Jihadists Destroy Mosques And Shrines In Iraq

[Purveyor]

By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, July 6, 2014 8:57 EDT

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 (IS) jihadist group 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.”

Local residents confirmed that the buildings had been destroyed and that militants had occupied two cathedrals as well.

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[Mosby]

1. extreme iconoclasm

Isis wants to destroy the kaaba. I wonder what they think about the dome of the rock.

[Loudly]

2. The authenticity of that threat seems to be in dispute.

It certainly has a puritanical flavor, which makes it plausible and thus powerful as a false flag.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

3. I suppose if the Shia and Sunni have an internecine war that should keep them busy for

a few generations. The ME will go from profiting in the sale of oil to transferring their wealth to Russia, China and the US in the form of weapon sales. God help us if the Iranians do get nukes because that will spark an nuclear arms race almost certain to result in an exchange.

[Igel]

4. Same old, same old.

When the intolerant take over, any religious symbolism that they find distressing has to go.

They have such exquisitely delicate sensibilities, the intolerant.

Thus has it ever been. Andalusia was fine for a while, at least by comparison. Then it became oppressive and discriminatory. In the same way that Egypt was fine for a while, but became a hell-hole. Or Syria. Or the area now occupied by Iraq. Or Turkey.

Or elsewhere. Even Lenin was getting tired of being tolerant.