Then they “hung his body on a column in a main square of the historic site.” Remember, they love death more than we love life, as they frequently remind us, and we in the West reward and encourage their savagery and lust for death by bowing before and giving them what they want — witness today’s cancellation of a Muhammad cartoon event in Britain, for fear of Islamic jihadists. Had Khaled Asaad drawn any cartoons?
“Islamic State militants behead archaeologist in Palmyra: Syrian official,” Reuters, August 18, 2015:
DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Islamic State (IS) militants beheaded an antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and hung his body on a column in a main square of the historic site, Syria’s antiquities chief said on Tuesday.
IS, whose insurgents control swathes of Syria and Iraq, captured Palmyra in central Syria from government forces in May, but are not known to have damaged its monumental Roman-era ruins despite their reputation for destroying artifacts they view as idolatrous under their puritanical interpretation of Islam.
Syrian state antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim said the family of Khaled Asaad had informed him that the 82-year-old scholar who worked for over 50 years as head of antiquities in Palmyra was executed by Islamic State on Tuesday.
Asaad had been detained and interrogated for over a month by the ultra-radical Sunni Muslim militants, he told Reuters.
“Just imagine that such a scholar who gave such memorable services to the place and to history would be beheaded … and his corpse still hanging from one of the ancient columns in the center of a square in Palmyra,” Abdulkarim said.
“The continued presence of these criminals in this city is a curse and bad omen on (Palmyra) and every column and every archaeological piece in it.”
Abdulkarim said Asaad was known for several scholarly works published in international archaeological journals on Palmyra, which in antiquity flourished as an important trading hub along the Silk Road.
He also worked over the past few decades with U.S., French, German and Swiss archeological missions on excavations and research in Palmyra’s famed 2,000-year-old ruins, a UNESCO World Heritage Site including Roman tombs and the Temple of Bel….
Cecilia Ellis says
ISIS will destroy everything to create a revisionist history that completely removes any and all truth. That effort includes genocide and the destruction of historical sites and artifacts, books, and the people who know all about that genocide, the historical facts, as well as the historical sites and artifacts. Anything pre-Muhammad must go. Any region once occupied by Muslims must be restored to Islamic rule. That gets me back to the Ka’aba and the Black Stone, both of which predated the evil founder of the world’s greatest evil. Time for them to go.
Paul says
A good short article – amongst others – on ISIS (IS, or whatever)
and islam by a very courageous ex-muslim indeed “behold the
face of islam” :
https://sonofhamas.wordpress.com/
Cecilia Ellis says
Paul, thanks for the link. I just read the article and it is a classic summary of what Islam has brought to the world: unfettered evil. ISIS is indeed the poster-child for Islam. ISIS is Islam; Islam is ISIS. There is no in-between.
Paul says
Absolutely. It will become abundantly clear to everyone over
time, whether they want to realise it or not.
Glad you liked the link.
Oliver says
To say ‘there is no inbetween’ shows a dangerously similar kind of fundamentalism. That’s just the way of thinking the IS is promoting, only from another side.
quotha raven says
Paul – Good article. Succinct. I’ve already passed it along to some of my chums who only read short articles! Cheers! Quotha R
Paul says
@Quotha Raven,
Glad you liked the article. Good on you for spreading the word.
We have the truth on our side. When brave souls like this also
speak out it gives greater credence to our cause.
voegelinian says
Mohammedans have been trying to do that for centuries. Just to pick one example from the sordid history of Islam, the destruction of Buddhist and Hindu temples & artifacts in India over centuries, did not succeed in completely eliminating “jahiliyya”, but it did succeed in destroying countless incalculably priceless architecture and cultural infrastructure.
