Maybe there should be a new charge of crimes against civilization

Jonah and the whale is a popular bible story.  It’s a favorite story of mine to debunk biblical literalism.  (For you literalists I’ll correct the intro: Jonah and the great fish…)  So imagine my astonishment when I discovered in Iraq there was a Sunni mosque called The Mosque of The Prophet Yunus—Arabic for Jonah—and inside the mosque was Jonah’s tomb.
Now imagine my shock when I learned Jonah’s burial site was located in Mosul, the territory controlled by the Islamic group ISIS who are known for their campaign against idolatry which consists of cultural cleansing.
As you probably imagined ISIS destroyed the tomb, along with the Mosul Museum (ISIS militants used sledged hammers to smash stone sculptures and other centuries-old artifacts.), and the Mosul Library (They burned thousands of books and rare manuscripts from the Ottoman Empire.) The UNESCO called the book burning, “One of the most devastating acts of destruction of a library collection in human history.”