Posted on 05/22/2016 9:16:14 PM PDT by Cronos
At the entrance to Thaungtan village there’s a brand new sign, bright yellow, and bearing a message: “No Muslims allowed to stay overnight. No Muslims allowed to rent houses. No marriage with Muslims.”
The post was erected in late March by Buddhist residents of the village in Myanmar’s lush Irrawaddy Delta region who signed, or were strong-armed into signing, a document asserting that they wanted to live separately.
Since then a couple of other villages across the country have followed suit. Small but viciously insular, these “Buddhist-only” outposts serve as microcosms of the festering religious tensions that threaten Myanmar’s nascent experiment with democracy.
....Nanda Kyaw, a Muslim taxi driver who was beaten outside Shwedagon Pagoda, from which Islamic vendors were evicted a few weeks earlier, says he is still getting headaches.
“I have to drive every day for my survival,” says the slight 31-year-old.
At least once a day, he says, a passenger waves him on when they see his goatee. But the attack in April came as a surprise.
A group of young people wound down their windows and shouted racially charged insults. Then, he said, they swerved in front of his car and beat him with iron rods. They left him bleeding from his mouth and head.
“Some people stopped their cars and watched a little bit. It’s because it was a problem between a Muslim guy and a Buddhist guy, they are afraid.”
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As poor, isolated, and off the beaten path Burma (The Union of Myanmar) is, they know how bad muslim influence is. Burmese are a fiercely independent people despite their pacificist outward appearance.
Liberals, being devoid of common sense, can’t tell the difference between nationalism and a healthy sense of self preservation.
The American Left are really the new imperialists in this world. They will impose their leftist, anti-traditional agenda on the entire 3rd world.
I suppose because of their 50 year run-of-luck and success destroying America’s homogeneity and culture, they simply can’t comprehend other nations wanting to protect its own culture.
You got it.
Only the religion of peace could piss off an actual peaceful religion.....
This is how it’s gonna be in Trump’s USA. No moslems allowed. Go Trump!
There is no left wing that is uniquely American. Internationalist Marxists are the same worldwide. Even a cursory study of their philosophy reveals a contempt for all cultures; in the last chapter of the Manifesto, they express their intent to engage in “the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions”, across the globe.
That would be the world’s best idea if we can convince him to push for a Muslim FRee America.
Well, when you chose to travel, you knew you were relatively safe traveling in a Buddhist country. But, over the years, all of Asia and Southeast Asia has been over-run by Muslims with terrible consequences.
No wonder they want their safety back. And tourists that are not afraid to come.
When did Burma become democratic? I thought it was a dictatorship allied with China.
Islam is truly the scourge of mankind.
When you manage to get even the Buddhists pissed off at you, you know you’re a real pain in the ass.
If you look at the map of the Muslim world, at the center of it, you have some of the worst most unequal most repressive societies on Earth (e.g. Saudi Arabia), many riven by horrible civil strife, and then at the edges, where Muslims live in proximity to significant numbers of non-Muslims, there is conflict, from Burma, to Chechnya, to Israel, to Nigeria, to Indonesia, to Western China, to India, etc., etc. The conflict is not between Muslims and “the West”, the conflict is between Muslims and non-Muslims.
>When did Burma become democratic? I thought it was a dictatorship allied with China.
It cut a deal to become a US client state a few years ago when China was treating them like crap. Since then the US State Department has spent a lot of time stirring up the Muslim minority against the majority population or force gay rights down their throats. It hasn’t been a productive change for the country.
Racially charged insults? What is he, an Eskimo, perhaps a Pygmy? A different race than the other Burmese? Perhaps he’s Irish.
True...lol
i think after wwii
Burma went full socialist in the early sixties and has had various dictators. It remains to this day as a military dictatorship, for better or worse. Despite all that, they view islam as an enemy. They border bangladesh (islamic) on the northwest. Large no-mans-lands connect these countries. Makes texas and arizona look like a cake walk.
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