Nonsensce
You can’t compare the smashing huge statues of Buddha by Islamists, with tearing down some of the statues put up by KKK-loving peoples in Southern state legislators. Those Buddhas were expressions of a peaceable religion and the people who practiced the faith. Not so long ago Syria was a country of educated, cultured people of means, made up of Muslims, Jews, and Christians living side-by-side. People prospered and got along.
Then came the fundamentalist zealots and firebrands. The pro-Nazi crowd in Charlottesville and Breitbart are like the Christian fundamentalists who are now trying to turn the USA into a dictatorship made up of Trumpians and fellow kleptocrats. Their model is Russia, with Putin as the new Czar of a Greater Russia. Trump admires him so much.
Trump especially wishes he could have his opponents killed by hit men with the impunity that Putin so far has enjoyed. (What is the count now? up to 24 dissenters and journalists killed?) Mitch McConnell would be done away with. Hillary Clinton would have died horribly in prison for the ‘crime’ of being the best, most qualified, most experienced candidate. Therefore she would have been ‘eliminated with extreme vengeance’ and probably tortured, as well as an example to women to never aim for political leadership in the USA ever again. This despite the fact that the equally warlike country of Israel has had an exemplary woman president, Golda Maier. No one questioned if she were ‘strong enough’ as Trump and the Right did here.