ISIS is Destroying and Pawning Ancient Artifacts

Fox ^ | 10/23/14 | Ben Wedeman

[PIF]

Few are the lands that can boast a history as deep and rich as Iraq and nowhere is that more apparent than in Baghdad's Iraqi museum ...

"They are people from another planet," he says. "They take pride in nothing. Their mentality is completely petrified. They don't think of all this as the accomplishments of humanity. Aliens with an alien ideology, bent on destroying millennia of history.

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[PIF]

And what we thought the Muslim Brotherhood would do in Egypt is a reality in Iraq.

[nuconvert]

Had to know this would happen.

[ruiner]

It really is quite sad. I doubt many Americans realize that ancient Babylon is in Iraq.

[Diogenesis]

Let us “thank” Obola and McCain who made ISIS
what it is. Terrorists, rapists and slavers.

[VanShuyten]

I thought most of the good stuff was already looted after Saddam fell.

[Shady]

The only way to defeat this insane barbarism is to destroy it.

[mac_truck]

Members of the so-called moderate opposition are also engaged in this looting of antiquity.

[vetvetdoug]

Trash is trash. One cannot change what is reality.

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

I’ll take the ancient Babylonian Fertility Figure for a thousand, Alec.

What is now offered for sale by ISIS?

Correct.

[soycd]

muslim scum just doing what muslim scum has always done.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

To The Victor Goes The Spoils!

What a world of hurt we’re in.

[originalbuckeye]

Reminiscent of the Taliban destroying the Buddhas of Bamiyan before 9/11. Who would destroy such artifacts? Ones with no conscience.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

They take pride in nothing. Their mentality is completely petrified. They don't think of all this as the accomplishments of humanity.

This describes the mentality of moslems very well.

[hal ogen]

I guess this means that the troglodyte subhuman isis idiots are advancing their culture. At least they are selling the artifacts rather than merely grinding them to dust.

[PIF]

Only the stuff in the Baghdad museum.

ISIS is now looting and destroying things in the territory it holds - many archeology sites around Mosul (ISIS controlled) are now or shortly will be no more.

[super7man]

My wife and I spent some time in the British Museum last month and I am really glad the British plundered the world in the 1800’s. At least the artifacts have been preserved for history’s sake.

[onedoug]

soebarkah doesn’t care about artifacts. It’s not islamic.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks PIF. If GWB were President, my a-hole relatives would be blaming this on him. Since their Kenyan-born muzzie golden child is practicing his put in the Oval Office, not a peep.

[COBOL2Java]

It really is quite sad. I doubt many Americans realize that ancient Babylon is in Iraq.

"Babylon?! Who cares about some old TV series?"

"Ooh! They're talking about the Kardashians on The View!"

[Scoutmaster]

Destroying ancient artifacts isn't as bad as the wanton killing by ISIS.

IMO, however, it's one of the greatest crimes that a man may commit upon humanity.