Those oppressive, bloodthirsty Buddhists are at it again, provoking peaceful Muslims to violence by daring to ... hold a festival. From Reuters, with thanks to Twostellas:
BANGKOK (Reuters) - A bomb wounded nine soldiers and civilian volunteers manning a checkpoint near a local Buddhist festival in Thailand's mainly Muslim south on Sunday, police said. The bomb, the latest act of violence in the region near the Malaysia border, exploded just 500 metres from the temple, they said."Nine people, including two solders are injured. Two voluntary officials are in serious condition," a police spokesman told Reuters.
More than 320 people have been killed in the south since January, when the violence the government blames largely on radical Muslim teachers began with a raid on an army camp in which nearly 400 M-16 assault rifles were stolen.
Radical Muslim teachers? Don't these teachers know their subject?
does Thailand' not have AIRPOWER? I saw a huge ex. not long ago? That is the Best way they know where they are? have a few bombs drop off the planes OOPS? HE!! HE!!
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Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Wisdom and Courage to Defeat the Islamic Treeorist and ALL who Support them Open the Eyes to their Threat and give them Courage to Fight them Amen
Is this article true? Can't find any other sources.
Yea Fox had it at the start of the week-end but stormy weather got their mind on their boats and summer homes?
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God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Wisdom and Courage to stay the course to Defeat the Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Eyes of the World to their Threat Amen
From what I know of Buddhists, though violence is non grata in Buddhism, but if provoked the buddhist warriors can probably be the deadliest on earth for the simple reason that they employ reason.
At least in the theravada school, the emphasis on rationality and questioning and looking at reality as-it-is without trying to work oneself into hysteria is so well-developed that the resulting war a buddhist is capable (in theory) of fighting would put a machevilli to shame. The naive jihadis ought to fear the monster thay're trying to awake.
Another Demonstration from followers of Allah. Yes, the bombing Jihardis detest anyone having fun
since Islam doesn't permit this so the sight of a
'festival' provokes Muslims beyond endurance...
It seems wherever you have the religion of Islam :you've got death dealing trouble. Please note,nations of the World.
Buddhists around the world,
marching for peace
with socialists, communists
and the mo-bots of islam,
WAKE UP NOW.
The believers believe you worship idols,
believe you are the enemy
while they soothe you with their lies,
manipulate and use you . . .
and if they get power,
they will persecute you
and kill your monks and your teachers
and your noble aims will
crumble in the dust of jihad.
voletti:
Your comments on Buddhists being coldly ruthless may explain why the Japs were so ruthless in their conduct in the war. Isnt Japanese philosophy deeply influenced by Buddhism?
Again, though the Nepalese are in the main Hindus, they have been influenced by Buddhism to a great extent.
Hmm. We must stop using Buddhists as the ultimate peaceniks.
DP111- Under NO circumstances does Buddhism condone or advocate violence. A more appropriate example of a nation influenced by Buddhism would be Tibet.
Those islamists were just protecting themselves from those evil dangerous prayer beed weilding buddhists. Reports just in at Islamist websites everywhere state how the buddhists tried to choke the islamists at the sites by giving them free lollies. Also there are reports of free food, no doubt intended to stuff the islamists so much that their stomachs exploded. Also reports that the evil buddhists priests were attempting biological warfare by kissing the islamists feet.
The atrocities against the Islamists never ends.
Oh the inhumanity!!! Oh Alah, how can they be so cruel?
Thailand, which while officially Buddhist, has long had high glass ceilings for its non-Buddhist minorities of Muslims and Christians (there are even members of the Chakkri family who don't get to be king). It certainly doesn't deserve the trouble it's getting in its far south.
Ironically, part of southern Thailand's trouble stems from the conscientious fence-mending that went on between Thailand and Malaysia during the latter decades of the Cold War. The two countries repudiated claims to each other's territory, cooperated against Communist guerrillas operating along the border, and, when the area was pacified, decided they wanted trade and tourism between the two countries. It seems the Thai jihadis, who are culturally and ethnically close to Malaysia, picked up a lot of the Islamofascist neuroses prevalent in certain Malaysian circles.
Much as I like Thailand and think it a pretty decent country once you get beyond its sordid sex industry, I beg everyone to cut the rationalist Shangri-La nonsense about Buddhism.
To say Buddhists are peace-loving because of the tenets of the religion is a little like saying Islam is a progressive faith because its theology and ideas about who Jesus Christ is resemble those of New England Unitarianism; or because its Sufis dialogue with Quakers. I've lived a lot of my life among Buddhists--home-grown, real-McCoy Buddhists rather than Western academic malcontents pretending to be such--and count Buddhists as friends and even kin (more Mahayanas than Theravada, though), I find them as much descendants of Adam the First as anyone else, with plenty of their own problems.
Northern Chinese Christians who've been that way for four generations have tales about the Boxers--defenders of Chan (the real name for Zen, since it was developed in China) Buddhism--that sound a little like the Assyrian, Armenian, and Anatolian Greek family tales tales from a handful of years later. Christians (Kachin and Karen) and Muslims (Rohinga) from Burma can tell a few hair-raising tales about what Buddhist chauvinismcan do when it goes on an armed rampage through an area where most people aren't Buddhists and, worse yet, speak a language different from the nearest Buddhists.
Come to think of it, the Burmans and Shan can be pretty nasty to each other even when both are Theravada Buddhists.
Sri Lanka, where early 20th century Sinhalese nationalism went hand in hand with an international revival of Buddhism, produced some ideologues, some of them bhikkus, every bit as nasty as Mawlana Maududi or Seiyyid Qutb. Theeir disciples, as soon as the British were gone, went after their Tamil Hindu neighbors with the tragic results that are still with us today.
