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 Topic: Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities

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  • Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
     OP - August 19, 2015, 03:03 PM
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    Islamic State militants beheaded a renowned antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and hung his mutilated body on a column in a main square of the historic site because he apparently refused to reveal to his Isis captors where valuable artefacts had been removed for safekeeping.

    The brutal murder of Khaled al-Asaad, 82, is the latest atrocity perpetrated by the extremist jihadi group, which has captured a third of both Syria and neighbouring Iraq and declared a self-styled “caliphate” on the territory it controls. It has also highlighted Isis’s habit of looting and selling antiquities to fund its activities - as well as destroying them.


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  • Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
     Reply #1 - August 19, 2015, 03:14 PM
    When this is all over, I hope Syria gives him the reignition he deserves.
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
     Reply #2 - August 19, 2015, 03:26 PM
    Quote from: certainlydoubt1 on August 19, 2015, 03:03 PM
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    What can be said that hasn't already been said about these monsters. I have to keep pinching myself to make sure this is not just a crazy nightmare.

    RIP Doctor Khalid al-As'ad - thank you for your unbelievable bravery.
  • Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
     Reply #3 - August 19, 2015, 03:36 PM
    He will be memorialized by history in the same mark as Hypatia of Alexandria or Giordano Bruno, someone who traded his life in exchange for preserving the truth.  Thanks to this great man, the story of civilization will flourish across generations, rather than be desecrated at the hands of barbaric sadists.

    R.I.P.
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  • Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
     Reply #4 - August 19, 2015, 04:20 PM
    Khaled al-Asaad, 82,






    To become famous Bastards of  Islam have to murder 82 year old Archaeologist  with 50 years experience 
    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
     Reply #5 - August 19, 2015, 06:09 PM
        Cry
  • Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
     Reply #6 - August 19, 2015, 07:56 PM
    A brave man, R.I.P.   Cry
    "Befriend them not, Oh murtads, and give them neither parrot nor bunny."  - happymurtad's advice on trolls.
  • Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
     Reply #7 - August 19, 2015, 08:13 PM
    He died a hero in my eyes.
  • Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
     Reply #8 - August 19, 2015, 08:38 PM
    Ditto.
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
     Reply #9 - August 20, 2015, 01:14 PM
    Palmyra-Syria

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbQ0Grq6b3c

    Palmyra Ruins تدمر‎ - Syria سوريا

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLqMc4tGlc4

    Ancient Civilizations Arabian Peninsula to the Syrian Desert
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pUVh3O21iw
    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
     Reply #10 - August 24, 2015, 02:07 PM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eJ6VoS4PFY

    Palmyra's Baalshamin temple 'blown up by IS'

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34036644

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_N78UZB2Bk

    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
     Reply #11 - August 24, 2015, 02:35 PM
    Yes, I heard it on some brief news this morning, wasn't quite believing it at the time..
  • Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
     Reply #12 - August 25, 2015, 08:59 AM
    I have no words.
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
     Reply #13 - August 25, 2015, 09:16 AM
    ISIS blinds journalists with its barbarity  writes ROBERT FISK

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    LOOKING at a photograph of old archaeologist Khaled al Asaad’s headless corpse tied to a lamp-post in Palmyra – another image for the library of pornography that the self-styled Islamic State (IS) produces weekly – I was struck by how deeply the “Islamic Caliphate” has stabbed the world of journalism.

    (Khaled Asaad, an 82-year-old Syrian archaeologist, was beheaded by IS in Palmyra last week).

    The self-styled Islamic State has changed all this. The Express has exhausted its dictionary of revulsion on IS. “Bloodthirsty”, “sick”, “twisted”, “depraved”, “sadistic”, “vile” – we can only hope that nothing more horrible emerges to further test the paper’s eloquence.

    The IS – in videos and online – proudly publishes its throat-cuttings and massacres. It revels in the mass shooting of prisoners, videotapes a pilot burning alive in a cage and prisoners tied in a car which is used as target practice for a rocket-propelled grenade. It depicts captives having their heads blown off with explosives or trapped in another cage while being slowly drowned in a swimming pool.

    The IS is turning to the world of journalism and saying: “We’re not bloodthirsty, sick and depraved, we’re worse than that!”.....

     
    well there is ore at it.. ad what Robert Fisk writs is all true., The question is,  what should  rest of the world should do with it??
    Do not let silence become your legacy.. Question everything   
    I renounced my faith to become a kafir, 
    the beloved betrayed me and turned in to  a Muslim     
  • Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
     Reply #14 - August 25, 2015, 10:01 AM
    Quote from: Quod Sum Eris on August 25, 2015, 08:59 AM
    I have no words.


    I think we have all run out of words.

    It feels like it's not real anymore. All the blood is not real. It stirs an emotion I simply can't put into words. A sort of numb disbelief at insanity that exceeds the word insanity.
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