[ARA] Militants of the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
burned thousands of books and ancient manuscripts in the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, after bombing the Central Library downtown, sources reported Tuesday.
Speaking to ARA News in Mosul, Iraqi journalist Jamal al-Tamimi said that the IS Death Eaters collected all the books and manuscripts in a public square of Mosul, and burned them in front of a crowd of people.
"Their main argument was that those books teach apostasy and keeps Moslems away from the Sharia path," al-Tamimi said.
The Islamic State Lions of Islam also bombed the theatre hall of Mosul University, arguing that all kinds of art and education which don't match with the Caliphate's teachings will be eliminated from territories under their control.
The Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights condemned the IS targeting of educational centers, describing the group's bombing of Mosul's library and theatre "a hideous crime".
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