A hidden secret behind all religions

• Brahman versus Maya
• Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces
• Quantum vacuum state
• God is Love
• Is it possible to love everyone boundlessly?

Germans=Vikings=Iranians='Aryans'?

How did Vikings cause the Crusades and get to Persia?

The northern European wasteland (Lapland) of Scandinavia, the least desirable piece of Europe, was originally populated by Germans (a.k.a. the native Samis), who as Vikings ("Pirates") did what they could with it until they reached maximum success by domesticating cows and killing fish? So they left to trade, raid, and invade others to prosper. Hearing their sagas say they were originally from Kerman, Iran, they traveled the Volga River, visited, and found an advanced Persian/Arabian culture they wanted to imitate? These were the "Aryans" (Iranians) the Germans thought they should be or were meant to be or originally were? So they returned and made Scandinavia and the best place to live and nearby Germany (Kermany) the Aryan (Iranian) capital (because the Nazis found this story appealing)?

• VIDEO: Melting Norwegian ice uncovers a treasure trove of Viking artifacts
• Who are the Iranian peoples, a bunch of Indo-Europeans?
• People who dislike Nazis are just being anti-Hamitic??

George Carlin rationalizes stuff. No one invades?

Bad Spanish: It would be Una gente en Dios not in

German history

The City of Kerman (which gives us the word "German") was founded as a defensive outpost, with the name Veh-Ardashir, by Ardashir I, founder of the Sasanian Empire, in the 3rd century AD [8].

After the Battle of Nahāvand in 642, the city came under Muslim rule. At first, the city's relative isolation allowed Kharijites and Zoroastrians to thrive there, but the Kharijites were wiped out in 698, and the population was mostly Muslim by 725.

Already in the eighth century the city was famous for its manufacture of cashmere wool shawls and other textiles. The Abbasid Caliphate's authority over the region was weak, and power passed in the tenth century to the Buyid emirs.

We've come to kill and rape this this culture, but don't

call us "invaders" because no one is "native" anywhere

The region and city fell to Mahmud of Ghazni in the late tenth century. The name Kerman was adopted at some point in the tenth century [9].

Under the rule of the Seljuk Turks in the 11th and 12th centuries, Kerman remained virtually independent, conquering Oman and Fars [10].

When Marco Polo visited Kerman in 1271, it had become a major trade emporium linking the Persian Gulf with Khorasan and Central Asia [11].

Subsequently, however, the city was sacked many times by various invaders. Kerman expanded rapidly during the Safavid dynasty. Carpets and rugs were exported to England and Germany [Anglo-Saxons loved rugs?] during this period [12]. More

•  See also: Timeline of Kerman

Black American Ohioan is better than Aryans?

• History professors spins a narrative; Eds. react, Wisdom Quarterly

America's Secret History revealed!

(HISTORY) These full-length episodes take a deep dive into some of North America's greatest secrets. This is an epic 3-hour full episode marathon of America Unearthed. See more in this marathon from America Unearthed. #AmericaUnearthed

• America Unearthed, the History Channel, June 21, 2023; Xochitl, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

US Christians trying to convert Gaza Muslims

Pfc. Sandoval, Shauna Schwartz, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Come, Gaza, join my Nordic religion led by a Middle Eastern Jew, whose members led Crusades

For the poor Palestinians suffering the murder of 1% of their population, give to Jews

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Jesus was a Black Palestinian Jew

Do Americans forget, or did they never learn in school, that Western armies always came in two waves, first the male soldiers then the male priests. "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition." It's hegemony, settler colonialism, invasion, rape, enslavement, genocide, and conversion to Christianity. Did Emperor Constantine dream it up for the Roman Empire, the princes (popes) of the Church for the Holy Roman Catholic Empire, the British for world domination?

An ex-terrorist confirms mass visions [dreams] of Jesus in Gaza, says thousands of Muslims will come to Christ [one way or another]

(CBN News) Jan. 18, 2024: [Now that we've got them right where we want them with the help of our friends and war-partners the Israeli Jews, let's move in and take control of their hearts, minds, and souls. Once we control their religion, we can control them completely.]

A former Palestinian sniper turned Christian believes revival will break out in Gaza and thousands will come to Christ after the end of the Israeli war on Gaza and Hamas.

Taysir "Tass" Abu Saada, a former aide to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, recently told CBN News' Global Lane that God's Holy Spirit is already changing Palestinian hearts through dreams and visions. [Lies or mass hallucinations?]

