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Islamic State destroys 7th-century Green Church in Tikrit

Sep 25, 2014 9:44 am By Robert Spencer

GreenChurchThis is nothing for Christians in the West to be concerned about: everyone, including both secular and Christian leaders, assures us that it has nothing to do with Islam. Go back to sleep.

“ISIS blow up Tikrit’s Green Church,” ANSA, September 25, 2014 (thanks to Insubria):

(ANSA) – Cairo, September 25 – Islamic State (ISIS) militants have “completely destroyed” the iconic Green Church in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, the MENA news agency reported Thursday, citing Iraqi security sources.

The Islamists packed the church – one of the oldest Christian monuments in the Middle East – with explosives before detonating them.

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  1. The Islamist says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 10:27 am

    How many mosques destroyed by born again xtians (USA+NATO) or Jews(MOSSAD, IDF) in Iraq, Afghanistan, GAZA…..

    • Beagle says

      Sep 25, 2014 at 11:00 am

      Virtually none. Are you counting IS and the Iraqi sectarian war or something?

      Building, on the other hand…
      http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/frank-crimi/obama-rebuilds-mosques-while-churches-burn/
      http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/27003
      “Our State Dept. is using undisclosed amounts of US tax dollars to build and renovate Islamic Mosques in 27 different countries.”

      If you didn’t have a conspiratorial irrational worldview, you wouldn’t have anything at all.

    • Michael says

      Sep 25, 2014 at 12:52 pm

      Clearly not enough. I’d do what Angola has already done–bulldoze them all down. No mosques–no hateful ideology.

      • Brian Hoff says

        Sep 26, 2014 at 9:29 pm

        Angola didnot bulldoze any mosque.

        • Angemon says

          Sep 27, 2014 at 4:59 am

          Brian Hoff posted:

          “Angola didnot bulldoze any mosque.”

          You’re either ignorant or lying. Or both. Last year, the Angolan government cracked down on illegal mosques (build without license). The state of Angola doesn’t acknowledge islam as an official religion since it doesn’t meet their standards for official religions (having no less than 100 thousand followers spread around at least 12 provinces). That with the crackdown on illegal mosques caused muslims to lie and report that the angolan government had banned islam, in an attempt to pressure the Angolan government.

          Here’s a video of the destruction of a mosque. It was bulldozed. Literally trashed with a bulldozer.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPvYZlMURfU

          Title reads “Destruição da Mesquitas Muçulmanas em Angola”, meaning “Destruction of the muslims [sic] mosques [sic] in Angola”. Description reads “Muçulmanos em todo Mundo. Alertam mais uma vez: A destruição de nove (9) mesquitas acima, deve ser imediatamente interrompida e exigimos ao Presidente Angola que peça desculpas aos muçulmanos em todo o mundo. Se não, então gostaríamos de convidar a comunidade Islâmica para realizar manifestações pacíficas em frente dos edifícios das embaixadas angolanas em todo o mundo.”

          Meaning “Muslims worldwide. Another alert: the destruction of nine (9) mosques above[note: the “above” makes no sense in the sentence, i’m guessing it means the video], must be immediately stopped and we demand the president [of] Angola to apologize muslims worldwide. If not, we’d like to invite the islamic community worldwide to hold peaceful manifestation in front of Angolan embassies all around the world”

          13 seconds in you can hear the guy with the taqiyah (not to be confused with taqiyaa) say “É a mesquita”, which is portuguese for “It’s the mosque”.

          That youtube user has that same video uploaded twice (drama queen much?):

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFGLrQzvIe8

          Title reads “Muçulmanos tristes com Executivo angolano”, meaning “Muslims saddened by the Angolan government”. Description reads “A Comunidade Muçulmana em Angola afirmam que o governo angolano tem perseguido as suas mesquitas destruindo-as e impedindo a realização de cultos daquela franja religiosa”. Meaning “The muslim community in Angola claim[s] that the Angolan government has been persecuting its mosques destroying them and preventing the carrying out of cults [note: religious ceremonies, worshiping] by that religious minority”.

    • SpiritOf1683 says

      Sep 25, 2014 at 12:53 pm

      Off to Pakistan you go, parasite. And it wouldn’t be a bad idea to turn mosques into swimming pools, bars, restaurants and cinemas. At least it would be putting them to a noble use.

