Desecration

[7] This is supplemented in abundance by archaeological evidence in the northern provinces exposing broken and burnt out buildings and hastily buried objects of piety.

[7] The leader of the Egyptian monks who participated in the sack of temples replied to the victims who demanded back their sacred icons: I peacefully removed your gods...there is no such thing as robbery for those who truly possess Christ.

[7] Sacred sites were now appropriated by Christianity: "Let altars be built and relics be placed there" wrote Pope Gregory I, "so that [the pagans] have to change from the worship of the daemones to that of the true God.

[12] Such punishments are justified with orthodox Sikhs, saying "instant justice" is deserving for beadbi which is the "ultimate act of crime".

[17][18] During the war, Islamic architectural heritage posed for Yugoslav Serb paramilitary and military forces as Albanian patrimony with destruction of non-Serbian architectural heritage being a methodical and planned component of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.

[19][20] Revenge attacks against Serbian religious sites commenced following the conflict and the return of hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees to their homes.

[22][23][24] The Red Terror in Spain during the Spanish Civil War involved massive desecration of churches, synagogues and other sacred objects and places by leftists.

"Execution" of the Sacred Heart by leftist militiamen at Cerro de los Ángeles near Madrid, on 7 August 1936, was the most famous of the widespread desecration of images and Churches. [ 25 ] King Alfonso XIII had consecrated the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus at the spot on 30 May 1919. [ 26 ] The photograph was taken by a Paramount newsreel representative and originally published in the London Daily Mail with a caption calling it part of the "Spanish Reds' war on religion." [ 27 ]