"Many Muslims are looking for an alternative to Islam," he said. "My team is, naturally, sharing Christ. So we are looking at a good revival going on already in the Gaza Strip."

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To embed w/ Israel's Extermination Team: IDF

Slayer; Fear; Dimmu Borgir; Abby Martin on the Joe Rogan Experience; The Jimmy Dore Show; Mindset Vibrations; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Maybe we have been to hard on Israel and Jews. Maybe they should kill, murder, and exterminate their "enemies" as they wish. Maybe we should even cheerlead the folks under the blue banner from the sidelines as they annihilate and exterminate those under the red flag. Here's some killing music for their joyously self-righteous and Godly war on fellow human beings.

Slayer: Show No Mercy, "Fight Till Death"

Metal and men clash once more to the end

Warriors above, with the power to kill, descend

Militia of Blood, Troops of Hate, march to die

Soldiers of Hell, Veterans of Death, arise

[Chorus:]

Prepare for attack

Your bodies will burn

Endless war

There's no return

Prepare for attack

Death will arrive

Your orders are clear

No way to hide

Fight till death

Senseless death of all mankind overtakes

Armored assassins destroy, at will, your escape

Children of Sorrow are trampled into the grave

There is no future, no f*cking world to be saved

[Chorus]

To reign in Hell

[Guitar Solo: Jeff Hanneman]

Gods of Steel unleash their destruction on man

Reign of death, what is the final Command?

Scepters of hate are dropped upon this Earth

Clouds of terror destroy all hope of rebirth

[Chorus]

Fight till death

Fight till death

Fight till death

Abby Martin explains it to Joe Rogan

Death Cult Armageddon

Dimmu Borgir: Death Cult Armageddon, "Unorthodox Manifesto"

"Hail S*t*n..."

"Gentlemen: Destroy!"

Memories far beyond my reckoning

Have begun to lurk in the distance

Like visual objects dearly known

The grace of devils' hands

As they walk with me like a medium

When I choose and require to burnout

Resting in expanded malicious IDForces

Drained for murderous weapons

Knowing where you stand

In the magnitude of this thought

Looking at the spirit of fire and flames

Enduring on the throne of the black heart

Knowing where you stand

In the magnitude of this thought

Looking at the spirit of fire and flames

A bringer of evil I am

But therefore also a carrier of light

As I use this focus through the dark

And face the shine in the dead end

Limitations do not exist

When you are ahead of the crown

With the art of confidence

I reign at the throne of my soil

The value of this darkness unwinds

Travelling the other path

A hidden triumph

But obvious to the strong and wise

By understanding this reality

I remain in a twice colored cloud [blue and white]

With feet connected solid on my ground

And thus I get peace of mind

And thus I get peace of mind

A bringer of evil I am

But also a carrier of light

As I use this scope through the dark

And face the shine in the dead end

A bringer of evil I am

But also a carrier of light

As I use this scope through the dark

And face the shine in the dead end

How Israel's war will end (but it's fun to kill while the world allows it)

This is how the war on Gaza will end – with George Szamuely

(The Jimmy Dore Show) Nov. 4, 2023:  It’s been nearly a month since Israel decided to start bombing civilians in a devastating pre-war on Gaza that followed the stunning October 7th Hamas cross border attacks in territory occupied by Israel, and many have begun to wonder whether we’re approaching an end game as so much of Gaza has been littered with baby body parts (just like self-righteous PM Golda Meir talked about) has been reduced to rubble. The question is whether Israel will continue with the onslaught and attempt to drive Palestinians out of Gaza and into Egypt while facing the possibility of sending ground troops into tunnels after the El Qassam Brigades, or if Israel will decide to pull back in the face of ballooning IDF casualty numbers. Guest host Craig Jardula and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger speak with columnist George Szamuely about why he feels the Israeli military is incapable of exterminating Hamas.

George Szamuely on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GeorgeSzamuely George Szamuely on Substack: https://substack.com/@georgeszamuely #TheJimmyDoreShow

(Mindset Vibrations) The Power of Perception

Why was the Pope in Buddhist Mongolia?

Thank you, little Chinese boy. - I'm a Mongol boy, sir. - Want to be a priest in my Vatican?

Take that, China. You, too Russia. Mwah! Ciao.

