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Places of worship blown up in Iraq
(MENAFN- Arab News) KIRKUK: The militants controlling the Iraqi city of Tikrit have blown up a Muslim shrine and rigged one of the region's oldest churches with explosives security sources said Thursday.
A police lieutenant from the area around the city which is controlled by the Islamic State group (IS) said Al-Arbain mosque was dynamited on Wednesday. The shrine is the reputed burial site of 40 early Muslim figures including companions of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
IS advocates a return to the origins of Islam but also considers worshipping at graves to be tantamount to idolatry.
Witnesses told AFP that IS gunmen set up the explosives inside the shrine on Tuesday and detonated them the next day. 'Yes they have blow up this holy site' said Yahya Al-Attawi the imam of the main mosque in Tikrit speaking from outside the city.
Elsewhere in the hometown of executed former president Saddam Hussein IS also rigged the Green Church a striking structure carved into the rock and first built in the seventh century.
Residents said many streets homes and public buildings had been booby-trapped by the militants who have held the city for more than three months and fought off attempts by government forces to take it back.
Meanwhile IS militants publicly killed a rights lawyer in the Iraqi city of Mosul after their self-styled Islamic court ruled that she had abandoned Islam the UN mission in Iraq said.
Samira Salih Al-Nuaimi was seized from her home on Sept. 17 after allegedly posting messages on Facebook that were critical of the militants' destruction of religious sites in Mosul.
According to the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq Al-Nuaimi was tried in a so-called 'Shariah court' for apostasy after which she was tortured for five days before the militants sentenced her to 'public execution.'
She was killed on Monday. Her Facebook page appears to have been removed since her death.
'By torturing and executing a female human rights' lawyer and activist defending in particular the civil and human rights of her fellow citizens in Mosul ISIL continues to attest to its infamous nature combining hatred nihilism and savagery as well as its total disregard of human decency' Nickolay Mladenov the UN envoy to Iraq said in a statement.
A police lieutenant from the area around the city which is controlled by the Islamic State group (IS) said Al-Arbain mosque was dynamited on Wednesday. The shrine is the reputed burial site of 40 early Muslim figures including companions of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
IS advocates a return to the origins of Islam but also considers worshipping at graves to be tantamount to idolatry.
Witnesses told AFP that IS gunmen set up the explosives inside the shrine on Tuesday and detonated them the next day. 'Yes they have blow up this holy site' said Yahya Al-Attawi the imam of the main mosque in Tikrit speaking from outside the city.
Elsewhere in the hometown of executed former president Saddam Hussein IS also rigged the Green Church a striking structure carved into the rock and first built in the seventh century.
Residents said many streets homes and public buildings had been booby-trapped by the militants who have held the city for more than three months and fought off attempts by government forces to take it back.
Meanwhile IS militants publicly killed a rights lawyer in the Iraqi city of Mosul after their self-styled Islamic court ruled that she had abandoned Islam the UN mission in Iraq said.
Samira Salih Al-Nuaimi was seized from her home on Sept. 17 after allegedly posting messages on Facebook that were critical of the militants' destruction of religious sites in Mosul.
According to the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq Al-Nuaimi was tried in a so-called 'Shariah court' for apostasy after which she was tortured for five days before the militants sentenced her to 'public execution.'
She was killed on Monday. Her Facebook page appears to have been removed since her death.
'By torturing and executing a female human rights' lawyer and activist defending in particular the civil and human rights of her fellow citizens in Mosul ISIL continues to attest to its infamous nature combining hatred nihilism and savagery as well as its total disregard of human decency' Nickolay Mladenov the UN envoy to Iraq said in a statement.
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