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ED-NOTE (Sabba) – I think, I hope there is no need to remind my fellow students at TUT Uni that it is judaism and only judaism which has a problem with Jesus (PBUH) and anything related to him. And it is judaism and only judaism which has declared a war to  death against Jesus, his name, his memory. It is judaism and only judaism which commands the destruction of churches, the spitting on Christians, the killing of Christians, in one word: the total destruction of Christianity, up to its name.

But as we hear of this latest crime against the Gentile World committed by I.S.I.S, let us remember the HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of churches and monasteries which have been destroyed in Europe by European governments while the people who elected them just stood idle and watched.

Let us remember the thousands of churches and monasteries which have been converted to fast foods, to pubs, bars, luxury hotels, brothels etc.

The demolition of Christian sites in Europe is continuing to this very day in scale which makes I.S.I.S look like vulgar amateurs. It is continuing to this very day without anyone being shocked when it is no different to what I.S.I.S is doing in the Middle East. 

If we are horrified – as we should – upon hearing that ISIS has destroyed yet another Christian building , we should be equally horrified that our churches and monasteries are being destroyed in our own countries, with our very own tax money.

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I24 NEWS – Islamic State militants have destroyed an ancient monastery in the central Syrian province of Homs, according to a monitor and pictures published by the jihadist group.

“The Islamic State group yesterday used bulldozers to destroy the 1,500-year-old Mar Elian monastery in Al-Qaryatain, in Homs province,” said Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman.

He said the militants demolished the Syriac Catholic monastery “on the pretext that it was used for worshiping others than God.”

Photographs posted online by IS showed militants bulldozing parts of the monastery, although they did not appear to have completely destroyed the building with explosives as they have done with shrines and other religious buildings elsewhere.

IS seized Al-Qaryatain on August 5, kidnapping at least 230 people, including dozens of Christians.

The town lies at the crossroads between IS territory in the eastern countryside of Homs and points further west in the Qalamun area bordering Lebanon.

The Observatory said that IS had released 48 of those it took captive when it overran the town, and had transferred another 110 to its stronghold of Raqa province.

The fate of the other 70 hostages was unclear.

The Mar Elian monastery dates back to the fifth century and is named for a Christian from Homs province who was martyred for refusing to renounce his faith.

It is attached to a famous church of the same name, but it was unclear if that too had been damaged by IS.

In May, Syrian priest Jacques Mourad was abducted from the monastery by masked men as he prepared to receive residents of nearby Palmyra fleeing an IS advance.

Intolerant of any religious practice other than its own interpretation of Islam, IS has regularly destroyed religious buildings and icons in territory under their control.

They have also targeted statues, which they consider idolatrous, and grave markers, including those of Muslims.

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