data from oil companies - and revealed the full extent of a 'lost land' once roamed by mammoths.

According to several reports in the Arabic media, prominent Muslim clerics have begun to call for the demolition of Egypt's Great Pyramids—or, in the words of Saudi Sheikh Ali bin Said al-Rabi'i, those "symbols of paganism," which Egypt's Salafi party has long planned to cover with wax. Most recently, Bahrain's "Sheikh of Sunni Sheikhs" and President of National Unity, Abd al-Latif al-Mahmoud, called on Egypt's new president, Muhammad Morsi, to "destroy the Pyramids and accomplish what Amr bin al-As could not."

This is a reference to the Muslim Prophet Muhammad's companion, Amr bin al-As and his Arabian tribesmen, who invaded and conquered Egypt circa 641. Under al-As and subsequent Muslim rule, many Egyptian antiquities were destroyed as relics of infidelity. While most Western academics argue otherwise, according to early Muslim writers, the great Library of Alexandria itself—deemed a repository of pagan knowledge contradicting the Koran—was destroyed under bin al-As's reign and in compliance with Caliph Omar's command.

However, while book-burning was a simple process in the 7th century, destroying the mountain-like pyramids and their guardian Sphinx was not—even if Egypt's Medieval Mamluk rulers managed to "de-nose" the latter during target practice (though popular legend naturally attributes it to a Westerner, Napoleon).

Now, however, as Bahrain's "Sheikh of Sheikhs" observes, and thanks to modern technology, the pyramids can be destroyed. The only question left is whether Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood president is "pious" enough—if he is willing to complete the Islamization process that started under the hands of Egypt's first Islamic conqueror.

Nor is such a course of action implausible. History is laden with examples of Muslims destroying their own pre-Islamic heritage—starting with Muhammad himself, who destroyed Arabia's Ka'ba temple, transforming it into a mosque.

Asking "What is it about Islam that so often turns its adherents against their own patrimony?" Daniel Pipes provides several examples, from Medieval Muslims in India destroying their forefathers' temples, to contemporary Muslims destroying their ancestors' heritage in Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Malaysia, and Tunisia. Currently, in what the International Criminal Court is describing as a possible "war crime," Islamic fanatics are destroying the ancient legacy of the city of Timbuktu in Mali—all to Islam's triumphant war cry, "Allahu Akbar!"

Much of this hate for their own pre-Islamic heritage is tied to the fact that, traditionally, Muslims do not identify with this or that nation, culture, or language, but only with the Islamic nation—the Umma. Accordingly, while many Egyptians—Muslims and non-Muslims alike—see themselves first and foremost as Egyptians, Islamists have no national identity, identifying only with Islam's "culture," based on the "sunna" of the prophet and Islam's language, Arabic. This sentiment was clearly reflected when the former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Muhammad Akef, recently declared "the hell with Egypt," indicating that the interests of his country are secondary to Islam's.

It is further telling that such calls are being made now—immediately after a Muslim Brotherhood member became Egypt's president. In fact, the same reports discussing the call to demolish the last of the Seven Wonders of the Word, also note that Egyptian Salafis are calling on Morsi to banish all Shias and Baha'is from Egypt.

In other words, Morsi's recent call to release the Blind Sheikh, a terrorist mastermind, from U.S. imprisonment, may be the tip of the iceberg in coming audacity. From calls to legalize Islamic sex-slave marriage to calls to institute "morality police" to calls to destroy Egypt's mountain-like monuments, under Muslim Brotherhood tutelage, the bottle has been uncorked, and the genie unleashed in Egypt.

Will all those international institutions, which make it a point to look the other way whenever human rights abuses are committed by Muslims, lest they appear "Islamophobic," at least take note now that the Great Pyramids appear to be next on Islam's hit list, or will the fact that Muslims are involved silence them once again—even as those most ancient symbols of human civilization are pummeled to the ground?

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James Holmes was studying neuroscience at the University of Colorado
38 people injured including three-month-old baby and six-year-old
At least 12 dead with youngest victim just 12 years old
Shooter listened to one song on repeat beofre shooting
Aspiring sportscaster Jessica Ghawi among those killed
Questions over why young children and babies were at late-night screening
Police sources identify gunman as James Holmes, aged 24
Entered mall cinema in Aurora, Colorado dressed in black and wearing a gas mask and bullet-proof vest 30 minutes into screening
Set off smoke bomb then fired indiscriminately with as many as four guns
Man was arrested without incident in a car park nearby and told the police that explosives were stored at his home
Apartment block in the north of Aurora has been evacuated
Confusion as witnesses thought shooting was part of the film
Worst mass shooting in state since Columbine School Massacre in 1999

NY Police Commissioner said gunman told police he was The Joker
Shooter James Holmes, 24, dropped out from neuroscience PhD at University of Colorado in June
Holmes bought a movie ticket, entered with crowd and put on ballistic gear
Set off smoke bomb then fired indiscriminately with as many as four guns
58 injured and 12 dead, including Jessica Ghawi, AJ Boik, Alex Sullivan, Micayla Medek and Matt McQuinn
Shooter listened to one techno song on repeat before shooting
Holmes arrested nearby and warned apartment was booby-trapped
Killer had arsenal of 6,000 rounds which he bought at local shops and online
President Obama and film director Christopher Nolan paid tribute to victims

Police are investigating an account on a sex cruising website which appears to have been set up by James Holmes, the grad school dropout who allegedly killed 12 people at a screening of the new Batman film on Thursday night.

The AdultFriendFinder page, which belongs to a 24-year-old user calling himself 'ClassicJimbo', features pictures of a man who looks like Holmes with dyed red hair.

He says he is looking for 'casual sex' or a 'fling' - and writes, 'Will you visit me in prison?'

Holmes was equipped with an 'arsenal' of more than 6,000 rounds which could have slaughtered thousands when he allegedly killed or injured 70 cinemagoers, according to the police chief in Aurora, Colorado.

The five victims who had been named by the end of the night were Jessica Ghawi, AJ Boik, Alex Sullivan, Micayla Medek and Matt McQuinn.