“Heritage” can be defined a property, estate or title that are inherited, passed down from previous generations. In the case of “cultural heritage,” the heritage doesn’t relate to money or property, but of culture, traditions and values from the past, to our present, and the future. Cultural heritage mentions a shared bond, the belongingness of people to a community. It comprises the main elements used by a community to build its identity and to understand its history.
Cultural heritage generally associates with historical buildings and monuments, as well as archaeological sites and also artifacts (drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures, mosaics). However the conception of cultural heritage is more extensive than …show more content…
What Is ISIS?
Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) is a Salafi- jihadist militant group which stay loyal to doctrine of Sunni Islam. ISIS is also known Da'ish or Daesh. The group refers to itself as the Islamic State or IS. Despite its exact size is not obvious, the group gives thought to involve thousands of fighters. Now majority stretch of region in western Iraq and eastern Syria are under control ISIS and it operates with impunity. However, ISIS is making the most successful jihadi movement with militarily ever. In June 2014 ıt announced to be a world wide caliphate with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi being named its caliph. Caliphate is a state governed in accordance with Islamic law, or Sharia, by God's deputy on Earth, or caliph. Caliph is Arabic word for "successor”. It is come meaning of successor to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. The Ottoman Empire was the last Muslim caliphate and it ended in 1923. Islamic State name gives them legitimacy as a state and a representative of Islam. The group's idea of a caliphate and adoption of the name "Islamic State" have been widely criticised all around the world. Moreover, a great majority of Muslim groups refused it. As a result of this many media and governments reject to use this name. ISIS asserts political, religious and military authority over all Muslims worldwide, …show more content…
This is because that it is like a power discourse and instead of taking this power discourse as an evidence power we should challenge it. The videos identify ISIS as iconoclast and make their idol-breakings look like referenced from early Islamic past. The interesting point is that, their obsessive and rigid ideology about shirk conflicts with the videos as representations. The most effective response to ISIS’s power discourse came from Jehad Awartani and Mehdi “Amo” Rasooli who are Muslim cartoonists. They work play with similar paradoxes between the political discourses and the violent perform of ISIS. The cartoonists give an important les-son to the western media and academics that the uncritical reading of ISIS’s videos and images as documentary solely supports and helps ISIS’s propaganda