Rioting Muslims torch Buddhist temples in Bangladesh

American Thinker ^ | 09/30/2012 | Rick Moran

[SeekAndFind]

It's OK - a Buddhist insulted Islam so, of course, the Buddhists must pay.

Reuters:

Hundreds of Muslims in Bangladesh burned at least four Buddhist temples and 15 homes of Buddhists on Sunday after complaining that a Buddhist man had insulted Islam, police and residents said.

Members of the Buddhist minority in the Cox's Bazar area in the southeast of the country said unidentified people were bent on upsetting peaceful relations between Muslims and Buddhists.

Muslims took to the streets in the area late on Saturday to protest against what they said was a photograph posted on Facebook that insulted Islam.

The protesters said the picture had been posted by a Buddhist and they marched to Buddhist villages and set fire to temples and houses.

Police said they had deployed extra security forces and banned gatherings in Buddhist-dominated areas.

"We brought the situation under control before dawn and imposed restrictions on public gatherings," said Salim Mohammad Jahangir, Cox's Bazar district police superintendent.

Many people in predominantly Muslim Bangladesh have been angered in recent days by a film made in California that mocks the Prophet Mohammad.

Muslims in Bangladesh and beyond have also been outraged by violence over the border in Myanmar where members of the majority Buddhist community clashed with minority Muslims this year.

Police had escorted the man accused of posting the insulting photograph and his mother to safety, Jahangir said.

What the "Innocence of Muslims" film has to do with this incident is kind of murky, except that Reuters apparently couldn't resist blaming America for riots in Bangladesh.

[Iron Munro]

The muslims have pretty much had things their own way around the world.

They murder non-muslims just because they are of a different religion, rape their women, burn their places of worship.

Instead of appeasing muslims and worrying about offending them, maybe it’s time for the world to start dishing out to them some of the same treatment they dish out to others.

[Cronos]

I think it's wrong to say Buddhist nationalism. The thing is that the people of Sri Lanka are divided into two people -- the Sinhalese, descendents of people who came from Bihar (northern India, where the Buddha lived and was born) and Tamils who are Dravidian people who come from around Madras and were mostly brought there during British rule

The Tamils are Hindus or Moslems (mostly Hindu) and the Sinhalese are mainly Buddhists with some Christians.

So Buddhism is wrapped up with Sinhalese nationality.

[DuncanWaring]

Meanwhile, we borrow money from China ...

As an aside ... China's not lending us money anymore.

Very few people are lending us money anymore.

The Benbernank is printing it.