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[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — Timbuctu, Bamiyan, iconoclasm, dissolution of the monasteries, conceptual mapping, ethics, aesthetics, Venice ]
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Zen <\/strong>called the Ansar al-Din<\/strong> “The Taliban of the Mahgreb”<\/a> today, pointing to an article on the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas<\/strong>, and that’s an equation of a sort: destruction of the Sufi shrines in Mali<\/em> compares with and in some ways equates to destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan<\/em>. <\/p>\n

The similarity lies in the destruction by Islamic zealots of images considered idolatrous — and as Curtis <\/strong>reminded us<\/a>, a Chritian expression of the same concept also motivated the Iconoclastic movement in Orthodoxy. <\/p>\n

To some extent, the dissolution of the monasteries in Henry<\/strong>‘s England under Thomas Cromwell<\/strong> carries a similar resonance.<\/p>\n

Which brings me to two tweets I received in my Twitterfeed today.<\/p>\n

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Here’s Tweet Number One<\/strong>, as Dr Seuss <\/strong>might have said:<\/p>\n

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RT @Ed_Husain<\/a>: A Danish cartoonist upsets us Muslims, but Sufi shrines attacked in Pakistan, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Iraq. No similar outcry.<\/p>\n

— Aaron Y. Zelin (@azelin) July 3, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n