“We were told yesterday that ISIL stormed the university complex which houses nine faculties and destroyed the contents of five of them under the pretext that they are not needed and that they violate sharia.” As the caliph Umar is supposed to have said when ordering the library of Alexandria to be burned: “If the books agree with the Qur’an, they are superfluous. If they disagree with it, they are heretical.”
“ISIL storms Mosul University,” Al-Shorfa, August 1, 2014 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL) stormed Mosul University and destroyed the contents of the faculties of law, arts, management, economy and education, the university said Thursday (July 31st).
“We were told yesterday that ISIL stormed the university complex which houses nine faculties and destroyed the contents of five of them under the pretext that they are not needed and that they violate sharia,” Mosul University media office director Hassan Bardan told Al-Shorfa.
“ISIL only spared the faculties of engineering, medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine,” he said.
“ISIL hung a sign on the university gate reading that males are to be separated from females,” Bardan added.