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| Iraq |
| ISIL militants demolish Prophet Yunus shrine |
| 2014-07-25 |
| [Iran Press TV] ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... bully boyz have demolished the holy shrine of Prophet Yunus in a gruesome act of terrorism in the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... . The ISIL bully boyz "completely destroyed the shrine of Nabi Yunus after telling local families to stay away and closing the roads to a distance of 500 meters from the shrine," AFP quoted an official at the Sunni endowment, which manages Sunni religious affairs in Iraq, as saying on Thursday. The shrine of Prophet Yunus is one of the most well-known shrines in Iraq's northern city. The prophet is known as Yunus in the holy Koran and as Jonah in the Bible. The endowment official further noted that the Takfiri bully boyz have already destroyed or damaged 30 shrines, as well as 15 Shia religious sites and mosques in and around the Iraqi city. He listed the shrines of Yahya Ibn al-Qassem, Aoun al-Din and Prophet Daniel as the most important Moslem shrines destroyed or damaged by the ISIL. "But the worst destruction was of Nabi Yunus, which has been turned to dust," the official said. "They first stopped people from praying in it, then fixed explosive charges around and inside it and then blew it up in front of a large gathering of people," AFP quoted a witness who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Takfiri bully boyz have demolished several holy shrines and mosques belonging to Shia and Sunni Moslems in the militancy-riddled regions of Nineveh Province. The ISIL and its associated Lion of Islam groups are blamed for numerous sacrilegious acts. The terrorist groups have links with Saudi intelligence and are believed to be indirectly supported by the Israeli regime. The crisis in Iraq escalated after the ISIL bully boyz took control of Mosul in a lightning advance on June 10, which was followed by the fall of Tikrit, located 140 kilometers (87 miles) northwest of the capital. The Iraqi army, backed by tribal forces and volunteers, has been engaged in heavy fighting with the bully boyz on different fronts and has so far been able to push back bully boyz in several areas, including in Tikrit. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 These savages destroyed a church?.....oh wait a mosque....oh well, boys will be boys. |
| Posted by: bbrewer126 2014-07-25 15:54 |
| #5 Then they'll bitch because they need 'something like a gate'. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2014-07-25 11:33 |
| #4 Frickin barbarians at the gate. Next they will destroy the gate. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-07-25 10:23 |
| #3 I thought it was shaving the whales. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2014-07-25 07:49 |
| #2 Maybe we could help them along, by rubbleizing their entire caliphate. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-07-25 07:36 |
| #1 Uh, uh, SAVING THE WHALES??? gut nuthin. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-07-25 00:05 |