Islamic supremacists regard the pre-Islamic past of any Muslim country as worthless trash, jahiliyya, not to be preserved for its archaeological value, but effaced as an insult to Islam. This is the same impulse that led to the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan. "Mosque conversion raises alarm: Christian art in Byzantine church-turned-museum is at risk after controversial court ruling," by Andrew Finkel in The Art Newspaper, April 11 (thanks to Twostellas): One of the most important monuments of late Byzantium, the 13th-century Church of Hagia Sophia in the Black Sea city of Trabzon, which is now a museum,...