Ibrahim wrote:http://www.vice.com/read/is-burmas-anti ... -neo-nazis
When most Westerners think of Buddhism, they think of smiling men with potbellies and inspirational quotes from Phil Jackson. “Buddhist neo-Nazi” sounds like a contradiction in terms.
But in Burma, vicious anti-Muslim sentiment has been on the rise, and Buddhist extremists are responsible for attacking Muslims and burning down their houses and mosques, a state of affairs that was largely ignored until Anonymous launched a Twitter campaign to teach the world about the genocide against the Rohingya people, the officially stateless Muslims who many believe will be massacred if the world does not respond.
According to Dr. Muang Zarni, a Burmese human rights activist and research fellow at the London School of Economics, much of the blame for the current situation in Burma can be laid at the feet of the 969 group, which he describes as an neo-Nazi organization of hatemongers who are using Hitlerian tactics to “purify” the country by getting rid of the Muslims—it’s also, he says, one of the fastest-growing movements in the country.
Interview at the link.
Thank You Very Much for your post, Ibrahim.
Buddhists can be violent....
Because human Buddhists are also Depraved Sinful Chaos Monkeys though the monks at least are supposed to be trying to work against that......
Supposedly the historical Buddha's cousin, Devadatta, became a convert but then overcome by envy tried to stampede an elephant against him.
Recalling the Warrior Monks of Mount Hiei and the armed partisans of the Pure Land sect........
Also Samurai who practiced Zen Buddhism or the Nichiren sect......
A difference between Buddhists (& to a lesser degree Christians) and Muslims is that Buddhists, especially monks, who get violent are acting contrary to the instructions of Siddhartha, the historical Buddha while violent Muslims are acting in accordance with the instruction of the violent Muslim prophet Mohammmed and his even worse sucessors such as Ghalazi.
How does a sect that is supposed to be non violent deal with others who are violent and survive?
Non-violence worked for Gandhi against the mostly Christian Brits but AIUI not so well with Muslims during the separation.......
Wondering if this is one reason, Buddhist saints in literature are sometimes accompanied rather rowdy
bodyguards such as man-like Monkeys
, humanoid Hogs
, and seemingly human Snapping Turtles
.
http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/kaufm ... ksjadh.jpg
Recalling that even the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy, Kuan Yin, sometimes has a bodyguard.......
That said, the 969 group described by the article sounds VERY aberrant.......
Rather doubt that Siddhartha/Sakyamuni would claim them as his followers but don't want to get into the "No True Scotsman" fallacy over who is and is not a Buddhist.....
The shame is that the armed monks of Hiei stiffened by some Zen and Nichiren Samurai with the Pure Land army to defend the monasteries weren't there to defend the Buddhists of Afghanistan when the vile violent Muslim hordes invaded and "slaughtered the shaven pated Brahimins", Buddhist monks and nuns. The 969 group could be the cannon fodder vanguard
Might not have the Malignant Malicious Muslim Meme in India and Burma and thus not have this problem...
I am tempted to say that the Rohingya should go back to Bangla Desh but I know that they probably would not be well received..... IIRC this has happened in fact when some have tried.
Muslims often do not treat their fellow Muslims or benefactors well as seen with how the Bangla Deshis treat Hindus despite being saved from their Malignant Malicious Muslim brothers from Punjab by a largely Hindu army or how the Muslims of Afghanistan treated Uz after being saved from the Russians.
So again, why not contact the Turkish consul about getting Turkey to take them, Ibrahim. Turkey sometimes handles refugees & others well though when they do not it is spectacular.
Recalling the Jews of Spain who went to Turkey and the Protestants who fled from Eastern Europe to Turkey to become the pet boar hunters of the Turks
and eventually merged into Turkish society...
But bluntly I do NOT want more problematic Muslims including refugees, Burmese or not, in the US or even in Canada where they may wander across the incompetently guarded border into US/uz. Quite enough of ones like the Evil 19 of 911, the Vile Tsarnev brothers or the Somalis who are not of the Ayaan Hirsi Ali type who want to preserve what made Somalia bad rather than break their bad programming once they left for Uz or elsewhere.
Muslim countries should take Muslim refugees while Buddhist countries should take Buddhist refugees and likewise~ Christian countries like Uz should take Christian refugees such as Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqis, Egyptians.....
Or if their co-coreligionists are unwilling to help, it might be wise for the Rohingya to dump the Muslim meme and merge with the dominant Burmese culture.......
NOTES:
1. From your link:
When it comes to fighting this kind of abnormal religious movement, the language of human rights is never enough.
Perhaps true and also applicable to the abnormal religious movement known as Jihadi/traditional Conquer the World by whatever means necessary Islam....
2. From your link.....
If the West portrays what is happening in Burma accurately as genocidal, the international community will demand action and demand the perpetrators be brought to justice.
Not so sure about that.......
Sounds like another opportunity for the Chinese to get close to the Burmese military and exploit resources as they did in Sudan......
Chinese aren't as sentimental as Uz or even Euroz sometimes are...........
3. Betting you will likely denounce this post unread etc.........
Probably better that way.......
Except for the Rohingya you might save............
Disclaimer: NOT all Muslims are Violent Religious Fanatics who subscribe to the evil aspects of the Muslim meme but there are too many who do........
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