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Ruins of a Christian Church in Mosul Taken Back by Iraqi Forces

March 13, 2017 | Iraq
March 13, 2017

ICC Note:
 A Christian church in Mosul had been taken over by ISIS at the time of the city’s conquer and used as a haven for their religious police. These men enforced their extremist values on the community, making sure each person followed the ideals of the extremist’s conviction. After the destruction of all the crosses, statues, and other items promoting Christian belief, the building has little resemblance of a church.
3/13/2017 Iraq (NDTV) – The elegant columns of a west Mosul church stand plastered with ISIS propaganda after the terrorists’ infamous religious police took over the Christian place of worship. The sign above the door of Um al-Mauna (Our Mother of Perpetual Help) in Iraq’s second city reads “Chaldean Catholic church”, but its terror occupants had other ideas.
“No entry, by order of the ISIS Hesba Division (the religious police)”, they wrote on the outside wall. Five terrorists lie dead outside, their bodies twisted and one with the top of his skull blown off, after Iraqi forces retook the neighbourhood from ISIS this week.
The church “was an important office for the authorities tasked with making sure (Mosul) residents had a beard, wore short robes and followed their extremist convictions,” says Lieutenant Colonel Abdulamir al-Mohammedawi of the elite Rapid Response Division.
 

 
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