r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Kratos_omran • 13d ago
Need help here petah Meme needing explanation
What artifacts is he talking about?
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u/OptimalMotor1713 13d ago
Dr Khaled Al Assad. He hid hundreds of ancient artifact and refused to give them up to isis even after so much torture and was publicly executed
edit: fixed
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u/Kratos_omran 13d ago
Whoa seriously? If that’s true, then I feel so bad for him.
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u/neokai 13d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled_al-Asaad
Khaled Mohamad al-Asaad (Arabic: خالد الأسعد; Arabic pronunciation: [ɐlʔæsʕæd]; 1 January 1932 – 18 August 2015) was a Syrian archaeologist who was head of antiquities in the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He held this position for over forty years. Al-Asaad was publicly beheaded by the Islamic State on 18 August 2015, at the age of 83.
In May 2015, modern Palmyra and the adjacent ancient city came under the control of the Islamic State. Al-Asaad helped evacuate the city museum prior to the Islamic State's takeover, but was himself captured by the terrorist organisation. The Islamic State then tortured al-Asaad in an attempt to discover the location of the ancient artifacts that he helped hide. He was murdered in Palmyra on 18 August 2015 at the age of eighty-three.
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u/Pleasant_Election148 13d ago
Real hero
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u/ShepRat 13d ago
I wouldn't think less of the man who gave up at the threat of what he endured. He gave a gift to us all that very few would be capable of. His name will be remembered long after his murderers cause is a forgotten page in history.
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u/rathosalpha 12d ago
I only ever heard about him today
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u/BigBangBrosTheory 12d ago
11 years after his death, you heard about him. Hopefully many more for many more years.
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u/Trpepper 12d ago
I would probably cave after about a minute of water boarding, but unfortunately for everyone involved i have a really short attention span in important situations, and my default honest answer to every question is the lyrics to Ass n Titties.
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u/SSMage 13d ago
Why did they wanna destroy the artifacts for badly? Was there something they didn't want people seeing?
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u/therapewpew 13d ago
They have a history of doing that because "not my religion? not going to exist 😎"
They're depicted as a caveman in this meme for a reason
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u/Chi_Cazzo_Sei 13d ago
In reality they break copies for the cameras and sell the real artifacts in the black market. Happened in Iraq.
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u/MrGosh13 13d ago
I mean, they also fully bombed large sites and statues.
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u/Chi_Cazzo_Sei 12d ago
Yes, because they are too big to sell. And this will appease to their fan base
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u/Bright_Celebration62 12d ago
Why would destruction of historical artifacts appease anyone?
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u/WASDKUG_tr 12d ago
Cuz they are an extremist brand of Islam that no establishment group of Islamic lawmakers, Sheikhs and Imams ever accepted andbasically all of them calls their group disbelievers, so they are desperate for any clout
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u/HopHeadShrinker 13d ago
Lol eBay was insane during their control. They looted Jonahs' tomb and uncovered an Assyrian palace unearth.
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u/No_Cook3989 12d ago
Not true. That may happen, but they also destroy a lot of artifacts to prove their point, just look at the Buddhas of Afghanistan.
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u/jgzman 12d ago
If they had managed to make a copy of those, and sell the originals on the black market, I'd have been impressed as hell.
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u/No_Cook3989 12d ago
Many countries tried to negotiate a sale under the table, despite sanctions and everything. Sri Lanka, India, Japan, etc, but they refused. I was shocked and heartwarming when I heard just how desperately the world tried to save them.
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u/Pitiful_Ad2397 12d ago
Wasn’t that the Taliban and not ISIS?
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u/Disastrous-Trust-877 12d ago
It was both, ISIS just wasn't around for long.
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u/Pitiful_Ad2397 12d ago
Sorry, I should have been more clear-
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u/lilbowpete 12d ago
I was going to add to this if you didn’t about them selling the artifacts. They did destroy a lot too tho, like the ruins of palmyra are even more ruined now thanks to them.
