Vandals Are Destroying Monuments Because They’ve Been Taught To Hate America

It appears Islamists have something in common with statue vandals besides an ideology that justifies political violence and a rabid hatred of free expression: the desecration of historic monuments.

In the wake of the Charlottesville riots ostensibly triggered by the removal of a statue memorializing Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, a rash of vandalism against historical American figures has hit the country. Monday, someone took a sledgehammer to a 200-year-old Christopher Columbus monument in Baltimore.

In Durham, of course, last week a mob toppled a Confederate statue last week while police stood by taking pictures.

In California on Thursday, a statue of Junipero Serra was defaced with red paint and the word “Murder,” as well as a swastika.

Duke University officials removed a statue of Robert E. Lee from the campus chapel Saturday after vandals knocked off parts of his face.

The Abraham Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC was vandalized with the words...Read More HERE