ISIS destroys ancient statues, shrines & artifacts

[Gaius Colletti]

This is untrue! Evan, get your facts straight. They also destroy holy Muslim sites not connected to their particular brand of the faith. The disrespect for all pre-Islamic sites is rife throughout all of Northern Africa, ISIS just takes it a long step further. It is religious insanity, just like the storming and defacing (literaly) of the Katholic churches by the protestants.1522 in Wittenberg, in 1523 Zürich, in 1530 Kopenhagen, in 1534 Münster, in 1535 Genève, in 1537 Augsburg, in 1559 Schotland and in 1566 France and the Nederlands. So there is nothing new here at all.

Robert, you know that isn't the same. Protestants may have defaced Catholic Church property back when the Catholic Church was a threat to them, it represented something they opposed. That was ALSO back when people were wearing suits of armor and accusing each other of witchcraft. This is the 21st Century, a statue of Sargon II doesn't represent oppression it is pre-Islam or "heathen" so they destroy it. Radical groups just a few years ago spoke of wanting to destroy the pyramids. The Protestants of the 16th century have nothing on these religious extremists