ISIS Destroys 2 Ancient Shrines In Syria's Palmyra

Reuters ^ | June 23, 2015 | Staff

[C19fan]

Islamic State militants have blown up two ancient shrines they consider sacrilegious in Palmyra, a 2,000-year-old UNESCO World Heritage site in central Syria, the ultra hardline Sunni Muslim group said on Tuesday.

The report was the first of any damage being done by the militants to buildings in Palmyra since they seized control of the city, also known as Tadmur, in May. Syrian forces have bombed the city, and the militants camped within it, since then.

[C19fan]

So it begins. Over/under on when Confederate memorials get the ISIS treatment?

[HLPhat]

Those who control the past control the future.

Those who control the present control the past.

—George Orwell

[Red Badger]

We may need to start a ‘Destruction of GGG’ Ping list................

[gaijin]

Sounds vaguely like the Khmer Rouge.

[SIRTRIS]

I’m sure if the Kaaba was attacked/destroyed... Obama would be all over it, from TV appearances to visiting the site! Of course, this wouldn’t even appear political by any means!

[boycott]

Thanks, Obama.

muslims hate history because it reveals what a fraud their cult really is.

[rktman]

Hmmmm. What is there that sounds so familiar about someone not only rewriting history but destroying any signs of it. OH wait I know. We ban any depiction of the Confederate BATTLE flag and remove statues of any confederate generals, rename counties, lakes, parks etc. What the hell is wrong with this........... oh, libs. Then the lyin’ king run congress hands him our asses on a silver platter. Gets worser and worser by the day.

P.S. I had ancestors that fought in the civil war. From a NY regiment though. :>}

[Sasparilla]

“So it begins. Over/under on when Confederate memorials get the ISIS treatment?...”

The libs are capitLizing on the emotion of the moment. Its another opportunity to disarm all but criminals In America too.
Obama will use his “it must be done now” tactic on guns and monuments before the emotional frenzy subsides as it always does.

[browniexyz]

Here I thought we were evolved beyond the ISIS barbarians, but no, I was wrong. Right here in the U.S., folks are threatened by statues depicting people who are no longer living. I just want to say, get a life, folks. Inanimate objects shouldn’t be the focus of all this angst and energy.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Tragic, though a small thing as compared to drowning men in cages or blowing their heads off with C4 necklaces.

[HLPhat]

Little things like the Truth, historical and otherwise, can be so inconvenient when the social engineers have a Cult-ured vision in mind.

Our silly American founders and their 1st amendment notions have no place in the state-establishment of the Cult-ured.

[phormer phrog phlyer]

Like taking people out of photographs, and becoming non people. The communists did this all the time, they are doing it here now.

[knarf]

What?

The united nations (spit, puke) can't or won't protect what they deemed a heritage site ?

Where were your peace keepers, un ?

Oh ... yeah ... infecting anything with a warm hole with a muderous element.

[HLPhat]

>>drowning men in cages or blowing their heads off with C4 necklaces.

Well their chief weapons are Fear and Surprise and...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WJXHY2OXGE

Give the rack... a turn!

[knarf]

If Donald Trump stated in one of his speeches that one of the first things he would do is sign an executive order restoring every government facility/entity that had experienced a PC change to revert back to where it was ....

He'd be a serious contender for the presidency

America has been knawing at the bit for someone in Congress to pull out a cane and start whoopin' people, waitin' for a politician to propose a ban on all news media and each politician pay out of his own pocket to have HIS viewpoint or speech published, waitin' for SOMEONE to punch another ...

America WANTS a hero and hero's ARE hero's because they actually make a change ... usually instantly (consider the guy that falls on a grenade, or the legal CCW that takes out a school shooter ... or any number of examples)

America is tired of the slow moving machinery of politics and THAT is why we are so precariously perched on revolution

A whole BUNCH'A folks are ready.

[HLPhat]

>>Like taking people out of photographs, and becoming non people.
>>The communists did this all the time, they are doing it here now.

Manufacturing perception has always been the forte of those whose abilities were outweighed by their need for milk, apples, and whiskey.

This is, of course, why they are the brain works of the farm!

[ScottinVA]

“Where were your peace keepers, un ?”

When they found out all the children in the area had already been either beheaded or claimed as sex slaves, they didn’t see any reason to post peacekeepers without a rape incentive.

[HLPhat]

“OUR LIVES, OUR FORTUNES, AND OUR SACRED HONOR”

[knarf]

Backed up with bullets

otherwise it's historical poetry

[Pietro]

Irony is lost on the typical liberal, just like humor.

My comparison is w/ the ACLU going after 10 Commandment plaques at county courthouses, but the truth is actually quite larger and more sinister; the left wants to obliterate the past in order to install a new mindset.

It is the destruction of all that we love and the imposition of a dreadful, drear and distasteful tyranny.