They considered it to be a temptation to idolatry. Thus it had to be destroyed. And Muhammad himself appears to be in favor of such actions: “Narrated ‘Aisha and ‘Abdullah bin ‘Abbas: When the last moment of the life of Allah’s Apostle came he started putting his ‘Khamisa’ on his face and when he felt hot and short of breath he took it off his face and said, ‘May Allah curse the Jews and Christians for they built the places of worship at the graves of their Prophets.’ The Prophet was warning (Muslims) of what those had done.” (Sahih Bukhari 1:8:427)
“Iraqis: Jihadis destroy ancient mosque in Mosul,” by Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Sameer N. Yacoub, Associated Press, July 24, 2014:
BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic extremist militants blew up a revered Muslim shrine traditionally said to be the burial place of the Prophet Jonah in Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, on Thursday, residents of the city said.
The residents said the Islamic State militants, who overran Mosul in June and imposed their harsh interpretation of Islamic law on the city, first ordered everyone out of the Mosque of the Prophet Younis, or Jonah, then blew it up.
The mosque was built on an archaeological site dating back to 8th century BC and is said to be the burial place of the prophet, who in stories from both the Bible and Quran is swallowed by a whale.
It was renovated in the 1990’s under Iraq’s late dictator Saddam Hussein and until the recent militant blitz that engulfed Mosul, remained a popular destination for religious pilgrims from around the world.
Several nearby houses were also damaged by the blast, said the residents, speaking on condition of anonymity because they feared for their own safety.
The residents told The Associated Press that the militants claimed the mosque had become a place for apostasy, not prayer. The extremists also blew up another mosque nearby on Thursday, Imam Aoun Bin al-Hassan mosque, they said….
eib says
Jonah was a prophet of God. Not a prophet of Allah.
There is no stronger proof that the two deities are different than the behavior of Isis here.
They do not honor God.
They despise the Scriptures.
They worship profanely.
They are evil to the core.
AnneM says
They simply worship satan the devil.
Allah = Satan.
Aryan Hindu says
Allah is an alien pimp.
Tom says
They blew up a mosque, not a church. The mosque was a mosque built and run by other Muslims, who revered Jonah as a prophet, and who honored his God as their God. The whole thing reminds me of the Iconclasts during the reformation. It’s very sad to go to England and elsewhere and see what those of a similar mindset destroyed.
Mirren10 says
*That* was over 350 years ago. And it was done by a minority of zealots, such as the Levellers.
Cromwell punished those involved.
*This* is being done by IS, that makes it a state/religious *policy*
Your rather witless attempts at moral equivalency won’t get any traction here; try loonwatch, they love that sort of nonsense.
Ralph says
With that said; Their Allah was the moon god and he had three daughters(star’s) and look at the top of their Mosque’s and you will see the resemblances.
Richie says
I hope the Hindus in India defend their temples against Muslim savages-I fear this event will embolden Muslims everywhere to destroy any and all shrines from other religions. The Hindus come to mind, as their peaceful faith is rich with temples and figures. Muslims may feel the need t destroy them
Gail Griffin says
Or on Egypt. What will nations do if they go after the pyramids.
Jay Boo says
the pyramids. (are you insane?)
gravenimage says
Not really, Jay Boo. Not only have Muslims in Egypt destroyed many ancient artifacts—they attacked the Egyptian Museum and destroyed the Egyptian Library—but then we have *this*:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/pyramids-sphinx-destruction-murgan-salem-al-gohary-egyptian-jihadist_n_2121446.html
Whether these barbarians will ultimately be able to carry out this destruction is another matter—but then, who could have envisioned the Taliban successfully destroying the Bamiyan Buddhas?
andrew sapia says
It’s already been tried. I believe some Muslim leader spent a great deal of time and effort to dismantle the great pyramid and gave up.
Saviour says
We are witnessing all out hell and the world sits idly by … The USA, Russia, China need to hold peace talks and come together as one and destroy this evil. After that they can go back to hating one another ..
mariam rove says
Jihadist V. Jihdists…Muslims V. Muslims, And the winner is: Stay tuned!!!!!!!!!!!m
john spielman says
i can’t wait until they capture Mecca. Wonder what will they do to the black stone of the kaaba, which is fondled and kissed by the faithful to get free bonus points to earn a place in that brothel in the sky?
