Isis does not care and wishes to destroy everything they can, in the name of removing paganism they destroy sites that predate the islamic empire and people of far higher wisdom and knowledge had no issue with the ruins, these ISIS individuals think their righteousness is so superior they willingly kill innocent life so how can we be upset about their destruction of statues of ancient civilizations ?
Al assad was killed with false accusations and beheaded for being a historian.
81-year-old Khaled al-Asaad was the latest atrocity perpetrated by the militant group, which has captured a third of both Syria and neighboring Iraq and declared a self-styled "caliphate" on the territory it controls.
Since IS overran Palmyra in May, there have been fears the extremists, who have destroyed famed archaeological sites in Iraq, would demolish the 2,000-year-old Roman-era city at the edge of the town — a UNESCO world heritage site and one of the Mideast's most spectacular archaeological sites.
The Sunni extremist group, which has imposed a violent interpretation of Islamic law, or Shariah, believes ancient relics promote idolatry. IS militants claim they are destroying ancient artifacts and archaeological treasures as part of their purge of paganism. The destruction IS has wreaked adds to the wider, extensive damage it has inflicted on ancient sites, including mosques and churches across Syria and Iraq.
According to Syrian state news agency SANA, al-Asaad was beheaded on Tuesday in a square outside the town's museum.
A Palmyra-based Syrian opposition activist who uses the name Khaled al-Homsi and who identified himself also as a nephew of al-Asaad, said Islamic State militants detained the scholar around three weeks ago. On Tuesday, they brought him in a van to a square packed with shoppers.
A militant then read out five alleged IS charges against al-Asaad, including that he was the "director of idols," represented Syria "at infidel conferences" and visited Shiite powerhouse Iran.
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Then, another militant pulled out a knife at which point al-Khamsi said he left the square, unable to watch. Al-Asaad's body was later hung from a pole on a main street.
The Palmyra archaeological site was al-Assad's "life," said al-Homsi, his voice shaking and adding that he fled the town later on Tuesday.
Even when he grew old and could no longer go to the Roman ruins, al-Asaad "lived close to the site and he could see the archaeological site from his house," al-Khamsi added.
Maamoun Abdulkarim, the head of the Antiquities and Museums Department in Damascus, had earlier told SANA that al-Asaad's body was taken to Palmyra's archaeological site and hung from one of the Roman columns. But several activists denied that was the case.
Al-Asaad was "one of the most important pioneers in Syrian archaeology in the 20th century," Abdulkarim said. IS had tried to extract information from him about where some of the town's treasures had been hidden to save them from the militants, the antiquities chief also said.
SANA said al-Asaad had been in charge of Palmyra's archaeological site for four decades until 2003, when he retired. After retiring, al-Asaad worked as an expert with the Antiquities and Museums Department. Full story http://news.yahoo.com/beheads-leading-syrian-antiquities-scholar-palmyra-061925887.html#
As long as Isis keeps getting weapons and tricking young men to fight illegal fights they will continue to terrorize people because that is their purpose when created by the war machine.
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