Ancient Christian monastery destroyed by ISIS

The Iraqi city of Mosul has lost St. Elijah's Monastery.

Arab media sources reported the 1400-year-old Saint Elijah's monastery in Iraq has been destroyed.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - ISIS continues its religious war against all but Muslims. Saint Elijah's monastery is not the first religious building the extremists destroyed.

The jihadis destroyed other monuments in an effort to keep people from learning about anything other than Allah.

According to JP Updates, each historic site destroyed by ISIS are seen as heretical or anti-Islamic. 

In March, ISIS also destroyed the site of Nimrud, which was once a great city that housed a powerful civilization.

Secretary of State John Kerry said, "The Iraqi government recently nominated Nimrud to be placed on UNESCO's list of world heritage sites. In contrast, (ISIS) [sic] twisted goal is clear: to eviscerate a culture and rewrite history in its own brutal image."

University professor of archaeology, Mark Altaweel, described Nimrud as "one of the really unique archaeological sites in the entire ancient Near East. Nimrud is the capital of the first empire in this long series of empires that have profound significance in the way this region develops and ultimately how it affects our own society."

With Saint Elijah's destruction, it is clear that ISIS plans to continue its crusade as far and for as long as possible.

Sadly, the destruction of historic sites has helped ISIS establish its Islamic regime across the Middle East and has only inflated the organization's notoriety.

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