>survived 2000 years of war, civilizational change, and climate

people wouldn't have bothered to destroy such sites in the past because they weren't historical sites in the past. they're only targeted now because they know it'll trigger westerners

>>2703710
don't worry, they're not real muslims :)

>>2703710
Daesh have bulldozers and high explosives

Oh well. Never cared about it before either

Jahiliyyah.

>>2703717
Razing old monuments is a time-honored practice actually.

>>2703710
Back to /pol/

>muh old buildings

>>2703747
>the preservation if historical sites and the discussion of what drives people to destroy them is a /pol/ subject

The problem is wahhabism and the Gulf States that promote it.

>>2703761
Fuck off the Muslims tried to blow up that Delhi iron pillar when the took over. Muslims are animals

>>2703776
Not all Muslims are the same, Shia, Alawhite, Sufi and other sects are far more tolerant.

>>2703776
>"the Muslims"
One Iranian Shah, with a reputation for not caring much about religion beyond its political implications ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nader_Shah#Religious_policy ), may have damaged the pillar while he was sacking Delhi, the capital of the Muslim Mughals. The Iron Pillar has stood in the Qutb complex, one of the oldest and most holy Muslim sites in India, for centuries undisturbed.

Al-lala too stronk

>>2703776
>implying christians haven't done the same thing and on a much larger scale

>>2703798
Or perhaps merely impotent - all those groups are tiny compared to the Sunni

>>2703832
Wahhabism is looked down on by most Sunni.