Iraq Recaptures Al Nuri Mosque in Mosul, but Only Rubble Remains

Proving, yet again, Daesh was never affiliated with any religion since devout Muslims would never desecrate a house of worhsip nor embrace violence. Fundamentalism isn't based upon faith, it's based upon ideology in need of validation so proponents hijack religion to give their belief system gravity; it's as fault ridden as the foundations beneath, what are now, remnants of the alHadba minaret.

landmarks can be rebuilt. European countries have recreated their landmarks many times. Move forward and rebuild the future.

Mosul, yes, one of the homes Obama gave to Isis when he created them. Oh wait, wasn't that W Bush, or is that just more fake news? it's terrific how Trump stains Obama's legacy with such rubbish, pinning on him the idiotic decision to invade Iraq in the first place. It time for the Trump to get mired in the mess of the GOP's creation.

Unfortunately, even when ISIS as a Sunni government is driven out of Mosul by a largely Shia military effort, that part of the Mosul population that identifies itself as Sunni and initially welcomed ISIS may remain receptive to ISIS or a similar organization. This problem will not be resolved for a long time. Think of the many decades long conflict in Israel.

How is it that people come to define themselves by how completely they can destroy a heritage rather than how they can add to it?

It's true that the Al-Nuri mosque is gone forever. It doesn't matter nearly as much to the world as people might think, just one old building, irrelevant compared to the million deaths in the area due to insane holy war and deranged American invasion.

It's not at all true that the Daesh are gone. As long as the mindset of homicidal, xenophobic jihadism exists, the Daesh or people exactly like them will be wreaking havoc in the Middle East. Until Islam is not what it is today, in other words, as today there is a small segment of Islam that wants nothing other than continual bloodshed.

So this is really no victory at all, pushing down a bubble in the wallpaper and generating a bubble somewhere else. Still the only hope I see for peace in the region is when the water runs out, as it will, because with no human habitation possible, peace is assured.

I wouldn't rule ISIS done just yet; in Iraq or anywhere else.

The group and others like it have powerful (if covert) supporters in Saudi Arabia and Washington.

Once your realize this was once the cradle of civilization, you become speechless!

Something's wrong with this sentiment:

I'm a better Muslim than you.
So, I think I'll blow up the ancient mosque!"

If recapturing the empty lot of where a great building once stood is seen as progress, it doesn't say much for what the end is supposedly going to look like.

Another Trump win.
And -- No, we are not tired of winning, Mr. President !

I hope it gets rebuilt. Iraqis can get some pointers from the work the Germans did rebuilding the old center of Nuremberg. Be nice if it were a world effort or at least pan-Islamic one.

Time for Iraqis to do some building and rebuilding rather than destroying. Make the world proud of you.

If that is what those people would do to an important mosque, just imagine if they should ever get near a cathedral. This cruel act of destruction isn't about the embrace of religion in any form. It is about the exercise of evil.

According to Frontline rerun last week, the last time Iraq crowed about eradicating terrorists was with Al Queeda. They didn't do a full job and 39 terrorists escaped, forming the nucleus of what would become ISIS.
Let's hope Iraq finishes their job this time.