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IS Destroys Ancient Catholic Monastery in Syria
MSN News ^ | 8/21

Posted on 08/21/2015 12:17:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Islamic State militants have destroyed an ancient monastery in the central Syrian province of Homs, according to a monitor and pictures published by the jihadist group.

"The Islamic State group yesterday used bulldozers to destroy the Mar Elian monastery in Al-Qaryatain, in Homs province," said Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman.

He said the militants demolished the Syriac Catholic monastery "on the pretext that it was used for worshipping others than God."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: catholic; godsgravesglyphs; isis; middleeast; syria

1 posted on 08/21/2015 12:17:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Stalin once infamously taunted — “how many divisions does the Pope have?”

Perhaps the Pope today should consider raising one or two divisions — for protecting the body of Christ against depravity of Islam.


2 posted on 08/21/2015 12:21:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Islamist filth ping.


3 posted on 08/21/2015 12:22:48 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: nickcarraway

Just in case anyone, anywhere on Planet Earth, doubted that these ISIS tools are the biggest *ssholes of the Twenty-first Century - even with all the competition


4 posted on 08/21/2015 12:25:18 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Jack Hammer

Biggest @ssh0les? Tossup between them and Planned Barrenhood.


5 posted on 08/21/2015 12:26:39 PM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: nickcarraway

I don’t understand why our air assets don’t destroy these bulldozers destroying ancient Christan sites!


6 posted on 08/21/2015 12:29:30 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: Red_Devil 232

Our air assets are controlled by a queer Muslim, that’s why.


7 posted on 08/21/2015 12:40:01 PM PDT by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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To: BenLurkin

Donald Trump told the Pope he should do that a couple of days ago.


8 posted on 08/21/2015 12:48:02 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: nickcarraway

There are Christians in the Middle East? Golly, if only we had known this, we would never have destabilized the region so that islamist radicals could fill the power vacuum.


9 posted on 08/21/2015 12:59:58 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: Red_Devil 232

“I don’t understand why our air assets don’t destroy these bulldozers destroying ancient Christan sites!”

Because we are flying top cover FOR them, not against them. According to us the Kurds are the ones who must be hammered and stopped. We supply ISIS too. We call them “moderate opposition”.


10 posted on 08/21/2015 2:01:29 PM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but comSUrfmunists just ran for office)
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To: colorado tanker; NYer; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; ...
Thanks colorado tanker.

11 posted on 08/21/2015 3:21:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: nickcarraway

Lord, have Mercy.


12 posted on 08/21/2015 3:48:03 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: nickcarraway

Meanwhile, His Holiness wants to walk across the border from Mexico to the U.S.

Loserimus Maximus.


13 posted on 08/21/2015 3:56:51 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: nickcarraway

“... it was used for worshipping others than God...”

But, I thought we were we all worship the same God. People of the Book and all that stuff. Does this mean that allah is not the same as the Christian and Jewish God?


14 posted on 08/21/2015 8:22:09 PM PDT by SuzyQue
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