article_snippet: all symbols that embody freedom of thought and respect for cultural diversity.
article_snippet: When culture is under attack, we must respond with more knowledge, and with ever greater effort to work to explain the importance of humanity's shared heritage.
article_snippet: This is why we appeal to all cultural institutions, museums, journalists, professors, and scientists to share knowledge widely about the Mesopotamian civilization.
article_snippet: we need to remind ‎all of the history of this land which led the Islamic golden age.
article_snippet: And we also call on all people everywhere -- and especially youth, in Iraq and elsewhere -- to claim the heritage of humanity as all people everywhere -- and especially youth, in Iraq and elsewhere -- own.
article_snippet: Pre-Islamic heritage in Iraq belongs to all Iraqis, just as the Pyramids are written into the identity of all Egyptians.