There is a sense that the Puritan, Wahabbis, and probably movements withint Buddhism and Hinduism (along with communism) are all the same thing. These levellers of beauty and hierarchy.
“Or Wahab's rebel brood, who dared divest The prophet's tomb of all its pious spoil, May wind their path of blood along the West ...” Byron, here referring to an event that shocked the Muslim world, the Wahabbi destruction of minarets and tombs of the saints.
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Or are these the necessary holy and barbaric forces that renew civilisation through cleaning off the muck?
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