KUALA LUMPUR: More than 200 people are expected to attend a dialogue here on Nov 1 to promote Buddhist and Muslim relations in the region.
The inter-faith forum will see an exchange of opinions from participants of various countries to formulate ways in addressing social issues, said conference coordinating organiser KV Soon.
Muslims are under attack in Sri Lanka. Recent reports indicate that gangs of Buddhists have been roaming the streets, administering bloody mob beatings and attacking places where Muslims work and worship. Raw pork has been thrown into mosques, the Halal logo has been banned and the prominent Muslim government critic Azad Sally has been arrested. One dramatic incident ended with government commandos being deployed to maintain law and order after a gang of Buddhists injured four people at a mosque in Colombo, Sri Lanka‘s largest city, forcing it to close and a curfew to be put in place.
When the religious of the different religions refuse to coexist, when they accrue unto themselves the exclusive ownership of spiritual truths or geographic spaces, when rulers see in religions (and in the credulous religious) a means to temporal-power, societal-violence proliferates, wars ensue and tragedy strikes.
“Religions may begin as vehicles of longing for mysteries beyond description but they end up claiming exclusive prescriptive rights to them”. –Richard Holloway (New Statesman – 15.3.2012)
Last week Myanmar banned the latest issue of ‘Time’ with its cover-story on the violent creed of Ashin Wirathu, the Burmese monk deemed the ideological leader of the country’s anti-Islamic terror campaign.
The Rajapaksas have followed suit; probably because the ‘Time’ article makes a passing reference to our own Wirathus and their political masters: “In Sri Lanka, where a conservative, pro-Buddhist government reigns, Buddhist nationalist groups are operating with apparent impunity, looting Muslim and Christian establishments and calling for restrictions to be placed on the 9% of the country that is Muslim”[i].
SECTARIANISM Small colorful sticky notes and posters with the digits 969 has begun dive up everywhere in Burma. They sit outside shops, on cars and other places. The background is a wave of sectarianism that is sweeping the country.
In Meikhtila in central Burma, thousands of Muslims had their houses destroyed by Buddhist vandals.
Photo: REUTERS / Damir Sagolj
May 20, 2013 at 03:00, Updated: May 20, 2013 at 7:56 SvD IN BANGKOK (more…)
Policeman patrol a village in Myanmar in March following deadly religious rioting. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win.)
In the West, Buddhism is often understood as a religion of compassion and peace, with gauzy images of serene meditation, the hum of chanted prayers, a symbolic lotus bloom. So what are we to make of a currently circulating video of a robed Burmese monk wielding a sturdy pole as he joins a killer mob beating a defenseless Muslim man to the ground? In the background, mosques and houses are burning and Muslim children are running for their lives.
London: Amid damning reports showing official Myanmar complicity in ethnically cleansing entire Muslim towns and villages, the world’s foremost Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, has condemned the violence that has left hundreds dead and an estimated hundreds of thousands homeless.
In an interview with Channel 4 News, he told Cathy Newman that violence “is wrong”. When he was asked whether he could do something about the attacks in Burma (Myanmar) and Sri Lanka, he said: “In a student-teacher relationship, whether it is supreme teachers like Jesus or the Buddha, no one can control the thoughts of all humans.”
Evidence of the cooperation and mutual praising of Hinayana Genociders: Sri Lanka and Myanmar Radical Terrorist Buddhists
Birds of the feather. Sri Lanka monks are Bigot Terrorists committing Atrocities on Tamil Hindus and Tamil Muslims. Un had already reported about the Sri lanka Buddhist government’s GENOCIDE on Tamil Hindu LTTE.
“Ma Beda still managed to continue wearing the flower on her head”Rejoicing in the tidal creek, the blue coloured Miss Beda,Wants to dock at the shore near.The floating coconut approached and hit her side.It was quite a painful strike.Effectively hindering from soft landing at her preferred site .Miss Beda was attacked and drowned again by the another tidal wave.But she struggled and managed to float again on the nearby surface.Refloating again in the stream is also not an ‘easy ride’ thing.The ducts from the drain come out into the stream again, swimming.She was alone bearing the kicking attacks of hundreds of the ducks.But Miss Beda never gives up.She bites her lips but managed to wear the flower with a beam.While struggling in the rapidly flowing stream.
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London: Amid damning reports showing official Myanmar complicity in ethnically cleansing entire Muslim towns and villages, the world’s foremost Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, has condemned the violence that has left hundreds dead and an estimated hundreds of thousands homeless.
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