Gail Griffin says
Oh that would be a good one. Let’s cross our fingers.
Gail Griffin says
Everyone can we have some fun putting a wager on it. .50 on ,on,on hummmm!!!
John C. Barile says
I put 100 on Khalifah Ibrahim al-Baghdadi!
Xero_G says
Aren’t all major religions more or less the same?
Christian shrine : beautiful building, precious artwork, reverent people calling for peace and goodwill towards men.
Islamic shrine : demolished building, headless corpses, masked gunmen calling for genocide.
Anonamustafa says
>Islamic extremist militants
Militants, that happen to be extremist,that happen to be Islamic is what AP is implying….
> harsh interpretation of Islamic law
Isn’t talking about the Qu’ran like that sacrilege?
Silly AP
eib says
It could be, but you have only to look at the fate of two clerics in Nigeria this year to see how the sacreligious nihilistic punks defend their ideology from honest critique.
Angemon says
Has Feisal Abdul Rauf came up with any plans to build some sort of triumphal mosque on the ruins of the demolished mosque? Someone should really get to him on that.
You know, there’s a very telling detail in that hadith that will probably go unnoticed by many. “Jews”, “Christians” and “their Prophets”. Shouldn’t it read “our prophets” since islam claims that all jewish and christian prophets are muslim prophets?
slobberingfits says
They certainly know Islam and are very pious .
Donovan Nuera says
So why doesn’t the IDF just storm the Temple Mount and tear down the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock? I mean, the muslims get all pee-pee’d off whenever a minor mosque gets a small scratch in it and go on a rampage to avenge their “holy site”. The jihadist have definitely destroyed many real Jewish and Christian holy sites over the years and recently (Church of the Nativity being desecrated by intafada goonsquad, 4th Century Mar Behnam monastery being ransacked, Synagogue in Damascus being destroyed, Jonah’s tomb being destroyed, worshippers at the Western Wall being pelted with rocks from “youths” standing on the ramparts, Jewish gravestones being destroyed on the Mount of Olives, Syrian and Iraqi churches bombed, St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna being vandalized without any consequence, etc…) that barely raises a peep out of the western media and the milquetoast Vatican. I mean the whole story of mohammad on a flying monster meeting up with Jesus and Allah one night in Jerusalem after an 1800 mile flight seems like the same story I hear on Friday nights in the ER from drunk bipolar people off of their lithium or Risperdal when they are floridly manic and psychotic. Were there any witnesses? At least with Judeo-Christian histories, there were witnesses to many miracles. I don’t think that this mosque and Dome of the Rock should even count as “holy” sites as there is nothing ever happened there to begin with. I mean, the Palestinians hate the Jews and the Palestinian Christians really should not give a damn if the mosque goes bye-bye. The Israelis need to offer protection to the Christians from the muslims in the long run; the Christian population in Bethlehem is not shrinking due to the Israelis…..
bernie says
Also, one of the buildings destroyed during the heinous 9/11 attacks was Saint Nicholas’ Greek Orthodox Church, when debris from the Twin Towers and the 3rd WTC building fell down on it.
gravenimage says
This used to be a Christian church.
Supremacist Muslims build a Mosque over a non-Muslim place of worship—then even more pious Muslims come along and blow the thing up.
God, I hate Islam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosques_and_shrines_of_Mosul#The_Mosque_of_the_Prophet_Yunus_.28Jonah.29
Mazo says
Like what spanish imperialists did when they built catholic churches on top of razed Aztec Temples, or western imperialists have tried to do many times to Temples in China, seizing them and turning them into churches.
dumbledoresarmy says
You can screech whataboutery and puerile insults all you like, it doesn’t alter the fact that Muslims – Muslims doing exactly what their instruction book told them to do – destroyed *this* site and many, many others.
And you can’t alter the fact that this site *was* a church before it was seized by Muslims and turned into a mosque.
