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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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.