Taliban and the huge Buddas

[Black Jack]

Tanagalman;

maybe if you live in Canada, they seem to like to tell there citizens what they should and should not have. :rolleyes:

Regards

[Budokan]

Narrow-minded intolerance is unnacceptable no matter what the reason. It's just that, sadly, the reason so often appears to be religious...

K. Mark Hoover

[tnwingtsun]

Kind of makes ya wonder......What will they blow up next?

[tanglangman]

"maybe if you live in Canada, they seem to like to tell there citizens what they should and should not have. "

Not quite sure what this statement means?

Could you expand a little on it?

I have actually spent some time in Canada and really don't understand what you are asking me/insinuating.


Are you merciless in disguise?

[fiercest tiger]

the towels on their heads are to tight, they cant think properly. do they ever???

lets all blow up islamic churches and artefacts see if they respect that! :mad:

2 words = a$$ holes

peace

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[Leimeng]

Perhaps one of the worse parts about this is how so many people who preach having an open mind, are opposed to someone else interpreting their religion in their own way...

Peace,

yi beng, kan xue

[Stranger]

Sin Loi,

Are you lining up with the Taliban?

[joedoe]

Sin Loi, it is OK to interpret your religion in your own way, as long as it doesn't mean the opression of a section of the community.

If it is OK to interpret your religion in your own way, no questions asked, then the KKK in the US should not be banned, neither should most white supremecist groups. In those cases, they 'interpreted' the Bible in a way that suited them.

The Taliban does the same thing. Look at they way they treat women. The destruction of those statues was a huge waste of a unique cultural artifact. If they didn't want them, they should have allowed someone to remove them for preservation.

Guns don't kill people, I kill people

[Anarcho]

I have to agree with Stranger on this one. Would it be okay for me to destroy Stonehenge because the real Druids don't mind? And although the Taliban claimed that it was required by Islamic law, all the other muslim countries in the middle east formally asked them not to do it.

[monkey mind]

"If it is OK to interpret your religion in your own way, no questions asked, then the KKK in the US should not be banned, neither should most white supremecist groups. In those cases, they 'interpreted' the Bible in a way that suited them."

ABandit - I'm not sure exactly how you meant this, but just to be clear, the KKK & most white supremacist groups are NOT banned in the US. It is only when they are caught in the act of attacking someone, as in the recent Aryan Nations case, that such groups can be legally challenged. Even then though, the legal remedy is to confiscate their assets for punitive damages, not to ban the group. Sorry if you already understood this, it just wasn't clear to me from your post.

[Zhin]

Sorry to inform you, but the KKK is not banned in the United States, nor are any number of racially based organizations regardless of their religious inclinations.

Second, and in no way is this intended to be a Taliban defense... Taliban rules are just as strict when directed towards men as they are towards women. It's a little discussed fact that all men over the age of 16 are required to have a beard. Failure to possess the ability to grow a beard resulted in a fairly large number of executions of young men when Taliban control was brought to an area.

The qoran does not forbid "graven images" it forbids creating images in the likeness of living things. This includes print as well. I'm not sure what the take on photographs are, but all artistic representations of people and animals, not just religious ones are being destroyed. They are not burning cows or anything dumb like that.

As to the comments about stonehenge, it's a little known fact outside the UK that the british government is actually rebuilding stone henge. Historians are in a minor uproar about it, since there are not indications that they are rebuilding it "correctly". From a historical POV they are doing just as much damage if not more to potential research on the Stone Henge Site, in the name of Tourism, as the Talibans did to the Bhuddas.

[Leimeng]

I am in no way lining up with the Taliban. Ijust think that people who preach having an open mind are so offended when another group acts on their faith.
Many other governments have been involved in the distruction of religious artifacts, buildings, and persecution of people of faith. A few of them would be China, Soviet Russia, Spain, most mid eastern islamic countries, half of Africa, Cambodia, Vietnam, France, Germany, USA, Mexico, Canada, etc...
All people should be allowed to express their faith in a free market of ideas. The problem with most of these countries is that they do not allow the free expression of faith. There is no free market of ideas in most places. The three countries that have the closest thing to this would be USA, Brazil, and theoretically, India. However they are not perfect in this matter.
In the US it is quite permissible to belong to a racist organization. There are many. Heck, some even have members in congress!
And just to heat things up a little... :)
There is nothing wrong with discrimation!


Peace,

yi beng, kan xue

[joedoe]

OK, I obviously misunderstood the status of the KKK in the US. My bad :(. Thanks for enlightening me.

Shin, I believe that the Taliban's treatment of women is far worse than its treatment of men.

Actually Sin Loi, to a certain degreee I agree with you on discrimmination. It is a part of human nature that can't be avoided. I feel that discrimmination is bad when it is unreasonable or unjust eg. discrimmination based on race.

Guns don't kill people, I kill people

[dunbarj01]

People are intitled to descriminaton if that is their opinion. I see no problem with this provided that it remains an opinion. Once action motivated by descrimination occurs then this is a problem. The organisation and institutionalisation of discrimination seems to be what the Taliban is practicing. The destruction of these statues is not just religous intolerance but also a judgement on the value of history. Rebuilding Stonhenge may harm the authenticity of the site but it is not total destruction. Totally removing an edefice simply because it is just "a pile of stones" is ridiculous.

[Zhin]

Abandit

Your view is based on biased western media representations and not on actual research. If you look into it, you will find yourself to be incorrect.