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    "Many different enemies controlled Mosul over the past 900 years but none of them dared to destroy the Hadba," said Ziad, an art student in Mosul. "By bombing the minaret, they proved they are the worst of all barbarian groups in history."


    Demonstrating, once again, that the Daesh criminal gang of degenerate terrorists are the enemy of Muslims.

    Anger in Mosul as Islamic State destroys historic mosque

    The leaning al-Hadba minaret that towered over Mosul for 850 years lay in ruins on Thursday, demolished by retreating Islamic State militants, but Iraq's prime minister said the act marked their final defeat in the city.

    "In the early morning, I climbed up to the roof of my house and was stunned to see the Hadba minaret had gone," Nashwan, a day-laborer who lives near the mosque, said by phone. "I felt I had lost a son of mine."

    His words echoed the shock and anger of many over the destruction of the Grand al-Nuri Mosque along with its famous minaret, known affectionately as "the hunchback" by Iraqis.

    The demolition came on Wednesday night as Iraqi forces closed in on the mosque, which carried enormous symbolic importance for Islamic State (IS). It was there that its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a "caliphate" as militants seized swathes of Syria and Iraq. He proclaimed himself the caliph, ruler of all Muslims, from the mosque's pulpit.

    Some analysts said the destruction of the mosque could in fact speed the advance of government forces, which had been slowed by fear of damaging it.
    Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi went further. "Blowing up the al-Hadba minaret and the al-Nuri mosque amounts to an official acknowledgement of defeat," he said on his website.

    "It's a matter of a few days and we will announce the total liberation of Mosul," he later told reporters in Baghdad, pledging to rebuild the mosque and other historical sites destroyed by the insurgents.

    The jihadists appear to have chosen to blow up the mosque rather than see their flag torn down by U.S.-backed Iraqi forces battling through the maze of narrow alleys and streets of the Old City, the last district of Mosul still under the control of Islamic State.

    In the dawn light, all that remained was the base projecting from shattered masonry. A video on social media showed the minaret collapsing vertically, throwing up a pall of sand and dust.

    Defense analysts said the decision to destroy the mosque could indicate the militants were on the verge of collapse.

    Islamic State fighters have destroyed many Muslim religious sites and Christian churches and shrines, as well as ancient Assyrian and Roman-era sites in Iraq and in Syria.

    "Many different enemies controlled Mosul over the past 900 years but none of them dared to destroy the Hadba," said Ziad, an art student in Mosul.
    "By bombing the minaret, they proved they are the worst of all barbarian groups in history."

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-m...-idUSKBN19D18O

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    pretty sure they are all devout muslims.
    is on twitter @realtsuke

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    Leaning Minaret Mosque blown up by ISIS in Mosul
    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...03#post1943103

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    I appreciated Professor Cole's observation that compared to the barbarity inflicted by Daesh on actual humans - Muslims, Christians, and Yazidis - perhaps a mere architectural structure is not that important in the grand scheme of things. It almost seems trivial and uncouth to discuss a building, when untold numbers of people and been murdered, brutalized, and enslaved by the Daesh psychopaths. But history matters as Professor Cole notes, and the consciousness of a nation is embedded in the landscape, the shared collective experiences, and the architectural heritage.

    Daesh has beheaded and otherwise slaughtered so many real, living human beings that it is perhaps wrong to concentrate on the destruction of a mere building.

    But historical consciousness matters, and helps make us who we are. Mosulis were fiercely proud of the great mosque. Its minaret famously leaned, and that seems to have started happening soon after it was built. The medieval traveler Ibn Battuta spoke of seeing a leaning structure at the city’s citadel, and he likely was referring to this mosque.

    https://www.juancole.com/2017/06/apo...sm-mosque.html

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    yep.Syriaand Iraq have many World Heritage Sites -this was probably one.

    They are the cultural institutional ( leftovers in some places) that defines a people by tribe or religion..

    daesh also destroyed the Mosul museum . the losses are staggering robbing much of heritage of the ages.



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    hows the destruction of a Holy Site that Christians believe held the tomb of the Prophet Jonah, swallowed by the whale in biblical stories. The tomb was inside a Sunni mosque called the Mosque of the Prophet Younis. The Tomb of Jonah was a holy site for Muslims and Christians alike.


    Militants belonging to ISIS planted explosives around the tomb and detonated them remotely Thursday

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    yep.Syriaand Iraq have many World Heritage Sites -this was probably one.

    They are the cultural institutional ( leftovers in some places) that defines a people by tribe or religion..

    daesh also destroyed the Mosul museum . the losses are staggering robbing much of heritage of the ages.
    Daesh: a death cult
    Daesh: a gang of criminal degenerates
    Daesh: a mob of psychotic miscreants

    Daesh: not Islamic and not Muslim


    In Mosul, the Islamic State's defining betrayal of Islam

    This week, the Islamic State destroyed Mosul's most sacred mosque: The Great Mosque of al-Nuri.

    Think about that carefully.

    The Islamic State, which claims to be the ordained servant of God on Earth, blew up one its God's holiest houses.

    That tells you everything you need to know about these terrorists.

    Still, while all mosques are sacred within Islam, the al-Nuri mosque was special. Constructed in the 12th century, its age and unique architecture stood as a marker for Mosul.

    The Sunni mosque endured Mongol invasions, the feuds of the Ottoman Empire, the and World Wars I and II, Saddam Hussein's brutality, and the 2003-2009 chaos of al Qaeda in Iraq. It stood for nearly 850 years. Until this week.

    The terrorists must be confronted for this crime against humanity and Sunni Islam. The Iraqi government should work expediently to provide proof of Islamic State responsibility.

    Doing so would unveil the terrorists for their true nature. The Islamic State cloaks itself in a narrative of Islamic service. But their annihilation of a Sunni mosque speaks to a different reality.

    The Islamic State is a death cult. And its master, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is the defining Islamic apostate.

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in...rticle/2626754
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Daesh: a death cult
    Daesh: a gang of criminal degenerates
    Daesh: a mob of psychotic miscreants

    Daesh: not Islamic and not Muslim
    The Islamic State is a death cult. And its master, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is the defining Islamic apostate.
    a worldwide cult? able to seize large area and field an army? with bureaucratic functions?
    Looks more like a state to me.

    daesh would call other Muslims apostates.

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