Sometimes when one wants to give China and Russia -- which look on with envy, anger, and annoyance, a great kick in the eye -- simply exploit a small country as a pretext for larger conquests. Catholicism is the world's largest religion in the world, and it's no accident. To sway Chinese Catholics away from their fanatical communist military dictatorship and police state (even as its finances crumble) and snub Russia, Vatican CEO Francis paid a little visit to an out-of-the-way Buddhist land to remind the neighboring superpowers that Genghis Khan once rampage through this very land and showed the world who's the boss of the world's largest empire. Imperial Rome still rules, one way or another.

His Majesty of the Holy Roman Empire Pope Francis' trip to Buddhist Mongolia

(ROME REPORTS in English) Sept. 5, 2023: Pope Francis is the first pope in history to visit the giant land-locked country with a small population.

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• Pope Francis becomes first pontiff to visit Mongolia, as neighboring Russia, China look on | National Catholic Reporter (ncronline.org)

The Holy Roman Empire gets a toehold

A Look at Mongolia's Catholic Church as Pope Francis makes historical visit | EWTN News in depth 

(EWTN) Sept. 1, 2023: When Pope Francis announced he would be going to Mongolia to visit the tiny "Catholic Church" there, it led many to wonder what that church ("community of worshipers") was like in the landlocked Asian Buddhist country. Between Russia and China, Mongolia has one of the smallest Catholic populations in the world, with only 1,400 Catholics.

Hail, Your Highness. - De nada, monhe Budista.

EWTN News reporter Colm Flynn travelled to Mongolia ahead of the pope's visit to get an in-depth look at how the Catholic Church there operates and the many challenges it faces.

ABOUT: Hosted by Montse Alvarado, EWTN News In Depth welcomes guests in a discussion of current events in the Church, politics, and culture, all through the lens of the [imperial] Catholic faith. This show is about finding out who members are as people and as Catholics, and how they can confidently live faith in the world. It is produced by EWTN News: https://www.ewtnnews.com

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Leaders come, leaders go, but Rome lives on

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You guys still ride horses? - Yes, doesn't everyone? - No, even I have my own car.

The pope's private car when he's not being driven around in luxurious, expensive Euro jobs

• Rome Reports, 9/5/23; EWTN; Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

White US slaves in 1788? (Christopher Hitchins)

Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly OPINION

Yeah, I like what West Point teaches.

When George H. Bush was attending West Point Military Academy, he claims he learned an alternate US history we are not taught in school, namely, that it was the U.S. running most of the pirate operations in and around the Caribbean. That is how a nation starts. We were doing it against British/English ships and corporations (like maybe the Dutch East India Company or its equivalents working on the Colonies, possessions and protectorates of the British Empire). We (North Americans it what came to be the USA) were the grand criminals. Bush with this knowledge went on to become CIA director then president of the U.S. So either it's true what West Point teaches its students, and we are being lied to in the rest of the country, or West Point teaches disinformation (purposeful lies) to its students to carry on our plunder, exploitation, and imperialism throughout the world, saying it's nothing different than what we've always done. One and a half million white European and American slaves taken by the Ottoman Empire in the century beginning 1788, Hitchens? That would be a fantastic revelation if it's not a self-serving fantasy to justify our exploitation of others and serve as a pretext told to West Point students and soldiers for our warring with and bullying of Muslim nations (Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Yemen, Iran, Libya, Syria, Saudi Arabia, the Middle East in general, Northern Africa as a whole which includes Israel but that is hidden on maps and in discussions, etc.) Oh, if only Hitchins were alive to ask him about it. Perhaps other historians specializing in American history, covert and overt, would opine.

Atheist Hitchens lays into secular Jews

The Island of California: Salton Sea (video)

Xochitl, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly OPINION

Reflection along Southern California's desert Salton Sea, the remnants of an ocean inlet?

Mapping "mistake"? Was California an island?

California is named after Black Queen Califia (Las sergas de Esplandián)

(Johnny Harris) Sept. 14, 2022. For 200 years map makers drew California as an island. Accident? What did they know? The path to find out why led J. Harris on a wild journey. SOURCES: docs.google.com/document...

Sure looks like an island even today (WQ).

Patreon, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, wife Iz. How it's done: Tom Fox (tfbeats) makes the music, maps made using aescripts plugin. Gear-guide. Courses: language, visual storytelling.

