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ISIS Bulldozes Ancient Syrian Monastery
The Catholic Herald ^ | 8/21/15 | Staff Reporter

Posted on 08/21/2015 8:38:33 AM PDT by marshmallow

Islamists destroy 5th-century Mar Elian monastery

ISIS fighters have demolished a monastery in central Syria, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The Mar Elian monastery in the town of Qaryatain near Homs, was captured by the terrorists from the Syrian Army two weeks ago. This week they used bulldozers to raze the holy site.

Mar Elian is also where Fr Jacques Mourad was kidnapped in May. He remains one of six clergy in Syria who have been kidnapped by rebel groups, their fates unknown.

(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 08/21/2015 8:38:33 AM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Barbarians need to be stopped.


2 posted on 08/21/2015 8:40:48 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: marshmallow

They should bulldoze the whole country and go back to living in tents.


3 posted on 08/21/2015 8:47:36 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: marshmallow

I’d like to bulldoze ISIS.


4 posted on 08/21/2015 8:47:58 AM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("No punishment...is too great for the man who can build his greatness upon his country's ruin."-G.W)
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To: marshmallow

Good work, Obama.


5 posted on 08/21/2015 8:48:20 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: FES0844

O Lord, save your people,
and bless your Commonwealth.
Grant victory to thy people
over the barbarians
and by virtue of your cross,
preserve your habitation.


6 posted on 08/21/2015 8:49:49 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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To: MarvinStinson

“Good work, Obama.”

A Republican president would be said to “hate archaeology”.


7 posted on 08/21/2015 9:03:53 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: FES0844

I love the Kurds but no one will back them because they fear a breakaway state.

The State Dept needs to swallow it’s Obama-Kerry holier than thou big mouth pride and ignore the Gulf Arab states and strike a deal with Assad and wipe out the Syrian Sunni rebels.

Since 9/11 of the two branches of crazy evil Islam, it seems the Arab Sunni Islam version is far more horrible than the Iranian Shia version of Islam. They are both horrible but since Iranian Shia Islamists have taken power in Iran they have not done any of these kinds of genocidal things to the Christian minorities (native to Iran) that the Sunni Arabs do.


8 posted on 08/21/2015 9:09:01 AM PDT by Trumpinator (You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
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To: Kolokotronis

Amen!


9 posted on 08/21/2015 9:10:04 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: marshmallow

Moslems and Communists share many many traits. One is the insistence that all knowledge of anything that existed before the advent the Perfect Society must be utterly erased so that future generations cannot know that other ways existed.


10 posted on 08/21/2015 9:24:05 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: arthurus

The Muslim Allah = SATAN.


11 posted on 08/21/2015 10:30:17 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Biggirl

I have long thought that, if there is such a thing as a single entity who is the famous Beast, THE Antichrist, that he has already come and it is Mohammed and his religion.


12 posted on 08/21/2015 9:17:31 PM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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