Muslim Mosques /Shrines been blown-up by Whabby Terrorists in Northern Iraq.

The international mercenaries under the banner of ISIS, who are spreading whabbyism as an ideology of new imperialism, has been rampaging across the north and west of Iraq since last month,  demolishing sacred sites such as shrines and mosques around the historic northern city of Mosul in Nineveh province.

Images posted online from the area under the banner “Demolishing shrines and idols in the state of Nineveh” depicted mosques being turned into piles of rubble – explosives deployed against Shiite buildings - and bulldozers flattening the shrines. 

AFP reported that at least four shrines of Sunni Arab and Sufi figures have been destroyed by the bulldozers. The structures had been built around graves of Muslim saints. Six Shiite mosques have also been destroyed using explosives.

“We feel very sad for the demolition of these shrines, which we inherited from our fathers and grandfathers,” 51-year-old Mosul resident Ahmed told AFP.

“They are landmarks in the city,” he said.

Local residents verified the buildings had been destroyed and two cathedrals occupied to the agency. Crosses at the front of Mosul’s Chaldean cathedral and Syrian Orthodox cathedral were removed and replaced with the black flag of the Islamic State.

From west of Mosul, approximately 70km the city of Tal Afar, was also targeted, with a Shiite Huseiniya shrine being blown up. 

“Dozens of men, women and children formed a human wall and surrounded the sacred shrine of Sheikh Fathi in al-Mushahada neighbourhood of western Mosul and prevented the terrorists from storming it,” Ninawa tribal council deputy head Ibrahim al-Hassan told Al-Shorfa shortly after the incident. Sheikh Fathi’s shrine – one of Mosul’s most important, dating back to 1760, was among those destroyed. 

Both Sunni and Shia considered them a modern khorjiti fitna in Islam. Khoarij was an early sect in Islam, extremists in their religious views. They had never destroy any shrine but the revival of Khorjiti movement during 18th century by Muhammad Abdul Whab of Najid had destroyed many shrines of companion of the Prophet.