Those of you that take this destruction of statues by the Islamic Taliban group as a springboard to rant and wring your hands about the dangers of Christian fundamentalism are so off base I can't keep silent. Sure, there have been outrages in the past like the destruction and pillage of the South American cultures, but now, in 2001, there are no threats of that sort emanating from any Christian religions. This is not to say that Islamic fundamentalism is the only fundamentalist religion mired in ignorance today, but it is the only one that is smashing statues of inestimable historical value. For such a slim volume, which for centuries has advocated peace and harmony among nations, the Koran has been interpreted almost exclusively in my lifetime by men of colossal ignorance. I'm not a fundamental anything, but in this thread, specious sideswipes at Christianity are intellectually unsound attempts to create linkage with moronic behavior in Afghanistan.