It is as clear as crystal, the large Buddah was a symbol of the local people. The face of the large buddah was the same like local people, those who are living in Hazarajat.
Islam came first to Bamiyan with the longest of the valley by YaqubIben legs in 871. Subsequently Muslim extremism and icon taste painstakingly cut the nose and eyes of the large buddah image, but left the figure standing. And the face was scratched by Amir Abdur Rahman, on the politics considerations. Because Buddah had the same face structure as the local people Hazaras. In the seventeen century Nadir shah had to broken the legs of the large Buddha.
The Bamiyan Buddah survived for sixteen centuries in the remote fastness of the Afghanistan´s Hindukosh. Neither the revenge of time by any standard these tower
Images formed part of the common culture heritage of the mankind. Viewed in this context their recant destruction by Abdur Rahman and his follower, it was really a kind of crime against humanity. Abdur Rahman, Nadir Shah and Mullah Omar will be remaining in the pages of the history as a criminal, and the history will never forget or forgive them.
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