It’s everybody’s MO. In the 18th century, when English colonists from Georgia and South Carolina attacked Spanish Florida, they burned the Franciscan convent in St Augustine. Fearing that they hadn’t done enough damage, they actually went back and burned what was considered one of the most valuable libraries of its time in the territory that is now the US. The Franciscan library consisted of books on the sciences, languages, music, theology and philosophy, as well as maps and of course the documents relating to the records of the Franciscan missions. It was a disastrous loss to later scholars, and certainly to the people of the time.
It’s a very spiteful, gratuitously ugly act but not restricted to Muslims, alas.
Well, then, so are murder, kidnapping, slavery, and rape "everybody's MO." To deny these are a Moslem specialty is to descend into meaningless generalization. For Moslems, these crimes are part of their pirate religion, and they commit them more than anyone.
For a contrast, when the Aztecs were overthrown in Mexico, the Catholic Church didn't torch old documents—it had them translated. That's in keeping with the Church's tradition of learning native languages and keeping and developing what is good in native cultures, to anchor everything in Christ.
In Israel, the Israelis preserve and document antiquities and holy sites—including the Moslem ones. The Moslem-Palis destroy them, including their own, because they often give the lie to whatever is the current Islamist party line about the sordid history of Islam.
The Christian ethic has been so strong in the West (despite human temptation to the contrary) that it has shown up in some surprising places. When the German Army occupied Paris, Hitler ordered it burned. His generals ignored the message, ordered another Cognac, and went to the museums.
Yes, the West is different. Islam delenda est.
Key words, “In the 18th century”. We’ve evolved, Islam hasn’t.