ABOUT: Johnny Harris is a filmmaker and journalist currently is based in Washington, DC, reporting on interesting trends and stories domestically and worldwide. He holds a BA in international relations from Brigham Young University and an MA in international peace and conflict resolution from American University.

California is an island, upper and lower, Alta and Baja, with the Sea of Cortes/z (Gulf of California or Vermillion Sea) behind it, extending up into the Salton Sea or the remnant that remains of it (Wisdom Quarterly).

Our peninsula sure looks like a former island.

It used to be "common knowledge" to explorers and cartographers (travelers and map makers) that the unique land of California was an island. It makes sense!

That's how it got the great abundance and diversity it now enjoys. For instance, the State of California has more plant and animal species than all of the other states in the U.S. combined, by far. There's no comparison. We have the world's tallest tree (hidden up north so people will stop climbing it and trampling the woods around it).

Map shows Gulf of California, Mexico, extending up all the way to wrap around the island.

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Who controls low orbit satellites?

The Salton Sea can hardly be explained as an accident that just happened to linger this long. It's enormous! It's far easier to imagine it's the remnant sea that once wrapped around the Island when water levels were higher. There's a lot of earthquake activity around here that could have changed things, pushed up the plate we're on.

A wide waterway, like the American River in the state capitol, Sacramento, might have been considered part of the Pacific Ocean. More likely, the shape of the state was not as it is today.

In the view of Mexico, particularly under the Spanish Empire, Alta California ("Upper California") extended far beyond its present borders. And there was no need to survey it as it was home to indigenous people, just as Mexico was. But European Spain sure thought it should be mapped, missioned (the first "concentration camps"), and enslaved, with the local population put to work in the service of the Church and Empire.

The House of Wisdom: Arabic Enlightenment

Jim al-Khalili, The House of Wisdom; Bettany Hughes (The Moors...); Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

Enlightenment is far better than ignorance...even if it upsets our worldviews and comfort. Here British historian Bettany Hughes stands in front of the Bodhi tree in Enlightenment Grove (Bodh Gaya, India), where Siddhartha became the Buddha or "Awakened One."

When the Moors Ruled in Europe (Part 1/11) with British historian Bettany Hughes - the shocking truth.

Arabic Science Gave us the Renaissance

This is a myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance.

• [The "Dark" Ages, according to British historian Bettany Hughes, are said to have been when for seven centuries black Muslim Moors ruled Europe.]

Many of the innovations we think of as hallmarks of Western science actually had their roots in the Arab world of the Middle Ages, a period when much of Western Christendom stagnated in intellectual darkness.

Author: British physicist Jim al-Khalili

Author Jim al-Khalili, a leading British-Iraqi physicist, resurrects this lost chapter of history in The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance.

Given current East-West tensions, his book could hardly be more timely.

With transporting detail, al-Khalili places readers in the hothouses of the Arabic Enlightenment, shows how they led to Europe's cultural awakening, and poses the question:

Why did the Islamic world enter its own Dark Age after such a dazzling flowering? More

Blacks ruled Europe?

Seven centuries of hidden European/African history

Join British historian Bettany Hughes as she examines a purposely-buried, hidden, and forgotten chapter of European history -- the risemof Islamic culture in what is now Spain and Portugal (bordering Northern Africa).

Although generations of Spanish rulers have tried to expunge this era from the historical record, recent archeology and scholarship have shed fresh light on the black Moors who flourished in Al-Andalus for more than 700 years.

The fascinating documentary WHEN THE MOORS RULED IN EUROPE explodes racist stereotypes and offers shocking new insights.

Black lives used to matter

Discover the ingenious mathematics behind Granada's dazzling Alhambra Palace, trace El Cid's lineage to his black Moorish roots in Africa, and learn how the population of the Iberian peninsula in white Europe willingly converted to liberal Islam in droves.

Through interviews with noted scholars, see how Moorish advances in mathematics, science, astronomy, art, and agriculture helped propel the West out of its Dark Ages and into its Renaissance ("Rebirth").

What emerges is a richly detailed portrait of a sensuous, inquisitive, and remarkably progressive black African Islamic culture dominating Christian Europe.

[The Moors (the definition of these people is constantly changed to make them less African, less black, and less brilliant, and less Muslim/Islamic) were royalty beyond the peninsula. They ruled throughout Europe, as many artifacts and revealed histories show.]