Then, in addition to this brazen type of anti-multicultural destruction, Muslims also are in our time pursuing what could be called “Stealth Revisionism”, through their insidious infiltration into three spheres of Western culture – arts & entertainment, news media, and academe – in various ways trying to rewrite history. The gold standard for this perhaps is the ridiculous “Golden Age of Islam” which some more astute critics have called “The Myth of Andalusia”, whereby what is being promoted is the idea that during the misnamed “Dark Ages” (see historian Régine Pernoud to be roundly disabused of this canard, speaking of myths) and more broadly the Middle Ages, Islam was an amazingly civilized paragon of ethical, scientific and philosophical superiority, compared with the smelly, uncouth European Christians at the time. The implication between the lines here is that Islam in its essence is good and can produce a good culture, and that therefore if there are systemic problems now in our time which are grudgingly conceded to exist, they must be due to factors extraneous to Islam – like, oh, say, modern Western geopolitical “intrusion” into their precious ecospheres, etc.…
Now, this insidious infiltration overall, and its Taqiyya-Daw’a strategy of what, in another recent war against us by another evil empire was called Dezinformatsiya (the Soviet tactic of Disinformation), is not solely a matter of Muslims infiltrating and trying to subvert & sabotage us. For decades now, and acutely post-911, Muslims in this regard have been enormously assisted by our own idiotic Politically Correct Multi-Culturalism, which, contrary to many in the Counter-Jihad, is not mainly a “Leftist” phenomenon, but also infects probably the majority of conservatives, centrist, and that underappreciated demographic, the Comfortably Apolitical. One painful example of that was a speech praising the Golden Age of Islam, given by Republican candidate for the U.S. Presidency, Carly Fiorina, She gave that speech back in 2001, practically while the smoke was still clearing from the 911 assault on America, obviously as a spasm of an anxious need to demonstrate her multi-culturalist tolerance (but the Counter-Jihad Softies tell us only “Leftists” have that anxious need…).
For more details, see:
The “No True Scotsman” fallacy
http://hesperado.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-no-true-scotsman-fallacy.html
And (for the modern Western sociopolitical phenomena of the “Comfortably Apolitical” and the “Comfortably Irreligious”):
New terms for political science
http://hesperado.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-terms-for-political-science.html
Paul says
Poor guy. You can’t imagine the terror and trauma of what he went
through. After all, this is the Islamic State we’re talking about. Every
time I think I’ve seen a report on one of their unspeakable acts of
evil and depravity, I think they couldn’t stoop any further with their
evil and cowardice and, sure enough, they always prove me wrong.
They’re not people, they’re not even human, they’re a complete cancer
on life. They can point to their stupid scriptures as ‘justification’ all they
like, but the fact is that they’re only too happy to carry out these callous
acts. All they can do is rape torture and kill. They have absolutely nothing
whatsoever to offer this world and will be with satan in the next, whom
they currently worship and whose will (not ‘allah’s’) they love to satisfy.
Paul says
“Every time I’ve seen a report on…”
John spielman says
Allah of Islam IS satan of the Bible
Paul says
Absolutely correct. We’re not just saying that because of
the evil perpetrated by ISIS and other groups, or the ideology
of islam itself. There is indeed much more to it than that :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCwn_wetNDg
duh_swami says
Absolutely not…Giving ‘Satan’ credit for anything is giving misinformation, and gives Mahoundians the excuse that, ‘Allah/Satan/Devil made me do it’…
Paul says
@duh_swami,
I see what you’re getting at, but, in reality, nobody makes
anyone do anything, that excuse will never be valid. Everybody
is born with a soul and the ability to differentiate between right
and wrong. There are muslims who interpret islam virtually beyond
recognition because they want to live decent lives, and, of course
many are leaving islam, despite the “fastest growing religion in
the world” propaganda we constantly hear. Indeed, in the midst of
this barbarity, Christ is calling many muslims to himself. However,
there are also many sadistic psychopaths whose hearts will always
be closed because they love evil and deceit so much and aren’t
interested in anything else and never will be. Those people, like
those mentioned in the article, have no defense and will be going
straight to hell.
