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I wonder though if it isn't different in the case where church and state are one. I don't live in Iran so I honestly don't know. The fact that the people who do are burning them down though... where in the west, if someone wanted to go after government, it's simply not going to enter their mind at all to burn down religious buildings ... ?
Just spitballing, I really don't know.
Mosques are not part of the state in Iran. They have parliaments and municipalities etc.
There are plenty of buildings in the West which are part of a state though. For example Synagogues in NYC which are selling off freshly ethnically cleansed Palestinian land to colonists. But apparently just protesting in front of those is antisemitic.
Jewish Museum in DC where my boy Elias Rodriguez domed those two pieces of shit is another good example.
Downvote for thinking out loud and asking questions has no class folks. We're trying to be better than the other place here.