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What does it take to take on Daesh?

Aug 26,2015 - Last updated at Aug 26,2015

True to its image and reputation as an evil faction whose cruelty to mankind has no limits, Daesh was reported to have destroyed a Roman-era temple in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.

The UN cultural agency UNESCO called the act a war crime.

Having stood the test of time for over 1,800 years, the ancient Baal Shamin temple was a tourist attraction for Syria, but, above all, a legacy for all mankind, a symbol of everything Daesh is not: refinement, faith and worship, skill and desire to leave beauty to posterity.

The criminals that constitute Daesh only leave death and destruction in their trail.

Just before this latest act, in one of even more depravity, the group had decapitated an 82-year-old archaeologist who had looked after Palmyra’s ruins for four decades, hanging his body in public.

What message is the group sending? What laws of morality or religion sanction such barbarism?

And how many more people does Daesh have to kill, and how many more relics of old civilisations does it have to destroy before humanity, collectively, decides to do something about it?

UNESCO said the temple and Palmyra’s surrounding sites are symbols of Syria’s historical cultural diversity that Daesh seeks to obliterate.

It has done that before, in Iraq, with the same impunity.

More tragic, it has wiped out lives of hundreds of people with hardly an eyebrow going up in the Western world — the only ones capable of taking on the battle against these immoral misfits — and is spreading like a cancer till it will be soon on the threshold of this very Western world, yet the apathy witnessed in tackling Daesh is befuddling.

Its latest act in Palmyra should strength the resolve of all mankind to rescue the world from a cruel group that poses a threat to all humanity.

 

Words of condemnation are not enough. The only language Daesh understands is aggression. The international community should wage war against it till this evil is erased from the face of the earth.

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