Linde Barrera says
To Paul- Loved your 12:52 pm post of Aug 19, 2015 to duh_swami. I agree. You sound like a minister or at least a student of theology. I posted to Mirren10 today that I was going to call Harvard Univ. and try to speak with Professor Noah Feldman about his article on sex slavery of IS where he cited a parallel to US slavery prior to 1866. I called this number: 617-495-1000 and asked for him. I was rerouted to 617-495-4620, Shannon Whalen, his law assistant. I had to leave a message because no one answered. I said I would like to have a 3 minute conversation about the article and why the prof. did not mention the verses of the Quran that sanctioned sex slavery, why he didn’t cite the many churches in the northern states that spoke out against slavery and had abollitionists
Linde Barrera says
To Paul- got cut off. Abolitionists and my church, now the United Church of Christ, then the Congregationalists, spoke out vehemently against slavery which was based on racism and greed, and finally how much did the Islamists pay him to write that article. Will let you know if I get a call back, but please don’t hold your breath.
Paul says
@duh_swami,
The more I look at islam and Christianity, the more I see that
muslims have been set up by some satanic plan. In Revelation 20:9,
satan’s army surrounds Jerusalem. Who on earth would willingly follow
satan knowing that he’s defeated by God in the end? – unless, of
course, they believe in some supposedly ‘divine’ mission to kill the
inhabitants of Israel. Which belief system do we know of that wants
to just that now?
Christ warned us of impostors that would come in his name and who
would “deceive, if possible, even the elect” (Matthew 24:24). Muslims
say that they believe in Jesus, but it’s not the same Jesus of the Bible,
but rather somebody suspiciously like the “false prophet” of Revelation,
the islamic ‘prophet’ Jesus who they expect to correct the Jews and
the Christians.
The antichrist of end times is a very religious man who doesn’t believe
in the God of the Bible, but, in his place, “a god of fortresses”
(Daniel 11:38). Who today, can it be claimed, worships such a god?
Paul says
@Linde Barrera,
I’m not a minister or even a student, but I have spent quite a lot
of time reading articles and listening to speeches. The following
two videos are very long, but they’re well worth watching and will
give you a great insight into what is happening today :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmhKog5_vas
Linde Barrera says
To Paul- Thank you for all your comments on this article. I wish to respond to your 6:41 pm Aug 18, 2015 post. Like you, I am sick at heart reading about the demonic atrocities that Islamic State commits every day. But what baffles me as a retired NYC public school teacher is that IS seems to have no regard for the various human intelligences that could help any society. One such intelligence is the visual/spatial, which involves visual perception of the environment, the ability to create and manipulate mental images, and the orientation of a body or object in a space. So since IS destroys ruins, remnants and artifacts of past civilizations because they are before Islam, and freedom of expressive thought in any discipline is not allowed, would it be a stretch to think they will destroy all dwellings and demand that Muslims live in tents because Muhammad lived in a tent?
Paul says
We shouldn’t underestimate anything at all that IS imposes upon
the conquered populations. Firstly, as I say, these ‘people’ obviously
take huge pleasure in applying barbaric islamic law upon them.
Secondly, everything that pre-dates islam is considered ‘jahiliyyah’
(“ignorance”), which is ironic because the type of society they want
to replace it with is based upon the most ignorant person who ever
lived, Muhammad. For them, this murderer, hate-monger, rapist,
paedophile, narcissist, liar, conman, madman, looter, racist and
agent of satan is the perfect person. That’s why you see so many
men dressing as if they were from 7th century Arabia in their dresses
etc. They wish to emulate him in every way and enforce his sickness
and evil upon everyone. That’s what’s in store because that’s what’s
gone before.
Mirren10 says
Linde, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
But it would be the hoi polloi living in tents. The leaders will live like, well, like caliphs.
