Taliban vandalize another Buddha statue

[Guest guest]

In 2001 Taliban had vandalized 2 very tall Buddha statues in Afghanishtan. The

Taliban have done it again, this time around they hv vandalized a Buddha statue

in Swat Valley, Pakistan.

 

http://in.news./071111/211/6n304.html

 

In a replay of the vandalism that destroyed the Bamiyan Buddha statues in

Afghanistan in 2001, pro-Taliban militants have now damaged a 40-metre tall

carving of Buddha in the Swat valley in north-western Pakistan.The Buddha

statue’s head, shoulders and feet have been destroyed. The militants have now

threatened a third and final attack on the statue to reduce it to rubble. The

statue is believed to be dating back to the second century BC. Considered the

largest in Asia after the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, the militants had

attacked the statue in August-September as well.“This was the only giant Buddha

statue after Bamiya. On September 29 extremists had tried to destroy it but the

first attack on it was made on August 12. Archeologists say that it is difficult

to protect the statues. People in the area still live in fear of other possible

reprisals,” Dawn News correspondent Hamid Ullah Khan told CNN-IBN.Swat, which is

200 km northwest of Islamabad, has practically

been overrun by Islamic fundamentalists led by Mullah Fazlullah. The

Harmarajika stupa in Taxila and Butkarha stupa in Swat were among the earliest

stupas of Gandhara — an ancient kingdom consisting of modern-day Peshawar,

Taxila, Swat and, according to some historians, parts of Kashmir. These stupas

had been erected on the orders of Emperor Ashoka and contained real relics of

the Buddha. The Gandhara school is credited with the first representation of the

Buddha in human form.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Its very sad, now they can claim there was never Buddhism in Afghanistan.

 

I read some time ago, some Mullahs painted verses from Quran on Indus

Valley Civilisation ruins to show they were actually Muslim! (The

Indus is at least 2-3000 years older than Islam).

 

Luckily in that case, Pakistani Archaelogy board moved quickly to stop

them, but not before some damage had been done.

[Guest guest]

Why talk of other contries where old Hindu signs are being destroyed.

In our own India, the Government is adament to destroy Ram Sethu (the

bridge built by Shri Ram and his vaanar sena between India and Sri

Lanka on the pretext of development. All the studies have shown that

big ships will still have to follow the older route and the canal

project would not have much effect on fuel saving etc..

Still our central government and Tamil Nadu Government are going ahead

in destroying the Ram Sethu. Even the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu

said that Ram is just a fiction character.

If it were a Muslim or Christian monuments, is there anybody in India

who could dare touch it ?

 

Jai Gurudev

 

, shanracer <no_reply wrote:

>

> Its very sad, now they can claim there was never Buddhism in

Afghanistan.

>

> I read some time ago, some Mullahs painted verses from Quran on Indus

> Valley Civilisation ruins to show they were actually Muslim! (The

> Indus is at least 2-3000 years older than Islam).

>

> Luckily in that case, Pakistani Archaelogy board moved quickly to stop

> them, but not before some damage had been done.

>