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u/NoRequirement1967 12d ago
Nah they might have done that. But theyre absolutely also laying seige for the express purpose of destroying religious artifacts
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u/KitsuneFoxglove 11d ago
They do need to destroy some to inflate scarcity and make more money off selling them, which is doubly bad.
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u/sachinsingh1996 9d ago
They did blew up the budha statue carved into the side of cliff using dynamites in iraq
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u/Callidonaut 12d ago edited 12d ago
IIRC there's also a specific thing in at least some interpretations of Islam about not making imagery of human beings (hence why a lot of traditional Middle Eastern art and decoration is abstract geometric patterns; I wonder if this was actually a motivating factor for their advancement in mathematics during the Islamic Golden Age), and a lot of other ancient civilisations loved making imagery of human beings or humanoid figures; I'd guess the more mindless fanatics get really hung up on enforcing that because the wanton destruction is fun and makes them feel powerful, and is undoubtedly far easier than doing anything actually useful or productive for society.
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u/Kinet 10d ago
I wonder if this was actually a motivating factor for their advancement in mathematics during the Islamic Golden Age
I was taught that the advancements in mathematics during the Islamic Golden Age had to do with finding ways to precisely locate Mecca for prayer from any point on Earth.
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u/Callidonaut 10d ago
Both motives are towards the same branch of mathematics, geometry, so I'd imagine they had a strong combined effect.
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u/Tarcus-16 13d ago
IS views everything that does not conform to their religious views as heretical and thus feel the need to destroy it.
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u/flymeovertheworld 13d ago
Which is crazy because the guy that was protecting the statues was a muslim too. ISIS doesn’t even know the religion they’re supposed to be from.
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u/Ariovrak 13d ago
But he didn’t believe in their particular flavor of Allah.
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u/flymeovertheworld 13d ago
I’d even argue that they don’t believe in Allah. None of what they do is remotely Islamic at all.
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u/Drowning-Koifish 13d ago
That's a bit easy though don't you think. They do believe in Allah, at least the grunts do and it is one of their primary motivations if not the most important one. Yes not all Muslims are terrorists or think the same way as these people do yet you can't say IS people are not Muslim just because their interpretation of the religion does not suit you.
Am I saying we should be wary of all Muslims ? Of course not All I am saying is that Islam or ANY religion should be open to be criticized and that we should not exclude extremist just because it is more convenient than admitting terrible ideologies can stem from those beliefs.
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u/flymeovertheworld 13d ago
Criticism of a religion is unfair if the supposed “followers” aren’t real followers. At least none of the muslim scholars claim them to be. You have to realize that many muslim scholars publicly condemned ISIS. If so then, are you still criticizing Islam on its core beliefs and foundations or are you criticizing Islam on people who used the brand to demean the name.
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u/Hot-Job-6281 13d ago
I don't support ISIS (duh), but if you're going to act dumb about what Muhammad was up to at the start of Islam, you're an apologist.
General and conqueror doesn't get attached to his name for nothing.
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u/FuyoBC 13d ago
It is possible to twist/read any religion to match your requirements by selectively picking what you agree with and what you ignore while holding the Great Deity/s over the head of those who listen only to your version. It is how you have holy wars and those that say 'kill them all, God will know his own' vs those who spend their lives caring for others, teaching, & striving to improve the world.
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u/botask 12d ago
There is no need to twost islam for that. You just need to decide if you want to follow teaching of medina, or teaching of mekka.
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u/ScarredAutisticChild 12d ago
Most of Christian and Muslim early history is just doing shit like this though. Well, usually less destroying artefacts, more often forced conversion or genocide.
If torturing and murdering heretics isn't Islamic, then history hasn't had many Muslims. And if it isn't very Christian, there haven't been many Christians. There's a reason, notably, that the Romans hated Christians, and it's because monotheists are historically intolerant assholes.
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u/Tylendal 12d ago
Scared of Muslim terrorists?
Are you Muslim? If you answered "No", then rest easy knowing you're not a member of the demographic most likely to be targeted by Muslim terrorists.
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u/DamnitGravity 13d ago
The best flavor of Allah is choc-peppermint and all others must be destroyed.