Linde Barrera says
Hello dear Mirren10, I have missed you. I hope your life is going beautifully. Thank you for your post of 6:15 am, Aug. 19, 2015. IS continues on its barbaric, savage path with the rest of the Islamic world not doing anything against it, or even criticizing it, and the others of government and academia not having any rebuttal either. There is something completely sinister about that. On another note, I also experienced some difficulty with the mechanisms of JW when I responded to Paul with my comment about IS, and the tents. The message I got was “not allowed”, but I didn’t state anything of questionable repute. So my message was erased, and I had to rewrite, which went through. It is possible that I hit the “post comment” box a split second after a troll did and I got the tail end of what was intended for his/her response. But it did go through the 2nd time. Now I will get the number for Harvard Univ. and see if I can engage Professor Noah Feldman or his boss about the article he wrote regarding sex slaves in IS and how he parallelled slavery in America to it. Take care Mirren10.
Huck Folder says
He deserved to die for promoting that which is jahiliyyah.
To any worshiper of mo who reads this,
that gut pain you feel is not dyspepsia,
it’s COGNITIVE DISSONANCE.
Wake up and smell the coffee,
or continue worshiping Baal, Moloch, Shaitan.
Champ says
IS = INCREDIBLY SATANIC!
Joseph says
😉
Paladin says
…despite their reputation for destroying artifacts they view as idolatrous under their puritanical interpretation of Islam.
Even when Muslims are acting as strict and orthodox Muslims do, Reuters sees fit to compare such stringent Islamic orthodoxy to….Christians. As in the Puritans. You know, the ones chopping off all the heads throughout history.
Angemon says
Poor man…
History doesn’t sit well with muslims – it’s not just that the quran says that civilizations have been ruined as a punishment for refusing to worship allah and many ruins predate islam, it’s also that an impartial, fact-based approach would point out a disturbing pattern: whatever islam touches, it ruins.
abad says
Isn’t it frightening how non-ISL Muslims will never speak out against these atrocities.
Then they wonder why the rest of the world distrusts Muslims and hate Islam.
gravenimage says
Islamic State jihadis behead 82-year-old archaeologist in Palmyra
……………………..
I have no words for how much I hate Islam.
sidney penny says
Yes,history doesn’t sit well with Muslims or Islam.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/07/mali-islamic-supremacists-on-destruction-of-shrines-the-destruction-is-a-divine-order
“V.S. Naipaul ,explained how some Pakistani Muslims, far from valuing the nation’s renowned archaeological site at Mohenjo Daro, see it as a teaching opportunity for Islam,recommending that Qur’an 3:137 be posted there as a teaching tool.”
“A featured letter in Dawn offered its own ideas for the site. Verses from the Koran, the writer said, should be engraved and set up in Mohenjo-Daro in “appropriate places”: “Say (unto them, O Mohammed): Travel in the land and see the nature of the sequel for the guilty…Say (O Mohammed, to the disbelievers): Travel in the land and see the nature of the consequence for those who were before you. Most of them were idolaters.”
“In other words, Mohenjo Daro has no value for what it reveals about an ancient civilization. Its value is solely in its present condition as a ruin, a sign for the unbelievers of Allah’s wrath.”
“Likewise in Iran. Naipaul notes: “In 637 A.D., just five years after the death of the Prophet, the Arabs began to overrun Persia, and all Persia’s great past, the past before Islam, was declared a time of blackness.””
Mirren10 says
”Abdulkarim said Asaad was known for several scholarly works published in international archaeological journals on Palmyra, which in antiquity flourished as an important trading hub along the Silk Road.
He also worked over the past few decades with U.S., French, German and Swiss archeological missions on excavations and research in Palmyra’s famed 2,000-year-old ruins, a UNESCO World Heritage Site including Roman tombs and the Temple of Bel….”
Yes. This poor man was viciously murdered by these monsters because he had studied and excavated the ruins of Palmyra, as it was before foul islam appeared as a blight on all mankind.
As an example of one who rubbed these evil scum’s noses in the existence of something that is Jāhilīyyah , the time of ignorance before islam was realized, of course he was murdered.
How I hate them and their foul religion.
