Revolting. One after another hired scribbler blames the Buddhists for the jihad in Burma. What will it take to understand that Islam is a problem for everyone? Some may call it ‘hatred’, but we call it a realistic assessment of Islam. There was no moderate Fascism or Marxism, just as there is only one Islam. Don’t confuse ideology with biology.
The Venerable Wirathu hitched up his orange robes, stepped up onto a stage on a recent Sunday and tapped the microphone.
“What kind of people are these Muslims?” he barked as a crowd of 1000 in this small town east of Yangon cheered him on. “Do they eat rice through their backsides and excrete through their mouths? They are the opposite of everything in nature.”
Ven. Wirathu, the abbot of the Masoeyein monastery in Mandalay, has taken a leading role in spreading the anti-Muslim sentiment among Myanmar’s Buddhist majority that has underpinned the army’s campaign against the ethnic Rohingya minority.
Since the military released Ven. Wirathu from prison in 2012 after he had served nine years of a 25-year sentence for inciting religious riots, he has travelled and taken to YouTube and Facebook to whip up resentment against the stateless group, alongside other less prominent Buddhist hardliners.
In recent weeks, the army and allied militias have attacked Rohingya villages, driving hundreds of thousands of people to seek refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh in a campaign that Bangladesh authorities say has left 3,000 people dead.
The United Nations Human Rights Office in a new report this week said the purge was planned in advance, and accused troops of using rape as weapon. The agency’s chief, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, described Myanmar’s actions as a “cynical ploy to forcibly transfer large numbers of people without possibility of return.”
Myanmar officials have rejected accounts that members of the military have committed rape and murder of Rohingya and torched their villages.
And rightly so. These so-called “Rohingya” are nothing but illegal Bengali settlers who are trying to make Burma islamic. There has been no proof of Buddhists raping Muslim women, which is typical for Islamic jihadists, but not for Buddhists.
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