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Rise of violent Buddhist rhetoric in Asia defies stereotypes
yahoo ^ | March 12, 2018 | Jerome TAYLOR ,AFP•

Posted on 03/12/2018 12:23:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Buddhist mobs in Sri Lanka last week led anti-Muslim riots that left at least three dead and more than 200 Muslim-owned establishments in ruins, just the latest bout of communal violence there stoked by Buddhist nationalists.

In Myanmar, ultra-nationalist monks led by firebrand preacher Wirathu have poured vitriol on the country's small Muslim population, cheering a military crackdown forcing nearly 700,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh.

And in neighbouring Thailand, a prominent monk found himself in hot water for calling on followers to burn down mosques.

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After the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha statues in Afghanistan ...Islam as invasive, toppling ancient Buddhist empires in Malaysia and Indonesia and now threatening the same for modern Buddhist nations through jihad or high birth rates.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: War on Terror
KEYWORDS: buddhism; buddhists; islam; muslims; rop
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The rest of the article is mostly pro-Muslim propaganda.
1 posted on 03/12/2018 12:23:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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What could they possibly have against Muslims?


2 posted on 03/12/2018 12:25:08 PM PDT by marron
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When Buddhists riot, things have become pretty bad. When moslems are involved things become bad. So...


3 posted on 03/12/2018 12:25:36 PM PDT by captain_dave
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This is him, the firebrand. I'm serious.

We're ALL firebrands, now...

4 posted on 03/12/2018 12:27:09 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: BenLurkin

Islam is really bad if it riles up Buddhists.


5 posted on 03/12/2018 12:31:32 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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It really says something that muslims have even pissed off the Buddhists


6 posted on 03/12/2018 12:32:34 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: gaijin

Might be one of those kung fu guys who can turn you inside out before your eyes blink twice.


7 posted on 03/12/2018 12:33:10 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: BenLurkin

8 posted on 03/12/2018 12:33:38 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Britain,France,the United States and other advanced nations you see *huge* trouble with moslems.However,Japan...one of the world's most prosperous,advanced and stable nations on earth...has no trouble *whatsoever* with moslems.

Coincidence?

9 posted on 03/12/2018 12:34:56 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama & Hillary: The Two Most Corrupt Politicians of My Lifetime.)
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In Myanmar, ultra-nationalist monks...

Shouldn't that be "far-right monks" or "alt-right monks"?

10 posted on 03/12/2018 12:44:33 PM PDT by snarkpup (Fake news is one-half of the problem. Fake education is the other half.)
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Islam trumps Buddhism in the liberal progressive / victim stack.
So Buddhists defending themselves from violent Muslim migrants (like the Rohinga) or Islamic terrorism (India) get portrayed as the aggressors by liberal secularists who otherwise adore Buddhists.
Same trend is why Muslim rape gangs in the UK are identified as “Asian” instead of Muslim, though that ends up smearing Indian Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists in the process because liberals don’t dare admit it is ISLAM that the rapists share in common.
And why they’d literally sacrifice thousands of white working class, literally poor, British girls to a true rape culture.

Islam’s War Against Buddhism By: Dhammajarat
https://rightmindfulness.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/islams-war-against-buddhism-by-dhammajarat/

Note that British / liberal’s immoral false equivalence means that they now smear and actually arrest those criticizing Islam as “hate” while finally starting to address Muslim rape gangs they are forced to admit. That’s how they’ll still go after critics of Muslim rape gangs (as right wing hate speech) while having to deal with the fact Muslim rape gangs actually exist after police actively covered up said Muslim rape gangs.

Why Did British Police Ignore Muslim Gangs Abusing 1,400 Rotherham Children? Political Correctness
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerscruton/2014/08/30/why-did-british-police-ignore-pakistani-gangs-raping-rotherham-children-political-correctness/#3977812f5a7c

Grooming gangs abused more than 700 women and girls around Newcastle after police appeared to punish victims
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/grooming-gangs-uk-britain-newcastle-serious-case-review-operation-sanctuary-shelter-muslim-asian-a8225106.html

‘Girls must be saved from going through this hell’: Call for public inquiry into Telford sex scandal as it emerges up to 1,000 children as young as 11 were drugged, beaten and raped over 40 years
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5487167/Telford-child-sex-scandal-involving-1-000-Britains-worst.html#ixzz59SXRPVJf


11 posted on 03/12/2018 12:53:14 PM PDT by tbw2
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Wow - even Buddhists are violent islamophobes now?

Thank God for the Western Progressive elitist media, or I wouldn’t know what to think.


12 posted on 03/12/2018 12:56:27 PM PDT by PGR88
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Rise of violent Buddhist rhetoric in Asia defies stereotypes

First possibility that occurs to me is a pilot Fake News narrative to set up and Demonize Buddhists as the well concealed ultra violent killer Islamophobic haters that the Western MSM leftist know everyone but them are.

13 posted on 03/12/2018 1:01:42 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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Islam is really bad if it riles up Buddhists.


I imagine it would even rile the Amish, too, if we import enough of them.
14 posted on 03/12/2018 1:04:44 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The MSM is the enemy of the American people.)
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Those nasty Royhinga people aren’t the innocent, put-upon victims the Western media makes them out to be. You know damn well it takes a lot to rile up a Buddhist monk.


15 posted on 03/12/2018 1:09:53 PM PDT by Blurb2350
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A lot of westerners (mostly liberals) think that Buddhism is a pacifist religion. Its philosophy is anti-aggression not pacifist. Will Smith (J) stated the philosophy of anti-aggression pretty well in Men In Black; Don’t start nothin’ won’t be nothin.’


16 posted on 03/12/2018 1:27:16 PM PDT by TigersEye (13 Russian Facebook trolls ... and a Siberian partridge in a Russian Olive tree.)
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To: snarkpup

Trump leaning Buddhists.


17 posted on 03/12/2018 1:31:59 PM PDT by Fhios (Mr. Magoo, where are you?)
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To: TigersEye

“Josey Wales”’s words of iron to “Ten Bears”:
“I mean men can live together without butcherin’ one another.”

Dalai Llama: “They shoot at you ... SHOOT BACK!!”

American buckskinner mountainman rendezvous rule #1:
“The right to swing your fist ends one inch from my nose.”

GUL-DERN MOHAMMEDANS WANT IT THEIR WAY, RIGHT NOW, NO MATTER WHERE THEY ARE, OR WHAT YOU THINK, JUST LIKE THEM THERE MADE-UP CRITTERS NAMED ‘BORG’!!! (Chuck’em Foo mohammedan)


18 posted on 03/12/2018 1:36:28 PM PDT by Terry L Smith (.)
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LOL That’s right!


19 posted on 03/12/2018 1:41:03 PM PDT by TigersEye (13 Russian Facebook trolls ... and a Siberian partridge in a Russian Olive tree.)
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To: Blurb2350

“Those nasty Royhinga people aren’t the innocent, put-upon victims the Western media makes them out to be.”

Massive surprise attack against the Buddhists IN MAUNGDAW on June 8, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC7QFwiHYkI


20 posted on 03/12/2018 1:46:28 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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