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Over the past couple of weeks shocking reports have surfaced concerning mass destruction of Iraqs cultural heritage at two locations���the museum in Mosul and the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, located in northern Iraq. Both incidents were perpetrated by the so-called Islamic State. The one at the Mosul. But destruction with sledge hammers, bonfires, and heavy equipment isnt the only threat to priceless objects thousands of years old. Artifacts are also being��.
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Now theyve bulldozed antiquities at Iraqs ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, founded in the 13th century BC, and started to destroy the Parthian city of Hatra, a UNESCO world heritage site. Again the. The Lefts role, then, is just to smugly attack these wicked critics of Islam and to ignore or excuse Islams most threatening exponents.. Those journalists have been so stirred by my article that they confirm exactly my point ��� by attacking not the Islamic State but me.
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BEIRUT (AP) -- The Islamic State groups destruction of the ancient city of Nimrud in northern Iraq is part of a systematic campaign to destroy archaeological sites it says promote apostasy.. The rampage, targeting priceless cultural artifacts often spanning thousands of years, has sparked global outrage and accusations of war crimes.. They also threatened to destroy Mosuls 850-year old Crooked Minaret, but residents surrounded the structure to protect it. ---.
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According to this report, the systematic destruction of antiquities may be the worst disaster to ancient monuments since the Taliban in Afghanistan dynamited the giant statues of Buddha at Bamiyan in 2001 for similar ideological reasons. In mid-January the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis), a Taliban-type movement controlling much of north-east Syria, blew up and destroyed a sixth-century Byzantine mosaic near the city of Raqqa on the Euphrates. MOSAIC.
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(AP)���The Islamic State group released a video on Thursday showing militants using sledgehammers to smash ancient artifacts in Iraqs northern city of Mosul, describing the relics as idols that must be removed.. The day after Baghdad fell to U.S. troops in April 2003, looters burst into the Iraqi National Museum in the Iraqi capital, making off with scores of priceless artifacts and leaving the floor littered with shattered pottery. The U.S. was widely criticized at the time��.
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Today, they began to destroy the 2,000-year-old city. The extent of the damage at Hatra is. A week ago, militants released a video showing them smashing statues and carvings in the Mosuls museum, which is home to priceless Assyrian and Hellenistic.
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Extremists used sledgehammers and power drills to smash ancient artwork as they rampaged through a museum in the northern city of Mosul. Video footage. The Prophet ordered us to get rid of statues and relics, and his companions did the same when.
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In Mosul, Christians were warned to convert to Islam or pay jizya (a tax paid by non-Muslims) and were told if they did not do either of these things they would have to leave the city for good or be killed. Before 2003, the number of.. I could find no reference that the Israel of today is the ancient land of Israel - there is not a clear definition of what the land of Israel referred to so todays Israel was created in 1948 as was Palestine. As for the Quran being violent so is The��.
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After gaining worldwide infamy for kidnappings, beheadings, and bombings, ISIS members have recently bulldozed and jackhammered several ancient pre-Islamic sites in Iraq that date as far back as the 8th century BCE. These sites. Finally, ISIS has threatened, via video message, to destroy the city of Nineveh, the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire that was inhabited by Babylonians, Persians, Chaldeans, and other peoples throughout history. This tendency of��.
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USA Today. By Sarah Lynch. Antiquities Coalition Chair, Deborah Lehr, quoted. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/03/18/islamic-state-archaeological-artifacts/24703975/. CAIRO ��� The Islamic States wanton destruction of priceless. In the past month, the Islamic State has bulldozed the 3,000-year-old city of Nimrud and the ancient ruins of Hatra and posted a video showing the destruction of priceless relics at the Mosul Museum, Rashid said.
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