"I don't know what they want to achieve by such actions," he added. "

......they were sending you a message...convert or die.....

Posted by: exsgtbrown at October 1, 2007 8:53 AM

Just being good muslims by destroying any unislamic reminders of their past. don't hold your breath expecting mass protests from moderate muslims over this act. (nor for that matter from buddhists, they can't confront evil).

Posted by: desidude at October 1, 2007 8:54 AM

You can feel the love and respect for history and alternative cultures from here ...

Posted by: drk at October 1, 2007 9:15 AM

"The fresh attack caused irreparable loss to its head and also damaged its shoulders."

Ahhh, the old "smite them at the neck" trick, even if they're made of stone.

Posted by: perpster at October 1, 2007 9:15 AM

they should've offered them coffee and biscuits.

Posted by: leonthepigfarmer at October 1, 2007 10:24 AM

For a summary of the destruction or appropriation of the religious sites and monuments of non-Muslims by Muslims, through time and space, see

http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/11130/sec_id/11130

Posted by: Hugh at October 1, 2007 10:46 AM

Someday it will be the Pieta, or Michaelangelo's David, or the Venus de Milo.

Posted by: ImNoDhimmi at October 1, 2007 11:05 AM

They will keep doing this until we make the cost of this destruction more than they can bear. For every Buddha statue they blow up; or for every church or temple they desecrate, we should destroy ten mosques or madrassas. If they keep it up, turn the Kaaba and Grand Mosques of Mecca into a crater.

If they can no longer fulfil two of Islam's pillars (you can't make hajj to a crater or prostrate toward a black stone that's been incinerated) then they'll be forced to reform other aspects of Islam as well.

Posted by: Provoslavni at October 1, 2007 11:05 AM

Someday it will be the Pieta, or Michaelangelo's David, or the Venus de Milo.
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi

No doubt. The museums will be huge bonfires, I wonder if the Left will care? Naw, it's because we value our culture more than the islamic culture so it's our own fault....
Black, formless figures walking behind their male owners, no fun ever. Just think about allah, only allah. What a bleak future.
It will not come to our shores as easily as the infiltraitors believe.

Posted by: interestinconundrum at October 1, 2007 11:34 AM

The Religion of Blow it to Pieces.

(Bush just got a corrupted version of that definition.)

The Buddha would laugh, except they blew his head off.

So glad the U.S. government went to war to install an Islamic state in Afghanistan.

Brilliant.

Headlessly brilliant.

Posted by: profitsbeard at October 1, 2007 11:55 AM

Coffee and biscuits, please.

Posted by: TheOmegaMan at October 1, 2007 12:04 PM

Just another srory for the MSM to ignore so they can continue to prop up their favorite hate group.

Posted by: GrennBeck at October 1, 2007 12:47 PM

I don't know what they want to achieve by such actions," Aqleem added.

Uh, DUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHH!!!!! It's the religion, stoopid!!!!!

Posted by: Miss_Anthrope at October 1, 2007 1:59 PM

From the article:

After the historic statues of Bamyan in Afghanistan, which were destroyed by the Taliban, the swat statue was the sole example of Buddhist cultural heritage.

Buddhist cultural heritage? In Afghanistan? There is no Buddhist cultural heritage in Afghanistan; never was. If there was, where is the proof? This is more Zionist/Crusader/Hindu/Buddhist/Atheist propaganda.

Posted by: special_guest at October 1, 2007 4:17 PM

Islamic culture denies the past and has no apparent future.

Posted by: tanstaafl at October 1, 2007 4:55 PM

Islamic culture denies the past and has no apparent future.

Posted by: tanstaafl at October 1, 2007 4:57 PM

If they keep it up, turn the Kaaba and Grand Mosques of Mecca into a crater.

Provoslavni.. YESSS!!!! They HAVE to be made to PAY A PRICE for their barbarities!!!

By the way.. who's to say that some enterprising young Westeners might not do a fake "conversion" to pigslam and get close enough tho their shrine of idolatry to blow it to bits?!

The more they keep pissing everyone off the more likely that one day someone will say enough is enough!

we MUST hold SOWdi Barbaria Directly responsible for the actions of those whom they support and finance.

