Destroying Idols

[lethal_kamikaze]

Re: Destroying Idols

@Ali_Syed

My question remains how come these idols remained for hundreds of years in muslim countries, why demolish them now? Have we become better muslims or intolerant over a period of time? Since most of you have agreed that there’s no room for idols in muslim society, would you guys support non muslims demolishing mosques in their countries? Or tolerance is only expected from them?

Peace Ali_Syed,

Well the idols remained in city of Makka till its conquering and were destroyed later on. Likewise, the area which is called ‘Mosul’ is mixture of people who jostle there like Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians, Iraqi Jews, Kurdish Jews, Iraqi Turkmens, Armenians, Yazidi, Mandeans, Romani and Shabaks etc., That is how remained there but in 2014, only Sunni (in majority) remained in this city and ISIS militants destroyed those idols.

The museum where the idols were kept known ‘Mosul Museum’ which contains many interesting finds from the ancient sites of the old Assyrian capital cities Nineveh and Nimrud.

As we aware recently these ‘Ancient statues’ destroyed by ISIS on 26 Feb 2015 in Mosul (as seen in video) were FAKES - and the originals are safely stored in Baghdad, claimed by Iraqi museum director.

Reference: ‘Ancient_statues’_were_FAKES](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2996859/Ancient-statues-destroyed-ISIS-Mosul-FAKES-originals-safely-stored-Baghdad-claims-Iraqi-museum-director.html#ixzz3UvnecXfR)