Persia

I like to think that I am no longer shocked by what Islamists do, by who they kill, by how they behead, by what they mutilate. I like to think that I am no longer shocked by what historical sites Islamists detonate, deface, or deform, or what rich and multi-layered cultural sites they wipe out, like the Bamiyan statues, Joseph’s tomb, or Rachel’s tomb, all in order to infuse their zealous, twisted belief on to the rest of the world that history renewed itself with a singular event – the birth of their Mohammad. By wiping out other culture’s pre-existing