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Terrorist Philistines
February 23, 2006 · Mustapha Hamoui
The Shadow of Bamiyan
The only time I felt as sickened as when I saw the destroyed Golden Mosque in Samarra, yesterday was when I watched, live on Aljazeera, the destruction of two huge Buddha statues in Afghanistan by the Taliban back in March 2001.
Honestly, I don’t care about the religious significance of the Artifacts. What I can’t understand is: Why can’t the terrorist appreciate the beauty and magnificence of works of art that are thousands of years old and belong to our collective human heritage? Don’t they understand how invaluable such works are?
Do you think it’s the same dogma that guided both horrible incidents?