Mexico - desecration of indigenous heritage site
June 29, 2016 at 8:39 am
(This post was last modified: June 29, 2016 at 8:40 am by Regina.)
Religious bigotry in Mexico;
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/06/....html?_r=0
Another article in Spanish showing pictures of the destruction.
http://regeneracion.mx/testigos-de-jehov...rio-otomi/
An ancient Pre-Colombian site was desecrated by people claiming the Jehovah's Witness faith (allegedly) because of it's idolatry, which they appeared to disagree with.
It's said to not be a big or particularly important site, but I think that's besides the point. It's still violence and further desecration of indigenous heritage, in a country which has already had several centuries of such attempted cultural genocide.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/06/....html?_r=0
Another article in Spanish showing pictures of the destruction.
http://regeneracion.mx/testigos-de-jehov...rio-otomi/
An ancient Pre-Colombian site was desecrated by people claiming the Jehovah's Witness faith (allegedly) because of it's idolatry, which they appeared to disagree with.
It's said to not be a big or particularly important site, but I think that's besides the point. It's still violence and further desecration of indigenous heritage, in a country which has already had several centuries of such attempted cultural genocide.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
