BEIRUT, Lebanon — For decades, he was the bespectacled caretaker of some of Syria’s greatest archaeological treasures. He explored the sprawling ruins in his hometown, named a daughter Zenobia after its ancient queen, and became so intertwined with its development that one historian called him “Mr. Palmyra.”
Now, months after his home fell to the jihadists of the Islamic State, Khalid al-Asaad, the retired chief of antiquities for Palmyra, has fallen, too.
After detaining him for weeks, the jihadists dragged him on Tuesday to a public square where a masked swordsman cut off his head in front of a crowd, Mr. Asaad’s relatives said.
PS: He was a highly educated 83 year old man who loved his nations antiquities. He was kidnapped from his home by ISIS members. After being tortured he wouldn’t or couldn’t tell ISIS where Syria’s ancient treasurers were hidden, so they chopped off his head in a public execution and hung his corpse from a light pole. They are worse than depraved animals, they are without any sense of humanity – there’s only one way to deal with fanatics like this.
Jack you are absolutely right. We need to say this more often and we need to highlight their murderous depravity more often. If we refuse to stand against evil we are bound to be overcome by it. It may not be immediate but come it will.
I agree as well, but when is the rest of the world going to step up and help deal with scumbags like this? We’re not the world’s only superpower.
Steve I’m beginning to doubt that you could call any other nation a super power (Israel, except her size limits her participation) .
Since the non-recovery all nations are not doing well. Some that were already in economic stagnation are dying. Nations that rely only on oil are in deep trouble (Russia) if they need $70 a barrel to break even. India has the man power but is a very poor country with the ME mess on it’s doorstep.
Even we are weaker than we’ve been for years.
Add this reason to your list as well:
QADIYA, Iraq — In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it, he insisted.
He bound her hands and gagged her. Then he knelt beside the bed and prostrated himself in prayer before getting on top of her.
When it was over, he knelt to pray again, bookending the rape with acts of religious devotion.
“I kept telling him it hurts — please stop,” said the girl, whose body is so small an adult could circle her waist with two hands. “He told me that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to God,” she said in an interview alongside her family in a refugee camp here, to which she escaped after 11 months of captivity.
So what’s your answer Obama, more tolerance toward radical Islamic practice or another one of your fake” line in the sand”, or just continue to keep head your buried in a dark place.
If any religion is so sick and demented that it’s message could in any way be construed to encourage child rape then that religion is a criminal enterprise and ought not to exist.