- This can happen as government policy or as a matter of riots.
- Summary: Muhammad’s example as *the ideal muslim* has motivated murderers and pillagers throughout the ages, including in my country. Like early christians who burnt down the library of Alexandria, they destroyed the great universities of naLandA and vikramashIlA, the temples they razed are too numerous to count - zarathruShTa’s favorite tree, the sphynxes nose, tombs of Timbuktu, buddha-s of bAmiyAn being well known examples in the wider world.
Iconoclasm
Limited digestion of polytheism and icon worship
Sufi and shia dargah-s provide for some limited outlet for polytheistic and iconophilic tendencies.