There seems to have been another glorious victory for religious intolerance and oppression in Pakistan. Muslim extremists have tried to destroy a couple of 2200 year old Buddha statues in the Swat district in Pakistan. The first reports said that they didn't really succeed. I hope that's true, but there are rumours on the internet that claims that they actually did succeed after a second try. So far I haven't found anything that confirms that. But it's sad that religious extremists learnt absolutely nothing from the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan. I have to agree with Robert Fisk that the big threat isn't Iran - it's the religious extremism that flourish in Pakistan.
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