You're wrong. Shrines are not meant to house the living.

You can stick that in the same place as those Etruscan tombs.

In neighbouring Libya, Soufi mosques and shrines have been destroyed by Salafis.

Sar'a had two shrines, one of which is still standing.

He was referring to the armed Salafi groups that were accused of destroying Sufi shrines.

(d) Obtaining personal information in respect of a dead person in order to assume their identity ( tombstoning )

According to UNESCO, it is considered 'the fourth holy city' of Islam with 82 mosques, three of which date from the 10th century and 102 shrines.

Blogger Karachi Walla shares some images from a visit to the Manghopir Shrine one of the oldest Sufi shrines located in the suburbs of Gadap town, to the North West of Karachi.

In addition to persecuting minorities, the Islamic State has set about erasing all physical traces of religious diversity. Its forces have demolished Sufi shrines, Shia mosques, Christian churches, and ancient monuments they consider to be remnants of a corrupt and profane past.

Like its statement on the destruction of Sufi shrines, it denied involvement in the attack on the US Consulate, but stressed the gravity of the insult against the Prophet that putatively triggered it.

Indeed, Hindus, Christians, and Buddhists have been targeted as well, and religious extremists more recently have attacked Sufi shrines deemed to be idolatrous, and even Bengali cultural events that unite all religions in a common identity.

Similarly, rather than condemning the adoption of terrorist tactics by the Taliban in Afghanistan, Boko Haram in Nigeria, and al Shabaab in Somalia, and the destruction of Sufi shrines in Mali by Ansar Dine, a radical Islamist sect, Muslim leaders have remained largely silent.

Some 800 liberal and Sufi Islamic scholars have died in targeted killings by extremist groups who receive financial assistance from like minded people in the Middle East, and some well known and much visited Sufi shrines have been bombed.

The cemetery contains many elaborate marble mausoleums, decorated with statues, in a wide variety of architectural styles such as Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Baroque, and Neo Gothic, and most materials used between 1880 and 1930 in the construction of tombs were imported from Paris and Milan.