Buddhism: The Wrong Backlash

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The Wrong Backlash Jul 2nd 2013, 23:00 The "Face of Buddhist Terror" cover story of Time magazine has stirred a backlash in Burma and Sri Lanka. The governments of both countries have banned the issue. The BBC reports that monks and laypeople marched in protest of the cover story in Rangoon yesterday. The article itself is behind a subscription firewall, and I have not read it. But I wish the message that had gotten through in Burma and Sri Lanka is not that Time magazine slandered Buddhism, but that the actions of some -- I believe a minority --- in the monastic sangha in Burma are doing terrible damage to the reputation of Buddhism worldwide. I've been looking into the background of the current conflict in Burma. Over the past few decades the Rohingya Muslims have been subjected to one outrage after another. I get the impression that the military junta running Burma from 1962 until recently were using the Rohingya as handy scapegoats for, or at least a misdirection from, their own corruption and incompetence. I don't see any of this ending well, or soon.

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