ISIS Latest Attempt for eliminating Religion in Civilisation

VIDEO: Daesh Burns Hundreds of Christian Books in Mosul

Sat Mar 12, 2016 11:02:08

After terror group destroyed 10,000 rare books in Mosul last year, ISIS has released a video, Show terrorists of so-called religious police burning hundreds of Christian books which it considers blasphemous.

It is the latest incident in which the terrorists have sought to purge society of anything that doesn't conform to their violent interpretation of Islam which no society of Muslims accept their behavior and thoughts as Islamic.

The video was posted online yesterday by its news agency Amaq with the title: 'Diwan of education destroys Christian instruction books in Mosul.' The Diwan Al-Hisba – or Chamber of Morality Police – was set up by ISIS (so-called Islamic State , ISIL , IS or Daesh)  soon after seizing swathes of territory in its lightning offensive through Iraq and Syria in June 2014.

It is responsible for enforcing the group's warped version of what they call "sharia law " and imposes penalties ranging from flogging for minor misdemeanors like smoking to amputations and beheadings.

In February last year, it destroyed around 10,000 books and more than 700 rare manuscripts when it blew up the main library in Mosul.

They are thought to have included its collection of Iraqi newspapers dating to the early 20th century, maps and books from the Ottoman Empire and book collections contributed by around 100 of Mosul's establishment families.

Speaking at the time, one local said a bearded militant told him: 'These books promote infidelity and call for disobeying Allah. So they will be burned.'

The group has also destroyed many archaeological relics such as Palmyra in Syria, deeming them pagan, and even Islamic sites are considered idolatrous.

Mosul, the biggest city in the Islamic State group's self-declared caliphate, boasts a relatively educated, diverse population that seeks to preserve its heritage sites and libraries.

In the chaos that followed the U.S.-led invasion of 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein, residents near the Central Library hid some of its centuries-old manuscripts in their own homes to prevent their theft or destruction by looters.

But this time, the Islamic State group has made the penalty for such actions death.

A University of Mosul history professor, who spoke on condition he not be named because of his fear of the Islamic State group, said the extremists started wrecking the collections of other public libraries in December 2014.

He reported particularly heavy damage to the archives of a Sunni Muslim library, the library of the 265-year-old Latin Church and Monastery of the Dominican Fathers and the Mosul Museum Library with works dating back to 5000 BC.

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