New IS video shows militants smashing ancient Iraq artifacts

[Alameda]

46. From Ahmed Rehad's public post on Facebook

"So ISIS destroys 3,000 year old statues with "Allahu Akbar." Another video is made and spread widely. Once again, Muslims are made to look like barbaric fools by ISIS inc., or at least are supposed to feel that way and be seen that way.
Except I feel as far removed from ISIS as I do from the Narcotics Mafia.
Destruction of history is not in my Islamic legacy. Last I checked the Sphinx is still standing despite 14 centuries of Islam in Egypt that started with no less than the Sahaba (companions of the Prophet). In fact, the only injury that befell the Sphinx was at the hands of a Frenchman, Napoleon, who reportedly canon balled his nose off. Similarly, most of the lands where Islam spread around the time of the Sahaba or thereafter are lands in which their pre-Islamic monuments are among the best-preserved world-wide.
Which begs the question, from where does ISIS really get its inspiration, seeing as even the Sahaba are not Muslim enough for ISIS inc?
In any case, that is all ISIS is good for: destruction. They destroy but never build. They kill but never nurture. Build and nurture is what a state is supposed to do. Well, they are not a state and never intended to be, they are a death and destruction squad serving a mixture of their own goals and that of their allies of convenience. (Google "Death Squads" for the history).
Their only net gain to date: well death and destruction (of mostly Muslims and Islamic sites), but furthermore, the anti-Muslim sentiments ISIS has bred in the world is worse now than that at the apex of the aftermath of 9/11.
Isn't it interesting that when the fabled Islamic state (supposedly) finally materialized after a century of idealistic aspiration by so-called Islamists, it ended up looking very similar - if not identical - to an Islamphobe's conceptualization of what that would be and nothing like the legacy of the many historic (so-called) Islamic states as Muslims have known them from India to China to Turkey to Egypt to Morocco to Spain to Timbuktu to you name it - not to mention Syria or Iraq themselves (both of whom were resplendent seats of Islamic civilization).
And yet some still call it the "Islamic State" and attack us if we object. It's like they sorta kinda want it to be. The question is: why?"