Mecca, Medina, Qum, and any other place that has these muslim cockroaches living in it needs to be destroyed to the last screaming child.
To answer the question, “Why do Islamists assault antiquity”? They do so for the same reasons Clinton toadies removes W’s from keyboards, and why Conservatives want to hang ever liberal appointed judge and bureaucrat by their thumbs. Being downtrodden without a single victory in the political field, is like getting your ass handed to you for 7 centuries.
No different the what the soviets did when someone became a non person, they were airbrushed out of photos.
Why resort to destroying historical landmarks just because an enemy built them? That would make us just as uncivilized as the Islamists-Hitler was also into that sort of thing...
Buildings are just inanimate objects-they do not commit evil acts-only humans do that-if we don’t acknowledge both the good and the evil in history, then we are no better than the Islamists-or the liberals...