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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: As the cosmos goes from infinitely hot/dense to infinitely
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 20:53:27 -0000 (UTC)
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On 29 Oct 2024 16:19:23 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> When the Taliban blew up the Buddhas of Bamiyan many people wondered
> what Buddhist statues were doing in Afghanistan. The more pertinent
> question would be what Moslems were doing in Afghanistan.

You *do* realize that Afghanistan has had people in it for longer than 
Islam (or Christianity, or Judaism or Buddhism for that matter) has been 
around?

Notice place names like (Afghan) “Kandahar” and (elsewhere) “Iskandaria”? 
They are both local variations on “Alexandria”. That name happened to be a 
favourite of Alexander the Great; wherever he stopped to set up a garrison 
to watch over his ever-expanding empire, he would proclaim “let’s call 
this place ‘Alexandria’”. And so he left a string of places called by 
various variations on that name right through his conquests.