there is no point to what they do other than they think it's cool and fun to do it.

As long as no one was hurt... Meh.

It is criminal.

People are a different story.

So telling me that some 1500 year old pile of bricks was blown up supposed to get me all upset to the point where I agree with killing people 1/2 a world away? To hell with that.

The second half of your statement is a counter to an argument nobody made.

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Can you provide a link please where i said we should kill people half a the world away?

I said killing people 1/2 a world away.

The point of the op was to bring sttention to the fact it happened.

Was there a service going on?

They are of historical, archaeological, and religious importance, at a minimum.

But I get your attitude...too cool for school. I'd think someone with that avatar would have a little more reverence for the
symbolic sanctity of places of worship, but that's fine.

They are still archeological, they are just flat. As for religious, they still are. I'm not denying that it sucks. ISIS is a group of doody heads. But is this OP supposed to enrage me or something? They blew up buildings. Yes. Does it suck? Yes. Beyond that, am I supposed to be angry, vengeful or something?

I'm angry they murder people. What is the OP trying to get across?

Which, in and of itself, is a bad thing.

I am sorry to inform you that things can happen in the world that will sadden and outrage people who
may elect not to seek your thoughts before they react.

We are heading full on into another war. It will be expensive. It will cause a lot of death, dismemberment, broken families, famine, etc... In light of that, what does my "meh" have to do with any of that? Nothing. Did they kill anyone when they blew up the buildings? If not, then that is a silver lining in my book.

I don't want to go to war over beheadings, bombings, battles, or lines on a map. Least of all over some blown up buildings.

If anyone objected they sure as fuck did.

I think it is up to you to decide how you feel about terrorism.

which are probably the oldest structures in North America, simply because they hate Native Americans, you'd say "Meh"? If they destroyed Indian burial grounds, you'd just shrug it off as no biggie, certainly not worthy of your outrage or condemnation?

Lame.

It's either lose the ancient, historic sites and save people, or, save ancient, historic sites and lose people?

Typical, fallacious appeal ...

Thanks for the thread, n2doc.

What a loss

Why are they destroying their own holy sites?

They consider churches and mosques, especially those of other strains of islam and other religions, as idolatry. Kind of like the Taliban.

Great, not just crazy but extremely crazy.

See this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_early_Islamic_heritage_sites_in_Saudi_Arabia

The Saudi's started to destroy the tomb of the Prophet in Mecca but were stopped by backlash from other Muslims. I suspect ISIS would probably destroy it if they could get away with it.

and or cherish as holy. I question their sincerity to the religion they supposedly place above all else.

but then again they could make money off entrance fees..

When ISIS freaks fuck up the Islamic world by themselves? Utter stupidity.

Why?

Because they are nothing more than death squads and mercenaries funded and trained by the military industrial complex to commit mass genocide against the indigenous people in the middle east and to keep the war machine going.

somehow trying to connect the US to these people blowing up cultural heritage sites?

Now they are getting their stuff blown up.

It's fuqqing evil. An attack on history and civilization.

The destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas by the Taliban in 2001 is one of the great cultural losses of our age.

Before and after:

Thank you very little religious douche bags.

It invites the question, Why in the fuck is it always religion which wants to destroy culture? The answer is simple, because they get away with it, which invites the question, Why does anybody let them get away with it?

I don't. Hold their feet to the fire.

Religion is, as Hitchens so clearly argued, is at its core poisonous. But like Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, Dennett, Stenger, Myers, and all the others, we recognize our history and the incredible arts executed in the name of religion. The only way one can be resolute about ones secular argument is to not forget both the great and horrible things done in god's name. And if one is a student of the arts, one despises the destruction (the desecration) of art merely because it portrays a vision of which you do not approve.

the creation of these 'works of art', just as religion is (allegedly) sanctioning the destruction of them, as well.

It's an interesting conundrum to consider - how religious organizations have bankrolled the creation of art and the destruction of it, in the West and outside it, in just about every culture on earth.