“What most don’t realize is the iconoclast heresy was ultimately rooted in the Muslim disdain for not only icons, but that Christ was incarnate.”
What most people do not realize is that opposition to idolatry in Christendom originates from the Bible. And the deep slavish devotion to practicing and promoting such idolatry comes from putting traditions of men above the word of God just like Christ’s enemies who murdered Him.
unlearner:
However, veneration of icons or sacred things is not idolatry. Worshiping false gods is idolatry. You are making icons and venerating them equivalent to idolatry. It is not.