ISIS bulldozes ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, Iraqi TV says

[bitwarrior]

(CNN)ISIS has again destroyed cultural treasures, this time bulldozing the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, state-run media said Thursday.

The extent of the destruction wasn't immediately revealed, according to Iraq's state broadcaster Iraqiya TV, which cited the Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism.

Nimrud was a city in the Assyrian kingdom, which flourished between 900 B.C. and 612 B.C. It's located south of Mosul in northern Iraq.


More here:

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/05/world/iraq-isis-destroys-ancient-city-nimrud/index.html

ISIS is really hungry for attention!

[Mikestang]

This kind of stuff is way worse to me than murder.  These ancient sites are all of our histories, they tell the stories of how human civilizations rose and fell.  Once gone, the secrets they held can never be reclaimed.  A complete shame and crime against humanity.  I wish they would stick to cutting people's heads off, we have enough people to spare.

[Tusk]

A moronic selfish act, a devolution of humanity

[okthen]

This kind of stuff is way worse to me than murder.  These ancient sites are all of our histories, they tell the stories of how human civilizations rose and fell.  Once gone, the secrets they held can never be reclaimed.  A complete shame and crime against humanity.  I wish they would stick to cutting people's heads off, we have enough people to spare.

I'm sorry, even though I agree with you in that it is a crime against humanity, "this kind of stuff is way worse to me than murder"?
How can you say that?? Human life is the single most important thing, the death of a single person is not worth all the art in the world.
It's nice to protect and respect art, but be careful with hyperboles.

[Mikestang]

How can you say that?? Human life is the single most important thing, the death of a single person is not worth all the art in the world.
It's nice to protect and respect art, but be careful with hyperboles.

Oh come off it, you're the one with hyperbole and you can't be serious.  All the art in the world?! It's irreplaceable.
There are 7 billion people on this planet, we are disposable and replaceable. These ancient sites are neither.

So you would trade all the art in the world for the life of one of these Isis-holes that are destroying the history of mankind?  Or a serial rapist?  Or a corporate criminal? I didn't think so.

[Agestorzrxx]

Do the ISIS savages really think they can change history by destroying vestiges of history? Another good demonstration of muslim logic.

[innocent93]

They are definitely the savages, if they could survive or even achieve their goal and establish ISIS, that must be the regression of the human being.

[usairx]

we need to wake up
destroying history is despicable and horrendous.

[maku]

They are really craving for attention. Too bad they do it in the most idiotic way possible. ISIS just wants whole world to hate them apparently, they soon will have their war if their stupidity will continue...

[prodigy8]

If we do nothing ISIS can expand. I think they're trying to provoke a conflict global

[Lethn]

If we do nothing ISIS can expand. I think they're trying to provoke a conflict global

That is what Jihadists like them believe, all non-believers are their enemies except they're so brainwashed and fanatical that they don't realise how many people are going to turn against them if they keep this shit up, when even Egyptians and the Jordianians are sick of them you know somethings up.

I always try to avoid the idea of violence, but when it comes to psychopaths like this I'll have very little sympathy if they end up dead.

[Snail2]

That's why it's difficult to bomb them back to the stone age. They are already there and a few bombs doesn't make to much difference.

[Nemo1024]

This kind of stuff is way worse to me than murder.  These ancient sites are all of our histories, they tell the stories of how human civilizations rose and fell.  Once gone, the secrets they held can never be reclaimed.  A complete shame and crime against humanity.  I wish they would stick to cutting people's heads off, we have enough people to spare.

In a way, I share this sentiment. These groups aim at destroying history, for people without history and without past are so much easier to subjugate. But at the same time in this destruction, they write the history of their own demise and their own savageness, for that is how they will be remembered - as illiterate savages.
It's like Taliban and their destruction of the statues of Buddha all over again, this time on a larger scale.