VOA News / March 13, 2018: On March 11, 2001, Taliban insurgents destroyed two Buddha statues that stood 180 and 124 feet tall in Afghanistan’s central Bamiyan province. Activists commemorated the 17th anniversary of the loss by holding art and cultural events under the feet of one of the tallest Buddha statues known as Salsal.
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It is not clear whether who really was behind the iconoclastic idea of toppling the ancient monumental Buddha Statues that were nicely carved up on a cliff of a tall mountain ridge in Bahmyahn Province of Afghanistan.
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It is a historical fact though that Taliban-like “conservative Muslims”
were always present, ruling and practicing in the valley where the statues had been carved before the arrival of Islam; (between 1600 to 1800 years ago); way before the arrival of Islam in the region, (at around 7the century and later), when the messages of Islamic faith reached and took strong holds in and around those remote valleys of Afghanistan and its surroundings.
There was never any noticeable damages on the Statues after mass Islamic conversions, except for the upper faces of the big Buddah where they apparently had been sliced and defaced partially according to strong Islamic stand against idols worshipping and any other artistic facial figurative drawings and carvings in general.
The Statues, otherwise, had remained always and in fact totally intact and towering over the beautiful high valley as always ever since they were presented to the ancients afresh.
The statues could have been easily toppled and destroyed into pieces at any given time, under the rules of those extremely conservative Muslims in the region, if they wished so, all through out those so many hundreds years in its past, except for a brief period of Chinghiz Khan’s army take over (1220-1221).
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What I don’t understand is why all of a sudden the existence of iconic statues were getting such strong attention from the, so called “TALIBAN” who were actually, at that time, (from mid 90’s to late 90’s), were closely linked with the government of Pakistan which you obviously know who was and still is in total charge of the military and intelligences of that enslaved country..
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I really don’t have time to go in details of that- all I could say that the mysterious rapid take overs were declared under the name of so called “Taliban” which, during that confused timing, were accompanied by infusion of all kinds of military, non-military personals and their camp followers into Kandahar and then, in faster paces toward all directions inside Afghanistan.
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BROTHERS AND SISTER !
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Now, I let you make a judiciously honorable real judgement on the reality of what really happened- was it the the involvement of the dirty hands of the foreigners (Western intelligence agencies and their affiliations) under an unholy order to defame the great pious good Muslim people of Afghanistan and Islam in general through out the world ?????
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The agents of
thugs and thug-mars, (invaders), created all sorts of fertile ground for the crimes to occur inside Afghanistan, before and after the grand invasion. (2001).
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It is a fact and we all know that- square and clear.
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Please, forgive me for the rash writings !
You have, (unilaterally), branded all the Muslims as your enemies
but ironically they have never truelly grasped the real sense of it as a guilty party to your fabricated claims.
I don’t know how it all could get repaired- after so many episodes of extreme savageries.