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IMAN Chairman condemns destruction of 14th century mosque in Mosul

Monday, 28 July 2014

ISIS levels 14th century mosque in Iraq's second largest city

Islamic militants blew up a 14th-century mosque in Mosul on Sunday, the latest casualty in a week that has seen a half dozen of the Iraqi city’s most revered holy places destroyed.

Mosul residents said the Prophet Jirjis Mosque and Shrine was bombed and destroyed by the radical jihadist group calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

The Al Qaeda breakaway Sunnis have captured large swaths of land in western and northern Iraq, including Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, in June.

Responding to the news, IMAN Chairman, Ribal Al-Assad said:

"I am very sorry to hear of yet another crime committed by Islamic extremists in Iraq, every day they desecrate more and more of the countries holiest sites in the name of a perverted, abhorrent and false ideology.

Much more needs to be done to combat these people - the international community must do everything it can to rid the country and indeed the region of these extremists.

The other option is to sit by and watch the country and the whole region be torn to pieces, this is simply not a viable course of action.

My thoughts and prayers continue to be with the people of Iraq at this time"

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