At the root of this sort of outrageous response are Salafist beliefs relating to literalism in religion and its portrayal. IS and seemingly this group believe that there should no idolic representation in Islam ....hence IS has threatened on its journey cleansing the Middle East that it actually go to Saudi...Mecca and the Kaaba to smash it. To me if they are willing to desecrate the most holy sites of even their Sunni fellow travelors there is nothing sacrosanct under the sky.
At the root of this sort of outrageous response are Salafist beliefs relating to literalism in religion and its portrayal. IS and seemingly this group believe that there should no idolic representation in Islam ....hence IS has threatened on its journey cleansing the Middle East that it actually go to Saudi...Mecca and the Kaaba to smash it. To me if they are willing to desecrate the most holy sites of even their Sunni fellow travelors there is nothing sacrosanct under the sky.