World Cares More for Buddhist Statues than Human Life

[kazanova3]

nice article. to read??from a sister in islam....

By Hebah Abdalla..

Anyone who has been closely following the media reports coming out of Afghanistan this week can only come to one conclusion: that the world community cares more about ancient relics than it does human lives.

This week, shortly after Taliban leaders announced their decision to destroy two Buddhist statues carved into a sandstone cliff in the central Bamiyan province, the international community lashed out with strong condemnation.

Unsurprisingly, the United States was among the first to criticize Afghanistan's ruling regime. Relations between the Taliban and the Americans deteriorated even further after the U.S. initiated latest round of sanctions on the war-torn nation. During a State Department briefing this week, US State Department spokesman Philip Reeker said the edict against the statues "directly contradicts one of Islam's basic tenets -- tolerance for other religions".

The United Nations sent a special envoy to meet with the Taliban foreign minister, warning their destruction would cause "international outrage".

The European Union, along with several other industrialized nations urged the Taliban to reverse the decision. Shortly thereafter, a long list of countries joined the international uproar over the relics, including Malaysia, Germany, Russia, India, and Japan.

Even Egypt's spiritual leader, mufti Sheikh Nasr Farid Wassel, expressed "astonishment" at the Taliban's decision, saying they had no negative impact on Muslims.

Sri Lanka and India even offered to move and protect the statues if the Afghani government would agree.

And without hesitation, the international media dutifully reported the outpouring of grief and anger over the threatened Buddhas, as one headline read, "Worldwide horror as Afghan Taliban begin smashing ancient statues".

But there was no "worldwide horror" or "international outrage" when UN officials announced Friday that more than 260 people have died in displacement camps in northern Afghanistan where an additional 117,000 people are living in miserable conditions.

There was no outpouring of grief for those refugees who mostly died of hunger and exposure to cold weather. Sadly, no one seemed to care that most of the deceased were children under the age of five, elderly men, and women who did not survive childbirth.

And there were no invitations to house these refugees as conditions in these camps are expected to deteriorate.

Perhaps the only consolation in all of this, is that these refugees may never know how much the world cared for two statues and how little it cared for them.


-best regards............kaz--m5

[Nonson]

"Anyone who has been closely following the media reports coming out of Afghanistan this week can only come to one conclusion: that the world community cares more about ancient relics than it does human lives." Hebah Abdalla


Idiot,

In what way does the ancient relics of Buddhism threaten human lives?

With this level of intelligence behind the Taliban we in the West should be very afraid.

Nonson
03.05.01

[kazanova3]

you said BEFORE THAT the west applied democracy all over ??? did this democracy taking care about humanity? if yes pls. answer if no then pls.shut your mouth???what about refugees... do you know if i belonge to the west or to the east??? i feel shame about many things in the west???.IAM NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE COUNTRY I BELONGE TO .......... any way....internet jinne .... think about your self INSTEAD OF BARKING ......KAZ---5M

[steve_vlasenko]

Kaz,

You have said that Muslims respect other faiths then why are the Taliban (the conclusion of Islam(c)Skinner) failing to respect Buddhism?

Muslims have been outraged at insults to your prophet.
I can say to you that Muslim care more about books than their own staving people.

The Satanic Verses.

Vlas

[kazanova3]

hi MR S.VLAS. will i hope you understand this......


---Never Judge a Religion by it's People, Judge a Religion by it's Scripture







best regards..

[Nonson]

I now see the scenario. The Taliban and other Muslim factions create refugees by the millions and we in the West are suppose to care for them (the displaced).

There are many mean arguments I could use to attack this sort of stupidity, but why waste the effort on animals that are without functional minds?

Nonson
03.04.01