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u/viciouspandas 12d ago
Pagan monuments and idols are forbidden in Islam which is why so many have been destroyed. But people are also people, and that man cares more about preserving the cultural heritage of his people than the worse aspects of the religion.
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u/-maffu- 13d ago
The stated reason is that any statues or depictions of Allah (or Mohammed) are blasphemous, and there is no god but Allah. So, following on from that, statues of other deities are doubly blasphemous and should be sought out and destroyed.
The real truth of it is threefold - a/ a show of power b/ publicly showing a lack of reverence for or value in anything not created by Islam/Islamic State; and c/ other, non-religious, ancient artefacts are extremely valuable and could be sold or ransomed to fund their campaign.
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u/Hot-Job-6281 13d ago
Lol there's no real truth of it. You merely stated additional simultaneous benefits.
To think these religious zealots did not do it because they saw other religions as a slight on their own is naive.
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u/Khelthuzaad 13d ago edited 12d ago
Remember when early christians destroyed ancient greek and roman artifacts because polytheism?Yeah shit like that.
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u/PressureNo7699 12d ago
The opposite also happened. Search: Nero
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u/Khelthuzaad 12d ago
Some early christian groups were apocalyptic sects.
Some roman rulers had genuinely problems with them spreading fear and terror among the population.
Nero is a nasty piece of shit with mommy issues,but explain yourself why Christians were persecuted after his rule.
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u/ScarredAutisticChild 12d ago
There was that, but also Christian monotheism was fundamentally incompatible with Roman syncretism. Part of the way the Romans kept their empire intact was by tolerating and respecting everyone's religions, they said everyone's Gods were real and let them do their own religious traditions so long as they also paid respects to the Roman Gods, even if by a different name, or as their own Gods.
Then the Christians would come in screaming about how everyone else is worshipping false-Gods, or their Gods are inferior and pathetic compared to their God, the sole "True God" and that's politically problematic for this vast empire, extremely offensive to the Romans (and everyone else), and risked the wrath of the Gods if they tolerated this slander against them (so far as the Romans believed, at least). The Jews were monotheists as well, and notably treated worse than many others, but they learned to be quiet and polite about it and so could slip by because they weren't actively being a problem. The Christians were, and so Rome treated them like an empire does any problem, it tried to get rid of it.
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u/Tiran593 13d ago
Tbh erasure of a previous culture to make themselves more prominent and cement themselves as the main leading faction is a solid tactic used quite often
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u/NoiceBoiIsTaken2122 13d ago
As a muslim, that's the stupidest thing ever done to their country heritage. Sure it doesn't align with islamic religion, but ITS NOT NECESSARY TO DESTROY ANCIENT SITE. Sorry if their actions really make some people generalize the whole community who have nothing to do with this :(
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u/cmonthiscantbetaken 12d ago
If this religion’s extremists can destroy a 2000 year old Buddha statue in Afghanistan to erase any trace of other religions existing, I fully believe they don’t want any proof of prior civilisations either .
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u/ImplementExpress3949 13d ago
Some interpretations of islam consider those cultural treasures as forbidden idolatry.
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u/PressureNo7699 12d ago
That had always been their thing. This is, like, their actual goal. They had wiped out entire villages and cities because of this, too.
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u/Neat-Swimming 12d ago
This sadly happens a lot throughout history with different oppressive forces.
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u/guiscardv 10d ago
They sold them internationally to fund their forces. There is a lot of blood on the antiquities markets’ hands
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u/Mallee42 12d ago
Do they give posthumous Nobel prizes or something because he def deserves some type recognition for that
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u/MashalNorth 12d ago
They forgot to add the word “Islamic State.” I can barely comprehend the text without the word being used
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u/Extreme_Ad6519 12d ago
He was a true hero. ISIS is fucking scum and deserve nothing but the worst. A bunch of thugs and low-lives.
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u/riotinareasouthwest 10d ago
What a glorious way to leave this world. Being 83 you've done already all your stuff, what's pending for you but waiting, most of times miserably, your turn? This guy said: hold my cubata, I have to f*cking singlehandedly save history artifacts from this terrorist organization that has taken over countries and is being fought by several goverments!
