Not OP, but Ill take a stab at it (not an endorsement, just an explanation):
While FT is hyperventilating over China, calling it an erasure of Islam there has been scant coverage that during the current conflict in the Levant, one of the two belligerent has destroyed millenarian places of worship of many various faiths. Also, said belligerent has a sizable, growing, and politically very powerful minority that wants to blow up the third most holy place of worship for the other belligerent's faith and build a temple for themselves in top.
Again, not the OP and I don't particularly care much about the ME.