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Posted on 03/19/2006 7:39:19 AM PST by ncountylee
WASHINGTON: The Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan were destroyed by the Taliban with the help of Pakistani and Saudi engineers.
According to an account published here on Saturday, a local Afghan told the makers of a Swiss documentary on the giant statues which had stood there, carved in the side of a mountain for hundreds of years, had been destroyed by engineers from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. The dynamiting of the statues took place in March 2001. Swiss documentary filmmaker Christian Frei, who has made several documentaries that have won praise at various international film festivals, shot ‘The Giant Buddhas’ in Afghanistan. The film is due to be shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington on 26 March.
The Taliban went ahead with the destruction of the giant statues, revered for centuries, because they considered them “offensive to Islam”. They ignored appeals from around the world, including UNESCO and an appeal from the then Government of Pakistan, made, it would appear now, more “for the record” than any serious intent to stop the Islamist zealots from destroying what the rest of the world considered mankind’s heritage.
Taliban minister of information Qudratullah Jamal said in a statement later, “The destruction work is not as easy as people would think. You can’t knock down the statues by dynamite or shelling as both of them have been carved in a cliff. They are firmly attached to the mountain.” Museums and governments around the world kept hoping until the end that the Taliban would desist from committing what the rest of the world saw as an act of “cultural sacrilege” but they were adamant in their resolve.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytimes.com.pk ...
Ah, our "allies" the Pakistanis and Saudis. What a stupid WOT this is.
I wonder if the pride of Yale, Rahmatullah Hashemi, was captured in the documentary.
Muslims see a cartoon of Muhammed and they riot all over the world , yet they blow up hundreds of yeaars old statues of someone elses religion and expect no storm of protest.
Some day I hope to see Mecca and that stone they all revere so much blown to hell and gone.
People today still are unable to grasp the concept of islam,
Once dar-al-Islam is clearly understood, there is nothing remarkable, mysterious or surprising about this article.
Bottom line, it is not a religion!
Fortunately, the nature of Americans will never require international do-gooders or anyone else to protect the home turf.
On the other hand, if there were a similar monument dedicated to islam anywhere in the United States, I would be afaid. I would be very afraid.
A means of diplomacy with the outside world that is beyond Westerners' comprehension, hence it must not exist.
Many of us know that this is exactly the Pakistanis' identical approach to the war on terrorism...
Funny how libs and muzzies have common feelings about ideas they don't like. They will make excellent bed-fellows until somebody turns on the light.
At the time I wondered how the Taliban was able to destroy those statues. I am no demolition expert but I know that when a building is to be demolished it is all very exact, the right amount of explosives have to be placed in the right spots, etc. Demolition involves complex engineering. About the only "engineering" the Taliban are capable of is beheading people and shooting prisoners point-blank with Kalashnikovs. It figures foreigners were eager to help the Taliban in their destructive task.
Please!!! NO Cartoons...
islam is the true son of nazism and fascism. these fools see a threat from a statue of a peaceful buddha!!!
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