Posted on 05/29/2013 11:33:48 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
LASHIO, Myanmar (AP) — It was a terrifying sight: hundreds of angry, armed men on motorcycles advancing up a dusty street with no one to stop them. Shouting at the top of their lungs, clutching machetes and iron pipes and long bamboo poles, they thrust their fists repeatedly into the air. The object of their rage: Myanmar's embattled minority Muslim community. Residents gaping at the spectacle backed away as the Buddhist mob passed. Worried business owners turned away customers and retreated indoors. And three armed soldiers standing in green fatigues on a corner watched quietly, doing nothing despite an emergency government ordinance banning groups of more than five from gathering. Within a few hours on Wednesday, at least one person was dead and four injured as this northeastern town of Myanmar became the latest to fall prey to the country's swelling tide of anti-Muslim unrest. After a night of heavy rain, downtown Lashio was quiet Thursday morning. Soldiers blocked roads where Muslim shops were burned. At one corner where the charred remains of a building still smoldered, Muslim residents sorted through rubble for anything salvageable. One woman who had fled a mob a day earlier was still in a state of shock. "These things should not happen," said the woman, Aye Tin, a Muslim resident. "Most Muslims are staying off the streets. They're afraid they'll be attacked or killed if they go outside." The violence that started Tuesday in the northeastern city of Lashio is casting fresh doubt over whether President Thein Sein's government can or will act to contain the racial and religious intolerance plaguing a deeply fractured nation still struggling to emerge from half a century of military rule.
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This is what passes for "journalism" these days: thinly disguised agenda reported as news.
Actually, it takes quite a lot to make Buddhists go this route.
I am more interested in what the Muslims have been doing to provoke them. Frankly, I wouldn’t be the slightest bit surprised to find out that there has been unrest of the type that Thailand has been battling for the last few decades.
One thing for sure, there is more to this than meets the eye.
I’m a Buddhist, and I approve this ad.
Ah! Well down into the “report are a few words of the woman doused in gasoline. Still, the “reports” first few paragraphs set the tone: “feel pity for the poor mooselimbs”.
Payback is hell.
Now, now..eat your peas and chant...Islam is a religion of peace...
>> “These things should not happen,” said the woman, Aye Tin, a Muslim resident.
Aye Tin is correct, why did Mohammed initiate the slaughter of 300 million people around the World.
Perhaps the Euros could take some notes from the Buddhists.
Always ....
Stay safe !
Well that is a refreshing switch. Usually it is the other way around. Usually it is the Muslim minority whacking/raping the locals. Better to excize the cancer before it spreads. Them Buddhists are smart.
You have to have your head examined to accept Muslim immigrants. It is national suicide.
Trying unsuccessfully to recall when any MSM outlet has described any Muslim mob anywhere (Benghazi for example) as "thugs".
Maybe she was refering to the Muslim guy who doused the Buddhist woman with gas and lit her on fire. Probably not...
Its always nice to see muslims fearing something.According to Bin Ladin and his crew they didn,t fear anything,even death.So I guess that must have been a lie all the time.
Well, in a vague defense of writers just about anywhere, it is unlikely that a local Buddhist will read the article that portrays the mob as thugs, and then pop by and kill the author and their family.
Though it should be noted now that in quite a few minds, if you're mentioning a mob, riot, etc and fail to identify who is doing it, that many people will now assume that it is Islamic in makeup. That all the careful hiding by news writers across the globe is turning the 'religion of peace' into the 'religion of rioting'.
Always a good thing when impressions match reality.
Kind of like bringing lice and bedbugs into your house.
If it doesn’t tell the whole story then it’s propaganda. Has anyone written the author to ask why he left out the cause of the anti-Muslim feelings?
When muslims do it, they are “crowds of protestors”
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