“She should be decrying the genocidal massacre of christians and other residents as a war crime. Artifacts are tangible; human life is not.”
The ancient pagan idols cannot be replaced. Christians can be replaced and there are 3 billion of them anyway. They can handle a few massacres here and there. Besides, how can you forget the Crusades!!
I hope your comments were tongue-in-cheek.
“The ancient pagan idols cannot be replaced.”
They can easily be replaced - notice that some of the objects destroyed were not artifacts but replicas. REPLICAS. The average person can’t tell the replica from the real thing.
“Christians can be replaced and there are 3 billion of them anyway.”
No. An individual human being cannot be replaced for he is truly unique. You can’t tell an artifact from a replica, but I bet you could tell your real child from a “replacement”.
“They can handle a few massacres here and there.”
What? And the world can’t handle losing some artifacts that most of us have never even seen in person? I have a PhD in history and know that most of what men have created over the centuries has been lost and yet we’re still chugging along as a species. I hate to see the art destroyed, but once it is excavated, retrieved, examined, restored, photographed, and imaged using a 3-D imaging device we know about as much about it as we ever will and the object is nothing but a museum piece to be gawked at by tourists. You can even send replicas on tour: https://www.flickr.com/photos/30496810@N07/2923920612/