    • Angemon says

      Sep 25, 2014 at 3:07 pm

      The Islamist posted:

      “How many mosques destroyed by born again xtians (USA+NATO) or Jews(MOSSAD, IDF) in Iraq, Afghanistan, GAZA…..”

      I don’t know. Last time I checked, USA and NATO (of which USA is a part of) were not “born again xtians” so do enlighten us: was it more or less than the number of mosques where bomb training went wrong?

    • Wellington says

      Sep 25, 2014 at 5:04 pm

      You’re delusional. But then you’re a Muslim. Which clears it all up why you would write what you did. One knows or should know that Jews and Christians would protect mosques to an almost infinitely greater extent than would Muslims synagogues and churches. Now get lost, Muslim parasite (pardon the redundancy).

    • DiMu says

      Sep 26, 2014 at 9:28 am

      Not enough! Every mosque on the face of the earth needs to be destroyed because it is a cancerous cell in the body politic.

  2. Jaladhi says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 10:32 am

    These barbarian Muslims destroy every ancient relic of civilization where ever they go. Look what they did to ancient Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan!!

    If given a chance they will destroy culture and civilization from every corner of the world and go back to the stone age of 7th century.

    • umbra says

      Sep 25, 2014 at 11:41 am

      They have already destroyed cultures in conquered lands. No pre-islamic arab cultures left in the arabian peninsula.

  3. R Cole says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 10:33 am

    New word Iranophobia!

    See UN Rafsanjani speech.

    • R Cole says

      Sep 25, 2014 at 5:56 pm

      Correction it’s Rouhani’s ‘Iranophobia’ – to add to Islamophobia – perhaps the Iranian President believes that he can reap some of the rewards – the Islamophobia victim status has offered Muslims in the west.

      :: ::

      It is like the movie Demolition Man.

      We are being taught tolerance and to be respectful to the other.

      While they are being taught Death Murder Kill – and Destruction.

      Complete with people / actors swooning around claiming – they can’t imagine how any of this could have happened – and looking visibly upset for the camera.

      As for tolerance – the only tolerance they are being taught – is that others tolerate their intolerance!

      :: ::

      Someone wrote an article that said Christianity is dead in the Middle East.

      Even after Iraq got its state back – they were teaching young children in state school religious class – where Christian kids were excluded literally had to wait outside – that one day the Muslims will have to rise up and attack the Christians.

      The problem doesn’t lay with us – they have to bring their ideology in line with the modern world and so long as we are pretending ‘Islamophobia’ is the real problem – they are not doing that ….

      :: ::

      Isis is a compilation of Islam’s greatest hits!

      Everything Isis is doing – can be viewed in the Islamic world already. You have beheadings and enforced dress code in Saudi Arabia – only Muslims can hold citizenship in the Maldives and Saudi Arabia – church closures and demolition in Turkey and Iran — in Turkey the state seized one church plot that was some 200 years older than Islam….

      This ME anti-Isis action is about competing religious forces. Why should Turkey lift a finger to help Saudi Arabia – which Isis wishes to conquer.

  4. yohanan says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 10:52 am

    Not the first time that Muslims have destroyed the “Green Church”, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikrit
    >>The Christian community received a setback when the governor ordered the destruction of the main cathedral known popularly as the “Green Church” in 1089, the maphrian had to relocate to Mosul with many Christians. Another governor permitted the reconstruction of the cathedral. However, instability returned and the maphrian moved indefinitely to Mosul in 1156.[8]
    The city remained an important Assyrian Christian centre until its destruction by Timur in the late 14th century. Christian presence is last recorded in the 17th century.[7]<<

    • mortimer says

      Sep 25, 2014 at 11:28 am

      Assyrian Christians have been dubbed ‘The Martyr Church’ due to the intensity and number of Islamic persecutions against them.

      It’s time the world stopped looking the other way.

    • Steffen Larsen says

      Sep 25, 2014 at 12:38 pm

      I read a report that the now Muslim women of Tikrit continued to make the sign of the cross in the dough when making bread, without being aware of its meaning.

  5. Ayatrollah says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 11:23 am

    Don’t you hate when pious believers take Islam out of context and destroy other people’s stuff. Where do they learn that this is ok?

    • mortimer says

      Sep 25, 2014 at 11:39 am

      Where did ISIS get the idea to destroy the property of competing religions? From Mohammed’s sacred example (SUNNA).

