Buddhism: More Background on Buddhist Violence in Burma

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More Background on Buddhist Violence in Burma Apr 30th 2013, 13:21 Via the Rev. Danny Fisher, see the Washington Post's portrait of Wirathu, a Buddhist monk being called the "Burmese bin Laden" because of his hate speec against Muslims. He is head of a movement in Burma that promotes Buddhist supremacy and segregation of non-Buddhist ethnic minorities, primarily Muslims. The most comforting thing in the article is that a majority of the Burmese sangha does not approve of what Wirathu is doing. But a substantial and visible minority are, essentially, giving moral cover to violence. Not exactly Right Action or Right Speech, it seems.

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