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Why are Buddhist monks attacking Muslims?
BBC ^ | May 1, 2013 | Alan Strathern

Posted on 05/06/2013 4:06:25 PM PDT by ifinnegan

First paragraph excerpt:

Of all the moral precepts instilled in Buddhist monks the promise not to kill comes first, and the principle of non-violence is arguably more central to Buddhism than any other major religion. So why have monks been using hate speech against Muslims and joining mobs that have left dozens dead?

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buddhism; buddhists; hinduism; india; islam; kungfu; muslims; namyang; rop; shaolin; zen
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To: ifinnegan

They are like everyone else, they’ve had enough and they aren’t going to take any more.


61 posted on 05/06/2013 5:16:49 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Who cares, send them some money.
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LOL..good one.


62 posted on 05/06/2013 5:17:46 PM PDT by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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To: patriot08

116 M5, T. Mae Na Toeng, Pai, Mae Hong Son 58130, Thailand


63 posted on 05/06/2013 5:18:52 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: All

At the risk of coming off as the you-know-what in the punch bowl, please recall that B*ddhism is an idolatrous religion and that these B*ddhists are rejecting proselytary activity by all Western monotheistic religions.


64 posted on 05/06/2013 5:26:11 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: carriage_hill

Glad to help.

We need a lot of laughs lately.


65 posted on 05/06/2013 5:30:53 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: ifinnegan

Don't laugh. You're next.
66 posted on 05/06/2013 5:32:04 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (REPEAL WASHINGTON! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)
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To: ifinnegan

Buddhism isn’t “non violent”... its the “middle way”... so they just want the muzzies halfway dead.....


67 posted on 05/06/2013 5:33:02 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat they sh#t on.)
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To: ifinnegan

Time for someone to call them “schoolyard bullies.” Obama? Your turn. Hairy Reed’s turn is over. Time for some schoolyard cheers!

“Go Buddhists! Boom, boom! Kick muzzlems! Boom, boom! Go Buddhists! Boom, boom! Kick muzzlems! Boom, boom!”

“Siss boom bee, hit ‘em in the knee! Siss boom bass, hit ‘em in the other knee!”

“We are the Buddhists, mighty mighty Buddhists. Everywhere we go oh, people wanna know oh, who we are are, so we tell them. We are the Buddhists, mighty mighty Buddhists. Everywhere... “, continue forever.

“Potato chip, potato chip, crunch crunch crunch. UN, UN, here’s your lunch. EAT IT!”

“Retard them, retard them, make them relinquish our land!”


68 posted on 05/06/2013 5:55:57 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: ifinnegan

AS per the politically correct instructions there is no maention that Moslems have been killing Buddhists in the southern panhandle at a pretty good clip. The 969 folks have understood what Most Americans are too willfully blind to see, that it is a fight for survival. They are entering the fray early before the Moslem killers have grown strong and the threat becomse immediate.


69 posted on 05/06/2013 6:06:04 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's EconomTheiics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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To: mnehring

1500 years ago Buddhism went through an aggressive expansionist phase, especially in China. It is in their background, and they do defend themselves.


70 posted on 05/06/2013 6:09:21 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's EconomTheiics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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To: x
In Burma it has something to do with ethnic nationalism, even tribalism.

It is a bit simpler and more obvious than that. Down in the southern portion of the country in the Kra isthmus there is a largish Moslem population.Moslems have been attempting to kill off or drive out the Buddhists there and have perpetrated some pretty atrocious murders, beheadings and such. It is self and national defense pure and simple.

71 posted on 05/06/2013 6:15:42 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's EconomTheiics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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To: TigersEye
Not only does he not understand Buddhism he is apparently clueless about recent history in Sri Lanka or Myanmar.
72 posted on 05/06/2013 6:17:53 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's EconomTheiics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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To: arthurus

I suspected that but I’m not familiar with the specifics of Muslim violence in Burma.


73 posted on 05/06/2013 6:20:44 PM PDT by TigersEye (If babies had guns they wouldn't be aborted)
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To: kabumpo

The Dalai Lama was hustled out of the country. He may have approved of the move but it wasn’t his decision. It was his votaries who did not want him to fall into the hands of the Chinese.


74 posted on 05/06/2013 6:21:04 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's EconomTheiics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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To: ifinnegan

any chance the bbc is going to report on the 3500 buddhist thai people killed by muslims


75 posted on 05/06/2013 6:37:24 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: ifinnegan
The Muslims attack Christians.

The Muslims attack Jews.

The Muslims attack Hindis.

The Muslims attack Sikhs.

The Muslims attack the Baha’i faith.

Why, they even attack each other!

And the author is mystified by this behavior?

What, was he born yesterday?

I've been wasting my time looking for the turnip truck he just fell off of.

CA....

76 posted on 05/06/2013 7:09:18 PM PDT by Chances Are (Seems I've found that silly grin again....)
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To: ifinnegan

...so the Christians, the Jews, the Hindus and now the Buddhists are all getting “aggressive” with Muslims?

Can it be that the Muslims are doing things to piss their neighbors off?

Nah - it has to be racism on the part of non-Muslims.


77 posted on 05/06/2013 7:12:00 PM PDT by Tzimisce (The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
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To: arthurus

Yes, I know that. I’m referring to the decades since then, that he has consistently told the Tibetans not to resist the Chinese conquest.


78 posted on 05/06/2013 7:36:39 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
Buddhism has religious monks and warrior monks.

The wise avoid angering the warrior monks.

Muslims are far from wise. So much for background, as the short answer to why Buddhists attack Muslims is: “To know Islam is to loath Islam”.

79 posted on 05/06/2013 8:38:40 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam is antithetical to, and Islam is irreconcilable with, America. Therefore - Islam Delenda Est)
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To: Bryanw92

80 posted on 05/06/2013 8:45:04 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, IÂ’m a conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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