Normally I defer to the likes of Mr. Ajami but his argument here is faulty. He is clearly on target with his descriptions of Arabs and their self inflicted inferiority but Arabs representonly 30% of Muslims yet the culturally immature behaviors are not limited to Arabs but are found thoughout the Muslim world. Only the religion can be the reason for these behaviors.
The enthusiasm for effacing and looting/melting/selling the patrimony of antiquity is a Wahhabist tic. That sort of vandalism and mass-murder, which was rampant in southwestern Asia, was and is almost unheard of in Malaya and the East Indies. Only recently with the establishment of Saudi madrassas has that kind of behavior appeared among SE Asian Musselmen -- as one local mufti of the old tradition in the Comoros Islands was quick to point out to PBS and Frontline a few years ago.
The stupas and wats and temples of Buddhist medieval Indonesia and Malaysia are largely undisturbed, and some of them are still occupied and tended by Buddhist monks.