• REVIEW: When the Moors Ruled in Europe (SF Gate)

What extreme music has to do with Buddhism

Pfc. Sandoval, Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Seth Auberon, Crystal Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly

WARNING: Disturbing images and yelling! Can women rock? Just ask Alissa White-Gluz, THE AGONIST, "And Their Eulogies Sang Me to Sleep"
Dimmu Borgir's Norwegian death metal from Viking urges, "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse"

What in the heaven does Slayer -- or any of that filthy music labelled "heavy metal, "punk," and "extreme rock" -- have to do with kind, peaceful Buddhism?

Slayer and the like have, to the personal taste of individuals, to do with fighting. It's not all organic peaches and vegan cream around here, sister. Is fighting a good attitude? In part it depends on what one is up against and choosing to take on. Addiction? Fight it. Living beings? Don't fight 'em.

British contribution to heavy music Cradle of Filth "Gabrielle"

Original grindcore masterpiece, Cannibal Corpse's "Hammer Smashed Face"

This is not about fighting in the literal sense of war, violence, or cops shooting people. Consider the bigger picture -- fighting for liberation, freedom, knowledge, wisdom, to overcome the mental defilements and Five Hindrances to meditation. Yes, not everybody will fight. Not everybody takes being a spiritual "warrior" as a contest.

But some do. Striving, seeking, endeavoring, putting forth viriya (virile effort) is one way to go, not the way that can take one all the way there. But it can go a long way for a start.

WARNING: Extreme violence and brutality! Title track from Slayer's latest album "Repentless"
(American Hardcore soundtrack) How did extreme music begin? Seven years of early punk!

What was the Warrior Prince Siddhartha doing when he shook off the comforts and delights of a sheltered life to go out and seek his Quest for Enlightenment? He wasn't gently letting go. He was shirking, throwing, casting off the burden.

So anyone who says Buddhism's peace has only to do with lovey-dovey tender mental activity has not been paying attention. This is the Middle Way that avoids extremes, sometimes going to extremes to find the middle. Yes?

(Avenged Sevenfold) What's the point of this music? Bigger mosh pits!

Who's to say what counts as an "austerity" when all we do is live in luxury? Eat only one meal a day! Pishah, impossible! It's totally possible. Sleep sitting up? Wear stitched castaway rags? Shave your head? Stay up striving for stillness? The Buddha enumerated "13 Sane Ascetic Practices" or dhutangas which are hardcore and not at all easy. They are severe hardships.

Some are not necessary. No one does all 13, and no one needs to. But some are so valuable, that they have become incumbent on all monastics and novices (samaneras and samaneris). Ever hear the horrible-to-American-ears word "jihad"? How about the horrible-to-others word "crusade"?

KLOS FM's Full Metal Jackie interviews Alissa White-Gluz

What does it really mean at a deep level? It isn't fighting others. It's fighting oneself, overcoming oneself, taking the reins and guiding oneself to freedom. As the Buddha and other sages have said, What does it profit a person to conquer the whole world if one loses him or herself in the process?

Better the one who conquers oneself than the one who conquers everyone else. And listening to Slayer, Carcass, Cannibal Corpse, Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, or any of the groups that make it to DarkLyrics.com may serve as inspiration or motivation to keep up the good fight when engaged in combat for the war within.

The Moors: When Blacks Ruled Europe (video)

Bettany Hughes; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Bettany Hughes: Historian, author, BBC broadcaster (bettanyhughes.co.uk)

When the Moors Ruled in Europe -- Real Black History Revealed by Bettany Hughes

We were rulers now mocked

Bettany Hughes tears the lid off Eurocentric racism to reveal Europe's black past. Africans once ruled the Continent, a history that has been erased and denied for centuries. What really motivated the Spanish Inquisition? What has the Holy Roman Empire and its "Holy Roman Church" (of imperial, universal Catholicism) been trying to conceal?

When the Moors Ruled in Europe is a documentary film presented by the British historian Bettany Hughes.

I love black until you teach me not to.

It is a two-part series about the contribution the Moors made to Europe during their 700-year reign in Spain and Portugal ending in the 15th century. The era ended with the Reconquista during which Catholic Church authorities burned over 1,000,000 Arabic texts. Filmed in the Spanish region of Andalusia, mostly in the cities of Granada, Cordoba, and the Moroccan city of Fes. First broadcast on England's Ch. 4 on Nov. 5, 2005.

