Working people up into a frenzy and giving them targets to assault is a time honored way to rise to power.

Statues don’t fight back. Real trouble is when you run out of statues.

Very pointed comment. It shows these illiterate people of 700 AD who tried to apply the Quoran rules on idolatry and tried to destroy statues (surely they must have) were no different from the quasi illiterate idle but raging mobs of Portland and Seattle.

Except in this case, it's not mob manipulation, it's calculated theology.

We have people tearing down statues in America.

Who the crap has a beef with Lincoln.

  This isn’t out of the blue, people are stirring them up.   People that have agendas.

> Who the crap has a beef with Lincoln.

IKR? Doesn't make sense anymore. But I was talking about the parent topic, which was the theologically-motivated scratching out of the eyes of figures in mosaic images.

Certainly yes, but its not historic if it was done in their time is it? I mean Islam has been around for 1400 years, this could have been done ages ago when the church was relatively new - also I believe most of those churches were converted to mosques (Muslim prayer place) which would justify some re-configuration for their usage. This is taking into account that this was their land/property, anything else would be going out of line, exceptions could be made of course for how offensive something is.