Jfc, why??? What did the most peaceful possible religion do to deserve a fucking airstrike???
Uh, you may want to look more into this. There is a long and bloody history of Buddhists committing horrible atrocities against other religious and minority groups in the region.
This characterization of the illegal military regime and its actions as “buddhist” would be a gross misnomer. The internal strife in Myanmar is one of military versus different socio ethnic and religious groups - this air strike on the buddhist monastery safe housing refugees goes against your very argument.
That’s not what OP is referring to.
Buddhist extremist monks have used hate speach in Myanmar for years to drive a genocide against the Rohingya, who they claim are a thread to the Buddhist identity of Myanmar.
Read about it here, for example.
I am a Buddhist myself, and I have to disagree with the “most peacefully religion ever” part. As the above example shows, every idea can be perverted and used for hate by humans.
Other examples against the idea of Buddhism beeing peaceful are Samurai beeing Buddhists, or that many people in Buddhist countries see disabled people as beeing at fault for their disabilities (the idea here is that the disability is the result of a karmic action in a past life).
Buddhism beeing overly peaceful is a misconception in the minority world (“the West”), possibly because it was introduced to Buddhism by New Age Hippies in the 70s, that worked it into the “Love and Peace” mindset that they already brought with them when encountering Buddhism.
I learned about Buddhism by one of the Lamas (Teachers) whon had encounter such Hippies and had been able to get enoth experience with “Westerners”, to be able to teach about the religion in a way that I could understand and connect from my point of view, while destroying the faulty concepts many of us have about Buddhism in the Minority World.
There are extremists in every religion is there not just as there are in every people? These Rohingyas committed genocide killing 99 Hindus in the very same month that illegal fascist military massacred over 100 Rohingyas during their insurgency campaign in 2017 Amnesty International. Let me guess that you are not familiar with the politics of Myanmar. The current military leader and the military’s political wing’s strategy has been to replicate Indian Hindu nationalist party’s strategy by wrapping themselves in ultra nationalist and religious ideology to win the elections. It was the military and its political wing who promoted and funded those militant monks - to this day. Yet those monks still remain a minority amongst the monk population and their following remains scant and small to this very day in Myanmar. There were many false-flag operations that were conducted in Myanmar by the military spreading rumours of rapes in one community by members of the other community or desecration of religious edifices which led to a few riots back then. When the Rohingya militants attacked several police stations and border posts in Arakan in 2017 successfully, this provided the military with the pretext to conduct a sweeping military campaign that created the current Rohingya refugee crisis and the earlier cited massacre. In the military-written constitution in Myanmar, the military is completely INDEPENDENT of the government and does not answer to the parliament or the prime minister. This campaign like every military campaigns all over the country are and were conducted without consultation of then civilian government, and done in support of their (military’s) political strategy. However that political strategy FAILED to win them much votes at all as the elections in late 2020 were won overwhelmingly by the NLD which was a clear REPUDIATION of the military’s ultra nationalist religious stand by the country’s vast majority BUDDHIST population. NLD was about to ascend to power for their 2nd consecutive term in early 2021 when the same military leader who ordered the brutal repressive campaign in Arakan staged a coup to seize the power he couldn’t seize through democratic means. The actions of this barbaric military junta whose leaders tries to atone for their sins by promoting a small group of militant monks does NOT count as blanket action by the entire “buddhist” majority population whose very voice through elections and through civil disobedience had made clear their disdain for the military’s actions. So do not accuse and falsely colour an ENTIRE population of something they have clearly stated in many unequivocal ways where they stand.
I have no interest in body count of each religion, as that’s just a pissing match that you’re taking exception to.
Holy shit you weren’t kidding
Yeah was just about to say, Buddhists are partially the reason I deleted my Facebook accounts, which sounds odd to say, but it’s true.
the junta, or whoever is in control is.
Oh that seems like a worthy target.
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