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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: vaskidmark on June 13, 2012, 09:22:44 AM
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Over all, I think the closing paragraph is the best comment on the situation. But I just do not know how to separate the two constructs - it's like the Nature v. Nurture debate with just no good answer.
But if this keeps either/both sides from bothering the sex tourists I guess it won't be too bad for their economy. [somewhat sarcasm, somewhat not]
stay safe.
http://www.volokh.com/2012/06/12/buddhist-muslim-violence-in-burma/
Buddhist-Muslim Violence in Burma
Eugene 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.
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Coming next a TV mini-series . . . "Taliban Jihadis vs. Shaolin Kung Fu Monks."
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Coming next a TV mini-series . . . "Taliban Jihadis vs. Shaolin Kung Fu Monks."
[popcorn]
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Until now i though "Buddhist mob" was an oxymoron. Live and learn I guess.
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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?
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Coming next a TV mini-series . . . "Taliban Jihadis vs. Shaolin Kung Fu Monks."
I'd watch that team-up on DEADLIEST WARRIOR..... :cool:
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I don't know about that. It makes more sense than "Buddhist individual," doesn't it?
I was thinking more along the lines of the word mob meaning unruly.
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Religion of Peace meets Religion of Non-Violence
You know that's gotta end badly. (great title)
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Cripple Fight! Cripple Fight!
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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.
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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?
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Need I point out the long list of battle implements, martial arts, and torture implements invented by self-professed Buddhists?
Yes, please! >:D It could be SUCH a learning experience......... [popcorn] [tinfoil]
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Yes, please! >:D It could be SUCH a learning experience......... [popcorn] [tinfoil]
(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shaolinwolf.com%2Fbilder%2Fweapons%2Fweapon10monksspade.jpg&hash=c1e18c8650a5ae1af52cc0a1f1ba3ee1947c14fd)
Here we have a Budhhist monk learning to decapitate his enemies with a shovel in flight.
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I gotta get me one of them flying shovels.
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some background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_people
so probably not Talibs, then.
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some background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_people
so probably not Talibs, then.
Which, in my book, makes it even worser.
Talibs, being fanatical crazy people, have an "excuse" for behaving badly. The descendants of shipwrecked Arabs not so much.
stay safe.
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I met a lot of folks from Burma, they were always very nice.
They never called their country Myanmar.