Buddist monks kill muslims!!!!

[Caesar dude]

No seriously dudes. The world has gone mad...totally mad!

Burma which is mainly Buddist has a few Muslim enclaves and recently there has been some tension for one reason or another. However the tension has escalated to deathly levels.

The police looked on as 25 muslims were slaughtered by a Buddist driven crowd! There is at least one eyewitness report of a Buddist monk using a sword to behead a muslim man.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/08/us-myanmar-violence-specialreport-idUSBRE9370AP20130408

There is a BBC Panorama programme due to be aired soon. I will keep you posted.

So much for the 4 noble truths!

Peace!! FFS PEACE!

[DigitalBuddha]

It's like Lenin said; well, sorry, actually it was Marx..."Religion, the opiate of the people." Fuckin' eh.

[RighteousDude]

Any moment now someone, somewhere is going to say, "But they're not real Buddhists!".

[Boston Rockbury]

Any moment now someone, somewhere is going to say, "But they're not real Buddhists!".

I guess everything we know is a projection of our mind so they couldn't be real.

[RighteousDude]

I guess everything we know is a projection of our mind so they couldn't be real.

Whaddaya, some kind of fucking nihilist, man?  Say it ain't so! 

[Boston Rockbury]

I guess everything we know is a projection of our mind so they couldn't be real.

Whaddaya, some kind of fucking nihilist, man?  Say it ain't so! 

i aint sayin there is no objective reality just that everything we perceive and 'know' is mediated by our mental processes - but the reception of sensory data, processing of it by the brain and projection of a virtual image is normally so slick that we don't notice that 'reality' is a creative process (until we take some mushrooms and the brain bit gets monkied around with).

[RighteousDude]

i aint sayin there is no objective reality just that everything we perceive and 'know' is mediated by our mental processes

Phew! Ya had me worried for a bit there.

Well, not really. All I had to do was to turn off the pedantic parser, and go with what I know instead. It's a risky business but I like sitting on the front edge of the sofa sometimes.  As long as nothing serious happens in 100 milliseconds or less I can keep up.

Carry on, but keep an eye out for armed religious loonies. Some days it seems that the bastards are everywhere, trying to force the world to conform to whatever goofy shit got into their heads.

[Rev. Gary (revgms)]

Sure they are real Buddhists, they're just doing it wrong. had to say it, :p

The problem with religions is they are populated with people, people have all sorts of reasons to resort to violence. In this part of the world Buddhism is less a "religion" and more an identity, an ethnocentric identity. When you have cultures separated by deeply held identities plus social/economic problems, just sit back and wait for the blood to be spilt.

[Abideist]

Whoa dudes, did you actually read the story? 

It was the fucking MUSLIMS that incited the riot to begin with, and it was the MUSLIMS that beheaded a Buddhist monk which was the first killing that the Burmese monks retaliated for.

Personally, and I may be shunned by my fellow dudes for saying this, but FUCK muslims. And although I cannot condone the killing of innocent people, and I especially cannot abide by the murder of children, good god what were they thinking; I still believe the Burmese are taking a step to stop an even bigger world threat, which is the muslim religion.  These people want to fucking kill everyone who isn't muslim, they are always first to violence, they are always hateful and boasting, and they are liars. They openly admit in their own country and to each other, that anyone who is not muslim should be put to death, but the ones here in America or anywhere else in the world always claim "no no, that's the radicals" I'm just a good little muslim",  ( you would say the same shit if you were behind enemy lines or surrounded by enemies)  They are here in America, and are just evil people, period, boo on muslims, and I for one, am not leaving, I'm gonna drink my coffee, and any muslims can just kiss my glorious white American ass.

[RighteousDude]

Personally, and I may be shunned by my fellow dudes for saying this, but FUCK muslims.

Good guess, man.

[Abideist]

Personally, and I may be shunned by my fellow dudes for saying this, but FUCK muslims.

Good guess, man.

