Talk:Michel Aflaq
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Some sources say that in fact the tomb of Michel Aflaq was levelled. If so, it should be covered in article. [1] [2] --Magabund 14:09, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Neither of those sources seem particularly certain. I heard the destruction plan was halteed at the last minute. I got this from my Middle Eastern history professor, who was closely following the incident. This issue seems to have had virtually no coverage in the English language press. My suspicion is that if the tomb was actually destroyed there would have been more coverage and the lack of news articles is thus evidence that the tomb remains. - SimonP 14:25, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)
- After looking around a bit I found some confirming news items, one says that smugglers were arrested with epitaph from the tomb. Another one says: The Iraqi daily al-Ta'akhi paper quoted the source as saying yesterday that the Iraqi police attended the removal process of the "tomb of the founder of the Socialist Arab Baath Party which was removed with the help of vehicles which leveled the tomb to earth." [3] [4]. --Magabund 00:41, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
The tomb is not leveled nor was the building destroyed - is was not even looted. I was there today and all is in order. FEB 8, 2006. Give me an e-mail address and I will send you the pictures from today.
P. McDonald
- If you like you could upload the images to Wikipedia. The encyclopedia could very much use an image of the tomb. To upload a picture you'll need to create and account, once logged in an upload link will appear on the menu to the left. - SimonP 14:36, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Please Correct the Architect's Name
If this is reference to an Iraqi Architect, please make sure you are not referring to Al-Chadirchee. If so, you have misspelled the architect's last name please correct it!
A tomb was built for him in Baghdad designed by Chadagee that is widely regarded as a work of great artistic merit, unlike most of the Hussein regime’s creations
The assertion by « some…mostly Islamic fundamentalist propagandists» that Michel Aflaq’s mother was Jewish is preposterously ridiculous: frankly, it doesn’t deserve to be in a Wiki article
Aflaq’s father was a merchant of Christian Lebanese descent born in Midân, a multi-ethnic borough of Damascus His mother was a Greek-Orthodox Christian from the quarter of Saint Thomas (“Bâb Tumah”), the ancient Byzantine ghetto of the old city of Damascus
Aflaq was a staunchly secular modernist thinker albeit influenced by the Christian mystique of Dostoyevski to which he was exposed while studying European literature at the Sorbonne
[edit] Messy
This article still needs tightening and clarification. There are unqualified statements of fact that would not be appropriate for an encyclopedia entry, such as:
While considered an "ideological founder" of the Pan-Arab movement, Michel Aflaq had little connection to the governments that took power in Syria under the name of the Ba'ath party in 1963.
The original said he was "the ideological founder of the movement." Which movement? The Ba'ath? In this case, my interpolation of "Pan-Arab" may be incorrect. Please feel free to correct it. Is it accurate to say he was the founder of the Ba'ath Party? Is it a party or a movement? And so on, striving for accuracy. --Mylitta 08:37, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