Given that most of the growth of the church in China has taken place within the past sixty years in the *non-colonial* period, and in the teeth of persistent and sometimes savage official persecution, and that most existing church buildings in modern China are *new*, I doubt that there are anywhere near as many churches built, as you claim, on former pagan temple locations, as there are mosques squatting on top of attacked-and-destroyed mosques, synagogues, churches, and Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Zoroastrian temples. If you try and pretend that there are, you will fall flat on your face, given the *enormous* – almost uncountable – number of Hindu temples, alone, that were razed and then squatted on by Mohammedans in the course of 1200 years of nonstop Jihad in India.
Just go away, Mohammedan. You’re not convincing any of us. You belong to a vile, vicious, world-ruining, dog-hating, music-hating, art-destroying, loveless woman-hating people-enslaving Death Cult and Crime Syndicate/ Extortion Racket, the Arab Imperial Cult of Blood and War and murder and lies and slavery and rape, and no amount of whataboutery and halftruths and outright BS nonsense and lies can alter that.
You’re a slave; a slave of a long-dead and very evil Arab warlord, Mohammed the Mad. And allah the arab demon of blood and war is squatting inside your head and **eating your soul**; unless you ditch Islam, then one day there will be nothing left of *you*; your eyes will be empty and cold, without light, with a demon – pure hate, pure negativity – looking out of them at a world that it desires to destroy.
Mazo says
The Boxer Rebellion was set off, among other things (like murdering innocent civilians), by western imperialist missionaries seizing a Chinese Temple (which was in active use) to convert it into a Church, abusing their powers of extraterritoriality to steal land from non-Christians and seize it for the Church.
P.S.
Quit projecting your self psychiatric evaluation on others.
Daniel Triplett says
That really puts it into perspective. You have an impressive command of language.
Every Muslim should read that. If those words don’t convince them, I don’t know what will. They just don’t ever seem to get it.
I’m coming to the conclusion that no words will ever persuade them, and the only thing they’ll respect is the behavioral-adjusting sword.
andrew sapia says
Beautiful!!!
bernie says
Mazo: what the Spaniards did wasn’t right, but the fact remains that Aztec temples were centers of loads of bloody human sacrifice and murder, and not peaceful worship. Ever see “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”? That stuff actually went on in Aztec temples, and almost never Hindu ones (even ones dedicated to the goddess Kali).
And even if Christians used to do that sometimes, it is very rare today because the Christian faith has undergone much reform, of the kind that Islam has largely yet to do. You just don’t see Christians (Japanese
or foreign) mindlessly vandalizing statues of Buddha in Japan, as a Saudi student recently did there.
eib says
The British fought hard in Afghanistan, but never destroyed the Bamyan Buddhas.
The British fought in Afghanistan, but never destroyed the once rich agricultural terracing of the landscape.
Muslims turned a fruitful country into a desert.
They devalue and destroy everything they touch.
Mazo says
At the same time in Spain in other European countries, women were burnt at stake for witchcraft, thousands of people were tortured and executed by the Inquisition for heresy in Spain, and there were multitudes of tortuous executions in use like drawing and quartering, I don’t see how Spain had any moral high ground over the Aztecs.
Angemon says
So we can’t talk about the destruction of the (supposed) resting place of a biblical prophet because centuries ago Spaniards killed people? Oh great sage, please shine more of your wisdom upon us! We’re not worthy! WE’RE NOT WORTHY!!!
andrew sapia says
the difference is that when Christians behaved that way it was going against the teachings of Christ and the scriptures, so that when the church reformed by trying to get back to the basics, the teachings of Christ and the scriptures, they had to say, wait this is antithetical to the teachings of Christ. Whereas when Islam tries to reform its self, which is just what groups like ISIS rightly claim they are doing, you get things like kidnapping school girls and claiming them as war booty able to be bought and sold as property. You get situations like sending a letter to the US president inviting him and the nation to accept Islam and when they don’t any and all atrocities are permitted because they are infidels that have rejected the prophet. When they get back to basics to reform Islam and rediscover the teachings of the Koran you get war and subjugation and slavery and cutting off limbs and crucifying people. ISIS is just rediscovering early Islam. When they tell Christians convert, pay the extortion or protection money known as Jizya, leave, or be killed, they are simply rediscovering that old time religion. Nothing out of sorts here, this is what Muhammad and his successors did. It was those later infidels that tried to get along.
eib says
Under the Maoist authorities??? Really???
