In A Thousand Splendid Suns, the novel he wrote after The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini has his hero Laila and her childhood love Tariq visit the magnificent, centuries-old Buddha statues in the val...
In A Thousand Splendid Suns, the novel he wrote after The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini has his hero Laila and her childhood love Tariq visit the magnificent, centuries-old Buddha statues in the valley of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, about 100 miles west of Kabul: The two Buddhas were enormous, soaring much higher than she had imagined from all the photos shed seen of them. Chiseled into a sun-bleached rock cliff, they peered down at them, as they had nearly two thousand years before, Laila imagined, at caravans crossing the valley on the Silk Road. On either side of them, along the overhanging niche, the cliff was pocked with myriad caves.
They were intentionally dynamited and destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, on orders from leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, after the Taliban government declared that they were "idols" (which are forbidden under Sharia law).nternational opinion strongly condemned the destruction of the Buddhas, which was viewed as an example of the intolerance of the Taliban and of fundamentalist Islam. Japan and Switzerland, among others, have pledged support for the rebuilding of the statues.[3]
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these are the things that make people hate islam and muslims, I know the tliban doesn't represent Islam, as they are radicals. but for me islam is evil.
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