This pains me.

[posiview]

I'm not interested in the politics of the mater, that is it's not the reason I post this link, but the fact that such ancient and historic sculptures are being destroyed and will vanish forever pains me.

Link.

Cheers.

 

[gramps]

Not sure that politics has anything to do with this ... it's an ideology of destruction of life and anything else they disagree with.

 

[OldCarlos]

I agree.
There have been a few of these incidents over the years & shows how far they'll go erasing & re writing the history of mankind.

We aren't dealing with folk with a balanced or tolerant view of anything outside their views.

 

[woof woof]

One thing to occurre to me is that generations ago brave young men and women left the UK to fight against fascists in Spain. We can argue the rights and wrongs about that but personally I can see the reasoning and maybe admire those who went... but these days young men and women are leaving the UK to fight for a bunch who'll rape, subjugate, enslave, murder and destroy on any scale they're able too and I just can't reconcile myself with this choice.

 

[MartynK]

ISIS isn't the only culprit. The Taliban destroyed the Buddha statues of Bamiyan in 2001; and the Saudi government continue to destroy the architectural, cultural and religious history of their country, including most of the holy sites in and around Mecca and Medina. The motivation seems to be partly commercial greed, and partly Wahhabi paranoia about 'idol worship'.

 

[Phil V]

I think it's odd that they claim to be true to their 'historic religious' beliefs, yet these sites have survived their forebears, there's no historical precedent for this behaviour.

Whilst I have no religious affiliation, these sites are part of the history of the Human race,

 

[viv1969]

Albeit on a far grander and more deadly scale, the behaviour of these animals always seems to me to be similar to a bunch of teenagers left alone for a week at home with no adult supervision after advertising the fact on Facebook.

Many have travelled there under the guise od religious extremism, when really...I believe. ..they've done so because it's "cool". Free reign to murder, torture and destroy with little or no repercussions.

Devolved savages.

 

[Nod]

I think it's odd that they claim to be true to their 'historic religious' beliefs, yet these sites have survived their forebears, there's no historical precedent for this behaviour.

Whilst I have no religious affiliation, these sites are part of the history of the Human race,

As someone pointed out the other day, Henry VIII did something fairly similar with the dissolution of the monasteries. At around the same time as he was having people decapitated for different religious beliefs.

 

[gramps]

I think it's odd that they claim to be true to their 'historic religious' beliefs, yet these sites have survived their forebears, there's no historical precedent for this behaviour.

'Idolatory' (worship of or reverence to idols) has been considered a sin amongst all monotheistic (one-god) religions from the beginning of time and history contains many examples of one group destroying the religious images or idols of another group.
These people would simply take the view that their forbears were bad Muslims for tolerating idolatry, just as they take the view that other Muslims that they now slaughter are bad Muslims because they do not share their intolerant ideology.

 

[Phil V]

As someone pointed out the other day, Henry VIII did something fairly similar with the dissolution of the monasteries. At around the same time as he was having people decapitated for different religious beliefs.

He did.

I'm not suggesting this current bunch of bastards are unique (I've argued the opposite in the past), but it still irks me that they are a bunch of bastards.

 

[Nod]

Is there any religion or belief system that hasn't had atrocities committed in its name, whether it be the slaughter of non-believers or the destruction of property for religious (or even quasireligious) reasons?

 

[MartynK]

As someone pointed out the other day, Henry VIII did something fairly similar with the dissolution of the monasteries. At around the same time as he was having people decapitated for different religious beliefs.

I'm not sure that's correct. There was some opposition to the power and wealth of the Church - much of which was in the hands of the monasteries - but the Reformation hadn't gained as much traction as it had on the Continent. Henry was Roman Catholic and broke with Rome for political, not religious, reasons to facilitate the annulment of his marriage when the Pope baulked at granting his approval. Henry seems to have toyed with the Protestant faith over the years, but remained essentially Catholic. The dissolution of the monasteries was probably motived by greed more than anything else but, yes, it also involved sheer vandalism. I've always held this against him, more than for his penchant for beheading his queens!

Most of the men and women Henry had executed were convicted of treason - which had a different and somewhat more flexible meaning in the Tudor period - rather than religious dissent per se.

 

[boyfalldown]

Its just really very sad. The lose of humanity for this bunch who wish to ex cerise control in anyway, no matter how cockish.

 

[viv1969]

Is there any religion or belief system that hasn't had atrocities committed in its name, whether it be the slaughter of non-believers or the destruction of property for religious (or even quasireligious) reasons?

That's just it though Nod, they may weakly claim religious reasons, I honestly believe they're simply doing these things because ....they can. They're just destructive little wastes of oxygen invoking the name of Allah at every turn to increase their media celebrity.