Now ISIS Tears Down The Cross: Chilling Photographs Reveal How Islamic State Thugs Have Ravaged Christian Churches
- Abraham Enoch
- Mar 18, 2015
- 1 min read
-- ISIS militants pictured toppling crosses and smashing relics in Nineveh
-- Latest evidence of ISIS trying to cleanse caliphate of Christian heritage
-- Also attacked ancient city of Nimrud and 2000-year-old fortress city Hatra
Shocking new images released today have shown ISIS terrorists toppling crosses, smashing Christian relics with hammers and erecting the black flag of ISIS on churches in Iraq.
The latest photos show the militants vandalising churches in Nineveh, the ancient capital of the Assyrian empire.
Pictured in civilian clothing, the ISIS thugs are seen overturning statues, destroying religious icons and replacing Christian crosses with the chilling ISIS banner.
ISIS claim ancient relics promote idolatry that violates their fundamentalist interpretation of Islamic law.
MEMRI director Steven Stalinsky said: 'They don't care what it's called; they are just following their ideology and that means getting rid of churches and minorities. It is the Islamic State, and there's no room for anyone else.
'This has been going on for some time, a systematic campaign to rid the region of any vestiges of Christianity.'
In February, the terrorist organisation decapitated 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians on the shores of Libya and then kidnapped more than 220 Assyrian Christians when militants swept into about 12 villages.
Thousands of other Iraqi Christians have fled their homes in fear and are having to find temporary accommodation in the surrounding region.
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's top diplomat at the UN in Geneva, said yesterday the jihadists were committing 'genocide' and must be stopped.
The Vatican traditionally opposes military intervention in the region.
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