ISIS Blows Up Church on Easter Sunday: Syria State News Agency

[oberliner]

ISIS insurgents blew up a church on Easter Sunday, according to Syrian state news agency SANA.

The militants reportedly planted explosives inside the 80-year-old Church of the Virgin Mary in Tel Nasri in Syria's northeastern province of Hassakain.

Christian and Kurdish militia fighters have been battling the ISIS insurgency in the area but hardline Islamists control the village, SANA said. No casualties were reported.

The militant group, which has seized swathes of Syria and Iraq, espouses a fiercely purist school of Sunni Islam, deeming many other Muslims to be heretics.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/isis-blow-syrian-church-easter-sunday-sana-n336326

[Ilsa]

1. Bastards.

I'm looking forward to reading that they're all killed off or arrested or disbanded.

[Coventina]

2. Dear ISIS: We get it, you are complete jerks with absolutely no redeeming qualities.

Please die now.

Thanks,

Coventina

[Pooka Fey]

3. ISIS and its spawn are in the news every day for muderous atrocities

[riderinthestorm]

5. I believe that may be part of their strategy - be in the news daily

they've taken the most despicable methods to get there of course, instead of doing humanitarian works, they've decided on mass murder.

[eissa]

4. The only silver lining to this story

is that Tel Nasri's inhabitants fled for their lives when ISIS invaded the Assyrian villages back in February (and they're still holding a couple hundred of them hostages.) Otherwise, this church would have been packed on Easter and more lives needlessly lost.