Every time I prepare my material on the Ancient Near East, I get depressed.

[Coventina]

I hope there is an afterlife, and that there is a special place in hell for ISIS.

Not only do they torture and kill people, but they attempt to erase THEIR OWN HISTORY!!

Every time I prepare my lectures on Kalhu, Nimrud, and Nineveh I just get so depressed.

All that history, gone forever.

Their own ancestors' proud legacy.

These morons couldn't build something grand and beautiful if their lives depended on it.

Murderous jerks.

[TeapotInATempest]

1. It's all irreplaceable

It pains me physically to think what has been lost forever.

[Oneironaut]

2. The "we need to wipe the lands of these infidel statues!" was really just an excuse to loot and sell

artifacts. ISIS as a whole is a scumbag money-centric operation that uses religion as an excuse.

[Coventina]

4. It has gone far beyond that, though. They blew up and bulldozed entire sites.

All you see here is destroyed, for example.

[Hekate]

3. I know, I know.

Like you, I have a special interest in that area.

In addition, I didn't even know Buddhism made it as far as Afghanistan until the Taliban (or whoever it was at the time) bombarded and destroyed ancient carvings of the Buddha.

[Coventina]

5. Yes, that was the Taliban.

Horrible loss to humanity.

And, really doesn't demonstrate much faith in your faith, now does it?