Radical Buddhism Ascendant in Myanmar

New York Times ^ | June 20, 2013 | Adam Dean

[Pan_Yan]

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[Gay State Conservative]

Oh,it's *radical* Buddhism,is it New York Times? Of is it reasonable people defending themselves from filthy,medieval moslems?

[SueRae]

radical Buddhism?? Isn’t that an oxymoron?

[John Valentine]

Is there no sense that Muslims may be reaping what they so generously sow wherever they go?

[BBell]

Buddhist mobs have killed more than 200 Muslims and forced more than 150,000 people, mostly Muslims, from their homes

You reap what you sow muzzies.

[BigIsleGal]

More power to them!

[Irenic]

“launched into a rant against what he called the “enemy” — the country’s Muslim minority.”

Ah, WISE Buddhists not radical.

[PapaBear3625]

To the NY Times, it’s “radical” for normal people to think they should defend themselves from savages, before the savages exterminate them.

[tet68]

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.

[Will88]

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.

[schm0e]

i suppose they’re engaging in radical non-violence.

[PapaBear3625]

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.

[PapaBear3625]

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.

[elcid1970]

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.

[boycott]

muzlims getting what they deserve.

[schm0e]

Go Dalai! He must have read Aquinas.

[kabumpo]

I think that Buddhism is actually more pernicious than Islam, in a different way.

[Mastador1]

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!

[livius]

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.