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At the Maldives\u2019 National Museum, smashed Buddhist statues are testament to the rise of Islamic extremism and Taliban-style intolerance in a country famous as a laid-back holiday destination.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, as protesters backed by mutinous police toppled president Mohamed Nasheed, a handful of men stormed the Chinese-built museum and destroyed its display of priceless artefacts from the nation\u2019s pre-Islamic era.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have effectively erased all evidence of our Buddhist past,\u201d a senior museum official told AFP at the now shuttered building in the capital Male, asking not to be named out of fear for his own safety.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

AFP: Trouble in paradise: Maldives and Islamic extremism<\/a><\/p>\n

Question: Why is it the religious zealots who always hate archaeology? (via journalofajournalist<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the Maldives\u2019 National Museum, smashed Buddhist statues are testament to the rise of Islamic extremism and Taliban-style intolerance in a country famous as a laid-back holiday destination. On Tuesday, as protesters backed by mutinous police toppled president Mohamed Nasheed, a handful of men stormed the Chinese-built museum and destroyed its display of priceless artefacts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[127,43,128,8,149,154,152,111,102,153],"class_list":["post-2902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-video_graphics","tag-activism","tag-anni","tag-baagee","tag-maldives","tag-maldives-coup","tag-military-coup","tag-mohamed-naheed","tag-police-state","tag-puppet","tag-waheed","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-KO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2930,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2012\/03\/04\/the-collection-was-totally-totally-smashed-mr\/","url_meta":{"origin":2902,"position":0},"title":"The collection was totally, totally\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"March 4, 2012","format":"quote","excerpt":"The collection was totally, totally smashed,\u201d Mr. Waheed said. \u201cThe whole pre-Islamic history is gone. 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