As for the Tibetans, they're a hardy mountaineer people, so back in the unsettled first half of the 20th century, they were as given to brigandage and blood feud as any Chechens, Pushtuns, Kurds, or even pre-1745 Scottish Highlanders.
Thailand extends south of Nakhon Sawan and Laos exists because armed Thai Theravada Buddhists on elephant back ate the Mahayana and Hundu Cambodian Empire piecemeal between the 12th and 15th centuries. They then went on to subjugate the then-Hindu and Buddhist Malays of the upper Peninsula, who later quietly converted to Islam under the influence of traders and Sufis from the Indian subcontinent while their princes were paying tribute to the Thai kings.
Yes, the Dalai Lama probably is as kindly in private as he is in public, and there isn't a widespread international network of Buddhist terrorists. But Buddhists can be pretty violent when they want to be, too.
Much as I like Thailand and think it a pretty decent country once you get beyond its sordid sex industry, I beg everyone to cut the rationalist Shangri-La nonsense about Buddhism.
To say Buddhists are peace-loving because of the tenets of the religion is a little like saying Islam is a progressive faith because its theology and ideas about who Jesus Christ is resemble those of New England Unitarianism; or because its Sufis dialogue with Quakers. I've lived a lot of my life among Buddhists--home-grown, real-McCoy Buddhists rather than Western academic malcontents pretending to be such--and count Buddhists as friends and even kin (more Mahayanas than Theravada, though), I find them as much descendants of Adam the First as anyone else, with plenty of their own problems.
Northern Chinese Christians who've been that way for four generations have tales about the Boxers--defenders of Chan (the real name for Zen, since it was developed in China) Buddhism--that sound a little like the Assyrian, Armenian, and Anatolian Greek family tales tales from a handful of years later. Christians (Kachin and Karen) and Muslims (Rohinga) from Burma can tell a few hair-raising tales about what Buddhist chauvinismcan do when it goes on an armed rampage through an area where most people aren't Buddhists and, worse yet, speak a language different from the nearest Buddhists.
Come to think of it, the Burmans and Shan can be pretty nasty to each other even when both are Theravada Buddhists.
Sri Lanka, where early 20th century Sinhalese nationalism went hand in hand with an international revival of Buddhism, produced some ideologues, some of them bhikkus, every bit as nasty as Mawlana Maududi or Seiyyid Qutb. Theeir disciples, as soon as the British were gone, went after their Tamil Hindu neighbors with the tragic results that are still with us today.
As for the Tibetans, they're a hardy mountaineer people, so back in the unsettled first half of the 20th century, they were as given to brigandage and blood feud as any Chechens, Pushtuns, Kurds, or even pre-1745 Scottish Highlanders.
Thailand extends south of Nakhon Sawan and Laos exists because armed Thai Theravada Buddhists on elephant back ate the Mahayana and Hundu Cambodian Empire piecemeal between the 12th and 15th centuries. They then went on to subjugate the then-Hindu and Buddhist Malays of the upper Peninsula, who later quietly converted to Islam under the influence of traders and Sufis from the Indian subcontinent while their princes were paying tribute to the Thai kings.
Yes, the Dalai Lama probably is as kindly in private as he is in public, and there isn't a widespread international network of Buddhist terrorists. But Buddhists can be pretty violent when they want to be, too.
Much as I like Thailand and think it a pretty decent country once you get beyond its sordid sex industry, I beg everyone to cut the rationalist Shangri-La nonsense about Buddhism.
To say Buddhists are peace-loving because of the tenets of the religion is a little like saying Islam is a progressive faith because its theology and ideas about who Jesus Christ is resemble those of New England Unitarianism; or because its Sufis dialogue with Quakers. I've lived a lot of my life among Buddhists--home-grown, real-McCoy Buddhists rather than Western academic malcontents pretending to be such--and count Buddhists as friends and even kin (more Mahayanas than Theravada, though), I find them as much descendants of Adam the First as anyone else, with plenty of their own problems.
Northern Chinese Christians who've been that way for four generations have tales about the Boxers--defenders of Chan (the real name for Zen, since it was developed in China) Buddhism--that sound a little like the Assyrian, Armenian, and Anatolian Greek family tales tales from a handful of years later. Christians (Kachin and Karen) and Muslims (Rohinga) from Burma can tell a few hair-raising tales about what Buddhist chauvinismcan do when it goes on an armed rampage through an area where most people aren't Buddhists and, worse yet, speak a language different from the nearest Buddhists.
Come to think of it, the Burmans and Shan can be pretty nasty to each other even when both are Theravada Buddhists.
Sri Lanka, where early 20th century Sinhalese nationalism went hand in hand with an international revival of Buddhism, produced some ideologues, some of them bhikkus, every bit as nasty as Mawlana Maududi or Seiyyid Qutb. Theeir disciples, as soon as the British were gone, went after their Tamil Hindu neighbors with the tragic results that are still with us today.
As for the Tibetans, they're a hardy mountaineer people, so back in the unsettled first half of the 20th century, they were as given to brigandage and blood feud as any Chechens, Pushtuns, Kurds, or even pre-1745 Scottish Highlanders.
Thailand extends south of Nakhon Sawan and Laos exists because armed Thai Theravada Buddhists on elephant back ate the Mahayana and Hundu Cambodian Empire piecemeal between the 12th and 15th centuries. They then went on to subjugate the then-Hindu and Buddhist Malays of the upper Peninsula, who later quietly converted to Islam under the influence of traders and Sufis from the Indian subcontinent while their princes were paying tribute to the Thai kings.
Yes, the Dalai Lama probably is as kindly in private as he is in public, and there isn't a widespread international network of Buddhist terrorists. But Buddhists can be pretty violent when they want to be, too.