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Re:What Happened to Aung San Suu Kyi? by ncmncm on Sunday August 11, 2019 @07:24PM (#20671191)
I am always surprised again when no one mentions Buddhist principles in connection with policy toward "Muslims in Rakhine" or any other government activity. Have Burmese people drifted so far from those principles they no longer have any practical meaning to the people? Is "Buddhist" just an in-group?

This would not, of course, be at all unusual, given the example of the behavior of nominally Christian people the world over, in this and the prior millennium. In subway stations I see, every day, Christian evangelists standing right next to disabled people reduced to begging.

Re:What Happened to Aung San Suu Kyi? by chewz on Monday August 12, 2019 @01:18AM (#20672640)
> The text prophecies a war fought by an army of Buddhists and the destruction of the Muslim persecutors of dhamma; [1]

Kalachakra Tantra is classic buddhist anti-muslim text from XI century. Sadly both religions have very long history of conflict and misunderstandings.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalachakra

[2] http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14726.html

Re:What Happened to Aung San Suu Kyi? by ncmncm on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @01:44AM (#20683096)
Thank you, this is informative. I gives me a window into the historical development of the present world.
Re:What Happened to Aung San Suu Kyi? by netsharc on Sunday August 11, 2019 @07:58PM (#20671328)
Well, Al-Qaida and ISIS claim to be warriors of the Islamic faith as well. And some American Nazis say they're warriors of the Christian faith. And they say their version of that faith is the valid one (how the fuck does that include raping Yesidis or shooting up Mexicans, one could ask).