centuries-old mausoleums destroyed in Timbuktu

[metalman]

[url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57464957/radical-islamists-lay-waste-to-timbuktu-heritage/][/URL]The International Criminal Court has described the destruction of the city's patrimony as a possible war crime, while UNESCO's committee on world heritage was holding a special session this week to address the pillaging of the site, one of the few cultural sites in sub-Saharan Africa that is listed by the agency.

Hamaha said he didn't care about the impact that their actions will have on tourism. "We are against tourism. They foster debauchery," he said.

 

[the_leander]

Fundies destroying anything outside of their narrow worldview regardless of the consequences to anyone else...

Same shit, different day.

I'd love to be able to get really mad about this and any number of ideologically inspired insanity, but right now, I just don't have it in me.

 

[metalman]

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

@metalman

Oh goodie. Freedom fighters! Shall we advocate for a no fly zone to prevent the army from taking it back?

 

[metalman]

Here is the same group at the British Commonwealth WW2 cemetery in Benghazi