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After just reading your excerpt above, one thing jumps out at me. The destruction which IS is visiting on Syria and Iraq is being visited on pre-Islamic sites like Palmyra and also on Sunni sites which, in the view of IS and of all Wahhabists, are symbols of apostacy.
The writer may be correct in his assessment, though I doubt it, but the example he uses above is deeply flawed. The Wahhabi tradition dates back to the mid 18th century and was profoundly atavistic even for those times and that place.
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