Trump Effect: 45,000 Students Enroll at Mosul University Destroyed by ISIS

An estimated 45,000 students have enrolled at the University of Mosul, the same facility that had been destroyed by ISIS terrorists.

The university enrollment has given new hope to Iraq officials.

Here, in mid-2017, military forces battled with ISIS for control of the facility:

And what’s interesting from an America perspective is that the facility was destroyed during Barack Obama’s era and built up during President Donald Trump’s time in the White House. And Obama was supposed to be the one who saved the world from ISIS and other radical acts of terror.

Interesting commentary on the Trump Effect, yes?

Breitbart has more:

An estimated 45,000 students have enrolled at the University of Mosul after it was reduced to ruins at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), prompting the school’s officials to voice optimism about the future of the facility, the second largest higher education institution in Iraq.

“Thankfully, the government has begun taking steps to resume full-time educational activities at the university,” Abdulkarim Hatroshi, a spokesman for the higher education facility, told the Turkish state-run Anadolu University (AA) on Monday.

“Now that its electrical infrastructure has been repaired, we expect it to soon return to its good old days,” he also said. “We just need more support.”

Some students are eager to rebuild the university and put ISIS’ failed attempt to destroy it behind.

“Farah Khaled stands in front of the scorched and twisted steel beams of the destroyed Mosul University library. Red and green ribbons stand out against the blackened metal—remnants of a book drive Khaled and other students organized,” National Public Radio (NPR) reported on January 7.

“Their aim was to destroy our culture,” Khaled, 22, told NPR, referring to ISIS. “To destroy every ancient thing, every beautiful thing.”

However, continued an irrepressible Khaled, the jihadists failed.

Under ISIS’ vicious rule, marred by enmity against women who did not follow their strict version of Islam, Farah told NPR that she, along with her 19-year-old sister Raffal Khaled, felt “like we were in a cage.”

“Women could go out in the street only if they were completely covered, including their hands and faces,” she continued. “If there were any infractions, such as not wearing gloves or wearing cosmetics under the black veil, their brother or father would be taken in and punished.”

Despite the Iraqi government declaring Mosul to be liberated from ISIS, Islamic extremists across the country are still oppressing women, complains Farah.

“I hate Iraq. Every single day I hate it more and more. There is no freedom here, particularly for girls,” she proclaims, noting that she wants “to live in America or Australia.”

Meanwhile, her sister has a different viewpoint, a common position among siblings across the world.

“I love Iraq,” declared Raffal. “I love staying in Iraq, and I think I am going to make Iraq a better place—me and my friends and people my age.”

According to some assessments, the so-called ISIS caliphate territory and the number of jihadists have been reduced by 98 percent in recent months from their peak in 2014, when the group officially became the Islamic State.

When Iraqi troops, backed by the U.S.-led coalition, liberated the Mosul University complex, they found “radioactive material” and chemical agents to make weapons, prompting concern about the group’s capabilities to build a “dirty bomb,” the Telegraph learned from the United Nations.

Noting that ISIS had gained access to radioactive material from hospitals and research centers in territory it seized in Iraq and Syria, the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe think tank warned that the group had been “actively trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction [WMDs].”

ISIS reportedly transformed Mosul University, once considered one of the group’s chief bases, into a “makeshift chemical weapons factory.”

The jihadist group was reluctant to give up the university, prompting them to put up what the Telegraph reported as “the toughest resistance” the U.S-led coalition and their allies had experienced so far in Iraq and Syria.

Turkey’s AA now reports:

Iraq’s second largest university still bears the scars of the violent clashes that occurred last year between the Iraqi army and the notorious terrorist group. The university campus, many buildings of which have collapsed, remain badly pockmarked by bullet holes and traces of fire. Nevertheless, an abundance of students—running through the ruins to their classes—suggest that the war-weary university stands on the cusp of renewal.

The university touted assistance from the U.S.-backed Iraqi government and some NGOs that helped it in reopening the doors of the school.

“Before it was captured by Daesh (ISIS), the university had boasted 23 faculties, 120 departments, and 120 laboratories,” the university spokesman told AA on Monday.

“Now, roughly 70 percent of it has been either reduced to ruins or badly damaged,” he also said, adding, “For this reason, students frequently have to share the same classrooms and laboratories.”

ISIS pulverized an estimated 80 million books and electronic documents when they destroyed the library and other components of the school.

Mosul University was once one of the largest higher education centers in the Middle East.

In 2014, ISIS captured swathes of Iraq, including the nation’s second-largest city of Mosul—once described the jihadist group’s largest bastion in the country.

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Kat Mandu

6 years ago

Israel uses every trick to blame everyone else but themselves http://thearabdailynews.com/2018/01/30/israel-uses-every-trick-blame-everyone-else

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Michelle

6 years ago

Reply to  Kat Mandu

But creatures like you (hello Muhammad..may he rot in pork) see lying, hypocrisy and rubbish disinformation sites as okay? IIRC didn’t you once quote Snopes? By all means believe your brainwashing but when you come here do try to show proof of an actual ability to think . That is, IF possible, as your constant doctrinal diarrhoea is sooo predicable and boring.

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poetcomic1

6 years ago

Reply to  Michelle

Don’t feed the troll.

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Mahou Shoujo

6 years ago

Reply to  Kat Mandu

muslims don’t know any tricks, they are openly violent about their brain dead beliefs.

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Achmed Mohammedan

6 years ago

Reply to  Kat Mandu

A link to the monkeysandpigsdailynews.com?

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Michelle

6 years ago

“makeshift chemical weapons factory.” Ohh but according to the MSM ISIS had no ability to do so and never used any. But Assad from whom they looted supplies of nerve gas, was supposed too have used such and on civilians. Now if you were going to use nerve gas, and risk pissing off the leftist MSM and the idiots who follow it, why would you NOT target troops instead of civilians? The reason is obvious. ISIS see no value in civilians unless they can hide behind them and IMO the nerve gas was used by ISIS to drive wedge between the USA and Russia. Assad has NO gain in using nerve gas but ISIS have plenty of such and the barbarism to do so. So why have they NOT used this on enemy troops? Because if they did they would cop it back 10x as both Syria and Iran(see Hezbollah etc.) would see no reason NOT to use it in retaliation. Anyone who can roast people over a fire etc. would use ANY weapon possible UNLESS they thought that they might cop it back. THAT is the only way to treat such. Do it back and do it worse and more often.

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Mahou Shoujo

6 years ago

First lesson to be learned, do not support terrorists, even if you are a muslim, the same as they are. If you want a life and a country, then start to learn what civilization knows.

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poetcomic1

6 years ago

I really don’t care what Muslims are burning down or building up in their own damned countries. Haven’t you learned your lesson yet? The illusion of ‘our good Muslims’ vs. Isis, Al-Qaeda or whatever has always been a trillion dollar scam on us. Inevitably, if nothing else the Sunni-Shia war will heat up again and drown the made up country of Iraq in yet more blood and destruction.

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R. Arandas

6 years ago

What if another Muslim group in Iraq tries to reform the Arab “Caliphate” a few years from now? It will be destroyed again, surely?

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Merchantseamen

6 years ago

45,000!!!! Then please tell me where all these freaking mudslums migrants are coming from?

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