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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts) Mon Jul 7, 2014, 06:47 AM Jul 2014

Jihadists destroy mosques and shrines in Iraq

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/06/jihadists-destroy-mosques-and-shrines-in-iraq/

Jihadists destroy mosques and shrines in Iraq
By Agence France-Presse
Sunday, July 6, 2014 8:57 EDT

Jihadists who overran Mosul last month have demolished ancient shrines and mosques in and around the historic northern Iraqi city, residents and social media posts said Saturday.

At least four shrines to Sunni Arab or Sufi figures have been demolished, while six Shiite mosques, or husseiniyahs, have also been destroyed, across militant-held parts of northern Nineveh province, of which Mosul is the capital.

Pictures posted on the Internet by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group showed the Sunni and Sufi shrines were demolished by bulldozers, while the Shiite mosques and shrines were all destroyed by explosives.

The photographs were part of an online statement titled “Demolishing shrines and idols in the state of Nineveh.”

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More pics at: http://rt.com/news/170652-jihadists-destroy-mosques-iraq/

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Jihadists destroy mosques and shrines in Iraq (Original Post) unhappycamper Jul 2014 OP

remember when people were calling for a "Muslim Reformation"? this IS it! MisterP Jul 2014 #1

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1. remember when people were calling for a "Muslim Reformation"? this IS it!

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Mon Jul 7, 2014, 02:58 PM

Jul 2014

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

those Bush-era AEI flacks, ex-Trots, and "liberal hawks" were of course just using "Reformation" as a dogwhistle for "modern and tolerant," which even a cursory contrast of the medieval vs. the early modern periods would show to be entirely laughable--they were just using myths about the Middle Ages to fabricate a new myth about modern geopolitics (i.e. that conflicts from Mauritania to Indonesia are only because the area hasn't "caught up"--that this is some 10th-century throwback surrounded by nice and open democracies)

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