Radical Islamic group destroys ancient tombs in Timbuktu

A radical Islamic faction that controls the northern Malian outpost of Timbuktu defied international condemnation today and continued destroying the city's ancient tombs.

The attacks by the al-Qaeda-linked faction Answar Dine began on Saturday as militants used axes and shovels to attack the tombs of Timbuktu's Sufi saints.

The radicals say they consider the tombs to be idolatrous. The BBC quotes one spokesman as saying the movement has now completed nearly 90% of its objective to destroy all mausoleums that are not in line with Islamic law.

The assaults began after Ansar Dine secured its hold on the three main towns in northern Mali, including Timbuktu.

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edcrandall

Those that died in jesus will still rise in the rapture no matter where or in what condition they are in. (I thes. 4:14 – 17)
http://www.divinenewsnetwork.com Min. Thomas Allen

Its only a matter of time when they do this in Egypt now that they are in control there too…
DEFEATOBAMAIN2012

This is what will happen in Israel………..
aceituna

One big reason why we have to defeat Islam, why the Muslim religion has to be curtailed. True noone can harm the Christians who have died in faith. They are forever with the Lord. It is for the living and for our decendents that we have to bring an end to what the Muslims are doing.
tod

The Only Good muslim is a Dead muslim,PERIOD !!!
- http://www.faithfreaks.com/Wolverine Wolf-Spider
  
  Unless they see the TRUE light, and turn from their wicked ways. They will, then, no longer be a Muslim.
  
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Mexseiko

Solution: Aim balistic assets to Mekka, Medina, Dome of the Rock and give ultimatum. One more act of terrorism, destruction of any kind by any terrorist group will trigger total destruction of these sites regardless of any occupation. Also, any act of terrorism under prosecution should have a death penalty without appeal. Six month early advise should be enough. The UN should sign up and advise every government. This way ALL will seak and prosecute terrorists and eradicate this evil from earth. Iran should be treated like Lybia and liberated from the Ayatollahs who should be sent to Gitmo. These are radical measures for radical global issue.
- http://www.faithfreaks.com/Wolverine Wolf-Spider
  
  Hello World War 3. It would help, geographically, if there were corrections in your spelling: It's not spelled Mekka, It's Mecca. What is this "seak"? I know "seek". Ballistic. You missed an "L".
  
  Wolf-Spider
Chris

Yup – more stupid religious based destruction. Pure unadulterated hate based on man made stupidity. Christians are just the same..
- Ken
  
  If Christians were just the same you wouldn't dare post on this site…some computer-savvy type would track you down and issue the equivalent of a fatwah.
  
  As it is, you're free to post whatever you want.
  - http://conservativebyte.com Michael G.
    
    I think you said it best.
lambsev

Idolatry is a real problem, not for Muslims, but for christians. We are not used to seeing people bow to statues and icons. But all men and women tend to idolize things, cars, sports teams, music, movie stars etc, etc. Some have defined an idol as anything that we (willfully?) pay attention to. It is especially an idol as God defines it if we give it equal or higher place than God Himself.

I recently went on a bit of an impulse spending spree, I bought 5 Bob Dylan CD's and 2 of the Byrds. I really enjoy their music. But if I start spending all my disposable income on the oldies I enjoy and all my spare time listening to them… that will be idolatry.

Men find it difficult to idolize God because they do not know Him well. We see Him as having wrath against the wicked, and He does have that. He is angry with sinners too! But all they need do is admit their sin and lawlessness (wickedness) and seek His grace and men find God does love and will accept them as they trust in His Son Jesus.
red nig

Timbuktu was a slave city, used by white moslems to take slaves. too back American blacks will not see the truth about Islam, a white religion. A religion that claims the right to own people (thousands of children and woimen are stolen every year from black Africa to sell to white moslems).
- http://www.faithfreaks.com/Wolverine Wolf-Spider
  
  I don't recall Arabs being white. They tend to be darker than white people. Have you seen Louis Farrakhan? Does he look white to you? If he does, you need your eyes checked. Besides, what the smeg does racism have to do with ANYTHING in this news article? If you say, "Racism is everything, " you need your head examined.
  
  Wolf-Spider
Richard

Any time you see a photo of some group of radical muslims, they are wearing some kind of mask or covering so they cannot be identified. This is not so that the anti-Islam authorities in their own country could track them down if they didn't wear the covering, because you see this even in radical Islamic countries. More than 90% of these people have absolutely no understanding of their own faith. If they understood it, they would have reason to cover their faces!
madmemere

Christian and military graves have been desecrated by muslims in Benghazi and Libya! If I believed in ghosts and spirits, I would pray that they would arise and terrorize the radical muslims- -it would be a "just" repayment!
madmemere

Recently, muslims desecrated Christian graves in Benghazi and Libya; in April they destroyed war graves in Australia! If I believed in ghosts and spirits, I would pray they would arise and haunt the evil doers! There seems to be little, or nothing, these heathens will not stoop to.
Tom

Remember the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them to do unto you."

By their continuing example around the world, from those desecrating and destroying the graves of WWII heroes and the crypts in the article above to those idiots damaging, desecrating and destroying non-islamic churches and the so called muslim archaeologists and scientists working diligently to rewrite science and history to something more in keeping with islamic dogma while destroying historic artifacts and sites and removing and destroying evidence of recorded history to hide the truth from memory, it is evident that these scum and the rest of the muslims of the world, would seem to wish these same practices visited upon them.

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Tom

My personal recommendation is that the world gives them this same respect. It would only be fitting for the remains of Muhammad and Saladine to be inturred powdered and soaked in the pig's blood from the most unclean portion of a sow and scattered with the ashes of a Koran to the winds resulting in these two being effectively erased from history and denied to have ever existed. The same might be done with mosques, the graves of imams, mullahs, and ayatollahs, followed by the damage and erasure of as many major islamic sites as possible, up to and eventually including Mecca.

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Tom

While I do not advise doing any of this and would not actually wish it on anyone, it might do the muslim world well when considering committing such crimes to realize just how easily their victims might rise up across international lines to exact the same kinds of harm upon them that they have been dishing out. What is more, for those who are working to undermine and/or destroy the USA in the name of islam, they should keenly understand that there are a great many veterans and truly patriotic US citizens here who would happily take their destructive practices home to their original nations, leadership and highest most sacred places if such crimes became common here.

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Tom

Like an American hero and Icon once said, "not a threat, fact!" Just consider what almost happened once when a similar legend was accidentally dropped behind enemy lines in front of an advancing unit of U.S. Marines. The Marines immediately fought and took that hill and one young Marine is remembered as saying, "we'll have this hill secured in a moment Mr. Hope," as he paused, saluting the performer Bob Hope, before continuing on past him into batttle. Make no mistake, in a like manner, there are thousands if not millions of true patriotic U.S. citizens and even veterans who would resist just as valiently if not even more so before this nation ever falls to islam and who would see to it islam perished first.

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