(March 7, 2015 at 4:55 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:(March 6, 2015 at 10:31 am)Alex K Wrote: I have such a queasy feeling when thinking about these things. Somehow, them destroying these cultural relics makes me so very angry, and in the same second I think, what is that against the lives they took so brutally.
Although every murder they do is atrocious and tragic, people to an extent are replaceable, but they are wilfully destroying the history of the entire world forever because they want there never to have been a time before Islam.
To IS or whatever they are called this week, traces of the pre-Islamic world must be removed.
The Taliban did it in Afghanistan with the buddhas they destroyed and these cretins are doing it an the cradle of civilisation.
The Israelites were commanded to do the same thing in the First Commandment in Exodus 34:12-16 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...EV;MSG;NLT