The Spanish imperialists got their playbook straight from the Moslem imperialists who dominated them for 700+ years!!
Mirren10 says
Your comment about the Boxer Rebellion is far too simplistic.
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/battleswars1900s/p/boxerreb.htm
And dumbledoresarmy has got you bang to rights. I really don’t know why you keep infesting JW with your puerile posts, you get creamed every time.
Perhaps you should change your moniker from ‘Mazo’, to Masochist ?
Mazo says
I forgot to mention- French imperialists forcing China to grant extraterritorial rights and privileges to all Catholic missionaries and converts, Italy trying to carve out new concessions in China, German troops under explicit orders from Kaiser Wilhelm to act as thugs, beat, and murder Chinese (Wilhelm invented the idea of yellow peril), etc.
mike ryan says
Nearby Qosh has a (ruined) sanctuary said to contain the grave of the biblical prophet Nachum. It was once the site of considerable visitation by Iraqi Jews. The community in 1950 turned over the site’s key to a Muslim caretaker who still had it when visited buy a Jewish chaplain of the Screaming Eagles in 2003.
The Islamist says
WHAT IS THE NAME OF GOD DO ARABS USE? Do they say “God”? Stupid islamophobes.
eib says
Your religion is profane.
Your prophet is false.
Your culture and political system are corrupt.
Your marriages are loveless.
Your countries are empty of growth.
You steal from those who have because you have no knowledge of how to produce for yourself, and you do not value the productive arts.
Your effect in history and current news is that of a virus.
There is nothing of God in your “religion.”
You are only doing propitiary magic, and you will be cast out at the end.
eib says
Oh, and three more things.
1. Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and
2. The only way to the Father is through the Son.
3. Salvation is from the Jews, not the Arabs.
The Ummah are the lost people, the people of loss.
Daniel Triplett says
Agree to all.
Just imagine how impotent Muslims would be without oil. Dangerous, but impotent without the black gold.
And yes, the best thing the Muslims could possibly do for themselves right now is repent of their sin and ask Christ to come into their hearts.
andrew sapia says
I agree 100%. Had oil not been discovered beneath the sands of Saudi Arabia Islam would have already been tossed into the rubbish heap of history. They would never get a hearing. The only reason the Arabs are even given a seat at the table of nations is because of oil. They produce nothing, they manufacture nothing, they even have to purchase the weapons they kill one another with from the west, they basically contribute nothing meaningful to the modern world. They supposedly discovered the zero (supposedly, almost everything mathematical and medical they got from the Greeks, but we’ll grant them the zero) but since the discovery of the zero they have contributed to mankind exactly ZERO! Other than a few pieces of reasonably impressive architecture (not a one that even compares to, say, Chartres Cathedral) nothing. No great ideas, no great political movements. Sorry but there is a reason the traffic of the middle east flows one way, well except when there is a jihad to fight.
goga gago says
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=af1_1406269965
AfricanChristian says
History repeating itself. This is how islam destroyed christian evidences, and that’s exactly how it spread by the sword and destruction.
andrew sapia says
The claims that Islam makes for its self are so patently absured that the only way it ever got off the ground was through conquest and the only reason they were able to continue with huge majority Christian and Jewish populations for the first few centuries was through the Dhimmi system of oppression. Any Christian or Jew that questioned the Koran and it’s grandiose claims was threatened with murder and or torture and any muslim considering leaving Islam had to consider the cost was forfeting ones life. This is why Muhammad hated and called for the extermination of Jews and Christians because their scriptures clearly show that Muhammad was a false prophet and the Koran is a truncated mess. It is barely coherent. I challenge anyone to read the Koran and demonstrate to me that it is the product of an all knowing, all wise, and all merciful God. It is so not that. What all knowing God, supposedly that inspired the old and new testaments that flow and are from beginning to end a coherent project, would send down surahs in bits and pieces so that one surah might have several lines given in one place and time and the rest in a completely different time and place so that you need the Hadith to even begin to make sense of it. It is such a mess that the only way you get people to buy it is to threaten their lives. Or, as is the case in the west, you have to totally misrepresent it.