Isis destroys historic Christian and Muslim shrines in northern Iraq

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Source: The Guardian

Isis destroys historic Christian and Muslim shrines in northern Iraq

Kareem Shaheen in Beirut
Friday 20 March 2015 19.45 GMT

Islamic State militants appear to have destroyed Christian and Shia Muslim shrines in northern Iraq – including a fourth-century memorial built by an Assyrian king – in the group’s latest rampage against the embattled country’s religious and cultural heritage.

On Thursday, Isis’s “Nineveh province media office” released photographs showing the apparent destruction of the holy sites in Hamdaniya, northern Iraq.

“We are not imported into our lands in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon,” Ignatius Joseph III Yonan, patriarch of Antioch and all the East of the Syrians of the Syriac Catholic church, told the Guardian. “We call on the world that calls itself civilised to help us stay in our land, and defend our rights as citizens.”

“Condemnation is not enough. Our destiny is in great danger, the Christians and the other minorities in Iraq,” he added.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/20/isis-destroys-historic-christian-muslim-shrines-iraq



A picture released by Isis of a Christian shrine in Hamdaniya being destroyed. Photograph: The Guardian

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1. Animals.

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What's a better word to describe ISIS?

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2. SOULESS!!!!!

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3. they are GOADING amerika.