When the Taliban blasted the Buddha statues in Afghanistan they were destroying statues from the 6th century that had been carved into sandstone cliffs where thousands of Buddhist monks once lived. The destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas infuriated those in the west because of the obvious: it was an affront to the idea of religious freedom and they were acts of vandalism on priceless artifacts. I think there's more to it, though. I think even to those of us from Judeao-Christian

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