Word: mullah
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...regime intends to destroy these statues and countless other archeological treasures. Why? Because they are un-Islamic, since they are idols, sculpted in man's image, say the Taliban. "We do not understand why everybody is so worried," declared Taliban Supreme Leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, who issued the decree last Monday to smash all pre-Islamic idols around the country, "All we are breaking are stones...
...with the Archaeological Survey of India, he led an Indian effort in the 1970s to conserve the Buddhas, the world's tallest, standing 53 meters and 35 meters high. Sengupta spoke to TIME South Asia contributor Maseeh Rahman following last week's destruction order issued by Taliban Supreme Leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar. Edited excerpts...
...these Buddha statues, the Taliban leaders claim they are merely honoring the injunctions of sharia (Islamic law) against idolatry. Other Islamic governments protested. They joined most of civilized opinion in regarding the destruction as wanton and, from an Islamic theological point of view, unnecessary. The Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, was immovable...
...Mullah Omar is another good argument for the separation of church and state. The separation of church and art, however, entails a deeper tragedy: Can it be that tolerance and mere aestheticism represent a kind of spiritual death...
...mullah, Khatami hardly rejects the notion of an Islamic republic. His most cherished aim is to serve the Islamic government by giving people the right to choose it--a concept that is dangerously revolutionary to hard-liners who believe in imposing it by diktat. Outside Iran, especially in Washington, diplomats speculate that Khatami may be unable to convince the hard-liners that reform is really necessary, and American officials grimly point to Khatami's meetings with supporters of terrorism as a sign that he may not be as moderate as some hope...