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Related: About this forumISIS Blows Up Jonah's Tomb
ISIS militants in Iraq have destroyed what is thought to be the burial site of the prophet Jonah. In a video spread widely on the Internet, ISIS appears to have blown up the tomb built for the man who many Jews, Christians and Muslims believe was swallowed by a whale. The Al Qaeda splinter group has made a habit of destroying important religious sites they deem counter to their fundamentalist beliefs.
Ok, yeah. Bomb these fuckers back to the stone age.
Sorry, but the Taliban in Afghanistan got what they deserved after destroying ancient Buddhas.
Fuck these lunatics.
Boomerproud
(7,963 posts)The silence is deafening.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)wolfisis
(4 posts)what this group did was horrible. i just want them to quit using my Goddess's name when they talk about the terrorists. they are the Islamic State not Isis.my Goddess is about love and peace not terrorism.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)A thorough cleansing of ALL religious artifacts would level the playing fields. In fact..... when no supernatural deities intervened and meted out revenge, it might awaken some to the worthlessness of ALL that crap!
onehandle
(51,122 posts)delrem
(9,688 posts)That's just a story in a book that quite some number consider "the word of God".
But I'm curious, were these ISIS people "terrorists" or "moderate rebels".
I ask, because "the west" and "allies of the west" seem so embedded.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)But history is history.
Personally, I think Israelis, Muslims, Christians, etc should be thrown out of the holy sites in the Middle East, and they should be taken over by historians protected by the UN.
delrem
(9,688 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)delrem
(9,688 posts)jamzrockz
(1,333 posts)i.e. toppling the current secular administration in Syria. Also looking at the result from Libya and the dictatorships in the Gulf states that suppoirt them, any rebel who still thinks the cause is worth fighting for is no moderate.
Warpy
(111,330 posts)But yeah, vandalism by religious purists is the worst kind. They always want to erase the past rather than build upon it.
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)delrem
(9,688 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,376 posts)when members of an American religious evangelical loon cult decided to send a message. But ya know, when it happens to certain groups, it never happened at all!!!
marble falls
(57,162 posts)jamzrockz
(1,333 posts)Meet your "liberators"