Posted on 02/12/2012 9:21:03 PM PST by County Agent Hank Kimball
At the Maldives' National Museum, smashed Buddhist statues are testament to the rise of Islamic extremism and Taliban-style intolerance in a country famous as a laid-back holiday destination.
On Tuesday, as protesters backed by mutinous police toppled president Mohamed Nasheed, a handful of men stormed the Chinese-built museum and destroyed its display of priceless artefacts from the nation's pre-Islamic era.
"They have effectively erased all evidence of our Buddhist past," a senior museum official told AFP at the now shuttered building in the capital Male, asking not to be named out of fear for his own safety.
"We lost all our 12th century statues. They were made of coral stone and limestone. They are very brittle and there is no way we can restore them," he explained.
"I wept when I heard that the entire display had gone. We are good Muslims and we treated these statues only as part of our heritage. It is not against Islam to display these exhibits," he said....
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Hank
Ron Paul doesn’t see a problem with Islam. He is in agreement with Obama.
Well of course it was the twelfth century and everybody PC and or held by their short and curlies by muslime madmen know time itself began with Mo the pedo freak schizo bloodthirsty demon possessed pervo.
Come on. It’s not like they killed a bunch of people. The killings come later, of course.
Kinda like Serbia.....
This could happen in Egypt or London or here.
They want to rewrite history like the leftists do.
Sooner or later the Hitler-Stalin Pact between the muzzies and left is going to come to a very bad end.
I just hope its sooner rather than later.
Reminds me of “island hopping” in WWII.
“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”
-1984
This rise of extremist Islam in the Maldives (notice is was the Salafists who infiltrated there, over time), has severe implications for the US and Britain re the Indian Ocean and infiltration of eastern Africa.
This “stealth jihad” has now surfaced all over Africa, the Indian Ocean, and Asia Minor.
How’s that “Hope and Change” and Cairo speech working for you, Obama? Hillary? Rice?
Maybe they destroyed the artifacts out of love for them? By the way, who are we to judge? Maybe the moozlum idiots were offended by them or something? Anyway, aren’t all cultures equal?
As long as the Saudis and Iranians provide money for extremists, there will be an endless supply of extremists.
The Salafists exist as subsidized agents of the Saudis. Cut off Saudi subsidies, make it necessary for these imams and "activists" to actually WORK for a living, and the extremism would be much reduced.
What percentage of the Maldives’ income is derived from tourism?
These idiots are going to kill the Golden Goose. Not that they care. An impoverished people living under the thumb of the Mullah suits them just fine.
I was in the Maldives back in the 1970s. There were all of these naked, drunken German vacationers on the outer islands, while the capital of Male was rapidly becoming an Islamic Paradise.
I remember thinking “this can’t go on forever...”
Just some exuberant moslem boys out on a harmless panty raid.
It’s really a testament to the shear brutality and intolerance of this supposed “religion”. If the Buddhists were like them , following past experience with Muslims, this would have started an all out “Holy War” with millions killed.
Taqqiyah to the max. As a "good Muslim", he is only too glad to erase any trace of the infidel.
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