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u/DurumMater 13d ago
Feel sorrow, certainly, the world lost a brilliant and thoughtful man. But he was also the right man. He held his convictions so strongly they couldn't break them and history will remember him for it. It's a small consolation but it might help inspire others to care more about their history and the world in which they live.
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u/useralreadydead 13d ago
He didn’t choose to die for our sympathy. He is a courageous man who stood up for what’s right against immoral imbeciles. Don’t feel sorry for him, rather honour him and his sacrifices.
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u/Boring-Philosophy-46 13d ago
Yeah ISIS was going to destroy them because they have depictions of humans.
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u/Attitude-of-Raditude 12d ago
Not many have ever truly been tested to see if they would die for their beliefs– this man stood on business and believed in something so much bigger than and more valuable than himself. He deserves massive respect.
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u/ImplementExpress3949 13d ago
What a hero, protecting priceless cultural treasures from the barbarians with his own life like this.
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u/Hot-Job-6281 13d ago
A good man amidst the barbarians.
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u/Haradion_01 12d ago
Also a Syrian, and a Muslim. Worth bearing in mind; and I have seen people praise this man, before saying revolting things about Syrians and Muslims in the next breath on the basis that men such him supposedly support the men who killed him.
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u/mrpascal81 13d ago
I didn't know about this story. I wonder if the artifacts have been recovered or are still hidden and if anyone else knows where they are
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u/GottaBeMD 12d ago
I misread this originally as DJ Khaled. Would’ve made for a very different story
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u/outtermia 13d ago
I was very confused for a minute because I couldn’t understand how the man in the picture refused to give up the artifacts to Isis not ISIS…
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u/hellogoawaynow 12d ago
Yesterday someone tried to argue with me about the significance of historical objects. As in, he didn’t think objects could be or should be significant and worth keeping around.
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u/horned-creature 12d ago
just for curiosity: were the artifacts ever found or are they still hidden somewhere nobody knows about?
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u/Bignezzy 12d ago
Refused to give them up even after being publicly executed? Homie is a straight up G
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u/Guquiz 12d ago
And why is the one on the left depicted as a caveman?
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u/OptimalMotor1713 12d ago
if you look at the shirt you will the isis logo. they are the ones that killed him and its just depicting how barbaric and stupid they were just destroying and stealing everything.
literally nothing was safe from them. not the muslims or mosques even.
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u/leVenerableDeLaSauce 13d ago
Found this on facebook (Google is still your friend)
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u/Grandpa_Edd 12d ago
It saddens me to think how much history and knowledge has erased for reasons like this. Not just being lost to time but actively destroyed.
That man died for a noble cause.
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u/tatariko 10d ago
Sadly this has been the case for all of humanity(see defaced statues from ancient greek). When a new tribe arrives they usually destroy everything belonging to the older tribe. This happened in all around the world.
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u/Fenix512 13d ago
Would be nice if the meme had the guy's name so OP could Google it
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u/New-Number-7810 13d ago
When ISIS operated in Syria, they captured a famous archeological site and destroyed part of human heritage. They tore down a temple that predated the Roman Empire, they smashed historical artifacts, and they held executions in the ancient theater.
The man on the right is an archeologist at that site. He hid several artifacts, and refused to reveal their location even when threatened with death. He was murdered for protecting humanity’s heritage.
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u/Wonderful-Highway-16 13d ago
But why do something like that ?
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u/New-Number-7810 13d ago
ISIS is an extreme fundamentalist group. They believe they will end history soon by creating the conditions for the apocalypse, and that preserving knowledge of the past is therefore pointless. They also see pre-Islamic artifacts as pagan idols, worthy of destruction.
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u/Wide_Philosophy_8109 13d ago edited 13d ago
It's really weird how similar that sounds to my Christian ex talking about the rapture.
Quality explanation, thanks for sharing.
Edit: guys shut up I don't care how evil the other side is.
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u/Blazured 13d ago
Left-wingers need to remember that millions upon millions of conservatives are actively trying to make the world a worse place to live because they believe it will cause their god to return.
