Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Catherine Shakdam — Asymmetric terror funding - How ISIS is exploiting Western capitalism


Market in everything.
ISIS, the Wahhabi-inspired terror group, has taken to antiquity dealing to fund its activities, making our world’s heritage a commodity. As world powers tighten the lid around this group, this new brand of war profiteering is financing terror’s army.
ISIS radicals have grabbed headlines over recent years as they pillaged and rampaged their way through Iraq and Syria’s historical and cultural heritage, sacrificing priceless archaeological artifacts to the altar of their toxic ideology. But the jihadists made sure that what it did not burn it would sell on the black market to replenish its coffers.
Interestingly the Wahhabi radicals who made such a show of destroying the world's heritage by butchering centuries-old statues and other ancient remnants of civilizations' past in the greater Levant have had no qualms selling antiquities, quite literally profiting from what they themselves labeled as an affront against God.…

1 comment:

Matt Franko said...

If they dig up any old celices I would suggest they call Germany or the U of Chicago to try to lay them off...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilice