Azerbaijan moves to obliterate its Armenian Christian past

Jihad watch ^ | 2/27/19 | Robert Spencer

[OddLane]

Islamic jihadists want to destroy the artifacts of non-Muslim civilizations, because doing so testifies to the truth of Islam, as the Qur’an suggests that the destroyed remnants of ancient non-Muslim civilizations are a sign of Allah’s punishment of those who rejected his truth:

Many were the Ways of Life that have passed away before you: travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those who rejected Truth. (Qur’an 3:137)

This is one of the foundations of the Islamic idea that pre-Islamic civilizations, and non-Islamic civilizations, are all jahiliyya — the society of unbelievers, which is worthless. Obviously this cuts against the idea of tourism of ancient sites and non-Muslim religious installations. V. S. Naipaul encountered this attitude in his travels through Muslim countries. For many Muslims, he observed in Among the Believers, “The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology.

History has to serve theology.” Naipaul recounted that some Pakistani Muslims, far from valuing the nation’s renowned archaeological site at Mohenjo Daro, saw its ruins as a teaching opportunity for Islam, recommending that Qur’an 3:137 be posted there as a teaching tool...

[Buttons12]

This is where Baku is. There’s hardly any non-muslims in the country, and the muslims aren’t very devout. Sounds more like somebody wants somebody’s property...again. Otherwise they could just up the tax on the last few Christians around.

[Flavious_Maximus]

They may as well be reading from the Sacred Scrolls on Planet of the Apes.

[SgtHooper]

I think we should give them a helping hand and firebomb the entire muzzie sh!th0le!

[JME_FAN]

Two 100MT fusion bombs, accurately targeted, would permanently fix this problem. Good thing for them I am not in charge - because every Islamic capital, city, town, village, hamlet, and oasis would be nuked out of existence before the Sun rose tomorrow.

[NorthMountain]

Two 100MT fusion bombs are two more 100MT fusion bombs than have ever been built.

[gop4lyf]

When are they going to tear down the Egyptian pyramids?

[george76]

Muslim Taliban in Afghanistan destroyed 2,000 year old Buddhists statues - a few years ago.

Like lefties destroy US Civil War statues - and for the same reason.

[OddLane]

There is a heavy ethnic component-and the attempt to destroy and erase Armenian history predominated even during the ostensibly atheist, Soviet period.

That said, there is a hatred of Christ there, just like any other part of the world that persecutes him, from the DPRK to almost every single Muslim nation on the planet.

[JME_FAN]

Well, then - I suggest we get cracking!

IIRC, the Russian “Tsar Bomb” was originally designed to be 100MT, but the Russians decided to dial it back to 50MT.

[NorthMountain]

;'}

originally designed to be 100MT

Yeah ... in a rare fit of sanity, they made the casing out of lead instead of uranium, thereby reducing the yield by half.