What's worse? Gitmo or Bamiyan?

So, Muslims have been asked to make comparisons between what they feel now when US soldiers are reported to have desecrated Quran at Gitmo bases and what the world (at least as it portrayed) felt when Talibanis destroyed Buddha statues?

We all know, Buddha as a diety is largely worshipped/revered by either buddhist community and given lip service by few in India. But nevertheless, seems like the whole world was unison to go up in arms when Taliban bombed the statues. Rightly so, even Muslims governments and scholars had condemned it then. See Islamonline reports, for those who disbelieve.

But there is a major difference between what happened at Gitmo to that took place at Bamiyan. At the risk of being seen as sypathising with Talibs, I have to relate the truth without being a hyprocite.

Afghanistan had (still is) been suffering and bleeding after 25 years of devastating wars. Instead of lending a helping hand, the U.S. was enraged by Afghanistan's sheltering of Osama Bin Laden, who was a monster of it's own creation. After failing to extract OBL out of Afghanistan, the U.S. did what it does best: imposed sanctions on this already shattered nation.

So, When the world practically destroyed the future of afghani children with economic sanctions, they had also lost the right to worry about their past. I remember to have read a communique by the then Taliban government in reply to various Muslims government's request to spare the statues, which stated that their decision to destroy the statues had been made out of anger and frustration rather than anything related to Islam. Their point was that, the International agencies were then spending hefty amounts of money to repair the Buddhist statues, while nothing was being done to address the plight of Afghan children ravaged by malnutrition. It should be known that the statues were tolerated there for 1500 years but with the policies of UN bullied by US, they had turned into a hated symbol of Western preference for rock over Afghan lives. Their anger might be misplaced but was highly understandable.

It was more hypocritical of a country like Russia, for example, to voice its condemnation of the Taliban over the destruction of the Buddhas. It was reported that since the Russian invasion of 1979, "thousands of Hellenistic, Persian and Indian artifacts from Afghanistan's many-layered past have been smuggled out to the voracious and amoral Western art market." Status of gods were sold to the highest bidders in the market like cattles.

If we are, as we claim to be the guardian of cultural heritage, how come no one moved a army or called back it's ambassador to condemn the destruction of the historical Babri Mosque in India? In tearing down the Babri Mosque, Indian mobs threatened to "cleanse" India of all Islamic shrines, palaces and artifacts. Two-hundred million Indian Muslims were attached to the Babri Mosque, while there is not a single Buddhist living in Afghanistan. Later, almost 500 mosques and shrines were destroyed in Gujrat, India during the riots.

In India, we have great democratic system which far surpasses US/UK civilized first world. The governments who did this, were punished and rooted out by my countrymen on both occasions of wilderness. Alas...Bush and Blair have survived and that speaks volumes of the larger hypocritic attitude of these nations and it's majority citizens.

There lies the difference between Gitmo desecration of Quran and Bamiyan Budha destruction. There is absolutely no reason for the state funded and mantained agencies to desecrate something which has not brought any misery to then directly or indirectly. With countless innocent suspects and a U.S. federal court judge itself ruling that military tribunals initiated by the Pentagon to determine the status of terrorist suspects held at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are unconstitutional because they do not satisfy minimal due-process requirements, US is coming out to be worse than Taliban, as at least, Taliban, as a government, didn't break any of it's own constitutional rules or harmed the living beings of any other religion, so much...en-masse!!

You can't debate this one!!