In March 2001, six months before the September 11th bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City, the Taliban destroyed two ancient statues of the Buddha called Bamiyan in an attempt to cleanse the country of Afghanistan of what they perceived as Hindu heresy.
Education is of course the key to many of the problems of human kind, but
more cross-cultural education concerning religious understanding is
essential. The ignorance and lack of respect that can result in the careful
wanton destruction of a 1500 year-old shrine is a clear case of a need for a global
view , for all people.
The blue marble view of the finite globe, earth, must quickly change old ways of thinking.
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