[Buddha-l] Rice & Dragons

[Christopher Fynn]

On 15/04/2012, James A. Stroble <stroble at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> The Bamiyan sculptures were a treasure of  mankind, but their destruction is not really any catastrophe.

Although everything eventually perishes, isn't the deliberate
destruction of any important artisic or cultural treasure a human
catastrophe? The Bamyan Buddhas stood for centuries in an Islamic
Afghanistan until the Taliban decided to obliterate them. Recently
some Islamists destroyed Buddhist statues in the museum in the
Maldives http://tinyurl.com/d7vk9wa
There seem to be some elements in contemporary Islam who are more
intolerant than ever before. Who knows if the Salafists gain power in
Egypt, perhaps we'll even see the destruction of the pyramids.
Wouldn't that be a  catastrophe?