Syria: Militants Destroy Tomb of 13th-Century Scholar

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/world/middleeast/syria-militants-destroy-tomb-of-13th-century-scholar.html

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Militants of the Nusra Front, who have links to Al Qaeda, have blown up the 13th-century tomb of a revered Islamic scholar in southern Syria, according to Syria’s state news agency, SANA, and a monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The tomb, in Nawa in Dara’a Province near the border with Jordan, contained the remains of Imam Nawawi. The Nusra Front follows the same strict interpretation of Islam adopted by the Islamic State group, which has also destroyed shrines in areas of Syria that it controls.