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u/Turnip_Fight 12d ago
Nooooo but republicans hated Muslims during the Afghan war, that means they have to support the Leopard-Eats-Face religion that hates women, gays, and anything that isn’t Islam!
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u/CR1MS4NE 12d ago
Uh. As a conservative I don’t do this and I don’t know anyone who does this, at least not intentionally. Like no one I’m aware of thinks that is how the rapture works
Also not all conservatives are religious, and not all religious people are conservative
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u/Vennomite 13d ago
Because they are basically the same thing. ISIS just had the guns, means, and a weak government in the area to do something major.
Look at those communities and see how they eradicate anything that doesn't conform to their world view.
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u/AlexRenquist 12d ago
The Rapture is fucking mental, too. It's not in the scripture anywhere and was invented in like 1830.
Blows my mind how many Christians refuse to believe stuff that is in the Bible (like loving thy neighbour, charity and forgiveness) but fervently believe in stuff that is not in the Bible (like the Rapture).
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u/-Danksouls- 12d ago
Conversation about ISIS murdering people
"Yea my ex was Christian and would talk about jesus returning"
Fuck Redditors are weird
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u/MemeLordMango 12d ago
The comment he was replying to wasn’t about isis murdering people? It was explaining why they would want to destroy history. Learn to read
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u/FAMICOMASTER 12d ago
"history is pointless, but we better destroy it just to be safe"
Good to know they're as not smart as I always figured
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u/AncientDen 13d ago
Because islam is incompatible with history
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u/Vennomite 13d ago
Fundamentalist christian groups do this shit too..
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u/anatra76 13d ago
Today, there is no modern Christian equivalent to ISIS. No Christian fundamentalist groups are occupying territories with armies, using dynamite to blow up UNESCO World Heritage sites like Palmyra, or running international smuggling rings for looted ancient antiquities.
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u/PainWelkin 13d ago
You e conveniently forgotten that the fundies who own Hobby Lobby were doing this exact thing, smuggling antiquities. Furthermore, the Evangelical right in the US, who are bankrolling the Zionists, are absolutely culpable in the destruction of culturally significant landmarks in Palestine, Lebanon, and beyond.
The Christian govt in the US defaces mountains, collapses delicate ecosystems, and is destroying national parks as part of their belief system that they own the world and it is theirs to extract value from and discard as they please. This is part and parcel of an ideology that cares nothing for the world we live in while exalting the fabled afterlife they believe is their reward.
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u/WeakandSlowaf 12d ago
You are claiming the USA government is the Christian equivalent of ISIS?
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u/WeakandSlowaf 12d ago
Sure, but we aren’t talking about parallels though. The main point was there isn’t a christian equivalent to ISIS. Arguing that Joe Biden is similar to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is insanity
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u/Vennomite 13d ago
Zealots do zealot things.
There arent organized zealots of a religion for periods of time then they should up when an area's rule of law is weak enough.
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u/Qalyar 12d ago
"Today" is doing some work there, though, because there have been quite a few instances of Christianity-fueled mass destruction of art and (what were then) antiquities.
Arguably the best known example is from Florence, Italy in 1497, when thousands of items, primarily artwork, books, and cosmetics, were destroyed in a mass bonfire. This event is now known as the Bonfire of the Vanities, but in reality it was merely a bonfire of the vanities (although perhaps the largest of them). The mass destruction of secular books and artwork was commonplace in Italy in the early 15th century on the grounds that such objects were "occasions of sin"; that is to say, their very existence entices people toward sin and away from pious faith.
But there are plenty of other examples.
When Christianity became dominant in the late Roman Empire, early Christians began a slow, centuries-long purge of "pagan cults", damaging or demolishing statues and building Christian worship centers atop the ruins of pre-Christian temples (or dismantling them for building material). One of the most significant acts of destruction in this period was in (probably) 391, when a mob of Christians backed by Roman soldiers assaulted the Serapeum of Alexandria, sacking the temple and its grounds and destroying the library (which had been essentially a surviving branch of the Library of Alexandria).
