Christian zealots destroy ancient Arctic petroglyphs : Regina Leader Post

Canada's only major Arctic petroglyph site -- a 1,500-year-old gallery of mysterious faces carved into a soapstone ridge on a tiny island off of Quebec's northern coast -- has been ransacked by vandals in what the region's top archeologist suspects was a religiously motivated attack by devout Christians from a nearby Inuit community...

Daniel Gendron, chief archeologist with the Inukjuak-based Avataq Cultural Institute, the key promoter of indigenous history and identity in Nunavik, said the latest vandalism at Qajartalik follows the pattern of previous attacks by members of what he called "a very strong movement" of conservative Christians in Kangiqsujuaq and several other Inuit communities in northern Quebec.

That's the evidence — Gendron claims it fits a pattern.

That mayor was quoted "Kangiqsujuaq's mayor, Mary Pilurtuut, said she hadn't been informed of fresh damage at the site and doubted "something religious" would have been involved." No representative of the Christians or conservative Christians was contacted.

The story implies that the motive for the vandalism is the characteristic superstition and hatred of antiquity that is intrinsic to devout Christian behavior.