EDITED COMMENTS

(HausOfAdonis) Are racists in denial? Even in view of facts, artworks, and literature all saying that these were black people? The word "Moor" means black...

(Chalmer79) It's crazy how people can have proof and facts right in front of them, and they still argue facts. But when asked to believe something that is completely fictional, with no proof whatsoever [that they accept without arguing. A pleasant lie is much easier to accept than a painful truth.] And while we are busy fighting over race, the super-rich turn us against each other to further their own agenda behind closed doors with nobody paying attention to them.

Oldest Christian temple destroyed (AP)

The Associated Press (via mail.com); Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, Wisdom Quarterly

Destruction of the earliest Buddhist statues at Bamiyan, Afghanistan (xtimeline.com).

Soldier walks inside St. Elijah's Monastery in Mosul, Iraq. The 1,400-year-old monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the CIA's campaign to create terrorist organizations like the Taliban or ISIS (U.S. Army reserve Col. Mary Prophit via AP).

St. Elijah's Monastery on the outskirts of Mosul, Iraq, about 360 kms (225 miles) NW of Baghdad. served as a center of the regional Christian community for centuries, attracting worshippers from throughout the region (AP).

CIA never sleeps, prods Islamists to destroy Iraqi Assyrian city of Nimrod near Mosul, another "Bamiyan" to gain support for endless US war in geopolitical Middle East (AP).

Look, Jesus, mistakes were made, okay?

Look what our war has done, U.S. George W. Bush's "Crusade" in search of WMDs full spectrum dominance, CIA-plant father Bush's illegal invasion to control the oil, Dick Cheney's cousin Barry Obama (a kind of Bush III) and his wish to appease the military-industrial complex for which he serves as the mouthpiece, like a pro-war MLK, both wearing their Nobel Peace Prizes on their chest.

Tell me about it, Georgey (CS)

The CIA-inspired "Taliban" took down the greatest, oldest, largest Buddhas in the world (Bamiyan, Afghanistan), and with their ISIS/ISIL/IS they take out Islamic sites and other world treasures like Yazidi and Hazara houses of worship.

Well, not even Christian treasures are spared. Can Jewish artifacts (if they existed, and some say they do not but are instead fabricated and woven into history, controversial claims but claims nonetheless) be far behind?

US, CIA, and Ash Carter bring police state to Iraq in wake of illegal invasion (AP).

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IRBIL, Iraq - The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the Islamic State group's relentless destruction of ancient cultural sites.

Let my brother continue my mission! (AP)

For 1,400 years the compound survived assaults by nature and man, standing as a place of worship recently for U.S. troops. In earlier centuries, generations of monks tucked candles in the niches and prayed in the cool chapel.

The Greek letters chi and rho, representing the first two letters of Christ's name, were carved near the entrance.

The Buddha, Bamiyan (A)

Now satellite photos obtained exclusively by The Associated Press confirm the worst fears of church authorities and preservationists -- St. Elijah's Monastery of Mosul has been completely wiped out.

In his office in exile in Irbil, Iraq, the Rev. Paul Thabit Habib, 39, stared quietly at before- and after-images of the monastery that once perched on a hillside above his hometown of Mosul. Shaken, he flipped back to his own photos for comparison.

"I can't describe my sadness," he said in Arabic. "Our Christian history in Mosul is being barbarically leveled. We see it as an attempt to expel us from Iraq, eliminating, and finishing our existence in this land."

The Muslim Hazaras now live in Bamiyan, the real ancient Kapilavastu (AFP).

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Death of Hazara-Afghans in Bamiyan today.

The Islamic State group, which broke from al-Qaida and now controls large parts of Iraq and Syria, has killed thousands of civilians and forced out hundreds of thousands of Christians, threatening a religion that has endured in the region for 2,000 years.

Along the way, its fighters have destroyed buildings and ruined historical and culturally significant structures they consider contrary to their interpretation of Islam.

Those who knew the monastery wondered about its fate after the extremists swept through in June 2014 and largely cut communications to the area.

Now, St. Elijah's has joined a growing list of more than 100 demolished religious and historic sites, including mosques, tombs, shrines, and churches in Syria and Iraq.

The extremists have defaced or ruined ancient monuments in Nineveh, Palmyra, and Hatra. Museums and libraries have been looted, books burned, artwork crushed -- or trafficked.

"A big part of tangible history has been destroyed," said Rev. Manuel... More