Saturday, July 5, 2014

ISIS blows up and bulldozes ancient shrines and mosques in Iraq


So, where are those massive protests throughout the world, with Muslim occasionally slaughtering each other, like they did when Mohammed cartoons were published. Is this less offensive to their prophet? I don't get it.
(Al Arabiya) Jihadists who overran Mosul last month have demolished ancient shrines and mosques in and around the historic northern Iraqi city, residents and social media posts said Saturday.

At least four shrines to Sunni Arab or Sufi figures have been demolished, while six Shiite mosques, or husseiniyahs, have also been destroyed, across militant-held parts of northern Nineveh province, of which Mosul is the capital.

Pictures posted on the Internet by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) showed the Sunni and Sufi shrines were demolished by bulldozers, while the Shiite mosques and shrines were all destroyed by explosives.

The photographs were part of an online statement titled “Demolishing shrines and idols in the state of Nineveh.”

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