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Asthaqfirullah…
Live and let Live? Religious tolerance?
Those words only sound good. Practice what you teach!!!
Take a good look you Muslims! Take a very good look.
We are the Taleban-Resistance is Futile
Sin: Osama Bin Junior
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Hindu hard-liners in India burned a copy of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, Monday as international outrage grew at the destruction by Afghanistan (news - web sites)'s Taliban rulers of historic statues in the name of Islam.
As Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar defended his destruction order, a German minister compared the attack on the statues to the book-burning purges of the Nazis, and an Afghan news agency said Japan had warned the drought and war-ravaged nation that aid could be hit.
The United States joined the international outcry, saying it had raised its concerns with Taliban representatives in the Pakistani capital Islamabad.
The purist Islamic Taliban has vowed to destroy all statues in its country, including two massive and ancient Buddhas in Bamiyan, towering 175 feet and 120 feet and carved into sandstone cliffs.
The Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, said Monday the destruction of the two statues began March 4.
``Explosions caused one quarter of the two statues to be blown up,'' the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press quoted him as saying.
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the ancient statues were ``an important part of the world's cultural legacy and the cultural heritage of Afghanistan.''
``The United States joins...other governments in urging a halt to the destruction by the Taliban of a significant aspect of Afghan's cultural heritage,'' he said.
Earlier Monday the U.N. cultural agency, UNESCO (news - web sites), said talks with Taliban Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil led it to hope that all doors to saving the statues had not yet closed.
Iran urged the Organization of Islamic Conference, the world's largest Islamic body, to take serious action to stop the Taliban, and Greece offered to buy statues left behind from the days of Alexander the Great's conquests in Asia.
More than 2,000 people turned out for a protest rally in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, where Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, was born more than 2,600 years ago.
Mainly Buddhist Thailand and predominantly Muslim Malaysia added their voices to a chorus of criticism. The European Union (news - web sites) denounced the start of the destruction of statues as ``an act of cultural barbarism and religious intolerance.''
But a Kashmiri separatist group, based in Pakistan, expressed support for the Taliban stand.
In a message quoted by the official Voice of Shariat radio, Omar dismissed criticism of his destruction call and said Afghan Muslims should be proud of smashing the statues.
I ask the Muslim people of Afghanistan not to be afraid of the infidels' pressure,'' he added.I ask Afghans and world's Muslims to use their sound wisdom. ... Do you prefer to be a breaker of idols or a seller of idols?
The Taliban say it has smashed major statue collections in several parts of the country since last week when Omar first issued his decree.
The United Nations (news - web sites) Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization said its special representative, Pierre Lafrance, had hinted at a solution to the plight of the two Buddhas after talks in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar with the Afghan foreign minister
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*All doors have not closed,'' a statement quoted him as saying.Contacts are going on and new consultations of religious leaders are taking place in Afghanistan.'' * (Now they are talking!)
Lafrance, a French official sent by the Paris-based agency last week in a bid to save the priceless statues in central Afghanistan, confirmed that small Buddhist statues had been smashed in Ghazni and Herat.
Afghanistan was a center of Buddhist culture before the arrival of Islam more than 1,200 years ago.
**About 200 right-wing Indian Hindus burned a copy of the Koran and tore up posters of Islamic shrines in New Delhi Monday to protest the Taliban's destruction of statues.
``Down with the Taliban. We will break Mecca and Medina,'' shouted the protesters outside U.N. offices in the city. **
Sorrow And Dismay
The EU, in a statement issued in Pakistan by Sweden, which holds its rotating presidency, expressed sorrow and dismay that the destruction of statues had begun.
In Germany, the mass-circulation daily Bild quoted German Culture Minister Julian Nida-Ruemelin as likening the smashing of the statues to Nazis burning books considered un-German in 1933.
``I feel myself uncannily reminded of the book burning by the Nazis. This is about a piece of global cultural heritage which the rest of the world cannot be indifferent to,'' he said.
The head of anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan, its internationally recognized president, condemned the Taliban campaign to destroy the country's pre-Islamic heritage.
``We strongly condemn and oppose the Taliban's anti-national and anti-cultural action,'' Burhanuddin Rabbani said in a statement prepared in his remote northern headquarters.
The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) said Japan's ambassador to Pakistan, Sadaki Numata, had urged the Taliban not to destroy the statues, saying that Japanese aid could be compromised if Buddhist statues were destroyed.
