ISIS released a video showing religious police members throwing Bibles to a fire. The video also showed boxes of text, pamphlets, and other Christian materials going up in flames after the group reportedly collected them from churches and schools across the area.
The video has the title "Diwan of education destroys Christian instruction books in Mosul." It further shows IS militants tossing the Christian textbooks with some emblazoned with crosses into a large bonfire.
According to Mirror, the militants believe the books belong to "infidels and needed to be destroyed as they try to get rid of anything which doesn't adhere to their violent interpretation of Islam."
The ISIS radical group claimed that "these books are burned because they belong to 'infidels,' in reference to the Christians."
Local media activist Abdullah al-Mulla told ARA News in Mosul: "ISIS jihadis burned hundreds of Christian textbooks in central Mosul, having collected them earlier last week from the schools and churches of the city."
"The militants have also collected a lot of Christian textbooks from the Dawassa district near the Martyrs' Park and publicly burned them," al-Mulla said.
Local activists in Mosul also circulated a videotape on social media. It showed the remains of the burned Christian textbooks piled up east of the city in northern Iraq. The footage has been seen by refugees in Germany.
"I wish I were in my hometown Mosul right now, but we can't come back to our areas and live with Daesh. We escaped from Mosul in August 2014. The fighting was ongoing between Daesh and the Peshmerga. It was difficult to stay there as a Christian," one Iraqi Christian told ARA.
The burning of Bibles and other materials took place in Mosul, northern Iraq. The area is where the mass exodus of Christian residents happened after ISIS took over the region in June 2014.
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