The Taliban routinely blows up statues in Afghanistan whenever they can cobble together enough explosives and volunteers to come out into Predator sites.
The Muslim Brotherhood feels the same way about the infidel monuments of ancient Egypt...
If they are destroyed, maybe it’ll finally WAKE UP the rest of the complacent world. China will be next, then India, and then of course Britain will start to get more aggressively trashed. Filthy scum won’t stop until we are all illiterates with no art.