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Radical Buddhism Ascendant in Myanmar
New York Times ^
| June 20, 2013
| Adam Dean
Posted on 06/20/2013 4:36:36 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
After a ritual prayer atoning for past sins, Ashin Wirathu, a Buddhist monk with a rock-star following in Myanmar, sat before an overflowing crowd of thousands of followers and launched into a rant against what he called the enemy the countrys Muslim minority. Ashin Wirathu denies any role in riots in which Buddhist mobs have killed more than 200 Muslims and forced more than 150,000 people, mostly Muslims, from their homes. But his critics say that at the very least his anti-Muslim preaching is helping to inspire the violence.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: buddhism; burma; islam; myanmar
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posted on
06/20/2013 4:36:36 PM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
Oh,it's *radical* Buddhism,is it New York Times? Of is it reasonable people defending themselves from filthy,medieval moslems?
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posted on
06/20/2013 4:39:45 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
To: Pan_Yan
radical Buddhism?? Isn’t that an oxymoron?
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posted on
06/20/2013 4:43:55 PM PDT
by
SueRae
(It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
To: Pan_Yan
Is there no sense that Muslims may be reaping what they so generously sow wherever they go?
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posted on
06/20/2013 4:44:41 PM PDT
by
John Valentine
(Deep in the Heart of Texas)
To: Pan_Yan
Buddhist mobs have killed more than 200 Muslims and forced more than 150,000 people, mostly Muslims, from their homesYou reap what you sow muzzies.
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posted on
06/20/2013 4:46:50 PM PDT
by
BBell
(And Now for Something Completely Different)
To: Gay State Conservative
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posted on
06/20/2013 4:47:17 PM PDT
by
BigIsleGal
(Wake Me Up When the Stupid Wears Off)
To: Pan_Yan
“launched into a rant against what he called the enemy the countrys Muslim minority.”
Ah, WISE Buddhists not radical.
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posted on
06/20/2013 4:47:52 PM PDT
by
Irenic
(The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
To: Pan_Yan
To the NY Times, it’s “radical” for normal people to think they should defend themselves from savages, before the savages exterminate them.
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posted on
06/20/2013 4:50:58 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: John Valentine
The article seems to imply that the muslim minority
is the one suffering here.
I can assure the paper that if the muslims were in
the majority that would NOT be happening....to them.
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posted on
06/20/2013 4:53:17 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Pan_Yan
Ashin Wirathu denies any role in riots in which Buddhist mobs have killed more than 200 Muslims and forced more than 150,000 people, mostly Muslims, from their homes. Now here's some religious discrimination that might well cause Obama to suddenly become concerned. Of course, all the persecution and murder of Christians in Moslem majority nations hasn't cause any concern at all.
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posted on
06/20/2013 4:53:20 PM PDT
by
Will88
To: Pan_Yan
i suppose they’re engaging in radical non-violence.
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posted on
06/20/2013 4:59:54 PM PDT
by
schm0e
("we are in the midst of a coup.")
To: Pan_Yan
Buddhist mobs have killed more than 200 Muslims and forced more than 150,000 people, mostly Muslims, from their homes.Per the CIA Factbook, the country has a population of 55 million, of which 4% is Muslim. That means the total Muslim population is just 2.2 million.
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posted on
06/20/2013 5:01:22 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: tet68
Interesting
tidbit: "Myanmar views the roughly 800,000 Rohingya [Muslim ethnic group] in the country as illegal Bangladeshi immigrants".
Myanmar borders Bangladesh. They've been being invaded.
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posted on
06/20/2013 5:10:22 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: schm0e
Well... some fifty years ago there were radical Buddhists in South Vietnam who self-immolated to protest government policies. Their actions brought down one Saigon junta after another.
I like the Burmese version better where radical Buddhists go after their muzzie enemies and kill them. The Dalai Lama himself said that if someone is trying to kill you and you have a weapon, the moral thing to do is to defend yourself.
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posted on
06/20/2013 5:11:03 PM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
To: Pan_Yan
muzlims getting what they deserve.
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posted on
06/20/2013 5:12:20 PM PDT
by
boycott
(CAL)
To: elcid1970
Go Dalai! He must have read Aquinas.
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posted on
06/20/2013 5:14:31 PM PDT
by
schm0e
("we are in the midst of a coup.")
To: SueRae
I think that Buddhism is actually more pernicious than Islam, in a different way.
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posted on
06/20/2013 5:15:53 PM PDT
by
kabumpo
(Kabumpo)
To: Pan_Yan
Aren’t the Buddhists the ones that believe they keep coming back until they get it right? The muzzies better watch out, if it’s true the Buddhists will out last them!
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posted on
06/20/2013 5:20:09 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Pan_Yan
Please. There are radicals in any group, but these Buddhists are just defending themselves. The Muslims want to take over Myanmar (or whatever its calling itself nowadays) and any country in which they happen to have landed.
The only thing Islam understands is fierce resistance.
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posted on
06/20/2013 5:20:22 PM PDT
by
livius
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