Buddhist Religious Right

Articles

• A Malaysian Islamic state?
  1 August 2008, by siawi
  (Source: Daily Times, August 1, 2008)
  At present, there are several right-wing conservative Buddhist groups calling for Thailand to be officially declared as the first Buddhist state in the world; a feat unmatched by anyone else thus far for  (...)
• Death toll from unrest in western Myanmar rises to 84
  30 October 2012, by siawi3

  President Thein Sein on October 21 said it was necessary to allow international aid to the townships, where the population is mostly Muslim, despite objections from Buddhist groups.
  Newspaper said 2,950 houses, 14 religious buildings and eight rice mills were burned down.
  At least 22,500 people had been displaced and over 4,600 houses burnt in last week’s violence

• New Book: Buddhist Warfare
  5 December 2009, by siawi2
  H-ASIA, Dec. 4 2009
  Mark Juergensmeyer and I would like to announce the publication of our co-edited volume next month:
  BUDDHIST WARFARE, edited by Michael Jerryson and Mark Juergensmeyer (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010). ISBN:  (...)
• Myanmar: Massacres of Hindu Rohingya
  2 October 2017, by siawi3

  Among the half million Rohingya refugees who have come to Bangladesh, only a handful of them are Hindus. In their statements to many journalists and authorities, these people have described suffering horrors of slaughter and arson just like their Muslim neighbours. In Fakirabazar, masked assailants clad in black had shot and stabbed people and dumped the bodies in holes in the ground. The Hindus have started to blame “militant Muslims” for attacks on the Hindus. A group of Rohingya women told AFP they were Hindus, brought forcibly to the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh by a group of men and told to convert to Islam. A woman claimed to have been forced to perform namaz and wear a burqa.

• Amnesty International is ‘damaged’ by Taliban link
  7 February 2010, by siawi

  An official at the human rights charity deplores its work with a ‘jihadist’
  Amnesty International demonstrators wearing boiler suits

• Pakistan: Twin blasts at churches in Lahore kill five, wound 40
  15 March 2015, by siawi3

  A Pakistani Taliban splinter group claimed responsibility.

• Sri Lanka: The resurgence of extremist forces: ’Sinhala blood’ , ’Muslim blood’
  11 January 2016, by siawi3

  the Government should ensure that these racial extremists are brought before the law for inciting hate and communal threats. Failure to do so would mean that a lot of “Sinha Le”, “Marraka Le” would be shed and Sri Lanka could go back to its isolation by the international community.

•  SRI LANKA: DAMBULLA MOSQUE ATTACK - CONCERNED CITIZENS’ STATEMENT AGAINST RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE
  27 April 2012, by siawi3

  We pledge our support for a pluralist Sri Lankan society

• Sri lanka Muslims respond to the rise of Buddhist extremism in Sri Lanka
  8 October 2012, by siawi3

  The rise of extremist Buddhists in Sri Lanka is truly disturbing and does not bode well to the sense of national resilience that the government is trying to foster, at least in its rhetoric.
  The despicable acts on Bangladeshi Buddhists have absolutely nothing to do with Sri Lankan Muslims. However, such a press release can create the impression amongst wider Sri Lankans of a sense of guilt amongst Sri Lankan Muslims when there is none due to there being no grounds for guilt.

• Burma: Stop Muslim genocide
  14 July 2013, by siawi3

  The fate of the Muslim minority of Burma is hanging by a thread as mobs attack them while the police look on.

0 | ... | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 100 | 110 | 120 | 130 | ... | 150