The Islamic State continues to execute people without remorse and they continue to find more brutal ways of doing it. On Monday, Islamic State jihadists tied three people to the columns of an ancient ruin in this Syrian city and then blew up the columns. The columns, and the building, were over 2,000 years old but the Islamic State declares the ancient city worthy of total destruction.

The Islamic State, according to The Daily Mail, has yet to inform the townspeople who the three people who were murdered were or why they were murdered. In May, the Islamic State moved in and violently took control of Palmyra and has been destroying the 2,000 year old ancient ruins ever since. Palmyra has been declared a World Heritage Site but that hardly seems to deter the fundamentalist jihadists.

Anything that has existed prior to the establishment of Islam is considered to be offensive and idol worshiping according to the Islamic State. Since taking the city in May, the destruction has included the ancient temples of Baal Shamin and Bel. There was an ancient amphitheater there where mass executions took place when they first took the city. During those murders, Islamic State children were used to execute 25 Syrian soldiers.

Prior to the civil war eruption in Syria, as many as 150,000 tourists a year would visit the ancient ruins at Palmyra. Apparently, though, not all pre-Islam artifacts are worthy of being destroyed. The jihadists have looted many of the treasures of the city and have sold them out on the black market to further fund their violent efforts at establishing fundamentalist Islam everywhere.

As the four year old civil war rages on in Syrian with no apparent end in site, the archaeological association of Syria has declared that nearly one thousand monuments and ancient sites have been destroyed and looted since the arrival of the Islamic State.