Posted by: Allahfanculo at October 1, 2007 5:55 PM

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Someday it will be the Pieta, or Michaelangelo's David, or the Venus de Milo.
Posted by: ImNoDhimmi

No doubt. The museums will be huge bonfires, I wonder if the Left will care?
--------------end quote------------------------

The Dhimmicrats only complained that the Baghdad museum was sacked; that was greatly exagerated. I think the islamofascists would blow up all of the ancient Babylonian idols if they had the chance.

Posted by: CTYankee at October 1, 2007 7:00 PM

Don't the dipsticks understand that everything crumbles to dust anyway (entropy - everything tends to go to its lowest energy level)? Everything created / organized/ separated/ extracted/ returns to chaos. The fools who think destruction demonstrates power are just that - fools.

You don't have to believe the Bible literally to understand the God-ness, the majesty of creation: to take what was "without form, and void" and create light/dark, cold/heat, to extract from a jumble of primordial, non-differentiated "stuff" everything in the universe: sun, planets, land, water, and then life itself. From chaos, organization. What demonstrates real power is CREATION.

So, creation --planting a garden, making a chair, having some idea and bringing it to reality-- essentially defies the certainty of destruction. We who live do so despite the absolute knowledge that death awaits us; we are vehicles for that force which creates and organizes and expands. Despite our limited, finite selves we are part of the eternal "becomingness" which refuses to die.

But those who celebrate death and destruction are serving a different master, one which repudiates order and relishes chaos. This force, arrayed against the creative principle of the universe (which we might call God), is thus the opposite priciple, which one might call "evil" or "the devil".

IMHO.

Posted by: A_Nonny_Mouse at October 1, 2007 7:16 PM

"For a summary of the destruction or appropriation of the religious sites and monuments of non-Muslims by Muslims, through time and space, see
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/11130/sec_id/11130
Posted by: Hugh October 1, 2007 10:46 AM"
- - - - -

As cited in the above article (regarding the looting of the Kabul museum) "archaeologists and historians say the losses from the museum amount to the destruction of a major part of Afghanistan's cultural heritage": Sadly, when Islam conquers a country, "culture" and "heritage" are regarded as worse than useless.

Why is Islam still tolerated anywhere? (And why do we still let Muslims into THIS country, despite knowing many of them want to destroy everything we've created, everything we believe in? Despite knowing there's no way to tell the "active jihadist" from the "unawakened warrior" who is just a few fiery sermons away from fanaticism; and no way to tell them from the typical moderate who would never undertake violence, but would welcome the Caliphate with joy in his heart?)

Posted by: A_Nonny_Mouse at October 1, 2007 7:47 PM

Ancient Greeks and Buddha met each other: Result was Gandhara style of sculpture celebrating tolerance and peace.
Followers of religion of peace and Buddha met each other: Destruction of wonderful heritage, which was testimony to intermixing of two great civilizations.
Defiling and destruction of Budhha indicates ascendency of negative and hateful energies, which brings widespread sorrow and sufferring.

Posted by: pagan at October 1, 2007 9:39 PM

"Someday it will be the Pieta, or Michaelangelo's David, or the Venus de Milo."

I have argued for some time that it will take a bombing of the Louvre, or the Sistine Chapel, or the Tower of London before the West finally understands that we are in a war for our civilization. They WILL go after our great treasures.

I think the time for talk is just about done.

Posted by: JohnAdams at October 1, 2007 11:59 PM

"Someday it will be the Pieta, or Michaelangelo's David, or the Venus de Milo.

Posted by: ImNoDhimmi"

...or the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, the Statue of LIberty, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Berlin Victory Column, St Marks Basilica or even the Danskoi Monastery....

Posted by: exsgtbrown at October 2, 2007 6:35 AM

This is very sad, the first time on the Bamiyan budha status were exploded, only a few protested & they just proceeded to destroy the whole thing. Then what happened. Nothing!

And this is not only happening in Afganistan/pakistan, its all over the world, eventually.

The only thing that infiriates me the most is that other muslims, so called peaceful muslims does not give a dam about it, they did not complain, protest, or write a simple letter to their goverment/local imam about it telling them its wrong, & respect other religions & cultural history.

