Article

2013-05-03 Southeast Asia

Why are Buddhist monks attacking Muslims?

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by tipper 2013-05-03 11:15|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 IMO, the sign that monk holds, says it all.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-05-03 12:05|| 2013-05-03 12:05|| Front Page Top

#2 The article is a bunch of leftist drivel, it even slips in a couple of digs at Christianity.

Of course the article says nary a word about the horrific track record of Moslems toward believers of other religion. I for one am completely fed up with this bull shit of making excuses for terrorism and trotting out every response to that intimidation and terror as something awful.

Just another piece of crap from a useful idiot lefty with no clue or historical understanding of which he writes.

No mention either of the Taliban blowing up those 2,000 year old Buddhist relics in Afghanistan either. I wanted to riot in the streets over that.

Burning a mosque, that's nothing compared to what the Moslems do to Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, and Hebrews.

Good riddance, I hope the monks burn the whole country to the ground.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-05-03 13:07|| 2013-05-03 13:07|| Front Page Top

#3 I feel like a fucking broken record.

BUT...

Britain more-or-less betrayed the Shan and other mountain peoples in Burma by denying them independence from Burma when Burma split off from the British Empire.

This was a gross injustice to people who sided with Britain in the fight against Japan, and who have suffered, for the most part, a slow-motion ethnic cleansing for most of the last half-century.

But now they're shocked, SHOCKED, to find out that the Burmese government is oppressive to ethnic minorities?

This wasn't anything _new_, it's just a different choice of victim than the usual ones.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-05-03 13:34|| 2013-05-03 13:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Britain more-or-less betrayed the Shan and other mountain peoples in Burma

The Shan, one of many betrayed I'm afraid. To be fair, the UK has had plenty of assistance from their colonial cousins I might add.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-03 13:55|| 2013-05-03 13:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Nards

Posted by bman 2013-05-03 15:54|| 2013-05-03 15:54|| Front Page Top

23:54 JosephMendiola
23:01 Bill Clinton
22:56 JosephMendiola
22:47 JosephMendiola
22:44 gorb
22:44 JosephMendiola
22:37 gorb
22:36 JosephMendiola
22:31 gorb
22:29 JosephMendiola
22:22 Raj
22:20 gorb
22:19 JosephMendiola
22:14 gorb
22:12 KBK
22:09 M. Murcek
22:09 gorb
22:06 KBK
22:05 JosephMendiola
22:03 KBK
22:01 JosephMendiola
21:55 gorb
21:45 European Conservative
21:20 Barbara