IS threatens to destroy world’s largest Buddhist temple

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Hope the Buddhist temple in Indonesia do not have to meet the same fate as the Bamiyan statues which were dynamited and destroyed by the cannibals (Taliban) in Afghanistan!

IS threatens to destroy world’s largest Buddhist temple


Local Source: Dyah Swastantika August 23, 2014

After releasing the video of the beheading of American photographer James Foley, the Islamic State terrorist group – formerly known as ISIS – has begun psychologically terrorizing Indonesia.
The group has pledged to destroy the Borobudur Temple in the country’s Central Java Province, although its motive was not stated in detail.
The 1,200-year-old Borobudur temple, which is home to hundreds of Buddhist statues, is the largest Buddhist temple in the world. Indonesia is home to the largest population of Muslims in the world.
The threat was revealed through a post on the Facebook page “We Are the Islamic State,” which is believed to be the Islamic State’s official page.
The army commander of Central Java, Major General Sunindyo, said that anyone in the country would feel awful if the threat was actually carried out and has asked all citizens to work together to prevent the IS’s plan from becoming a reality.
Security forces have been tasked with keeping Borobudur safe. The community has also been “invited to take part in maintaining the temple,” according to Sunindyo.

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ISIS has even more weird ideas. They want to take Spain Back!

Radical Muslims supporting ISIS want to take Spain back from the Christians, and have launched a social media campaign aimed at generating support for ISIS.

The campaign involves posters that include images of famous Spanish landmarks and monuments emblazoned with Arabic slogans such as, "We are all the Islamic State" and "Long Live the Islamic State."

Al-Andalus is the Arabic name given to those parts of Spain, Portugal and France that were occupied by Moors (Muslims) who conquered Spain, between the years from 711 to 1492. The poster campaign comes after ISIS jihadists produced a video in which they vow to liberate al-Andalus from non-Muslims and make it part of their new Islamic Caliphate.

In the video a jihadist is speaking in Spanish thus:

"I say to the entire world as a warning: We are living under the Islamic flag, the Islamic caliphate. We will die for it until we liberate those occupied lands, from Jakarta to Andalusia. And I declare: Spain is the land of our forefathers and we are going to take it back with the power of Allah."

Radical Muslims (and many moderate Muslims) believe that all territories Muslims lost during the Christian Reconquista of Spain still belong to the realm of Islam. They claim that Islamic law gives them the right to return there and re-establish Muslim rule.

In recent years, the return of "occupied" Al-Andalus to the fold of Islam has become an obsession for Muslims of all stripes, and calls to reconquer al-Andalus have become more frequent and more strident.

Soeren Kern August 17, 2014
We Will Take Spain Back