      There are over 100 examples of Mohammed destroying religious property and the possessions of competing religionists!

      http://wikiislam.net/wiki/The_Root_of_Terrorism_a_la_Islamic_style

      Islam and terrorism are completely inseparable. The root of Islamic terror is in the Divine Command to terrorize disbelievers. It is elaborated in the preachings, commands, injunctions, inspirations, practices and the examples set by Muhammad and his contemporary followers who lived by the sword and used it to subdue competing religionists and critics. If today’s Muslim follows ‘Real Islam’–the unadulterated, pure Islam preached and practiced by Muhammad– he can only be a terrorist…plain and simple.

  6. Charli Main says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 12:21 pm

    Nothing new here. Muslims have been destroying the temples and churches of other religions for the last 1400 years.
    Islam is such a pathetic nonsense, that Muslims cannot stand to be reminded of the inherent superiority of other religions.

  7. SpiritOf1683 says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 12:47 pm

    Thats just what they’re like – wanting to destroy all reminders and traces of previous cultures. We saw it with the Taliban destroying those Buddha statues at Bamiyan, and ther can be little doubt they’d destroy the Pyramids if they could take over Egypt, and if the Pyramids weren’t so massive. They’re not nihilists because they do believe in something, that Islam should rule the world and all other civilizations and cultures and reminders of them, including Western civilization and culture, should be swept away completely.

  8. SpiritOf1683 says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 12:49 pm

    Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it…have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth; that numberless cities are raised from the foundation, and only their name remaining; that many countries, which were once as the garden of God, are now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished from the earth! Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of human kind. – John Wesley, The Doctrine of Original Sin, Works (1841), ix. 205.

    • Western Canadian says

      Sep 25, 2014 at 9:08 pm

      I really get tired of people who compare islam (RTC) to animals…. ANY animals. There are no animals low enough to be compared to islam (RTC), and wolves and tigers are more social with their own species than are muslims (RTC). Neither kills for sport or pleasure, just for need. Apologies to animals everywhere are in order.

      • pumbar says

        Sep 26, 2014 at 1:59 am

        (RTC)?

  9. Stan says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 2:46 pm

    Its about time!!!

  10. Champ says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 3:12 pm

    islam and company are wholly evil; beginning, but not ending with, moohamhead (perdition be upon him).

    • eib says

      Sep 25, 2014 at 3:40 pm

      Many Muslims admire nazism. You have no moral compass at all.

    • Aardvark says

      Sep 25, 2014 at 4:54 pm

      Are you sure they were neo-nazis, and not just some of your fellow mohammedans?

      Personally, I find it very difficult to distinguish between the two cults.

      An evil charismatic leader who produced a book, and is deified by his followers. Unreasoning hatred of Jews. Treating women as breeding stock. Desire for world domination. Belief that they are better than anyone else. Attacking surrounding nations with no provocation. There are so many similiarities!

      So where did you meet these ‘most evil people’? At the local armoury mosque?

    • Western Canadian says

      Sep 25, 2014 at 9:15 pm

      Since Nazis and muslims held hands during the second world war, you have again demonstrated your own ignorance, or were foolish enough to count on people on this site being ignorant enough to swallow your dishonest drivel. You pitiable loser.

    • Mirren10 says

      Sep 25, 2014 at 11:04 pm

      ”That’s real funny because the most evil people I have ever met in my life have not been Muslims, they have been neo-Nazis.”

      mohammedan anti-Semitism, below. You’re an idiot.

      http://middle-east-info.org/gateway/antisemitism/

  11. eib says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 3:37 pm

    I have to give you credit without belief. You are trying hard and continuing to fail. Raise every monument isis has destroyed and maybe you will get some respect. Islam is profane. Mohammed is a false prophet, and all who follow him are destroyers.

  12. somehistory says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 5:48 pm

    How many times are you going to copy and paste this comment?

    According to knowledgeable sources, muslims fought more than 500 offensive wars while Christians fought only a handful of defensive wars by comparison. And each defensive war was against the offensive muslims who were intent on destroying everything good or beautiful or true.
    Read the book of each group and then do some thinking before you copy and paste your comment again. The koran says murder, rape, destroy, pillage, hate, rage, plunder, use children to relieve lustful desires, etc….all badness.
    The Bible says love others and treat them as you would like others to treat you and forgive those sinning against you. Leave vengeance and rage alone. It says children are gifts from God to be cared for and nourished as they belong to God.