Guess you never lost anyone to muslim terrorists.  Maybe you're one of them.

[DigitalBuddha]

Islamic terrorism has to be faced, and it has to be seen for what it is; pure evil. Not doing so, not understanding that islam does pose a genuine threat to world peace and freedom, is not wise. It would be similar to refusing to face the nazi threat in pre-WWII Germany, and we all know how that ended. It is a fact of the 21st century that islam has all but replaced communism as the predominate challenge to security and liberty of the planet.

North Korea is about the only communist threat left on earth, and they can be handled, even with their childish and ridiculous nuclear sabre rattling.

Islam is NOT a religion of peace, that claim is absolute bullshit, unless you mean "peace after we have killed everyone who is not islam, subjugated all who are islam and rule the world by sharia law". It is practiced as a very undude uptight religion, and "convert by the sword" is native to the Qu'ran. Violent overthrow of other religions and cultures goes back to the very beginning of islam, the violence we are seeing is nothing new to muslims, its part of their very up bringing, doctrine and teaching.

At it's core, islam is in fact a religion of hate and intolerance. That DOES NOT mean that the majority of muslims practice violence or believe in violent or forceful overthrow of others, they don't, BUT, plenty of their fellow muslims do. Not recognizing that reality is dangerous.

Islam has nuroshied a reputation of "the largest religion" and therefore unstoppable. In reality, this is nonsense; only a billion people on earth are muslims, and there are over six billion on the planet; they are out numbered more than five to one, (hell, even the catholics out number them as do the nation of China) and only an estimated ten to fifteen per cent are dedicated "authentic" muslims with the rest being more on the cultural side and not daily practicing muslims. And only an estimated ten percent of authentic muslims are "radical" and even a far smaller amount active Jihadists. Yes, even with all of that narrowing down of numbers, there still remains a dangerous number of muslims that will, and are, being confronted because of their terrorism and terrorists plans; they are NOT to be trifled with.

As an example, witness how the muslims flooded out into the streets in Afghanistan when the morons, the Taliban, were run out of their country and deposed. It was sheer celebration that a worthless insane hardline group of muslims had been vanquished. The press has built them, islam worldwide, up into a gigantic unstoppable united religion, they are anything but that. In fact, sunni muslims are strongly (and at times, violently) opposed to shiite muslims, and often are at war between themselves.

All in all, clear thinking is needed here. Islam, the radicals, need to be put into submission to international law, and each nation with muslims must keep their religion under control with good laws and a democratic infrastructure. Britain is facing that challenge now, as is, to a far lessor degree, America. I personally feel that islam is fucking mindless ignorant stupidity, but I am more than willing to live in peace, real peace, with muslims. But I am also willing to tell islam...ACROSS THIS LINE, YOU DO NOT!

A friend of mine posted this on Facebook a few days ago...

[Boston Rockbury]

There are clearly some problems with certain expressions of Islam but to jump from that to 'fuck muslims' is to forget that these people are our brothers and sisters.

[RighteousDude]

There are clearly some problems with certain expressions of Islam but to jump from that to 'fuck muslims' is to forget that these people are our brothers and sisters.

There's really no way that I can see to substantiate any claim that this or that Abrahamic religion is more or less violent than any other. It might be argued that the Mormons have toned it down since disbanding Joe Smith's hit squads, I guess. They still preach hate, but then apparently so do some Dudeists so that's a wash.

I can't find it in me to hate people just because they believe in invisible space monsters and the umbrella of their beliefs happens to cover some violent sects. If I went that way I'd have to hate almost everyone I know.

[DigitalBuddha]

There are clearly some problems with certain expressions of Islam but to jump from that to 'fuck muslims' is to forget that these people are our brothers and sisters.

Perhaps, but merely calling them "our brothers and sisters" does not face the reality that islam does pose a threat to freedom, democracy, security and human rights. If they are "our brothers and sisters" then they need to start acting like it.