Takfiri terrorists burn 100s of ‘Christian books’ in new video

The ISIL terrorist group has released a video apparently showing its members lobbing hundreds of Christian books into fire in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

According to the media reports, in the footage, ISIL (Daesh) terrorists throw pamphlets and manuscripts bearing crucifixes in a bonfire on the orders of the group’s so-called Diwan Al-Hisba, a police unit that metes out punishment to those refusing to conform to ISIL laws.

This is the latest instance of Daesh targeting items and places of cultural and religious significance, namely ancient sites, shrines, mosques, temples, monuments and manuscripts, in Syria and Iraq.

They have caused much irreparable damage in Syria’s ancient central city of Palmyra. The city, which is on the list of the United Nations cultural agency UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites, fell to the terrorists last May.

The Takfiri terrorists later executed Palmyra’s leading antiquities scholar, 81-year-old Khaled Asaad.

Last February, it destroyed around 10,000 books and more than 700 rare manuscripts when it blew up the main library in Mosul.

Iraqi forces are, meanwhile, preparing to retake the city, the largest under Daesh’s control.

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