And it won’t be long before they destroy the ruins, as well.
mortimer says
“Ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant.” (They make a desert and call it peace) – from a speech by Calgacus
ISIS is the enemy of all humanity, but many people worldwide believe ISIS doesn’t concern them. It does.
Mirren10 says
”Your comment is awaiting moderation.”
??
This is new. When did JW start moderating comments before they are published ?
Joseph says
Mirren, I never saw that message. I have however noticed a time lag from when you hit post comment to the actual time it will appear to everyone else.
Ex. you post your comment then click to another story and come back to proof read because you forgot and your post is not there.
Maybe they are getting a lot of real nasty, nasty troll posts and this is the only way to filter them out before any damage is done.
Maybe JW will tell us later.
Take care and be safe.
Mirren10 says
I just posted a comment to Linde, and it came up straightaway.
No “your comment is awaiting moderation”.
Odd. Perhaps marc is experimenting ! 🙂
I hope you and yours are well, Joseph.
Angemon says
For at least a couple of months. It happens when you have too many links. But I can’t think of one single time one of my comments wasn’t published.
mortimer says
It’s time for several thousand boots on the ground to stop it.
KJ says
Who Made it Ilegal to make comment about Mohammad? Islamic People? This is America and it’s people have knuckled under to all this overly scensitive crap.
Wake Up People—–we will not be bullied by the horrible atrocities of the middle east and it’s attacks and recruitment of Isis in America.
When the trumpet sounds and the Prince Of Peace/Lion Of Judea/ Son of man decends to Jerulsalem, all that oppose Jerulsalem will be no more.
Gazzer says
An 82 – year old man. Those muslims are so brave. Same as the 69-year old man in a wheelchair the muslim Achille Lauro hijackers killed. So big and brave.
Charli Main says
Muslims are even braver when they are raping 6 year old girls and sodomising 5 year old boys. The courage of the mighty jihadi warriors of islam, when fighting women and children is awe inspiring.
Ed says
I’m just trying to imagine the reaction if a Christian mob did this to an 82 year old Muslim. The media would be in meltdown.
As it is, I’m struggling to see this story reported anywhere. Deliberate concealment or just not news as our expectations of Islam are so low?
Cecilia Ellis says
I have not seen it reported anywhere — with the exception of a few news articles — but here. Unforgivable! I believe it is, indeed, deliberate concealment; there is no other explanation. Remember how quick every news outlet was to report the demise of Cecil the Lion, to include that the animal was beheaded? Deliberate censorship in the brutal murder of Khaled Asaad by Muslims precludes widespread reporting of atrocities that directly point to the inherent evil of Islam. ISIS is Islam; Islam is ISIS.
quotha raven says
Cecelia E – A friend of mine knew about this (although she thought the old archeologist was 81) this morning, and I believe she probably read about it in Yahoo News, though I’ve not confirmed it. I think she alswo reads the NYT online. I sent her an email and asked where she read or heard it. I’ll let you know if she remembers to tell me. Cheers! Quotha
Cecilia Ellis says
Thanks, Quotha. I heard it today on FoxNews as a one-sentence report. Nothing more. No discussion.
Mark says
This is unreal
Lynn says
No, it’s very real. Coming to America as well. Call your Congress person and ask them what THEY are doing about the evil of islam in America. Listen to the back peddling and lying coming from their office. Then you will realize why we are being invaded.
This is an intentional invasion sponsored by our president. A unilateral decision of his to flood America with islamists. Period. He dislikes America and is intent on over running us with immigrants who hate America and Americans. His dream come true…We have a real possob as potus…
duh_swami says
Islam is more like the god Mars running wild, than the moon god,…Mars represents war, conflict, discipline, justice, and everything rigid…It’s war manual tells them to treat the enemy harshly, with no compassion…
And that’s what they do with a demonic flair for creativity…
SG says
You people are stupid and blind who cant ever see the truth but bellieve what writen by others. ISIS are not a muslims but shit of satan. They masking the religion and killing who ever they choose including muslims. They are like zonbies without brain just like empty vase.
