RE: [world-vedic] CIA Backed Taliban Oppression

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wonderful writing, Mr. Rawat, I look forward to your comparison document

between those Babri Masjid Fanatics and these Taliban fundamentalists

 

really dont see any difference

 

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> Atul.Rawat [Atul.Rawat]

> 28 March 2001 01:21

> vediculture

> [world-vedic] CIA Backed Taliban Oppression

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> Iconoclasts' History

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> "the last few Hindu and Sikh residents are made to wear yellow

> clothes and are required to paint their rooftops yellow."

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> Atul Rawat

>

> The Taliban have destroyed the two-thousand-year-old Buddhist statues

> in Bamiyan and have embarked upon a country-wide campaign to destroy

> all Hindu and Buddhist idols in Afghanistan. The reports received

> from Afghanistan indicate that the last few Hindu and Sikh residents

> are made to wear yellow clothes and are required to paint their

> rooftops yellow. This reminds the same tactics that were used in East

> Pakistan by the West Pakistani army to segregate Hindus before

> killing them during the 1970-71 carnage which ultimately led to the

> birth of Bangladesh.

>

> It has been commonly felt that more than the Buddha of Bamiyan the

> Taliban have hurt the image of Islam by their action. It was being

> increasingly felt in the world circles that despite all the medieval

> mindset that goes with the rulers using the name of Islam, the sheer

> growth and development of civilization would somehow play some

> positive role and Islamic zealots would soon see reason. But all that

> seems to have proved to be mere wishful thinking on part of liberal

> and progressive circles. Most of these circles including a section of

> media in India seems to be of the view that true Islam has been hurt

> by this act of Taliban. The English "liberal" and "progressive" press

> have also blamed the medieval mindset of Taliban rather than Islamic

> tradition for this action of Taliban.

>

> A cursory survey of some of the basic texts of Islam would be

> required for any meaningful understanding of the action of Taliban.

> Rather than providing an apology for either Taliban or their

> detractors searching for the deeper reasons of their behaviour would

> be more rewarding. It is a reality of the world situation today that

> the believers of Islam are party to most of the conflicts that remain

> raging in the world after the cold war has ended. The weapon of

> terrorism against civil society per se and especially the innocent

> people of other communities have also been used and misused mostly by

> the believers of Islam. With attack on Bamiyan Buddha, they have

> opened one more front against the Buddhists with whom they

> were at peace for a pretty long time now.

>

> The breaking of idols has been a standard practice of Islamic past.

> The Buddhists have been major victims of this practice. The word the

> Muslims use for statue is but (cqr) which according to most scholars

> is a corrupt form of Buddha only. Many areas of Central Asia and

> Afghanistan had a flourishing population of Buddhists when Islam came

> to these areas and converted the peace-loving Buddhists to Islam by

> the sheer force of arms. What has happened to Buddha at Bamiyan is

> thus nothing new and is just the repetition of past albeit with

> unprecedented force of new technology. What the shovel could not

> achieve, has been achieved by tanks and anti-aircraft batteries.

>

> If one wishes to go back into past to find out how did the breaking

> of statues and temples start in Islam one can really reach the truth

> of this religion itself. Fortunately there is no dispute about the

> interpretation of Islamic texts. Most of the tradition as found in

> Shariat and Hadis is also almost undisputed. In this respect, it must

> be noted that Ijtihad or the right to interpret the texts is an

> important feature of Islam. Arun Shourie has rightly pointed out that

> it had been one of the devices by which the Muslim society had tried

> to loosen the straitjacket. But barely 200 years after the Prophet's

> death, the Ulema decreed that "the doors of Ijtihad have been

> closed". This was being done, they said, because there were no pious

> Muslims left who could give reliable interpretations. Literal

> adherence shall be the rule henceforth, they decreed (Arun Shourie,

> The World of Fatwas, New Delhi, ASA, 1995, p. 31). Thus there is no

> room for any confusion or duality on the accounts of how the practice

> of breaking of idols and statues began in Islam. All the evidence

> that include the holy Quran itself point in only one direction and it

> is that the breaking of idols is a religious duty in Islam as it was

> practiced by none other than the Prophet himself.

> He began it with Kaaba itself, which was a temple of Hubal—a pre-

> Islamic Arabic god of Mecca and Kaaba. Made of red carnelim the

> statue stood above a sacred well that was supposed to have been dug

> by Abraham. Besides Hubal there were 360 more idols whom various

> tribes of the region worshipped. There were three goddesses also, the

> names of whom are available in Quran itself. They were Al-Lat, Al-

> Manaat and Al-Uzza.

>

> The Encyclopedia of Islam has recorded that upon entering Kaaba after

> his victory the Prophet went round the Kaaba seven times on his

> camel. He then climbed into the cube. Inside he found a dome made of

> wood probably devoted to Venus. He broke it and threw it away. This

> is recorded by Ibn Ishaq. At noon prayer that day he ordered that all

> idols which were round the Kaaba should be collected and burned with

> fire and broken up. That was done. Soon the idolators were also

> forbidden from the shrine. While destroying the statues he

> declared: "Truth has come and falsehood has vanished".

> Tabaqat (vol. 1 pp-484-86) informs that Ali was chosen to destroy the

> idols, which he did by mounting the shoulders of the Prophet. Umar

> was chosen to destroy the pictures on the walls of Kaaba. Khalid b.

> Walid was sent to destroy the idol of Al-Uzza who was the tutelary

> goddess of Banu Kinan tribe and also of the Quraish. Umrao b. Al'as

> was sent to destroy the idol of Sunda. Al-Manaat idol was destroyed

> by Zaid al Ashahali. She was the diety of tribes of Aus and Khazraj.

> It is not that the Prophet broke the idols in some rage or anger of

> war, etc. It was on the other hand an act that was to become a part

> of Islamic dogma. Tarikh Tabari (vol. I, pp 434-35) informs that

> later the Prophet sent Abu Sufyan along with Al-Mughira b. Shuba to

> demolish the idol of Al-Lat the goddess of tribe of Saqif. As Al-

> Mughira protected by his soliders on all sides struck the idol with

> his pick axe, the women of Saqif tribe came out with their heads

> unconvered mourning and saying:

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> We weep for our protector

> Deserted by her servants

> Who did not show enough

> manliness in defending Her.

>

> Thus it is clear that by destroying the statues of Buddha at Bamiyan

> the Taliban have done nothing that their religion does not teach

> them. That is why despite all round condemnation they are not moved.

> Moreover, it is the same reason why there is no serious condemnation

> of this act of Taliban by Islamic nations, though some "appealed" to

> the Taliban not to break these statues. It is high time that certain

> questions however bitter they may seem must be asked from those who

> call themselves the adherents and supporters of the so-

> called "liberal" Islam. Moreover, they should themselves be first

> clear about their own standing viz-a-viz Islam as none has the right

> to interpret the Islamic text.

> The destruction of Buddha's statues may never kill the spirit of

> Buddha or that of enquiry which that greatest son of mother India

> stood for so vehemently. The greatest tribute to the old Buddha at

> Bamiyan would be to ask questions from those who are fond of raising

> the slogan that "Islam is in danger" on any and every smallest

> pretext. They now must be made to realize that it is not Islam that

> is in danger but the world peace and cultures that are in danger due

> to their version(?) of Islam.

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