Posted on 04/24/2015 5:16:20 AM PDT by SJackson
The extremist group also considers praying or worshiping at graves sites to be idolatry.
The Islamic State released yet another set of images of militants desecrating Christian history, this time shattering ancient graves in Mosul.
The images were released in a post on official Islamic State media last week entitled” Leveling Graves and Erasing Pagan Symbols.”
"The April 16 destruction of Christian graves in Mosul, Iraq by the Islamic State (ISIS) is part of the organization's ongoing campaign against Christianity, in the Middle East and throughout the Muslim world," Steven Stalinsky, executive director of The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), who flagged the photos, told FOX News.
The images appeared on various jihadist websites before being obtained by MEMRI. Photos show militants using sledgehammers to destroy gravestones and removing any Christian imagery from the site. ISIS released a written justification for the destruction that was released along with the photos, claiming that the hadith states that graves higher than ground level must be destroyed. Additionally, any image or inscription on such a grave must be erased.
"It is important to note that ISIS is documenting its destruction and desecration of Christian sites and its attacks on Christian communities, and on other minorities' sites and communities, and is disseminating these images worldwide via social media," Stalinsky explained. "By doing this, ISIS is not only showcasing what it is doing, but is also mocking the West by demonstrating that it is doing so freely, with no one trying to stop it."
The extremist group also considers praying or worshiping at grave sites to be idolatry. This interpretation of the Muslim hadith directly plays into the extremist ISIS ideology of cultural cleansing.
Since its inception, ISIS has called for the eradication of Christianity, and has made a point of expelling the religion from all it’s controlled territories. In addition to brutally executing Middle Eastern members of the Christian faith, the extremist group has also destroyed Christian Churches, monasteries and holy sites in the region.
ISIS has occupied the Northern Iraqi city of Mosul since June 2014, and has turned the city into the extremist group’s stronghold in the region.
History destroyed (like America, itself) by
ISIS, created by Obama, McCain and
“What difference does it make?” Clinton.
I wonder if humans will look back at this as a second Dark Age. Probably not. Humanity can’t survive what’s going on right now. That’s why I think Jesus will come back soon.
Wouldn’t it be nice is someone in power would get angry about this?
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Why dont we just help them and LEVEL that big black rock they worship at mecca ?
This is getting really hard to take. And yet no one really seems to care.
Now that`s an idea... :)
Well, that is so very liberal of them.
Indeed. And today, note the caterwauling over the Armenian Genocide. Guess what? Those people suffered and died. They’ve been dead for a hundred years, and no amount of any grieving and groveling will resurrect them. If these people today wish to salve their collective conscience, let them go after those who at this point in time are committing the exact atrocities that happened during that Armenian Genocide. What? No? Figures, just more rhetoric and empty acts of remembrance. Sorry to be so cynical, but look what the world’s inaction in the face of aggression has etched into the history books!
And a couple of years ago they were destroying British military cemeteries in Libya.
What good has islam brought the world other than destruction and murder?
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