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2017-09-18 Southeast Asia

Buddhists to Rohingya: Leave, or we will kill you all

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Posted by Fred 2017-09-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army

#1 Good lord. What do you have to do to piss off Buddhists?

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2017-09-18 13:10|| 2017-09-18 13:10|| Front Page Top

#2 What do you have to do to piss off Buddhists?

The same thing you've to do to piss off Jews, or Christians, or Agnostics - be a good Muslim

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-09-18 16:18|| 2017-09-18 16:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Good lord. What do you have to do to piss off Buddhists?

Buddhists aren't a bunch of lotus-eating navel gazers. Thailand was a fairly aggressive military power for part of its history. Ditto with Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia, Tibet, Mongolia and China. What they have in common with Hinduism is the idea of reincarnation. When they kill someone, he's not really dead - at least not for eternity. He'll come back as something else. What they do have in common is a pre-modern view of war in general and rebellions in particular.

Civilians that are suspected of providing support for the rebels will be punished. That can mean imprisonment, torture or outright massacre. Think the treatment of Lidice after Heydrich was assassinated, but applied as comprehensive policy rather than as isolated tactic. That is why few rebellions last all that long in the Orient. The locals may or may not love the victors, but they definitely fear it, and for good reason.

The main exceptions were Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia during the Cold War and the Philippines today. But all four were profoundly influenced by their Western sponsors, and a precondition of that aid was that they refrained from large-scale killings that would pacify the land, but lead to howls of outrage from (typically lefty) Western journalists that would lead to the end of that aid. Large scale killings did occur, but they were perpetrated by the Laotian, Vietnamese and Cambodian communist victors, whose Chinese and Russian sponsors had few qualms about breaking eggs to make omelettes, as long as those eggs were somebody else's.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2017-09-18 20:17|| 2017-09-18 20:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Considering the basic premise of Moonhammy's death cult is to submit to the moon goddess.

Convert, enslavement to Dhimmitude or genocide. It's not hard to understand why they want to remove the porKoranimals.

But there are regional attacks on Christianity too.

Lao Authorities Threaten to Jail Christians For Practicing Their Religion. www.rfa.org/.../laos/authorities-threaten-to-jail-christians-for-practicing-their-religion-...
Sep 10, 2015 - A Lao boy prays in a Christian church in Vientiane in a file photo. ... Christians make up about 1.5 percent of Laos' predominantly Buddhist ...

We have a Laotian Buddha monastery near by. The do not want to chat about their nation's treatment of Christians. There is an element of nationalism in play too.

Posted by Woodrow 2017-09-18 21:42|| 2017-09-18 21:42|| Front Page Top

#5 So there's me, seething and grumbling about the PBS thing ("faw faw deceitful omission/manipulation of context blah blah"), and the next thing I read is ZF's post above. Restored faith, etc. Big thanks.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-09-18 22:04|| 2017-09-18 22:04|| Front Page Top

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