Iraq's history smashed to rubble by ISIS

[Musso]

Man, shut the fuck up already, you don't know shit about what people think here. You'd prefer to insult random Americans than the people who who committed genocide on your ass, who you seem to be quite cordial with. Don't pretend to be some cunning geopolitical observer, you clown. You really don't know shit.

I'm insulting the American Christians that stand up for Israel, rather than standing up for the Middle Eastern Christians that are dying every day. Because as a Christian, it is offensive what they do. I have seen videos in which Midwest Baptist Christians pray with Israeli flag in their hand. Furthermore, Republicans always talk about protecting Israel, but never about protecting the Christians like Assyrians that are being exterminated daily. Why? Because ME Christians are geopolitically not convenient.

You are not even an American and you don't live here. Could you please stop making assumptions? Most Christians are very upset about what's going on there and want it to end. We hate ISIS because they kill Christians and others.

How many times do I have to tell you that the US government LIES to us and the Media is complicit in this.

I have lived in US for some time, so I have a pretty good idea. Most Americans are more anti-Iran, anti-Assad, and pro-Israel. Yeah ISIS is a "bad guy" but it is achieving the geopolitical goals of the neo-cons. I have heard very seldom when Americans express solidarity for Middle East Christians, yet solidarity for Israel is a must.

[Anglojew]

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group began bulldozing the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq on Thursday, the government said, in the jihadists' latest attack on the country's historical heritage.

ISIS "assaulted the historic city of Nimrud and bulldozed it with heavy vehicles," the tourism and antiquities ministry said on an official Facebook page.

An Iraqi antiquities official confirmed the news, saying the destruction began after noon prayers on Thursday and that trucks that may have been used to haul away artefacts had also been spotted at the site.

"Until now, we do not know to what extent it was destroyed," the official said on condition of anonymity.

Nimrud, which was founded in the 13th century BC, lies on the Tigris around 30 kilometres (18 miles) southeast of Mosul, Iraq's second city and the main hub of IS in the country.

The destruction at Nimrud, one of the jewels of the Assyrian era, came a week after the jihadist group released a video showing militants armed with sledgehammersand jackhammers smashing priceless ancient artefacts at the Mosul museum.

That attack sparked widespread consternation and alarm, with some archaeologists and heritage experts comparing it to the 2001 demolition of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan by the Taliban.

In the jihadists' extreme interpretation of Islam, statues, idols and shrines are a corruption of the purity of the early Muslim faith and amount to recognising other objects of worship than God.

The group spearheaded a sweeping offensive last June that overran Nineveh province, where Mosul and Nimrud are located, and swept through much of Iraq's Sunni Arab heartland.

Iraqi security forces and allied fighters are battling to regain ground from the jihadists with backing from an international anti-ISIS coalition as well as neighbouring Iran.

But major operations to drive ISIS out of Nineveh are likely months away, leaving the province's irreplaceable historical sites at the mercy of militants who have no regard for Iraq's past.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News...Iraq-govt.html

[zarzian]

i have noticed that ISIS rarely every mentions Israel, doesn't even plan to attack Israel,,,,given the scale of its movement, it's quite telling that it's not touching Israel at all, while killing Christians, Shias is all very heavily publicized and advocated. I seriously think Israel and ISIS have a non-aggression pact.

Finally someone else has noticed the biggest telltale of ISIS's being the tool of the Zionists/Anglo-American faction. What other proof do we need,HELLO!?!? ISIS is supposedly this extra fundamental jihadist Muslim group yet they turn their back,literally, on Israel, whome are supposedly Islams biggest enemy. Wake the fuck up people, realize this ISIS was put in power and are controlled by the west, they are doing the dirty work. So you have to ask, if this is the west's doing, what in god's name do they have planned for the region, because this shit is just gettin started.

[Armenian Bishop]

American Evangelical and Zionist Christians do support Israel, and the weight of the Jewish lobby, for Biblical reasons, but it's in their nature to despise the deliberate destruction of museum artifacts, whether perpetrated by ISIS or anyone else. Deliberately smashing to rubble museum artifacts from the Middle East, North Africa, or elsewhere, is repugnant and unacceptable; our Biblical legacy is better understood with knowledge of these irreplaceable ancient museum pieces.

This doesn't excuse the myopic disinterest from American Evangelical Christians, and other Americans, in the fate of Middle Eastern and Armenian cultural heritage. American Christians tend to have a short sighted vision of Middle Eastern historical geography, which is confined to maps in the Bible. Biblical Maps tend to highlight the Levant, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Southern Europe, everything beyond this area seems to fall of the map of their interest, as is the case with Armenia, despite Mt Ararat.