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Buddhist-Muslim Violence in BurmaEugene Volokh • June 12, 2012 2:02 pm The L.A. Times reports:The unrest was sparked Friday following last month’s rape and murder of a Buddhist girl, allegedly by three Muslims, and the lynching of 10 Muslims in retaliation. The weekend saw rival Muslim and Buddhist mobs burn houses. The government said about 4,100 people have lost their homes, many taking refuge in schools and Buddhist monasteries.Analysts said that while the problem surfaced over the past week, the underlying conditions have developed over decades. A longstanding narrative of the military junta that had ruled the country for more than half a century was the preeminence of the ethnic Burman majority, which makes up about 68% of the population of Myanmar, also known as Burma.“The rest, the non-Burmans, were pretty much persecuted,” said Jan Zalewski, a London-based South Asia analyst with IHS Global Insight, a forecasting firm….As is common in such situations, it’s not clear to what extent the crimes reflect religious ideology and to what extent they are ethnic clashes where the ethnic groups are defined partly by religion. Thanks to Prof. Howard Friedman (Religion Clause) for the pointer.
Coming next a TV mini-series . . . "Taliban Jihadis vs. Shaolin Kung Fu Monks."
Until now i though "Buddhist mob" was an oxymoron.
I don't know about that. It makes more sense than "Buddhist individual," doesn't it?
Religion of Peace meets Religion of Non-Violence
Holy hell. It's like giving a loaded gun to a chimpanzee...
the last thing you need is rabies. You're already angry enough as it is.OTOH, there wouldn't be a tweeker left in Georgia...
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! AND THROW SOME STEAK ON THE GRILL!
I was always pleasant, friendly and within arm's reach of a gun.
If government is the answer, it must have been a really, really, really stupid question.
One of the most violent and bloodthirsty people in my old unit (which is something of an accomplishment in the USMC infantry) was a professing Buddhist. I think their pacifist nature is over rated.
Need I point out the long list of battle implements, martial arts, and torture implements invented by self-professed Buddhists?
Yes, please! It could be SUCH a learning experience.........
some background:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_peopleso probably not Talibs, then.
Politicians and bureaucrats are considered productive if they swarm the populace like a plague of locust, devouring all substance in their path and leaving a swath of destruction like a firestorm. The technical term is "bipartisanship".
