Watch ISIS Fundies Sledgehammer Their Way To Paradise As They Destroy Ancient Museum Treasures

A different kind of heartbreakingviolence:

Ultra-radical Islamist militants in northern Iraq have destroyed a priceless collection of statues and sculptures from the ancient Assyrian era, inflicting what an archaeologist described as incalculable damage to a piece of shared human history.

A video published by Islamic State on Thursday showed men attacking the artifacts, some of them identified as antiquities from the 7th century BC, with sledgehammers and drills, saying they were symbols of ido...