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What an incredibly stupid, hateful thing to say. You know better than that, or at least you should.

Quite correct. REducing the enemy to being nothing more than barbarians means descending to ttheir level. I'm no fan of slam, but Wahabbism is the most despicable version of it. The milder forms like Sufism (a blend of Islam and Hinduism) are tolerable and have created great art. Wahabbism, on the other hand is despicable. It's credo of destroying all art (in a misplaced zeal of destroying graven images) means that statues, tombs (even the tombs of the prophets family were destroyed by the grandfather of hte present Saudi Emir), the Bamiyan Buddhas etc must be destroyed.

This is barbarism, similar to the Barbarism of Mahmud Ghazni or Muhammaed of Ghor who razed 2000 year old temples in India that held high art. The Europeans were comparatively lucky -- they got the more cultured slamics, like the Moors who built the Alhambra or the Turks who did NOT raise the Hagia Sophia (though they DID make it a mosque, they didn't destroy all the frescoes inside it, the 1400 year old frescoes) or the Greek churchs.