Well for anyone living in England, there is no shortaqge of reminders of a time when just this kind of thing was done here. When you visit any pre-Reformation church, the evidence of state sponsored vandalism back in the sixteenth and seventeenth century is still there, in the shape of broken statues and rose windows that aren't there. Though of course much of the evidence was destroyed where the "Reformers" were more throroughgoing, and left nothing behind.

There are varieties of fundamentalist Christianity which are as capable of this kind of blindness as any other religion or ideology. And tolerance towards people of other religions and their places of worship etc has in fact been characteristic of many Islamic cultures, including that in Iraq.