The temple bombing would be the first time the insurgents, who control swathes of Syria and Iraq and captured Palmyra in May, damaged monumental Roman-era ruins.
"We have said repeatedly the next phase would be one of terrorising people and when they have time they will begin destroying temples," Abdul Karim told Reuters.
"I am seeing Palmyra being destroyed in front of my eyes," he added. "God help us in the days to come."
A week ago, the militants beheaded Khaled Asaad, an 82-year-old scholar who worked for more than 50 years as head of antiquities in Palmyra, after detaining and interrogating him for over a month.
Before the city's capture by Islamic State, Syrian officials said they moved hundreds of ancient statues to safe locations out of concern that the militants would destroy them.
In June, Islamic State blew up two ancient shrines in Palmyra that were not part of its Roman-era structures but which the militants regarded as pagan and sacrilegious.
The militants were also beginning excavation for gold and giving licenses for illicit excavation of the city's treasures, Abdul Karim added.
(Reporting by Kinda Makeih; Writing by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Peter Cooney and Lisa Von Ahn)lvbala said;
Referring to the above news (The Star), I was sadden and shocked over the action by ISIS to destroy the temple of Baal Shamin, one of the most important sites in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, said Maamoun Abdul Karim, the country's antiquities chief.
This does reminds me the destruction of the biggest Buddha statue in Afghanistan by the Al Qaeda.
Does this ring the bell?
The Temple of Baal Shamin dates from AD 17 was dedicated to the Phoenician god of storm and fertilizing rains. It was a great artifact and left many clues for mankind to learn about early civilization.
It was the early ancient history of the Jewish and I have cut paste some information below to all readers to go through if you require better understanding. By understanding this culture, doesn't make anyone to become a Jewish.
This is just an additional information to understand in one of many way of mankind worship the almighty. success, failure and civilization. We should be proud to have such artifact and by learning and understand does not make anyone evil or against our current believe, but in fact it shall make us wise.
But for sure, I do understand those who destroy this temple shall face what they should. They will pay for their SIN. They will suffer for their cruelty. They will face evil and suffer in this world by the fire.
I believe these people call them self as ISIS shall be shown the actual suffering in this world and later after death as they believe.
They might believe they will be rewarded "70" virgin in heaven but I do believe their mother and sister shall be part of the virgin well and they can enjoy with them as well.
I could not believe GOD shall be a first class virgin woman supplier as promise if they kill and uphold what they them self think its right.
"The word baʿl, common Semitic for "owner, master, husband," became the usual designation of the great weather-god of the Western Semites. In spite of the fact that the word is used as the theophorous element in personal names, such as Eshbaal, Merib-Baal, Jerub Baal, it was long believed that the term remained an appellation and did not become a proper name, except in the case of the Mesopotamian Bel and in late theological speculation. The basis for this view was the fact that in biblical usage the plural of the term, with the article, "the Baalim," appears to designate minor local gods (Judg. 2:11; 3:7; 8:33), while the singular of the word in combination with other terms apparently designated minor or local gods, such as Baal-Berith, Baal-Gad, Baal-Hamon, Baal-Hazor, Baal-Hermon, or, in the feminine form, a goddess, Baalat-Beer, Baalat-Gebal. Further, in biblical usage when applied to the great weather-god, the singular regularly has the article, "the Baal," which suggests that the word was not regarded as a proper name. Nevertheless, despite the biblical tendency to avoid the use of the word as a proper name, it is now quite clear that by pre-Israelite times the term had become the usual name of the weather-god of Syria-Palestine. In the El-Amarna letters the logogram for the weather-god is conventionally read Addu, but that it is sometimes to be read Baʿluis indicated by the addition of the phonetic complement-lu, as well as by the names like Mut dIm written syllabically as mu-ut-ba-aḫ-lum. In the El-Amarna letters Canaanite clients addressed the Egyptian king as "My Baal, my Addu." In the Ugaritic mythological texts Baʿlu (bʿl) is the name of the god which is used more than twice as often as his next most frequent name, Haddu (hd). The latter name (Amarna, Addu) is to be related to Arabic hadda ("break," "crash") with reference to thunder. The variant form Hadad (hdd) is attested to only once in Ugaritic.
That there were minor Baalim also at Ugarit is indicated by a god list in Akkadian (see Ugaritica, 5, p. 44 ll. 4–10; reconstructed text) which after the great "Weather-god, Lord of Mount Ḫazi" presents six other "weather-gods," numbered two through seven. In the parallel Ugaritic list, which is unfortunately very fragmentary, the "Weather-god, Lord of Mount Ḫazi" apparently corresponds to Baal Ṣapān, while those following are termed simply Baalim (bʿlm). It may be, however, that these extra Baalim are Baal's attendants, mentioned as the seven or eight lads whom Baal is ordered to take with him in his descent into the netherworld."
What written above does not meant to convert of convey and believe of any religion but simply to make one realize their stupidity and idiotic way of thinking.
May GOD bless and forgive them and grant them a beautiful after life.
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