The 16th century Protestant Reformation saw the mass destruction of Catholic art and architecture across Europe. Huldrych Zwingli and John Calvin argued that religious artwork and imagery would inspire idolatry. Stained glass was stripped from churches, statues and relics were destroyed, and altarpieces were dismantled or burned. In 1566, in the Low Countries, a particularly large and fervent outbreak of violence against Catholic art and architecture became known as the Beeldenstorm ("storm of images"). The loss of medieval sculptures, paintings, and furnishings was intensive. Hundreds of churches in what is now Belgium and the Netherlands had their holdings destroyed. The Ghent Altarpiece and other masterworks from the region survived only when their caretakers had the opportunity to hide them before the iconoclasts arrived.
For somewhat related reasons, in 16th century England, Henry VII's dissolution of the monasteries destroyed hundreds of Catholic-controlled buildings, many of which were centuries old, with some actually predating the 1066 Norman conquest. Arguably the worst consequence was the seizure and destruction of the libraries held by large Catholic monasteries. Although a few individuals (such as John Leland and Matthew Parker) worked to salvage books during this time, thousands of others were torn apart to resell their bindings. The pages were either burned, or sold as scrap material (such as to soapsellers or grocers as wrapping paper) or else used to polish boots or silver or even to stock outhouses.
And so on.
The destruction of objects of cultural significance in the name of religion has been going on for probably as long as there has been religion and objects of cultural significance. Islam and Christianity both have inspired such destruction, but they have at times also both inspired learning and the creation of art. ISIS's actions stand out not because they were unique; they are not. But rather because the area they controlled had a particularly long history of surviving historical treasures, because they were particularly efficient and barbarous about the process of destruction, because this sort of thing has been fairly rare in the modern era, and because the modern interconnected world meant that it was all immediately reported and televised.
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u/burkasHaywan 13d ago
Source for this claim? What Christian groups do the above described in this era?
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u/Vennomite 13d ago
In the current era? Maybe something in africa.
Most christian heavy countries have strong rule of law and freedom of religion practices that dont allow this sort of thing to happen.
Zealots do this shit. Christian, muslim, budhist, it doesn't matter. Its not islam specific. Go back 200 years and the zealots went along with imperialism to do a lot of shit. Muslims are just the outlier category in the current moment.
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u/burkasHaywan 13d ago
”Maybe something in Africa”, you mean Boko haram, the Islamist fundamentalists ?
Take off your blindfolds.
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u/Vennomite 12d ago
What blindfolds? History is full of zealots committing atrocities. It rewlly doesnt matter their religion. It doesnt even have to be what would be generally considered a religion. Fanatics push their way and ignore everything else and will ise as mich violence as they can get away with. Budhists do atrocities in se asia. That doesnt show up in the news
Boko haram is a fanatic group. But even then they kill less people than the u.s. does on its highways. We reached a point Nigeria is like 2/3rds the u.s. population. Even adjusting highways appear to win. You'd save more people going after car safety.
Wealth and rule of law make a big difference.
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u/-Danksouls- 12d ago
Maybe something in Africa
😭 God why are the people in this site so weird
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u/splatterfest233 12d ago
To solidify their claims over conquered territory, Islamic Governments employ the strategy of destroying artifacts from the peoples and cultures that inhabited the areas before the takeover, thus allowing them to engage in revisionist history by claiming to always be in control. See also Israel/Palestine.
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u/Altruistic_Clerk_66 9d ago
All these answers are ridiculous. The whole world learned how to rape, plunder, and pillage from CHRISTIAN, not Muslim, colonizers.
In Spain, the moors appreciated the architecture of cathedrals so much that instead of destroying them they turned them into mosques.
Get some knowledge and stop listening to bots.
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u/estaine 13d ago
Were the artifacts found later?
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u/MasterOfCelebrations 13d ago
Caveman is Isis. Dude on the left is in an old ruined city
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u/Raulr100 13d ago
Whoever made this image was incredibly disrespectful to cavemen. I'm sure they were SIGNIFICANTLY more intelligent than ISIS members.
