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  • Exactly - IS are actually Sunni extremists (at least by origin). But they just blew up one of the most sacred Sunni sites in Iraq.

    So @croft that's the right question. But the answer is that they are just hypocritical cunts.

    Guess they figured they'd rather the Iraqis took a pile of rubble than fly their flag from the minaret.

  • I also heard that it was at this mosque that IS/Daesh proclaimed their (thankfully shortlived) Caliphate. To have the flag raised signifying their defeat on the same building would have been a complete humiliation.

  • It was, as well as being an important centre of operations apparently.

    This was, at best, tactical. Had nothing to do with religion (beyond their beliefs not preventing it).

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