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Islamic State Destroys Sufi Shrines In Eastern Syria
[Ynet] The hardline al Qaeda offshoot Islamic State has destroyed several Sufi Moslem shrines and tombs in the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zor, a monitoring group said on Saturday.

The Sunni Moslem group, which enforces a strict interpretation of Islamic law in territories under its control in Iraq and Syria, has destroyed dozens of shrines, tombs and Shi'ite Moslem mosques.

Sites affiliated with the Sufi sect, a mystical school of Islam opposed by puritanical Salafists
...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them...
 from which Islamic State draws its members, have been among the group's main targets.
They all do it -- Islamic State, the Saudis in Arabia, the Afghan Taliban, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt -- it's as if the idea of history existing between the Prophet Mohammed and their own ascendence must not be allowed.

Posted by: trailing wife 2014-09-14
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