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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12048611" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/SNVws.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Maldives Police said Wednesday a mob had stormed the Maldives national  museum and smashed Buddhist statues, an act of vandalism which former  president Mohamed Nasheed blamed on Islamic radicals.  “A mob entered the museum yesterday (Tuesday). They smashed many  statues. This included some statues of Buddha,” police spokesman Ahmed  Shiyam told AFP.                                                                                                                                                                                                    In an interview with AFP on  Wednesday, Nasheed said a mob including Islamist hardliners had attacked  the museum because they believed some of the statues inside were  “idolatrous.” Islam is the official religion of the Maldives and open practice of any other religion is forbidden and liable to prosecution.               Nasheed's resignation came after a small band of policeman mutinied on  Tuesday morning and refused to obey an order to break up an  anti-government protest where demonstrators were demanding the president  step down Islamist radicals had been used as part of the attack on his record in  office, he said, referring to public statements alleging he was under  the influence of Jews and was trying to bring Christianity to the Muslim  nation. “They (the opposition) feared they had no chance in the election next  year,” he said. “There is no reason why people should be toppling the  government.”                 Presidential elections are scheduled for November 2013.                  Since the initial mutiny on Tuesday morning, Nasheed said mobs had  smashed up the offices of his Maldivian Democratic Party and a party  worker had been murdered.<img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/img/afp_logo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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