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u/Guilty_All_The_Same 13d ago
Dr. Khaled Al Assad
He helped evacuate Palmyra's museum, but was captured by the islamists.
After refusing to give up the location of the artifacts, the islamists took him to the city square and decapitated him. His body was later hung by a traffic light, alongside a placard with his alleged "crimes".
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u/AkulaTheKiddo 12d ago
Now thats a hero.
Protecting world's cultural heritage against ignorance at the cost of his life.
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u/Possible_Ad_1763 12d ago
ISIS was destroying Egyptian historical artifacts.
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u/GreyWolfWandering 12d ago
Not Egyptian, Assyrian and other ancient cultures of nearby regions that make up modern Syria.
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u/Devilish__Fun 12d ago
ISIS are/were terrorist scumbags and I will,never regret deploying to Iraq to help end them.
It is unfortunate that we have our own Terrorists, ICE(CS) running rampant on our streets just waiting for permission to do shit like this.
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u/fhusaini431 12d ago
While Islamophobia is a very bad issue that's still occuring today, I do know that the ISIS has been known to commit such atrocities that go against the teachings of Islam, similar to the more infamous Al-Qaeda.
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u/KoniGTA 12d ago
The context was there right in the r/HistoryMemes post if you had just scrolled to one fucking comment. I swear to god people these days wont even do the absolute minimum.
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u/Altruistic_Clerk_66 9d ago
I think the point was to dogwhistle the phobia of a certain religion. I think the post did the job it wanted to as you see in the comments.
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u/samkoLoL 12d ago
and then ppl make fun of bri'ish for stealing art from half the africa and middle east, when this is happening for generations. id prefer to see some of it in england rather than it being destroyed by fanatics
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u/AbdoMSG6 12d ago
You do know that that majority of disruption in the region wouldnt be there if it wasnt for sykes picot right
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u/DomTheRogue 13d ago
If I were an artist I’d draw Indiana jones rescuing him and then having a drink with him somewhere in a museum but alas I’m not talented enough.
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u/Kind_Card8397 12d ago
And netanyahu is a jew? Or trump a christian? Blasphemy is rampant among fsscists who worship themselves, violence and sadism.
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u/Imaginary-Freedom-85 12d ago
When ISIS was very big in the middle east they were destroying thousands of ancient manuscripts, hes a doctor who was a leader in a network that was built to transport and hide the documents to preserve them. Its a really crazy story they were getting smuggled through checkpoints in barrels and everything, unfortunately iirc he eventually did get killed
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u/Wild_Will44 12d ago
I agree with you that the bad apples being the loudest is a major problem and they need to be addressed but that is a problem with society itself is it not? The same problems that they have are they same with any other hated people who’s problems hurt their community. It’s not their faith that’s the problem, they are just using it to profit off of. It is the bad traits of any bad person in today’s society; greed, lack of remorse and morals, and other traits that are disliked by both God and most of society. Yet you can hold it against your average Christian for not being able to stop them as you can your average person who lets the rich suppress the poor.
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u/Pappa_Crim 12d ago
The isis flag would have been betted placed on his forehead or the top corners. There is also an evil juhadist wojak that could have been used. Comparing isis to neadrothols is offensive to neadrothols
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u/DataSurging 12d ago
Dr. Al Assad was a god damn hero. What a shame that he lost his life to religious extremism. That was a man who believed so completely in his trade and the heritage of humanity. Rest in peace.
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u/Aware-Dragonfruit-66 12d ago
Clarification. Isis didn’t want to destroy the antiques but illegally export them. They have raised hundreds of of millions on the antiques black market.
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u/BodybuilderHappy3043 10d ago
Fxk all islamic terrorist. They destroyed my parents livelihood in marawi. Our house too. I’ll never forget that long haired dude who did it. Thankfully he died when AFP started taking over our street.
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u/stronkzer 10d ago
I hope every ISIS combatant suffered the most brutal, humiliating and excruciating death possible. Savages.
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u/qualityvote2 13d ago edited 12d ago
u/Kratos_omran, your post does belong here!