Why the Taliban have to destroy the Buddhists religion symbols?

Question

The Talibans destoyed the big statues of the buddhists as they conqer the afganistan in about 2000

Answer 1

They are religious fanatics with no tolerance for other religions.

Answer 2

Short answer, because they are graven images, and as such are forbidden in the Koran.

But it's never quite so simple, of course! Here's some text from an article in USA Today, published six months before 9/11:
"In Afghanistan recently, supreme Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar issued an edict against un-Islamic graven images, which means all idolatrous images of humans and animals.
...
But why are the Bamiyan Buddhas targets now, after surviving more than a thousand years at a crucial node on the Silk Road?

Simple. First, Buddhism is an easy target for fundamentalist Muslims. As Richard Foltz documents in his book, Religions on the Silk Road, "Although Islamic law offered protection to 'peoples of the Book,' namely Christians, Jews, and by some interpretations Zoroastrians, the early Muslims were generally hostile towards Buddhists. They referred to Buddhists as 'idol-worshipers,' which had unfortunate associations with the portrayal of the Prophet's Meccan enemies in the Qur'an. This probably, at least in part, accounts for the unabatingly harsh treatment Muslims reserved for the Buddhists they encountered in the course of their conquest." So, even though the Buddha stood against idolatry, the Taliban have a tradition to uphold on the Silk Road.

Second, Bamiyan was a base of the Taliban's opposition — Northern Alliance's "rebel" forces led by ousted Afghani President Borhanuddin Rabbani. How could the Taliban better humiliate the locals than to destroy their heritage? An earlier attempt to destroy the Buddhas came when the Taliban took control of Bamiyan in 1998. Then, the local Taliban governor talked the military commander out of the atrocity.

Third, and probably most important, the Taliban government for more than a year has been requesting international humanitarian aid for a country ravaged by drought, earthquakes, and war. No aid is forthcoming as long as the Taliban harbor international terrorists such as Osama bin Laden, an anathema to key voting members of the UN Security Council, including the United States, Russia (where the Taliban are working with the Chechnyan rebels), and China (where the Taliban are active among Muslim separatists).

As the Taliban see it, the UN and others (such as New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, Taiwan's National Palace Museum, and even such Taliban friends as Iran, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) will give millions of dollars to save un-Islamic stone statues but not one cent to save the lives of Afghani men, women, and children."

Answer 3

Afghanistan is very poor country. Talebans of that time asked rich countries to give some help to elevate over all situation to a satisfactory position, like education, medicine, agriculture, and other necessaries.
Instead so called rich democratic champions were looking some where else, to fulfill their evil desires they started working on an evil plane, to initiate conflicts and differences between Sincere Talebans of Afghanistan and rest of the world. They raised issue of Statues. No one was worshiping or visiting those statues since long time, and they were staying addle. Talebans decided to destroy thing which was less important at that time for the country, so rest of the world will divert attention on real issues.
But so called champions took advantage of that action and used that action against Talebans and propagated, Talebans action against a faith.

Giving above facts to the members of Yahoo,doesnot means I am 100% with Talebans, They are common humans and human makes mistakes as well,they did some mistakes as well.

Answer 4

The Buddhists shouldn't feel special. The Taliban routinely persecuted anyone who didn't subscribe to their version of Islam.

Answer 5

Because they felt like it? :P.....

Anyway, they are not too tolerant (putting it mildly) of other religions other then their own.

Buddhist, however, does not think it is anything special for them the destroy. One monk I spoke to even said, "Ah, they destroyed the big statues? I do hope they build some stairs or bridges there."

Answer 6

Because religions hate other religions? This seems to happen a lot, in case you've been living in a cave.

Answer 7

No one was using them as Idols for worshipping, plus Idols are not allowed in Islam.

Talibans just desroyed Stone Statues, but who destroyed live humens in Afghanistan, and in Iraq?

What do you think about it?

Answer 8

Because they're mindless thugs who have no respect for antiquities of other cultures

Answer 9

Shows you how undiscriminating Islamic terrorism is.

Answer 10

the taliban would destroy any think not muslim and even muslim mosqs they don't agree with they are not serving God but their own ends.