We are seeing history repeat itself before our eyes, unfortunately, there is no video of the current destruction to make an impact on you this time. In case you do not remember this scene from 2001, here is a video of a centuries old Buddhist statue being destroyed in Afghanistan by the Taliban. The historic statue was offensive to the Taliban since Islam forbids the worship of idols.
Now that you have refreshed your memory with the destruction of Buddha, I direct you to this story out of the Maldives.
As part of a military coup by radical Islamists, a Chinese museum containing 12th Century relics and statues from pre-Islamic times in the Maldives, was attacked and the statues destroyed. Those responsible for this attack used the exact same rational as the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Here is the lesson common to both events: when Islam, in its purest form, conquers and displaces indigenous populations, traces of the population must be destroyed if considered offensive to Muslims. The Maldives survived as a Muslim nation for years until radical Islamists increased their presence and eventually gained control of the government.
Islam imposes its will upon a population only when the percentage of Muslims in the population reaches a point where they have the confidence to break with local laws and traditions. How many European countries are now faced with the fact that this tipping point is less than a decade away at the current pace? We are seeing history repeat itself in the Maldives, but the same forces are writing new history lessons in many countries around the world.
Something to consider before you lightly dismiss these events as isolated incidents in far away lands.
James “I have read a number of eprorts that stated that many of the weapons used by the Taliban are obtained from the Afghan army and police, and thus are supplied by Nato, albeit indirectly.”James I have read that too but as you probably know it doesn’t sound credible since US army is in charge of the so called Afghan security forces it sounds even clumsy of US military to claim that Taliban stole 9 years worth of war ammunition and military hardware from Afghan army which US military is in charge of training and supplying, if what you say is true, then the US military is incompetent and incapable and should not continue to waste our tax money and US’s credibility. In my opinion Taliban get their hardware from a source that US can’t publicly acknowledge. Like in Iraq every time they encounter a public hurdle and questions are raised with the US’s lack of achievements with the Afghan operations for US’s public consumption they blame the publicly known demonized accepted enemy, Iran. You can’t tell the American public China is supplying Arms to our enemies and these arms are killing your sons and daughters and we are buying TV’s and borrowing money from them.