THE TALIBAN DEMOTION OF THE BAMIYAN BUDDHAS AND THE AMERICAN DESTRUCTION OF AFGHANISTAN -- A STUDY IN BARBARIC CONTRAST

THE TALIBAN DEMOTION OF THE BAMIYAN BUDDHAS AND THE AMERICAN DESTRUCTION OF AFGHANISTAN -- A STUDY IN BARBARIC CONTRAST

Superb. What a contrasting picture! But a sad one at that because the rubble has been caused by another barbaric, neo-imperial power masquerading as a democratic force and an unholder of human rights.

The United States of America has been the worst violator of human rights in the 20th century and now in the 21st which has dealt this Bamiyan-Buddha-breaking barbaric regime the death-blow apparently by reducing parts of Afghanistan to rubble and, yet, to suit domestic convenience they left her in the hands of the very hoodlums they had fought to deliver retribution for the 9/11 attacks and in consequence save Afghans from medieval Islamic barbarism. 

Cultural desecration and civilisational destruction has been done by Islam for fourteen hundred years and the Western powers have been doing so in the name of modern civilisation for several centuries now. Humanity suffers either way.

The way out, therefore, is the spread of Hindu 🕉 culture throughout the world 🌎 by the powerful propagation of the Sanatan Dharma in all its varied strands and not just the Upanishads alone so that the wide world may appreciate the value and worth of the entire spectrum of the Hindu 🕉 way of living in harmony with all of humanity and sentience. Arnold Toynbee, the great English historian, was of the firm view that future humanity would have to accept the Indian (read Indic) way of living, that of Ramakrishna, Ashoka and Gandhi, if it was to survive.

Written by Sugata Bose