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UK’s Daily Mail: Buddhist monk slashed tires “because of his religious beliefs”

Jan 21, 2016 3:43 pm By Robert Spencer

The mainstream media would never, ever say that a Muslim murdered 130 people in Paris or 14 people in San Bernardino or 13 people in Fort Hood “because of his religious beliefs,” even if that Muslim was screaming “Allahu akbar” during his attack and explained and justified it by reference to the teachings of the Qur’an. Our governing authorities play the same game. Even when a Muslim in Philadelphia shot and seriously wounded a police officer, and then explained: “I follow Allah. I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic state. That is why I did what I did,” Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said: “In no way shape or form does anyone in this room believe that Islam or the teaching of Islam has anything to do with what you’ve seen on the screen….It is abhorrent. It is terrible and it does not represent the religion or any of its teachings. This is a criminal with a stolen gun who tried to kill one of our officers. It has nothing to do with being a Muslim or following the Islamic faith.”

That was just the latest and most absurd manifestation of what has become a familiar denial. The Fort Hood jihad massacre was “workplace violence,” and after every new jihad plot or massacre Western leaders take to the airwaves to remind us that all the bloodshed had nothing to do with Islam.

So here is the Daily Mail saying that someone committed acts of violence “because of his religious beliefs.” Are they saying that about the Muslims who plotted to murder police and soldiers in drive-by London shootings for the Islamic State? No. Maybe about the hijab-wearing Muslima who tried to stab a random teen on a bus? Not a chance. Could it be about the “I am Muslim, do you trust me enough for a hug?” guy, who was jailed for threatening to bomb an MP’s house? Nope. They’re saying it about a Buddhist monk who “slashed the wheels of 162 cars after he became angry when he accidentally squashed an insect.”

He did this because of his religious beliefs? Really? Did the Buddha say, “Slash the tires wherever you find them”? Do the Mahayana Sutras say, “He who accidentally squashes an insect must slash the tires of the non-Buddhists”?

The Daily Mail is an excruciatingly bad paper, an embarrassment to journalism. But in this it just reflects the zeitgeist: one may write about any religious beliefs in a way that reflects negatively upon them, even when one’s writing is inaccurate and fanciful. The only exception is Islam, about which a negative word must never be written, however accurate; when writing about Muslims who commit crimes in the name of Islam and in accord with its teachings, one must cover up the motive and posit some other reason for the violence, however fanciful.

Julian Glew

“That’s not very zen! Buddhist monk is jailed for 162-car tyre-slashing rampage after he accidentally stepped on an insect,” by Thomas Burrows, MailOnline, January 21, 2016:

A Buddhist monk slashed the wheels of 162 cars after he became angry when he accidentally squashed an insect.

Julian Glew, 45, who lives in a tent in the woodlands, went on the three-day barefoot rampage because of his religious beliefs.

He has now been jailed for 11 weeks after the judge said his actions were ‘not those of a person who lives for a peaceful co-existence.’…

Glew became frustrated and upset after inadvertently squashing the insect in September last year….

He described Glew’s excuse as ‘drivel’, adding: ‘His is not a particularly coherent theological view and I don’t think adherents of Buddhism would share the view that it was OK to inconvenience hundreds of people on account of an accident.’

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  1. gravenimage says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 3:53 pm

    UK’s Daily Mail: Buddhist monk slashed tires “because of his religious beliefs”
    …………………………..

    Witless moral equivalence, and for a number of reasons.

    Firstly, there is nothing in Buddhism that tells you to fly into a rage and destroy other’s property if a creature is accidentally harmed–just the opposite, of course.

    Certainly, there is no global rampage of Buddhist monks slashing people’s tires.

    Is Julian Glew even associated with any recognized Buddhist monastery, or is he self-proclaimed? After all, he was living the woods in a tent.

    And then this is even more salient–as much as I would have wanted to be parked elsewhere when Julian Glew went on his tire-slashing rampage, *no one was harmed*.

