How the subject has soared to the heights of SELF-IMPORTANCE

The request by this Australian historian is an effrontery to the dignity to the sovereign of a state and an insult to his nation:

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1133106/world

What happened then is done and it is over.

To rake it up and bring shame on the Crown and the State is a very bad deal; and it will evoke irreparable disrespect from the sans culottes for the hierarchical structure of the states and its lawful governance.

The man is an idiot.