TYT: ISIS Smashes Priceless Ancient Statues In Gut-wrenching Video

[WhoIsNumberNone]

"The Islamic State group released a video on Thursday showing militants using sledgehammers to smash ancient artifacts in Iraq's northern city of Mosul, describing the relics as idols that must be removed.

The destructions are part of a campaign by the IS extremists who have destroyed a number of shrines — including Muslim holy sites — in order to eliminate what they view as heresy. They are also believed to have sold ancient artifacts on the black market in order to finance their bloody campaign across the region.

The five-minute video shows a group of bearded men inside the Mosul Museum using hammers and drills to destroy several large statues, which are then shown chipped and in pieces. The video then shows a black-clad man at a nearby archaeological site inside Mosul, drilling through and destroying a winged-bull Assyrian protective deity that dates back to the 7th century B.C."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur & John Iadarola break it down.

*Read more here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/26/new-isis-video_n_6759626.html

[eissa]

1. Sub-human filth

Is there no stopping these animals?!

[HoosierCowboy]

2. Turns out

The statues were plaster replicas. F**k you ISIS. But the bombs will be real.

[GoneFishin]

3. Why do these assholes seem to advance the neo-cons' agenda? Pillaging Iraq's cultural treasures,

killing reporters and peace activists, and generally fueling U.S. public outrage and creating more pretenses for the righties to give our tax money to war profiteers?

If any neocon nutbags, right-wingers, or Fox News reporters have been featured in these sick ISIS videos then I withdraw my question.

[geardaddy]

4. Taliban 2.0

The Taliban destroyed the Buddhist statues at Bamiyan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan

[Plucketeer]

5. IF..... there's ever a conservative take over of OUR country

I can see this sorta thing going on with respect to ANYTHING that contradicted Christian themes and notions. Museums with artifacts that show the earth is way, way older than the silly crap about six thousand years ago - that stuff would HAVE TO BE purged to protect biblical lore.
Yeah - we can brand these ISIL jerks as "animals", but they're only doing what their demented beliefs suggest they do to protect their ultimate destiny. The same kind of lunacy is just waiting for the chance to spring forth in the Christian religions. Do not doubt that are fundamental Christians that would delight in showing their god their ability to follow his word to the LETTER - stoning folks to death would be a way of affirming their faith.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. These people believe the End Times are NOW....

They're trying to provoke a full scale war.

[DhhD]

6. Time will reestablish the Islamic Sects. It seems that the ISIL Wahhadis are do the murdering

or genocide of Sunnis, Shiite, and others. Bush destroyed the balance of power between all of these sects. We need to stay away and out of the picture. Why continue to stir up the hornets nest? ISIL kills and destroys so Wahhadism will be the only sect remaining.

Wahhadis want to destroy the past before the time when Mohammad was born. Mohammad allowed Zionism and Judaism from the past, and then Christianity, to be practiced in Saudia Arabia. He was a Christian before his followers made him a prophet equal to Jesus Christ. ISIL wants to destroy that past.