DAESH/ISIS continues its destruction of ancient artifacts and structures, blowing up the ancient cit
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[QUOTE]A video purporting to show Islamic State extremists destroying the ancient Iraqi city of Nimrud has been posted online.In the video, militants use drills, sledgehammers and a bulldozer to destroy ancient stone reliefs and walls, before huge explosions can be seen. The video footage could not be independently verified by USA TODAY.
The Islamic State, also known as ISIL and ISIS, considers the artifacts to be idolatry.
The video, posted late Saturday, follows a statement from Iraq's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in March that the militants used heavy armed military vehicles to bulldoze Nimrud, near the country's second largest city of Mosul, which is held by the Islamic State.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/04/12/video-islamic-state-nimrud/25667399/[/url]
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What it looks like before:
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And way before:
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/The_Palaces_at_Nimrud_Restored.jpeg[/IMG]
what a bunch of nimrods
What is the point of this? Are they trying to wipe away the past as if theres not any other documentation of it?
edit: Jesus christ that city got fucking wiped out.
wankers
Tossers.
[QUOTE=Toro;47512840]What is the point of this? Are they trying to wipe away the past as if theres not any other documentation of it?
edit: Jesus christ that city got fucking wiped out.[/QUOTE]
They're Wahabiists, artifacts are seen as heretical idols so they destroy them.
Goddamned shitkicking savages. This makes me so angry.
I really am not surprised, they just want to watch the world burn.
And there goes about 33 centuries worth of history all thanks to a bunch of fucking savages who are too retarded to even know any sort of human history, because that would require them to actually act like human beings.
The world would be a far better place without those brainless barbarians. I bet the Neanderthals respected culture more than they ever do.
Didn't this happen already allegedly?
[QUOTE=LoganIsAwesome;47513100]Didn't this happen already allegedly?[/QUOTE]
Terrorist groups in the middle east have been blowing up their own historical monuments for fucking years now.
It's disgusting.
At least the pyramids of Giza are pretty safe considering it would take a metric shitload of TNT or a small nuke to destroy them. This is still sad though, archaeology has always fascinated me and it's depressing to think about what might not be there for future generations.
That being said, religion has always been the cause of this sort of thing, even thousands of years ago when Christianity was becoming popular I know a lot of Egyptian/Nubian/Bohemian temples and statues were destroyed or royally fucked up because of religious protectionism. It's just plain appalling to see things that took tens or even hundreds of years to create destroyed in an instant, basically erasing a part of history in the process, and its even worse to know that the people doing it think they are doing a great thing.
[QUOTE=Toro;47512840]What is the point of this? Are they trying to wipe away the past as if theres not any other documentation of it?
edit: Jesus christ that city got fucking wiped out.[/QUOTE]
People are easier to control when they know nothing of their people's history.
[QUOTE=Toro;47512840]What is the point of this? Are they trying to wipe away the past as if theres not any other documentation of it?
edit: Jesus christ that city got fucking wiped out.[/QUOTE]
They don't want there to be any sign that there was any culture or civilization before Islam.
Pieces of shit. Fuck you ISIS
Maybe it's because they don't want people to find out how awesome the Middle East was before religious zealots ruined the entire segment of the world.
[QUOTE=Lord_Ragnarok;47520272]Maybe it's because they don't want people to find out how awesome the Middle East was before religious zealots ruined the entire segment of the world.[/QUOTE]
Middle east was never awesome.
[QUOTE=Aredbomb;47512947]They're Wahabiists, artifacts are seen as heretical idols so they destroy them.[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't that mean that they would want to destroy the Ka'ba since it was used as a temple for many idols?
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[QUOTE=itisjuly;47520288]Middle east was never awesome.[/QUOTE]
Nah middle east was pretty interesting place. There's a reason why it's called the cradle of civilization. Besides, the worlds most influential religions came from the middle east
as much as this is tragic, i'd rather them gather up and expend the effort to sledge hammer this stuff than push forward into Baghdad or any other regions
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Nah middle east was pretty interesting place. There's a reason why it's called the cradle of civilization. Besides, the worlds most influential religions came from the middle east[/QUOTE]
That has been centuries ago. It was the cradle once but at some point it got stuck in a rut and now nothing but death and suffering is coming from that place. Overall influential religions is not a good thing, the most influential one, in my eyes, is a disaster.
[QUOTE=itisjuly;47520352]That has been centuries ago. It was the cradle once but at some point it got stuck in a rut and now nothing but death and suffering is coming from that place. Overall influential religions is not a good thing, the most influential one, in my eyes, is a disaster.[/QUOTE]
They were actually probably one of the most advanced places in the world at one time... then, over time, conservative religious fundamentalism slowly degraded Mesopotamia and Persia. There's more that happened that contributed to it (along with the rise in religious intolerance), but that's the most simple way to put it.
[QUOTE=Sableye;47520327]as much as this is tragic, i'd rather them gather up and expend the effort to sledge hammer this stuff than push forward into Baghdad or any other regions[/QUOTE]
Or we could sledgehammer them instead. These fucking psychos need to be stopped.
[QUOTE=Reshy;47519915]They don't want there to be any sign that there was any culture or civilization before Islam.[/QUOTE]
Eh, not really. It's the same reason they blew up the Buddhas, they feel like people going to these places and memorializing them is paying reverence to them.
I can't wait for these turds to be erased in much the same way.
I'm sorry but why aren't we making an effort to fucking defend these historical sites? This pisses me off more than most things in the news.
We should bulldoze ISIS into the ground.
The sun, the moon, the earth, the wind, these were all considered gods by our ancestral civilizations. Will ISIS try to destroy that as well?
I just learned about Nimrud and the ancient civilization during my Myth course. Now it's gone along with other ancient Assyrian relics. What ancient relics are still left? What else hasn't DAESH blown up yet because of that sick "code" of theirs? Save what's left of the past, and finally wipe DAESH off the map forever. Let's see how they like it when in the years to come that we never remember their actions in our books or in our memories. Get rid of them and let them be forgotten.
Damn, I never knew this would bring out the worst in me.
[QUOTE=madnath619;47531519]I'm sorry but why aren't we making an effort to fucking defend these historical sites? This pisses me off more than most things in the news.[/QUOTE]
It's near an ISIS held city, we don't know when they are going to target these sites and it would be too dangerous to guard them 24/7 in ISIS territory.
To make an effort to defend these historical sites would mean reclaiming the areas they are in.
We should have an international task force that is tasked with protecting historical sites.
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