So very, very sad

[handyjack]

A video released Thursday appears to show Islamic State militants methodically destroying centuries-old artifacts in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which would be the group’s most brazen attack to date on antiquities regarded by the extremists as idolatrous..

http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-iraq-artifacts-islamic-state-20150226-story.html

 

[sooey]

That's not half as sad as what they're doing to people.

 

[Brigadier]

A video released Thursday appears to show Islamic State militants methodically destroying centuries-old artifacts in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which would be the group’s most brazen attack to date on antiquities regarded by the extremists as idolatrous ../quote]


And yet "Mohammed" is perhaps their most popular boy's name

 

[JBR]

Leave them to it.

Eventually, all that will be left in their country will be desert and dead bodies.

The answer: keep out and keep them in.

 

[AronSearle]

Can't say I care.

Nothing of value there except oil, and that won't last forever.

 

[sooey]

Saudis have been doing the same with some of their own historic sites in Mecca. Feckin loons the lot of them.

 

[Dextraneous]

I heard an Iraqi archeologist on the radio yesterday; he sounded distraught and close to tears.

One thing he said was that unlike animals, humans know their history as it's there for us all to see and study. Says it all really

 

[gigz]

Trouble is, when they've destroyed their own countries, they want to come over here and destroy ours. As already said, we keep out but lock them in.

 

[ladylola]

Seems they aren't destroying everything ,some of it is being sold on the black market to fund IS
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-31760656