Islamic State militants destroy Iraq's ancient city of Hatra

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The Islamic State group has destroyed the ancient Iraqi fortress city of Hatra, Kurdish and Iraqi officials said Saturday, just two days after "bulldozing" the ruins of Nimrud and weeks after smashing artefacts in the Mosul museum.

Speaking from Mosul, Kurdistan Democratic Party official Said Mamuzini told the Kurdish news site Rudaw that militants from the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, had begun looting and destroying the site with shovels.

"The city of Hatra is very big and many artefacts of that era were protected inside the site,” he said. “ISIS has already taken away all the ancient currencies from the city that are in gold and silver."

Iraqi officials from the tourism and antiquities ministry confirmed the reports.

The fortified and pillared city of Hatra, which once withstood an attack by the Romans, is a 2,000-year-old site that lies 110 kilometres (68 miles) south of Mosul and is known for its beautifully preserved temples combining Hellenistic, Roman and Eastern influences.

Islamic State group jihadists "bulldozed" the ruins of Nimrud on Thursday using heavy military vehicles, Iraq’s tourism and antiquities ministry said.

“Daesh terrorist gangs continue to defy the will of the world and the feelings of humanity,” the ministry said, referring to the Islamic State group by its Arabic acronym, Daesh.

“In a new crime in their series of reckless offences they assaulted the ancient city of Nimrud and bulldozed it with heavy machinery, appropriating the archaeological attractions dating back 13 centuries BC."

A local tribal source confirmed the attack.

“Islamic State members came to the Nimrud archaeological city and looted the valuables in it and then they proceeded to level the site to the ground,” the source told Reuters.

“There used to be statues and walls as well as a castle that Islamic State has destroyed completely."

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Bastards.

[alicewonders]

They are going to become ever more bold with their attacks - they are trying to provoke a Holy War - this is what they want, their whole reason for being.

The world stands back and does nothing while they continue to destroy irreplaceable history and savagely murder innocents - because they don't want to be embroiled in a war.

Does this sound familiar?

Obama is becoming ever more bold in his attacks on our cherished American institutions - trying to provoke Americans into an incident that will propel us to where the government will stand with it's boot on our necks.

The opposition party - the GOP - stands back and does nothing - because they don't want to be smeared by the media.

We are doomed.

[flowers]

They are going to become ever more bold with their attacks - they are trying to provoke a Holy War - this is what they want, their whole reason for being.

The world stands back and does nothing while they continue to destroy irreplaceable history and savagely murder innocents - because they don't want to be embroiled in a war.

Does this sound familiar?

Obama is becoming ever more bold in his attacks on our cherished American institutions - trying to provoke Americans into an incident that will propel us to where the government will stand with it's boot on our necks.

The opposition party - the GOP - stands back and does nothing - because they don't want to be smeared by the media.

We are doomed.

we are doomed. So is the world.

[Fishrrman]

alice mourns above:
[[ We are doomed. ]]

I tend to agree.
I was just thinking today of a friend, who has two sons in their early twenties (both raised conservative and doing well).
My thoughts were that although he and I won't see it, there's a chance his kids will at the later stage of their life be forced to live under muslim rule. Maybe not -much- of a chance, but a chance nonetheless.

Because The West refuses to fight back.
Almost no resistance AT ALL.

The REAL "struggle" with islam IS NOT "over there" against isis, although of course that is an important part of it.

The struggle IS HERE, on Western ground.

Who's winning?

And Alice, since you posed a sorrowful prediction, I'm going to present you with a hard question.
It's one of the most difficult questions you will face in your life.
Here it is:

Given the choice, would you choose this:


Or THIS ??

[Oceander]

False choice.

If it comes to it, I choose this:

We did it twice last century, we can do it again.  And don't go on about how Obastard is going to sap everything.  We kicked Nazi butt after more than 8 years of another avowed socialist president; we can do it again.

The problem is, we have the bad habit of sitting there and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, until things get so bad we have no choice.  There was a very strong isolationist, if not outright anti-war, faction in the US right up until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.  In point of fact, in a very strange way the British - and the rest of Europe - probably have the Japanese to thank for being saved - by the US - from German/Italian fascism because without the goad of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US would probably have sat out the war until the UK had sued for peace with the Nazis and the Nazis had consolidated their grip on Western Europe.

[Fishrrman]

Oceander wrote above:
[[ False choice. ]]

You haven't got a clue, my friend.

What good will it do to blast the bejesus out of them over there, if we have lost over here?

It makes some difference to The West if sharia rules in Iran and Turkey.

It makes ALL the difference to The West if sharia becomes "the law" in Amsterdam or Paris.

How will we win a war with the enemy if that enemy has wrapped its tentacles around our own body, our own culture, eating away at it from within like cancer...?