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Isis fighters destroy ancient artefacts at Mosul museum
Isis fighters destroy ancient artefacts at Mosul museum
Islamic State militants ransacked Mosul’s central museum, destroying priceless artefacts that are thousands of years old, in the group’s latest rampage which threatens to upend millennia of coexistence in the Middle East.The destruction of statues and artefacts that date from the Assyrian and Akkadian empires, revealed in a video published by Isis on Thursday, drew ire from the international community and condemnation by activists and minorities that have been attacked by the group. “The birthplace of human civilisation … is being destroyed”, said Kino Gabriel, one of the leaders of the Syriac Military Council – a Christian militia – in a telephone interview with the Guardian from Hassakeh in north-eastern Syria.
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Re: Isis fighters destroy ancient artefacts at Mosul museum
What a tragedy for the world.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Isis fighters destroy ancient artefacts at Mosul museum
Yes, it is a tragedy. This has been tried before. If you saw the movie or read the book, "Monuments Men", you would see the parallels between this and what the Nazis tried to do with the Jewish people. Thinking if you remove and/or destroy their artistic heritage, you remove their history, and thus give them nothing to cherish as part of their history.
It shows how shallow their thinking is, since the history of all peoples are connected and woven into the history of mankind on earth.