ISIS: Robbing Muslims of Their Cultural Identity - Salam Al-Kuntar

The Middle East has recently been ravaged by religious-driven conflict, scarring generations of people who are just trying to live. But a historic hallmark of the religious warfare in that region for centuries has been the "destruction of cultural heritage for its symbolic meaning." Syrian anthropologist Salam Al-Kuntar explains that ISIS' insistence on destroying relics and monuments devoted to Muslim leaders that don't conform with their worldview, and that's intended to "obliterate the meaning of people's lives, including their connection to their history."