[vinnomot] Talibanisation reaches Dhaka Airport

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200810/s2393516.htm?tab=latest   Protest over statues at Bangladesh airport   Updated October 16, 2008 21:33:24 Authorities in Bangladesh have been forced to remove new decorations at the international airport in the capital Dhaka after Muslim protesters threatened to destroy them. Officials had commissioned the country's best-known sculptor, Mrinal Haq, to produce statues of five local folk singers to cheer up the decidedly drab complex. But thousands of Muslim hardliners say the sculptures erected outside Zia International airport were idols, which are strictly forbidden in Islam, and had threatened to attack the artwork with power tools. Authorities say the folk singers will now be replaced by a fountain.

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