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Video: Devout Muslims of the Islamic State destroy priceless artifacts with sledgehammers at Mosul museum

Feb 28, 2015 1:47 pm By Robert Spencer

Besides removing supposed temptations to idolatry, Islamic jihadists want to ruin the artifacts of non-Muslim civilizations because doing so testifies to the truth of Islam, as the Qur’an suggests that ruins are a sign of Allah’s punishment of those who rejected his truth:

Many were the Ways of Life that have passed away before you: travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those who rejected Truth. (Qur’an 3:137)

This is one of the foundations of the Islamic idea that pre-Islamic civilizations, and non-Islamic civilizations, are all jahiliyya — the society of unbelievers, which is worthless. Obviously this cuts against the idea of tourism of ancient sites and non-Muslim religious installations such as St. Catherine’s monastery. V. S. Naipaul encountered this attitude in his travels through Muslim countries. For many Muslims, he observed in Among the Believers, “The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.” Naipaul recounted that some Pakistani Muslims, far from valuing the nation’s renowned archaeological site at Mohenjo Daro, saw its ruins as a teaching opportunity for Islam, recommending that Qur’an 3:137 be posted there as a teaching tool.

Video thanks to Pamela Geller.

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Filed Under: Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Islamic supremacism, Sharia Tagged With: Mosul, Nineveh Museum


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  1. Georg says

    Feb 28, 2015 at 2:35 pm

    I think Rob Crawford but this perfectly:

    Rob Crawford says

    February 26, 2015 at 1:45 pm

    Artifacts are a form of immortality beyond our physical bodies, beyond the memories of those who know us, beyond the end of our worlds. They aren’t just destroying rocks, but the only marks left of the people who created those works. They are committing a bloodless form of genocide, alongside their campaign of bloody genocide.

    What a travesty. I’m sorry to the World.

    • Georg says

      Feb 28, 2015 at 2:38 pm

      *put this perfectly

    • Barbara says

      Mar 1, 2015 at 6:10 pm

      Just a question to everyone. If France WERE to become a Muslim country, what do you think, would happen to the Louve?

      • abad says

        Mar 1, 2015 at 6:43 pm

        Precisely. Which is why Muslims must never be allowed to immigrate to western nations and destroy it.

        It is never an absolute right to move to another nation and do what you want to anyone you want any time you want.

  2. CogitoErgoSum says

    Feb 28, 2015 at 3:06 pm

    These “perverts” embrace ignorance and leave behind emptiness. No looking back for them. No looking forward either. They are mired so deeply in the cesspool created by the piss and shit that spewed from Muhammad that they now enjoy the smell and taste of it and cannot tell fair from foul. It turns my stomach to see them reveling in these acts. Better that they would have been born maggots to writhe in Muhammad’s excrement. Islam led them to this perversion and Islam shall pay the price of cleaning up the mess.

  3. noellsq says

    Feb 28, 2015 at 3:13 pm

    I cannot believe the world letting these animals destroy the records of past civilizations. Killing without provocation. If we had any sense we would put a stop on all Muslim immigration and sensor or deport all Inman’s who preach hatred. We should insist that all nations come up with cash or people and stamp out this cancer. But this will not happen as we have an idiot in the WH.

    • David Elliott says

      Mar 1, 2015 at 10:23 pm

      During this time, nobody is giving a shit that the cradle of Christianity (Syria & Irak) are being destroyed by numbnuts. We are totally pathetic in the West and deserve to be anihilated for our passiveness and appeasement of Islamo-fascism.

  4. Angemon says

    Feb 28, 2015 at 3:38 pm

    This is heartbreaking… 🙁

  5. Champ says

    Feb 28, 2015 at 4:00 pm

    Islamic jihadists want to ruin the artifacts of non-Muslim civilizations because doing so testifies to the truth of Islam …

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Doing so testifies to the truth of islam, alright! …that islam is inherently ugly and evil.

  6. Richie says

    Feb 28, 2015 at 4:11 pm

    When Muslims speak of their dream of invading Rome, I think part of their plan is to destroy every piece of Roman art and statue they can find- maybe burn the Sistine Chapel to the ground. Europe isnt fighting back, i think Islam will sweep through the land with no resistance from the socialist governments- the citizens who resist will all be arrested

  7. Jay Boo says

    Feb 28, 2015 at 6:30 pm

    An Islamic temper tantrum and a display of envy
    Islam is finished.
    When the dust settles Muslims still have to peer into the pit of Islam.

    Truth is surrounding Muslims and closing in, even as Islam preens and prances while it rots from within.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 1, 2015 at 3:35 pm

      Jay Boo wrote:

      When the dust settles Muslims still have to peer into the pit of Islam.
      …………………………..

      Yeah, but if they have their way, Jay Boo, *we* will have to stare into the pit of Islam, as well.

  8. Bezelel says

    Feb 28, 2015 at 7:22 pm

    Another example of islams contribution to humanity.

  9. Salah says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 1:14 am

    Next step? destroy Islam. Thank you, ISIS.

    “If Allah wills, we will kill those who worship stones in Mecca and destroy the Kaaba. People go to Mecca to touch the stones, not for Allah.”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/01/isis-destroy-kaaba-mecca_n_5547635.html

  10. Baucent says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 1:44 am

    The Jihadi nutters haven’t explained who was visiting the museum to “worship” these objects.

  11. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 2:24 pm

    All the Muslim thugs of ISIS can do is one thing. That is destroy. The fiends of ISIS destroy people,they destroy art, they destroy buildings,they destroy history. The ISIS villains can’t make or create anything good or worthwhile.. The callous characters of ISIS can only make and create disaster. They can’t construct or be constructive, They can only be destructive. The thugs of ISIS are good for nothing be evil .That is because they are evil and likewise their jihad is evil.

    • Green Infidel says

      Mar 1, 2015 at 6:17 pm

      it’s far easier to destroy than to create.

  12. Babs says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 9:53 pm

    This destruction of the museum in Mosul and the library weighs on the world. Just as blowing up the Buddha monuments along the Silk Road in Afghanistan weighs on the world.
    I am certain that I would have never been able to visit any of these places and yet, my heart is very heavy that the relics of civilization have been destroyed.
    When will this stop?
    I once thought that the pillage of artifacts by the colonialists was a bad thing. Guess what guys, those artifacts are safely exhibited and stored by the free world…
    They will continue to be admired and studied until the west is subsumed by Islam. Then, they will be destroyed.

  13. Bruce says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 3:30 am

    This vandalism has a long pedigree. The library at Alexandria was burned; the pyramids were used as rock quarries (good-bye limestone sheathing, after 3300 years); mosaics were ripped up; statues were smashed. It’s as though a dementia-causing virus called Islam is wiping out our collective memory.

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