Iraqi libraries ransacked by Islamic State group in Mosul

Submitted by PezDispenser (Israel), Jan 31, 2015 at 15:09

"The only difference is that the Mongols threw the books in the Tigris River, while now Daesh is burning them," he said, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group. "Different method, but same mentality."

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