Islamist militant group ISIS destroys Shia Mosques and Shrines in Iraq

 Written by : Mohamed Abdel Fattah
 Jul 10, 2014

The Islamist militant group ISIS has been destroying Iraq's Shiite mosques and religious shrines because they were judged to be idolatrous.

Sunni militants published before and after pictures show the destruction of almost a dozen ancient shrines and Shia mosques in Mosul and the towns of Tal Afar and El Mihalabiya.

ISIS is an extremist Sunni group which recently declared the re-establishment of the Islamic Caliphate, exhorting Muslims all over the world to join their cause.

Last month ,President Hassan Rouhani said that Iran would do whatever it takes to protect revered Shiite Muslim holy sites in Iraq against Sunni militants .

Millions of Shi'ite pilgrims visit Iraq's holy sites each year. The Sunni fighters have vowed to carry their offensive south to Najaf and Kerbala, seats of Shi'ite Islam .

The Iranian Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani for Iraqis to volunteer to resist the onslaught spearheaded by the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL.

At least 5,000 Iranians have pledged online to defend Iraq's Shiite shrines against the Sunni extremists, a conservative news website in Iran reported .

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