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...Taliban official reported to United Nations Secretary General Kofi A. Annan on Monday that the demolition of the two great standing Buddhas of Bamiyan was complete, dashing hopes that the last minute intervention could save the statues. Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar's edict that ordered all images and statues deemed "offensive to Islam" be destroyed was finally carried out. But the destruction did not go unnoticed. Government and religious leaders from around the world, as well as scholars and international aid organizations, rightfully denounced the mullah's decision as a coldly calculated maneuver designed to eliminate Buddhism and other...
...same time, however, it is striking how much more attention the destruction of stone statues has gathered in comparison to the destruction of human lives under the Taliban regime. It is indeed unfortunate when the irreplaceable artifacts in our collective cultural heritage are robbed from the contemplation and use of future generations. But it is a far greater tragedy that the people of Afghanistan are deprived of their dignity by an unelected theocracy that oppresses its citizens in the name of a particular interpretation of Koranic law that is not accepted by the majority of Islamic scholars. Where...
...breaking are stones." MULLAH MOHAMMED OMAR, Taliban supreme leader, after issuing an order to destroy all statues, including two giant Buddhas, in Afghanistan, sparking world outrage
...Kabul Ignoring international protests by governments, religious leaders and archaeologists, Taliban forces fanned out across Afghanistan to begin destroying all statues, including ancient works of art that the hard-line government contends violate the tenets of Islam, which forbids the worship of images. Two huge 5th century depictions of Buddha, carved into a mountainside in Bamiyan, west of Kabul, are among the works being destroyed. Iran, ruled by Islamic clergy, and Pakistan, Afghanistan's closest ally, joined the protests...
...Afghanistan's Taliban destroyed ancient Buddha statues because...