ISIS thugs smash statues and rip up pictures of the Pope before torching church in religious rampage

A video footage published by ISIS’s Amaq News Agency purportedly shows Jihadists stomping on crucifixes and destroying Catholic effigies in the church, believed to be in the besieged city of Marawi in the Philippines.


ISIS extremists embarked on a sacrilegious rampage by smashing statues and ripping up pictures of the Pope before they torched a church. 


Islamist militants have been involved in a battle for control over Marawi for the past two weeks and have stocked weapons and food in mosques, basements and tunnels to prepare for a siege.

The ISIS-inspired fighters include hundreds of foreign extremists from Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya and Morocco.

The battle for Marawi has raised concerns Islamic State is building a southeast Asian base on the island of Mindanao at the southern end of the Philippines.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday, vowed that Marawi would be fully liberated within three days.

 

The Mirror