Could the perpetrators have been people who believe that representational art is sinful in itself, and that the veneration of saints is idolatrous, and that “when you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” (Qur’an 47:4)? Possibly. And possibly not. But how many incidents of this kind did France experience before it had a large population of such people?

“Oberhaslach: the chapel of the hermitage Saint-Florent vandalized,” DNA, November 3, 2019: