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Anger in Mosul as Islamic State Destroys Historic Mosque
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Posted on 06/22/2017 12:32:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Kawa Omar and Ahmed Rasheed | MOSUL/BAGHDAD, IRAQ The leaning al-Hadba minaret that towered over Mosul for 850 years lay in ruins on Thursday, demolished by retreating Islamic State militants, but Iraq's prime minister said the act marked their final defeat in the city.

"In the early morning, I climbed up to the roof of my house and was stunned to see the Hadba minaret had gone," Nashwan, a day-laborer who lives near the mosque, said by phone. "I felt I had lost a son of mine."

His words echoed the shock and anger of many over the destruction of the Grand al-Nuri Mosque along with its famous minaret, known affectionately as "the hunchback" by Iraqis.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Iran; Iraq; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alnurimosque; iran; iraq; isis; leaningminaret; minaret; mosul; muslimworld; yazidi
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1 posted on 06/22/2017 12:32:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Now they are acting just like Democrats.


2 posted on 06/22/2017 12:34:04 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: nickcarraway

It’s a death cult.

After genocide against the Christians and Yardizs, it goes after other sects of muslims


3 posted on 06/22/2017 12:35:42 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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They destroyed the home of Mohamed a couple years back because people wanted to see it.


4 posted on 06/22/2017 12:36:10 PM PDT by healy61
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rock that casbah baby!
5 posted on 06/22/2017 12:37:17 PM PDT by drewh
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That’s what happens when it takes longer than the battle of Stalingrad to run a rabble out with no fire support.


6 posted on 06/22/2017 12:38:25 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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So much for the barbarian caliphate.

Even after 1400 years of jihad against the infidels, the muslims still haven’t figured out that you don’t shit where you sleep.


7 posted on 06/22/2017 12:38:54 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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8 posted on 06/22/2017 12:43:26 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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Wrong kind of Muslim, just as dead as an Infidel.


9 posted on 06/22/2017 12:47:17 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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Knock ‘em all down.


10 posted on 06/22/2017 12:48:24 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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I can never quite figure out who to root for.


11 posted on 06/22/2017 12:53:25 PM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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I just root for all Muslim sects; TO KILL EACH OTHER!


12 posted on 06/22/2017 12:58:42 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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The Bent One?


13 posted on 06/22/2017 1:02:38 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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>”I felt I had lost a son of mine.”

Typical islam attitude. Teaching islam should be illegal everywhere.


14 posted on 06/22/2017 1:04:00 PM PDT by soycd
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New federal prison in Northeast Alaska is where to put Democrat bureaucrats


15 posted on 06/22/2017 1:05:18 PM PDT by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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Should have just added a nice glassy glaze to the whole region years ago.. how many lives would have been saved? not just of ours and coalition troops but by people smart enough to leave this god-forsaken region and let them kill each other off for Allah.


16 posted on 06/22/2017 1:32:10 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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The leaning al-Hadba minaret that towered over Mosul for 850 years lay in ruins on Thursday

Yeah whatever. It's just another filthy mosk.

17 posted on 06/22/2017 2:59:31 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" month.)
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It was there that its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a "caliphate" as militants seized swathes of Syria and Iraq. He proclaimed himself the caliph, ruler of all Muslims, from the mosque's pulpit.

As I said at the time, he effectively declared war on the governments of every Islamic country then, and it would end up destroying him. It seems I was right.

18 posted on 06/22/2017 5:04:27 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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saves us the time of destroying them


19 posted on 06/22/2017 5:24:46 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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Ironically, I believe that is how the armies surrounding Israel die at the coming of Messhiah. :)


20 posted on 06/22/2017 6:45:54 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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