"Buddhas of Bamiyan & their destruction... just one more for the Human Heritage file and i'm done ;o)
** note the date of 3/11/2001 and it was just 6mos later that 9/11 & OBL & company raised the wrath of the worlds largest super power by an attack on the World Trade Towers , that only 2mos later asssembled a coalition of armies & entered into Afghanistan full force & decimated the Taliban who were then scattered into the four winds like fleas. Back into their caves where these thuggies belong , always thought that this a perfect example of Karma visited pretty quickly upon these idiots ? I think so...after losing 1000's of their own lives they're still prolly to this day feeling the shock n awe .
Ignorant fascist idiots ...
" Why the Taliban are destroying Buddhas "
usatoday.com
Afghanistan recently, supreme Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar issued an edict against un-Islamic graven images, which means all idolatrous images of humans and animals. As a result, the Taliban are destroying all ancient sculptures. Explosives, tanks, and anti-aircraft weapons blew apart two colossal images of the Buddha in Bamiyan Province, 230 kilometers (150 miles) from the capital of Kabul.
Since, unlike the Buddha, most of us are caught up in endless "selfness" today, news media worldwide now trumpet a rising animus toward the Taliban from foes and their few allies alike.
AFP
One of the Buddhas that have been destroyed. The two black figures in the center near the bottom are men who are sitting down.
Ancient archaeological remains have been thrust into the cruel world of today's seemingly endless conflicts — the ever-changing aims and alliances of international politics, religions dueling on the world stage, and the ironic trade-off of providing aid to conserve the material heritage of the past but not to preserve the lives of modern inheritors of that past. Arrayed against the tolerant and measured messages of Buddhism, the quagmire of the "Bamiyan Massacre" seems perplexing at best.
First, it is important to recognize that the massacre has little to do with religion. The Buddha is not God or even one among many gods. During his lifetime of 80 years, Buddha Sakyamuni only allowed his image to be recorded as a reflection in rippling water. Images of the Buddha himself did not appear for at least 400 years after his death and even then were created only to remind followers of their own innate "Buddha Nature." This kind of early aversion to "idolatry" is typical of Christianity and other religions — many devotees of Christ railed against material images of Jesus for centuries, especially during two waves of "iconoclasts" (idol smashers) in the Byzantine Empire.
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(remember being very irrate at this & began indepth studies of these Taliban thugs & began in august 2001 to sound an alarm here on SI about this cruel regime of thugs ruling this country was especially impressed by the efforts of the RAWA group risking lives to get proof out of the country of these idiot fascist radicals rule ...the rest is history ) |
