Destroyed Partho-Sassanid Archaeological Site Believed to be Lost City...

[king of thracia]

SOME men yeah.... But I can distinctly remember rumsfeld saying something along the lines of those archeolgical sites are just wortless piles of rock...

And don't be confusing Islam (religion) with culture... Islam has influenced those cultures for sure, but many customs that we attribute to islam are not in fact islamic. Prime example being women's circumcision which is always brought up as being islamic in nature. It's not, it's a cultural (a sick one imo) tradition in east africa and certain parts of west africa.

Islam and culture in islamic countries have very much in common but they ARE different

However, destroying that of the preIslamic past and treating everything non Islamic as worthless is very much a part of Islam. Islam makes its own rep. Whatever the reasons may be in Iran, this is there there in Islam. (So called Muslim "scientists" of the past were mainly remnant non Muslims who had been conquered.)

Muslims are allowed to lie to infidels btw, if they feel themselves surrounded and outnumbered. Called taqiyya

Syria is ruled by a heretical sect. Egypt was originally a proponent of a sort of modernism in the 20th century (may change with a triumphant Islam in the 21st), is a tourist country and the pyramids are a bit hard to destroy. Look at why the stuff wasn't destroyed cause it sure wasn't for Islam's restraining hand