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ISIS blows up the tomb of Jonah

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Was a bit surprised to find this hadn't been posted yet. Even did an "advanced search" to make sure.
Fox News: ISIS militants wreak havoc on Iraq's cultural treasureshttp://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/07/27/isis-militants-wreak-havoc-on-iraq-cultural-treasures/http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/07/27/isis-militants-wreak-havoc-on-iraq-cultural-treasures/

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), the Sunni Muslim insurgent group who swept across northern and western Iraq earlier this year, menacing Baghdad in the process, has commenced the systematic destruction of the country's cultural treasures.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the group had destroyed a mosque in the northern Iraq city of Mosul that contained a shrine believed to be the tomb of Jonah -- who is revered as a prophet by Christians, Jews, and Muslims. The paper reported that the militants had wired the periphery of the mosque with explosives and then detonated them.

"They turned it to sand, along with all other tombs and shrines," Omar Ibrahim, a Mosul dentist, told The Journal. "But Prophet Younes [the Muslim name for Jonah] is something different. It was a symbol of Mosul ... We cried for it with our blood."
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Why would they do that? Residents told reporters that the militants claimed the mosque had become a place for apostasy, not prayer. However, the truth is probably more sinister than that. As a Hebrew prophet, Jonah carried a foreboding for ISIS, made up mostly of radical Islamists. The story of Jonah is of a reluctant Jew who knew that following God's command would likely result in the repentance of the Assyrian nation, of which Nineveh was the capital. Though the Assyrians were not Arab, ISIS and many Muslims nonetheless claim the ancient nation's greatness greatly influenced the Arab conquerors of Assyria, and they claim the history as their own, even though technically, and rightfully, it is not.

Jonah's story illustrates the power of God, even the love God has for the lost of any nation, tribe, tongue or creed. They could not let the tomb remain. Jonah's story proves Islam wrong, that the God of Israel and Christians is the One True God. That title does not belong to Allah.
 
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