#mosul

8 years since the liberation of Mosul

(via u/Assyrian_Nation )

Christ before the High Priest or Pilate, Syriac gospel miniature from Ms. Additional 7170, Zengid dynasty, Mosul, Iraq, c. 1216–1220. British Museum

Coming to theatres in March 2025, Warfare is another shitty movie from Alex Garland and an Iraqi war veteran about fascists murdering countless nameless Iraqis and looking cool as fuck just blowing shit up left and right.

And I get the feeling this shitty movie is going to be all over Tumblr because the cast includes Tumblr faves Joseph Quinn and Kit Connor.

Nearly a million Iraqis died from the unlawful and illegal American invasion of Iraq. Civilians were raped, tortured and murdered with still no accountability till today. The country is still suffering from that war. Bush and co should have been tried and convicted of war crimes at the Hague.

And here Americans are making yet more movies depicting Arabs as the faceless, nameless, dehumanized baddies getting mowed down.

Let's be clear, the Americans are the invaders here, they don't merit any fucking sympathy. It's like making a movie about the Germans as the good guys during World War II - would that ever happen? No. But because Americans still think they are the good guys while massacring countless millions in other countries, we get shitty movies like this.

If you want to watch a war movie about Iraq, watch a movie from the perspective of the people whose country was being invaded:

Mosul (2019)

women deported from a babylonian city | c. 668-627 BCE | courtyard j of the north palace at nineveh (modern day mosul, iraq), assyrian

"The deportation policy that the Assyrian rulers followed constantly, and on a large scale, had two purposes: to repopulate the Assyrian cities and countryside, whose men had been drained off in numerous military campaigns; and to crush the conquered peoples’ national and cultural identity. This was especially the purpose of mass deportations from one province to the other and vice versa."

A view of the Al-Hadba minaret and the Great Mosque of al-Nuri, which have been reconstructed. The Al-Hadba Minaret is one of the most prominent architectural landmarks in the city of Mosul, which was destroyed by ISIS militants during the battle to retake the city from the Islamic State in late June 2017. UNESCO rebuilt the minaret which dates from the 12th century, using its old stones collected after the liberation, with a length of about 51 meters, as it was before, as part of the "Revive the Spirit of Mosul" initiative, which includes the Al-Nuri Mosque, the Al-Hadba Minaret, Our Lady of the Hour Church, and the Great Immaculate Church. January 19, 2025.

Monastery of Mar Behnam and his sister Sarah in Mosul, Iraq .

This monastery was attacked by terrorists when the Islamic State (ISIS) occupied the city of Mosul in Nineveh Governorate. It was rebuilt and restored, but became deserted after many Iraqi Christians left the country following persecution, murder, extortion, rape, and looting at the hands of extremist Islamic terrorist groups.

دير مار بهنام الشهيد وشقيقته سارة في الموصل، العراق .