Afganisthan/Pakistan was a bhuddist/hindu country before & perhaps they are trying to erase the facts, like they always try to.

Either way, If we dont stand up for our selves now, we will see them legally walk into our churches or temples & tear down the paintings & statues, AND none of you will be able to do anything!

They should clearly know if they wan to live togather, they need to respect each other, but this will indeed fail. So make it clear that if they touch a statue ever again, it will be a direct violation to our 'religious respect right' & we deserve to do the same to to their mosques, anywhere in the world.

Im not saying we should do it, but, flex our muscles togather & force them to behave like humans.

Posted by: tjwork at October 2, 2007 9:12 AM

'The only thing that infiriates me the most is that other muslims, so called peaceful muslims does not give a dam about it, they did not complain, protest, or write a simple letter to their goverment/local imam about it telling them its wrong, & respect other religions & cultural history.'

....yep,not one word.....tells you a lot about them and their secret agendas....they say silence is golden....you can learn a lot about people when they are silent....yep...

Islam is a thrill kill machine and will kill all up speak up and decry insane violence...yep

Posted by: exsgtbrown at October 2, 2007 10:09 AM

Dear President George:

If Islam is the "religon of peace", then what is Buddhism? The religion destined to be torn to pieces by the "religion of peace"?

Posted by: usapatriot at October 2, 2007 9:06 PM

I thought Swat was in Pakistan--oops, Pathologicalstan.

Provoslavni, if Mecca was blown up, we'd probably see the Muslims come up with some other explanation to keep on going. After all, Judaism survived the destruction of the Tenmple--twice! (86 B.C., and 70 A.D.)

Posted by: Kepha at October 3, 2007 7:14 AM

"Provoslavni, if Mecca was blown up, we'd probably see the Muslims come up with some other explanation to keep on going. After all, Judaism survived the destruction of the Tenmple--twice! (86 B.C., and 70 A.D.)"

Posted by: Kepha
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Kepha,

That is exactly my point. I was thinking about the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD/CE when I wrote that.

The destruction of the temple force Jews to abandon the central aspect of their faith, which was animal sacrifices. This gave rise to the two major reforms of the previous religion of the Torah, namely modern Rabinnical Judaism and Christianity. Neither of these would exist in their current form if it had not been for the destruction of the temple.

The reform that a similar destruction of the Kaaba would force in Islam would be even more radical. After all, two of the central pillars of Islam are directly tied to Mecca: Salah (ritual prayer toward the Kaaba) and the Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). Without two of the five pillars, they would be forced to completely reform their understanding. Since Allah failed to protect the Kaaba, they would also have to re-assess what he desires.

Remember, after the first temple was destroyed by the Babylonians, the Jewish prophets began to declare often that God did not demand sacrifices and oblations but a contrite heart, creating the basis of modern Judeo-Christian morality and mysticism. Perhaps the same would occur with Muslims.

In fact, we've already seen it happen in Islam on a smaller scale. Since orthodox Islam has forbidden the Nizari Ismailis from making the Hajj for centuries, they have replaced this obligation with seeing the Aga Khan at least once in their lives. Following this, they abandoned Salah toward Mecca, turned against jihad and became mystical pacifists, forbade polygamy and purdah, freely adopted beliefs from Hinduism and Christianity, and Western moral standards.

If just by being excluded from Mecca, the Ismailis could successfully reform Islam in such radical ways, and yet still consider themselves Muslim, imagine the reform that would happen if Mecca ceased to exist.

Posted by: Provoslavni at October 3, 2007 5:14 PM

Provoslavni:

Didn't Christ say that you don't pour new wine into an old wineskin?

Very thought provoking comment, thank you.

Posted by: atheling at October 4, 2007 12:47 AM

atheling,

You're correct about the wineskins. One possible result of the destruction of Mecca could be that many Muslims would see that Allah did not protect his Kaaba and thus abandon Islam altogether. Remember, most of the people of the Middle East were Christians, Jews, or Zoroastrians before they were forcibly converted to Islam. Maybe destroying the Kaaba would be a catalyst to force many of them to return to the religion of their ancestors.

Posted by: Provoslavni at October 4, 2007 10:52 AM