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Al-Azhar slams IS for bulldozing Nimrud

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Anees Hanif
Anees Hanif
Muhammad Anees Hanif is a Multimedia journalist who serves as Chief Editor for ARY News' Urdu and English websites. He tweets @anees_avis

“What the terrorist organisation Daesh is doing by destroying monuments in the territory it controls in Iraq, Syria and Libya… is a major crime against the entire world,” Al-Azhar said using the Arabic acronym for IS.

“What Daesh is doing is a war crime that history would never forget,” it said, adding that destruction of monuments was forbidden under the Islamic law sharia.

Al-Azhar also urged “everyone concerned in the countries where Daesh and other extremist groups exist, to cooperate and eradicate them and save our Arabic and Islamic nations from their evils”.

IS, which has captured swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria, began bulldozing the ruins of Nimrud on Thursday, in what the UN termed a “war crime”.

Last month IS fighters destroyed statues and ancient artefacts with sledgehammers and torched the city’s library.

Nimrud was founded in the 13th century BC and was considered the jewel of the Assyrian era.
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File photo of an Iraqi standing next to an ancient statue of a winged bull with a human face, an indication of strength in the Assyrian civilization, at the archaeological site of Nimrud, south of Mosul in northern Iraq (AFP Photo/)

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