Tears, and Anger, as Militants Destroy Iraq City’s Relics

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Tim Arango

Iraqis inspected the wrecked grave site of the biblical prophet Jonah in Mosul, Iraq, last week. Extremists with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria have demolished many historic sites there. Credit European Pressphoto Agency

IRAQ---When the Sunni extremists ruling Mosul destroyed the shrine of a prophet whose story features in the traditions of Islam, Christianity and Judaism — the most important of nearly two dozen marked for destruction by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in the first seven weeks of its reign — small groups of residents gathered to mourn. [link]

Sunni extremists in Mosul have deemed historic sites, including tombs and shrines, heretical under Islamic law and have destroyed or plan to destroy them, leaving residents to mourn.