We are the Taleban-Resistance is Futile
Sin: Osama Bin Junior
ASTAGHFIRULLAH!!
And they call us Jahil and Terrorists!
Yeh inhoun nein Allah SWT say panga lia hai... and He will deal with them.
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**ASTAGHFIRULLAH!!
And they call us Jahil and Terrorists!**
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I have same post without pic.of course in Religion forum.Interesting Pristine has a long thread on Religious tolerence,ironiccally in the same forum chk it out.
These ignorent peoples. dont even know that Taleban has political REASONS NOT RELIGIOUS SO MUCH s there country is suffering from sanctions & they trying to bring world attention ,WHAT THESE IMBECILE APES MONKEYS BANDAR IMMITATING for ??????????
"jo kHat main kahte they apni jaan mujhko
aaj kHat likhne main unki jaan jaati hai .....
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Sickening!
Where are all those (Hindu) Indians to condemn this act of sacrilege and religious destruction?
Nothing more can be expected by Mosque demolishers and the butchers of 5,500 Muslims after Ayodhya!
We Muslims will emerge from all such indignities stronger and more united than ever.
Hmmm. It's only paper, right? Like the Buddha statues were only stone?
Or is God to be found in these pages? Muslims get to break idols all they want, but their own idols are precious. How quaint.
Or maybe disrepect is simply a two-way street.
And life goes on.
wait a sec...so didn't allah mian say that he will take care of his book......so these ppl are burinin the quran......no azaab from allah mian?
"If u must make a mistake, make a new one each time"
astrofan, when it comes to disrespect of other religions you Indians(Hindu's)top the list. After all we saw your disrespect when your HINDUvta mobs slaughtered without mercy 5,500 Muslims after Ayodhya.
And remember the Qu'ran majeed is the holy book of 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide, not some "idol" statue. As a propogator of Hindu teachings surely you know the difference between a Holy book and an idol statue. Or maybe not?
its a bad thing, but i was expecting something might happen.
the sad part is that some people who condemned the taliban a few days ago will try and defend this act and justify it as a tit for tat response.
you all know who you are...think the ethecis here should be a tad stronger than that. and this is for both side.
there were people who justified talibans actions..we'll if you did, and apply the same reasoning, you shouldn't get upset at the quran burning. we don't have the right to say that quran is more important to us than those buddha statues were to buddhists aroundthe world..
all the idols were destroyed in kaabaa only, because the kaabaa was the house of God as was built by abraham. it wasn't a place of idol worshipping.
I don't think any of the idols were destroyed that were outside the kabaa, inside the city.
as for anyone else actions, GOD will judge them.
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Hindus seem to like burning things. If it's not female children or low dowry wives it seems to be copies of the Quran.
BTW, I'm not taking sides either.
its funny how everyone here is making justifications based on personal opinions. the decision should be made on islamic fiqh, regardless of social or religious outcomes, if the decision to smash the idols is islamically viable, then place your trust in allah, and proceed!!! unfortunately, i dont have sound knowledge on this subject, so someone enlighten us!!!
Buildings burn, people die, but true love, true love lasts forever...
Photographers saw activists tearing out pages from a copy of the Holy Quran and setting fire to them, although VHP leaders later denied the act, saying it was not a Hindu tradition to attack other religions.
This is from the news today.
i guess the Muslims in India should fight back against this!
~ mera Junoon, meri DIL KI BAAT hai!!!!
This is a cool game. "How can we disrepect each other the most?"
I think us Punjabis will win this is a landslide.
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Yeh inhoun nein Allah SWT say panga lia hai... and He will deal with them.
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Astaghfirullah !!! Allah SWT will deal with them soon .. INSHALLAH !!!
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unfortunately u weren't around during those timez...
seemz like ur questioning the decision of prophet abt breaking the idolz??...
Alf Allah Chunmbay Di Booti...Mere Maan Vich Murshad Lai Huu..
Naffi Asbaat Da Paani Mallaya...Har Raggay HarJai Huu
[Sultan Bahuu]...
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Let this be the last time u use profanity here. ..Admin
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point is they can burn Qoran to heart's content but then they don't have the right to stand on a high moral pedestal and complain about Talibans breaking statues. It just makes them hypocrites.
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