Source: Reuters
By Raya Jalabi
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – For residents of the Old City, returning to Mosul is an exercise in trying to forget.

Moayad stands in front of the market stall where he sells second-hand jeans in al-Nabi market in the east Mosul, Iraq, January 11, 2018. REUTERS/Raya Jalabi
Moayad stands in front of the market stall where he sells second-hand jeans in al-Nabi market in the east Mosul, Iraq, January 11, 2018. REUTERS/Raya Jalabi
Its streets bear the scars of the horrors they survived – either living under Islamic State’s (IS) draconian rule or during nine months of brutal fighting, as the U.S.-led coalition battled to recapture the city from the jihadists.
“This corner is where Daesh whipped my sons for talking out of turn,” said Um Abdullah, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State, walking around the neighborhood she returned to in January. “And this corner is where they killed my father for trying to stop them.”
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Reblogged this on Progressive Islam. and commented:
Very sad indeed. Forward and retreat of ummah depand on the their Clerics. If cleric teach the wrong Islam, false Islam will lead Muslim to disaster as we see in Iraq, Syria and Yemen etc
If Cleric teach the pure Islam ( not contaminated with false hadith) will bring on ummah peace, happiness and prosperity.
So we should blame strongly hypocrite anc false clerics in Islamic countries.
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