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IcyPeas

(21,894 posts) Mon Jan 6, 2020, 08:07 PM Jan 2020

remember when Taliban blew up the Buddhas of Bamiyan?

That was/is a historical, magnificent cultural site (which amazingly they are going to rebuild). this is like what trump wants to do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_art_in_Afghanistan

Mullah Mohammad Omar, leader of the Taliban Islamic militia in Afghanistan, dismissed the international pleas of the art and historical preservation world community with regard to saving the world-renowned Buddhas from imminent destruction. Despite international condemnation, Mullah Omar ordered the ancient Buddhas to be destroyed per the judgment of the clergymen and the ruling of the supreme court of the Islamic Emirate (Taliban).

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remember when Taliban blew up the Buddhas of Bamiyan? (Original Post) IcyPeas Jan 2020 OP

ISIS destroyed artifacts dating back to the Babylonian empire. ProudMNDemocrat Jan 2020 #1

"Going to rebuild" is a farce... regnaD kciN Jan 2020 #2

I agree IcyPeas Jan 2020 #4

I remember Zorro Jan 2020 #3

Some of the sites ISIS blew up: dalton99a Jan 2020 #5

ProudMNDemocrat

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1. ISIS destroyed artifacts dating back to the Babylonian empire.

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 08:14 PM

Jan 2020

In Iraq because it offended them regardless of cultural necessity.

regnaD kciN

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2. "Going to rebuild" is a farce...

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 08:55 PM

Jan 2020

Sure, they may put up modern-day replicas of the originals, but they won't be the originals.

It's a little like those stories you hear every few years of someone building a replica of the Titanic. Or if New Hampshire, as the governor originally proposed, had "rebuilt" an artificial copy of The Old Man of The Mountain out of steel beams and fiberglass on the cliff face after the real one collapsed.

Some things are just irreplaceable. Once they're gone, they're gone.