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Taliban Begin Destruction of Ancient Buddha Statues (Sound Familiar?)

About the Buddhas of Bayiman:

They were dynamited and destroyed in March 2001 by the Taliban, on orders from leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, after the Taliban government declared that they were idols. An envoy visiting the United States in the following weeks explained that they were destroyed to protest international aid exclusively reserved for statue maintenance while Afghanistan was experiencing famine, while the Afghan Foreign Minister claimed that the destruction was merely about carrying out Islamic religious iconoclasm. International opinion strongly condemned the destruction of the Buddhas, which in the following years was primarily viewed as an example of the extreme religious intolerance of the Taliban. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan

To me, the destruction of antiquities is a horror. Trying to destroy history is a horror too, and it won't work. Shoving statues that commemorate the battles and the dead of the Civil War down the memory hole won't work either; if anything, I think it's going to inflame passions and create more resentment. Watching that Marxist girl climbing the NC statue and all her college buds cheering and kicking the statue (why didn't they throw shoes?) was awful. Shaking my head.


How do you square your opinion with people of colors resentment of the Confederate monuments.
 
About the Buddhas of Bayiman:

They were dynamited and destroyed in March 2001 by the Taliban, on orders from leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, after the Taliban government declared that they were idols. An envoy visiting the United States in the following weeks explained that they were destroyed to protest international aid exclusively reserved for statue maintenance while Afghanistan was experiencing famine, while the Afghan Foreign Minister claimed that the destruction was merely about carrying out Islamic religious iconoclasm. International opinion strongly condemned the destruction of the Buddhas, which in the following years was primarily viewed as an example of the extreme religious intolerance of the Taliban. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan

To me, the destruction of antiquities is a horror. Trying to destroy history is a horror too, and it won't work. Shoving statues that commemorate the battles and the dead of the Civil War down the memory hole won't work either; if anything, I think it's going to inflame passions and create more resentment. Watching that Marxist girl climbing the NC statue and all her college buds cheering and kicking the statue (why didn't they throw shoes?) was awful. Shaking my head.

It's call respect or lack thereof. Most kids nowadays don't have it. It the me generation and all about me and no one else. If WWII happen again today, you wouldn't have the sacrifices that WWII generation gave and went through to win the war. Instead these folks would be asking, "Why me? Sacrifice for the good of the nation and war effort, I'm not giving up nothing and I want more." Probably protesting while letting someone else do the heavy lifting.

Keeping or taking down the statues doesn't bother me. As long as it's the local community decision. But as long as they are there, respect goes a long way. Supposedly we have freedom of speech and expression. I have no problem with protest, by either side or speeches give for and against. Keep it civil and do no harm. But that is too much to ask as passions run deep. Each side thinks their right and no toleration at all is given as neither respect for others is given.

It's a mindset. Those opposing and wanting to destroy these confederate statues do have exactly the mindset of the Taliban. They will deny it of course, state there is a huge difference. But both are bent on destruction be it religious or in the name of progressiveism. Next will come book burning and a rewrite of history to suit their wants. What we have is a side bent on forcing their will, their beliefs, their version of history on others whether they like it or not. I'm against that.

I say left each community, one by one, decide what they want to do with these statues. Keep everyone who isn't a resident, who doesn't reside or live out of it. If a community wants to take them down, fine, but let it be their decision not someone from outside who thinks he knows what is best for that particular community. If they want to keep them, fine also. No should care one way or the other unless they are part of that community. The Taliban mindset has to stop. It won't and that is a whole new road this nation is traveling down. Speaking of the last days of Rome.
 
No, they're not really rationally comparable, and the Taliban did this back in 2001. They're not doing so now.

No, not the same mindset. The statues are free to be displayed, people just don't want it done so on public land or with public money.

The heritage behind Confederate statues is white supremacy, treason and, frankly, losing.

Removing such participation trophies to assauge wounded Southern pride and faux-gallantry and placing them in museums or on private property still allows those who cherish honoring treason to do so.

Just not on the public's dime.

Treason WWII

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Treason Vietnam

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treason Iraq

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Did you know that approximately 40% of all volunteers in today's U.S. military come from the Treasonous South? More than any other region.
 
Wow, fascinating statistic!
 
How do you square your opinion with people of colors resentment of the Confederate monuments.

From PBS:

Six in 10 Americans believe the statues honoring Confederate leaders should remain, with 67% of white Americans and 65% of Latinos recognizing the historical significance of such statues. African-Americans divide with 40 percent for the statue’s removal, and 44 against. New PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist Poll Finds Majority Believe Trump Response to Charlottesville ?Weak,? Fatal Car Rampage Act of ?Domestic Terror? | Press

https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=3933461-NPR-PBS-NewsHour-Marist-Poll-Aug-17-2017
 
The buddha statues are two thousand years old they are obviously worth much more than Robert E lee
 
From PBS:

Six in 10 Americans believe the statues honoring Confederate leaders should remain, with 67% of white Americans and 65% of Latinos recognizing the historical significance of such statues. African-Americans divide with 40 percent for the statue’s removal, and 44 against. New PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist Poll Finds Majority Believe Trump Response to Charlottesville ?Weak,? Fatal Car Rampage Act of ?Domestic Terror? | Press

https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=3933461-NPR-PBS-NewsHour-Marist-Poll-Aug-17-2017


you didnt answer my question
 
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