By Steve Whelan
Avastar,
a media network generally known for its art, music and entertainment news and
lifestyle pieces recently released a serious news article under their Art
Division, which exposes the little known truth behind the IS (Islamic State)
terrorist funding. This year alone, the
world has received wave after wave of disturbing news on the atrocities of the
IS, formerly known as ISIS. Their acts
of violence include mass killings, displacement of 1.2 million people from
their homes, the kidnapping of almost 150 children and the murder of three
Western captives. How are they funding
these terrorist activities and what is the connection between art and IS?
Besides
selling oil, robbing banks and attacking and holding territories, they have
looted precious Syrian artifacts and traded them on the black market, making
their way to private collectors around the world. What these collectors may not know (or want
to know) is that these historic and prehistoric cultural treasures are being stolen
and treated as blood diamonds to grow and train IS fighters. In addition, shrines, tombs, churches, and
mosques have been destroyed, in an attempt to erase history out of sectarian
religious hatred.
To
read more on this topic, see ‘Syria’s Cultural Artifacts are Blood Diamonds forISIS’ or email news@avastar.tv with your comments.
