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Adding fuel to the fire is the organization's leader, Mula Omar, previously identified as the leader of the Taliban in Afghanistan, who oversaw the destruction of the ancient Buddha statues of Bamiyan—monuments over 1,500 years old, deemed insensitive to contemporary cultural standards by extremists. Omar has stated that editing Dahl's books is a step towards a future where Western culture can be redesigned entirely to avoid offending anyone—an ambitious and controversial vision that many see as cultural censorship taken to dangerous extremes.