In February 2001 the Taliban destroyed what was left of the collection of antiquities in the Afghanistan museum. This followed an edict by Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's leader, that statues from Afghanistan's pre-Islamic past were blasphemous.
Pieces such as the 1,500 year old buddha are being painstakingly reconstructed from the shattered pieces. The UK, US, Japan and Greece have all contributed funds and the British Museum has constructed a new conservation room.
I am trying not to be anti-muslim, really I am, but it makes it mighty hard when confronted with cultural and historic vandalism on the scale that has been perpetrated in Afghanistan. (from The Guardian)
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or read the most recent entries here.Anguish not, dear Chris. The Taliban represent but a sect in particular - not Islam in general. Would that the Anglo-Saxon world's foreign policy were such that these sects would wither of irrelevance rather than thrive on inequity and violence.
Oh, and didn't 'we' bomb the museum at Tikrit in March?
Posted by: Rob Schaap at June 24, 2003 04:01 PMYou are right of course.
But just for the record I didn't support us bombing a museum, or anything else for that matter.
Posted by: chris at June 24, 2003 04:04 PM
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