The author is a naif.
ISIS wants to chop off his head, and he wants reparations for art.
Man up, fool!
I could not say it any better. What I see today and the response of our enlightened modern society is heartbreaking. To think that we hand this garbage off to our next generation enrages me more than I can articulate properly.
Cultural genocide is being imposed by ISIS and is part in parcel with their beheadings and burning to death. It is being done to gin up the monsters in their ranks (most or all of them). I have no interest in destroying their great mosques. Kill them and leave the monuments of their culture empty as a warning of what happens when you have a religion like Islam which demands the death or servitude of all others.
The monuments of Rome warn of what happens when a culture becomes eventually weak and degraded.
These are some very savage termites, chewing away at the bridges to our past, and denying access to our collective history.
Is this a crime? Only if you are caught and brought to account for it. It is “urban renewal”.
Otherwise you have to chase them down and kill them where they stand.