Anger in Mosul as Islamic State Destroys Historic Mosque

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[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.

[eyedigress]

Now they are acting just like Democrats.

[2banana]

It’s a death cult.

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

[healy61]

They destroyed the home of Mohamed a couple years back because people wanted to see it.

[drewh]

rock that casbah baby!

[DesertRhino]

That’s what happens when it takes longer than the battle of Stalingrad to run a rabble out with no fire support.

[factoryrat]

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.

[Diogenesis]

[JimRed]

Wrong kind of Muslim, just as dead as an Infidel.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Knock ‘em all down.

[super7man]

I can never quite figure out who to root for.

[5th MEB]

I just root for all Muslim sects; TO KILL EACH OTHER!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

The Bent One?

[soycd]

>”I felt I had lost a son of mine.”

Typical islam attitude. Teaching islam should be illegal everywhere.

[BigEdLB]

New federal prison in Northeast Alaska is where to put Democrat bureaucrats

[NormsRevenge]

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.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

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.

[Hugin]

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.

[ronnie raygun]

saves us the time of destroying them

[huldah1776]

Ironically, I believe that is how the armies surrounding Israel die at the coming of Messhiah. :)