  13. Kepha says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 6:31 pm

    @Freedom Lover, Salah, and others:

    I hope you guys are resident somewhere relatively safe.

    This Western Christian is not an Islamophile and DOES care about what is happening in the Middle East. Indeed, I believe that Islam is a horrible blasphemy against God Almighty, who joined Himself to our flesh and nature and “pitched his tent among us” (John 1:14, Greek).

    You are forgetting that as in the Middle East, the dominant religions of the West are now post-Christian: Islam and EmCeePeeCee socialism. A lot of people in the American judiciary, media, and government are probably looking at the news reported in our host’s post and thinking, “too bad we don’t have the 外卵to do in the name of ‘Progress’ what ISIS did in the name of Islam.”

    As a matter of fact, I have said on this forum many times that I think the only worthwhile “reformation” Islam can undergo is a mass movement of Muslims away from Islam and to the Jesus Christ presented in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. We have a number of other Christians of Western tradition posting here who probably share this attitude.

    Sure, I’m not for widespread intercivilizational war, or answering violent acts sch as the destruction of this historic Tikrit church with blowing up the Islamic Center in Washington DC. The New Testament doesn’t teach me that kind of religion–especially when we’re starting to see a small movement away from Islam going on even now. Perhaps with repentance and renewal among Christians everywhere, God will see fit to bless the efforts now being made to evangelize Muslims with greater success.

    But I will admit that there is such a thing as a just war, and the individual’s right of self-defense.

    Peace, brethren.

    • Salah says

      Sep 26, 2014 at 12:10 am

      Thank you, Kepha.
      I agree with you, the destruction of Islam must come from within. It is already happening, Muslims are leaving Islam in great numbers, though no one is talking about it.
      Meanwhile a just war could be very effective, but were are the men, the real men?

  14. Western Canadian says

    Sep 25, 2014 at 9:13 pm

    We should actually all thank abdula, AKA Christy, for giving us the perfect example of the unthinking (due to being incapable of it) muslim (RTC) or dhimmi. The stupidity, ignorance, and falsehoods that this loser cuts and pastes, are the perfect example of everything wrong with those who embrace islam (RTC) or defend it.

    • SpiritOf1683 says

      Sep 26, 2014 at 1:53 am

      Christy’s the Jihadis mouthpiece spouting moral equivalence. He’s doing their dirty work for them, and whilever there are crapbrains like Christy around, our civilization faces peril from within.

  15. pumbar says

    Sep 26, 2014 at 2:03 am

    How about you paste this comment (again) onto a sheet of A4, staple it to your forehead and jet off to Raqqa to beg the caliph to explain his moderation to us. Maybe he’ll let you join him and between you, you could create “Christyslam”. A wonderful, peaceful ideology, where only goats should be afraid.

  16. Lookmann says

    Sep 26, 2014 at 8:36 am

    A normal State would ‘ve made millions promoting these shrines to cash-rich western tourists like India does in Goa.

    Alas, you can’t accuse muslims of ever being ‘normal’.

    • Angemon says

      Sep 26, 2014 at 8:46 am

      Lookmann posted:

      “A normal State would ‘ve made millions promoting these shrines to cash-rich western tourists like India does in Goa.”

      Islamic theology and precedent. Muhammad told muslims to not let non-muslims enter the Kaaba, even though it meant a financial loss (quran 9:28). To make up for that loss, he authorized fighting against non-muslims for profit (quran 9:29).

  17. DiMu says

    Sep 26, 2014 at 9:38 am

    During the Cold War the ideology of Communism and Communist governments were the enemy. We understood that not all Russians were Communist. But those who were – even though they did not kill in the name of Communism – were called ‘fellow-travelers.’

    Peaceful Muslims are fellow travelers. They are not marching in the streets denouncing what is done in their name! They are passively supporting terrorism.

    It is not their fault that they were born into such a terrible religion, however as adults they need to THINK for themselves – but of course, having already been brainwashed from birth to OBEY, they have lost that faculty. So they will suffer the consequences when the West finally wakes up to the knife at its throat.

    Islam, like Communism, belongs on the dung-heap of history. In fact even that dung has to be burnt, because wherever there are dung heaps, there are flies.

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