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AFGHANISTAN: ANCIENT FRESCOES DISCOVERED
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| July 21, 2005
| Staff
Posted on 07/21/2005 7:16:00 PM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer
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Alas, something of Afghanistan's cultural past still remains inspite of the Taliban.
To: WmShirerAdmirer
Marco Polo described those statues the Taliban shelled when he passed through there 800 years or so ago.
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posted on
07/21/2005 7:25:49 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Mexico, the 51st state.)
To: WmShirerAdmirer
I am really glad to hear this. When the Taliban destroyed the two giant statues I thought they were not only murderers, but the worst barbarians as well.
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posted on
07/21/2005 7:27:31 PM PDT
by
asp1
To: WmShirerAdmirer
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posted on
07/21/2005 7:32:45 PM PDT
by
TommyDale
To: WmShirerAdmirer
.....despite numerous appeals from the international community, were demolished by the Taliban in March 2001. In 2003, UNESCO declared the area a world heritage site. Goes the show the value of the "international community" and UN.
Did the international community also plea for the human rights of women living in Afghanistan under Talibal brutality?
To: WmShirerAdmirer
Now that they know it's there, it will be gone shortly.
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posted on
07/21/2005 7:37:01 PM PDT
by
Brilliant
To: ValerieUSA
To: WmShirerAdmirer
Remember boys and girls - no matter what the muslims desecrate it doesn't compare to the horror of what happened to Baghdad's museum when the evil United States military removed Saddam from power.
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posted on
07/21/2005 7:40:13 PM PDT
by
AD from SpringBay
(We have the government we allow and deserve.)
To: WmShirerAdmirer
I gotta get my glasses fixed. I thought it said ancient "Frescas"...
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posted on
07/21/2005 7:40:27 PM PDT
by
FReepaholic
(When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading)
To: WmShirerAdmirer
Wow. I didn't even know they had soft drinks back then, not to mention Fresca.
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posted on
07/21/2005 7:43:32 PM PDT
by
Prince Caspian
(Don't ask if it's risky... Ask if the reward is worth the risk)
To: Rebelbase
Didn't know this, thanks.
To: ValerieUSA
You are so right.
When UNESCO declared it in 2003 a world heritage site, it must have seem like a big joke, since at that time there were no cultural or heritage antiquities left.
To: WmShirerAdmirer
many Buddhists in the world have not forgotten the grievous cultural atrocity perpetrated at Bamiyan....
It follows centuries of pointed Islamic persecution of Buddhists since they first rode into India in the 900's.
Untold numbers have fallen to the moslem blades.
Most Buddhists just take it as a sign of the temporalness of all things , other Buddhists deeply hope that the same temporality will encompass and one day forever remove the evil
arrogance of Islam from this world.
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posted on
07/21/2005 8:15:10 PM PDT
by
injin
To: WmShirerAdmirer
"...the site where the Taliban regime destroyed two gigantic statues of Buddha in March 2001." This was right before 9/11. I guess destroying Buddha statues really does bring bad karma(for the Taliban).
To: injin
As we are seeing in Southern Thailand. The cycle continues..
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posted on
07/21/2005 8:30:36 PM PDT
by
Skeeve14
(1980's RR-Communism Evil Empire 2000's GWB-Communism good for Business)
To: WmShirerAdmirer
AFGHANISTAN: ANCIENT FRESCOES DISCOVERED I havenb't had a Fresco in 20 years. Didn't know they still made it. great summer refreshment.
To: WmShirerAdmirer
Soon to be destroyed as was the Great Library at Alexandria by the peace living Muslims.
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posted on
07/21/2005 8:56:22 PM PDT
by
Archon of the East
("universal executive power of the law of nature")
To: WmShirerAdmirer
![](http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GRAPHICS/ATLASES/MAURYA.GIF)
![](http://tjbuggey.ancients.info/images/Maurya.jpg)
![](http://www.stolaf.edu/courses/2002sem2/Art_and_Art_History/265/MauryaLauriya2.jpg)
![](http://www.stolaf.edu/courses/2002sem2/Art_and_Art_History/265/MauryaDidarganj2.jpg)
![](http://www.thaipage.ch/autor/werner/images/asoka_movie1.jpg)
![](http://perso.wanadoo.fr/monique.vincent/ashoka2.jpg)
![](http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-news/maps_of_world_tsunami_hits.gif)
The dark outlines represent India's present-day boundaries.
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posted on
07/21/2005 9:00:32 PM PDT
by
CarrotAndStick
(The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
To: CarrotAndStick
Interesting maps , thanks !
All of this , and more , was overrun by the consecutive waves
of Islamic hordes . Hindus were subjugated , but the most heinous treatment was reserved for Buddhists ,who were seen by people with the exact same mindset of the mullahs and imams of today , as being atheistic . Worse than the Hindus . They were killed without mercy , monks and nuns were not spared . All Buddhist holy sites were first burned and then even the bricks dismantled . Buddhism itself fled the land of its birth . Fled Islam . This was great for South East Asia and Tibet , but bad for India and bad for the Land of the Buddha. Moslems didn't care then and they don't care now . They all all about themselves and their beliefs and those that don't go along with them are to be killed. How can we NOT wage a world war against this ideology and mindset .
Is nearly 2000 years of bloody history not enough evidence that Islam is incompatible with the planet and all its' residents? I wonder....
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posted on
07/21/2005 9:28:46 PM PDT
by
injin
To: WmShirerAdmirer
Allahu-fubar!
This is Western lies and a Zionist plot to discredit the zealouness of our Taliban Brothers, by making them look inept. Rest assured, they totally destroyed ALL forbidden non-Islamic cultic insults to Allah in Afghanistan!
Do not listen to the lies of the Joooos and Crusaders!
These mosaics do not exist, and every good Muslim, Allah willing, is duty bound to kill anyone barring the way to where they don't exist; blow up the walls they don't exist on, and seal the caves they don't exist in, forever.
(ss) Ossama, Sheik of Rattlenroll
(ss) Omar, Grand High Poobah Mullah
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posted on
07/21/2005 11:16:46 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(The world needs more work horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
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