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Afghanistan archaeological sites dating back to 1000BC destroyed under Taliban rule
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
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Muslim militant radicals looted artifacts under soviets, under americans, in Iraque, in Siria and now. Not as much for hate (but they have a base for it too, and ISIS did it for PR sometimes), but to fund themselves and buy more resources, weapons. I remember the article about them being bored to death by routinely living and going to work, executing andministrative functions, instead of living in camps and fighting enemies. Seems like they still don't feel like they are the owner of Afganistan and that it'd last for long, or just to profit. Or they just had a hit of a nostalgia. I'd imagine, securing these sites, even if they wanted to, isn't the top priority of Talibs.
I'd abstain from linking it to Muslims exclusively because we all know where things in museums of previously colonial empires came from. And there are still people who buy looted stuff from war-thorn countries.
This isn't anywhere close to being an Islamic thing tbh. The Persians and Ottomans loved historical and foreign stuff, the Taliban is just a bunch of ignorant goat herders. Afghanistan has never had a tradition of scholarship and academia so it's no surprise that a lot of people there don't care about their history.
The Taliban is an import from Saudi Arabia which is why they call themselves the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan....... So of course they don't care about afghan history, their ideology is based on Arabic supremacy.