pez writes:
>mmmmm,
>this is a human problem to deale
>behind the stone budhas
heiko writes:
Yeah. But this seems to be much the same in all traditional arab countries,
including Saudi Arabia etc..
Maybe it is different in Lybia.
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hallo heiko,
the stone buddhas & taliban government (were)/are in afghanistan; not
an arab country.
there is a teaching broadly called muslim and broadly referred to as
sh'aria law. this is what has been invoked as justification for a
broad range of laws on how-to-behave. some of these behavioural
codes, if conditions are 'right', make it downright dangerous to be
alive. the thingie is, however, these are so-called laws are based on
oral traditions (pre-muslim for the most part), that are not
necessarily stable and which differ from region to region, let alone
country to country and do not exist anywhere in written holy texts,
the koran, for example. the canadian muslim congess, along with
Other inter/national muslim agencies, has condemned 'honour' killings
and other manipulations of sh'aria. 'honour' killings, of course,
have histories in many parts of the world outside muslim influence.
what you refer to is a type of 'right-wing' fundamentalism not
restricted to geographic regions or religious groups. it's amazing
what gets carried along the trade routes nez pas.
christian fundamentalism is also based on an oral tradition [teaching
= interpretation] with regional variation, rather than a +/- uniform
bestseller [king james bible for example] and currently very
dangerous to a large segment of the world's population.
why, some of my best friends and/or ancestors are responsable for the
destruction of entire cultures, not to mention cultural and religious
artefacts, artworks, &c. the history behind the followers of the
Generalised Deity of the Westernised (GDW) is rife with the stuff.
i will hasard to say that one mightn't have successfully planned
Strategies in the third reich based on hitler being a vegetarian nez
pas. i'll even dare to suggest that the history of buddhism and the
different orders is rife with left/right wing political struggles and
fundamentalism. yes, there are right wing buddhists and massacring
vegetarians out there.
having said all that, i love what Kathy Forer wrote:
' It's quite poignant how the absence of the Buddhas is nearly as
powerful as was their presence.'
the truth is not out there, but to as derrida might say, literature is.
mit einem freundlichen cheerio,
marshalore
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