Poor archeologist had suffered too much on that age and can’t imagin of his family going through. True muslims are living normal life like others.Never hurt any or discriminate other religion. But those ISIS terrorists should be banned from univers! They are cursed and discusting creatures. All those tragedies happining not because of religon or god or profet but because of low leveled humanity. Human can be worse then wild animal. Anything capible of nothing good but evil things. If you hate just hate the terrorists do not blame whole religion.
So sad to live in such crule world…
quotha raven says
To SG – With all due respect, SG, you sound completely unfamiliar with and a complete stranger to the Qur’an, Sharia Law, the life of Mohammed, jihad, takiyya…the whole catastrophe. Put more simply, you strike me as numb as a hake. Wake up and smell the coffee. Cheers! Quotha R
Linde Barrera says
To SG- Hello. I am responding to your comment of 12:27 pm on Aug 19, 2015. I understand your disgust with IS. But if you are a Muslim, you must admit that IS is interpreting the Quran in a very literal way. Who are you to say they are not correctly interpreting the Quran? Have you organized any rallies/marches/parades with people of your mosque to protest IS? Have you created a banner like a flag that reads “ISLAMIC STATE IS NOT TRUE ISLAM” and hung it outside your home? Have you written any letters or emails to the United Nations and asked them how Islamic State can be defeated? Have you called the White House and made a comment that you want to see the coalition defeat IS? If you have done any act in public with a witness to show that you despise IS, then other Muslims will follow your bravery, and they too will speak out against IS. And people will commend you. But until then, complaining to Jihad Watch readers is as good as “howling at the moon”.
Angemon says
SG posted:
“You people are stupid and blind who cant ever see the truth but bellieve what writen by others.”
As opposed to what, muslims believing that the quran is the timeless word of allah and that its the final revelation for all Mankind?
“ISIS are not a muslims but shit of satan.”
They call themselves muslims. They praise the same books and prophets as other muslims. They base and justify their actions on islamic doctrine, which is the centerpiece of their movement – their legitimacy according to islamic law.
“They masking the religion”
It’s just the opposite. Like I said, they justify their actions on islamic doctrine – their religion is in the open for everyone to see.
“and killing who ever they choose including muslims.”
Muslims they consider heretics or apostates.
“They are like zonbies without brain just like empty vase.”
Much like other muslims then…
“True muslims are living normal life like others.Never hurt any or discriminate other religion.”
Uh, we read the quran. and ahadith We know what they say about Jews, Christians and polytheists.
“All those tragedies happining not because of religon or god or profet but because of low leveled humanity.”
Again: the islamic state has its roots on islam. It’s right there on the name – islamic state.
Canto28 says
Reminds me of when the monster Muhammad had a fire built a fire on Kinana’s chest
during the seige of Khaybar, but Kinana would not give up the treasure’s location. When he was at the point of death, one of the Muslims beheaded him. Kinana’s new wife Safiyyah was taken as a war prize; Muhammad claimed her for himself and hastily arranged a “wedding ceremony” that night and raped her.
Scholar Khaled Asaad, RIP.
No Fear says
These Islamic State loons were following the example of Mohammed when they tried to force the professor to divulge the location of gold.:
When Muhammad sent his army to overrun the peaceful farming community of Khaybar, he was not satisfied with the plunder and felt that the town’s treasurer might be holding out on him. He had the man brought to him:
When he [Muhammad] asked him about the rest he refused to produce it, so the apostle gave orders to al-Zubayr bin al-Awwam, “Torture him until you extract what he has.” So he kindled a fire with flint and steel on his chest until he was nearly dead. Then the apostle delivered him to Muhammad bin Maslama and he struck off his head.” (Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 764)
Jonathan says
Islam is where art, culture, and history go to die.
Leith Wood says
I have not found anyone else who is reporting this ghastly story! What a loving religion. Impossible not to be very depressed by it. We are praying for his family.