Syrian rebels have taken iconoclasm to new depths, with shrines, statues and even a tree destroyed – but to what end?

Robert Fisk: Syrian rebels have taken iconoclasm to new depths, with shrines, statues and even a tree destroyed – but to what end? – Comment – Voices – The Independent.

While #Assad embarks on a wholesale destruction of our cultural heritage by bombing places like Old Damascus, Old Aleppo and Old Homs, Al-Qaeda adopts a more piecemeal approach, destroying our heritage one statue at a time, garnering more public attention and generating more publicity in the process, so that the likes of Fisk can use it to smear and defame the entire rebel movement.