    This is not like what happens when Muslims do things “because of [their] religious beliefs”–the body counts tend to be pretty high…

  2. ICH says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 3:58 pm

    I expected Kwai Chang Cain

    Instead I see Kwai Chang Cookoo

  3. exBuddhistChristian says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 4:20 pm

    How can he be a monk if he is not ordained by the Sangha? Lay practitioners are different, but even they have vowed to some precepts and taken the “3 refuges”.

    • worldcitizen1919 says

      Jan 21, 2016 at 8:56 pm

      The same way a Muslim may not be a Mulla but goes out and kills someone or does some harm.

      Buddhists have their extremists also like in Burma and Sri Lanks and fight wars like other religionists do.

      You don’t really think Buddhism is a non violent order. Monks have for centuries promoted war when it was in their interests.

      When it’s ‘convenient” every religionist forgets his religious teachings. We should been fair and not Balme the religion but the perpetrator.

      • Western Canadian says

        Jan 21, 2016 at 11:33 pm

        You appear to be objecting to Buddhists fighting back against the muslims who viciously attack them. How revealing about you.

        • worldcitizen1919 says

          Jan 21, 2016 at 11:46 pm

          As a Baha’i I’m against ALL killing of anyone but agree totally with self defense.

          ALL wars and killing are to be condemned whether it’s done by Muslims, Christians, Buddhists Muslims or anyone.

          I condemn the slaughtering of Buddhists by Muslims and Muslims by Buddhists in Burma.

          Everyone has the right of self defense if they are attacked. But Baha’is do not agree with any form of supremacy whether white supremacy or Muslim supremacy.

          So we do not say any race, religion, culture or nation is inferior or superior to any other.

          We believe in the unity of all religions that all come from God and that religions decline and need renewal so every age Hod sends a new messenger. Today it is Baha’u’llah whose teachings centre around the oneness of mankind and religion, the abolishment of prejudice and hatred and establishing world peace.

  4. Mike Proulx says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 4:42 pm

    The Mayor of Philadelphia is in Lala land, and needs wake up from his stupor. What a joke these politician are. A jelly fish has more spine than this man.
    God help America

    • Greyhound Fancier says

      Jan 21, 2016 at 7:53 pm

      It’s their fear of the Muslims and their “multi-cultural” nonsense that all cultures are deserving of equal respect that gives the Muslims a pass. If the media and elites were not afraid of Muslims, they’d laugh at them, their absurd beliefs, their yucky social practices, their disgusting “family values”, their sexual mores…

      But fear of Muslims is rewarded by Western elites bending into a pretzel to avoid criticizing Islam. Bullying does pay off, until the bullied get sick and tired and fight back.

      I’m waiting….(crickets) 🙁

      • E Ward says

        Jan 21, 2016 at 8:55 pm

        This is exactly on point. It’s not complicated. Media are scared of Muslims.

        • DFD says

          Jan 22, 2016 at 1:21 pm

          E Ward says “… Media are scared of Muslims.”

          Indeed, here’s my proof. A conversation between a Muslim and a western liberal:

          Muslim: We did this because the holy Koran and the Prophet exhort us to such Islamic deeds and actions – Allah-u-Akbar!

          Liberal: No, you didn’t.

          Muslim: Wait, what? Yes we did… What are you saying?

          Liberal: No, this has nothing to do with your peaceful religion. You are just using your religion as a front for social and geopolitical reasons.

          Muslim: What!? Did you even read our official statement? We gave explicit Koranic justification. This is jihad, a holy war against you! You pagans, blasphemers, disbelievers and atheists.

          Liberal: No, this is definitely not a Muslim thing. You people are not true Muslims, and you defame a great religion by saying so.

          Muslim: What? Who are you to tell us we’re not true Muslims? Islam is literally at the core of everything we do, and we have implemented the truest, most literal and honest interpretation of its founding texts. It is our very reason for existence. We are acting according to the Koran, the Sunnah and the Hadith.

          Liberal: Nope. You are deluded, we created you. We installed a social and economic system that alienates and disenfranchises you, and that’s why you did this. We’re sorry for having done so, we are sorry for our past.

          Muslim: Are you out of your mind? Why are you apologizing? We just slaughtered you mercilessly in the streets. Killing and mutilating unwitting civilians — disenfranchisement doesn’t even enter into it!

          Liberal: No, no, it’s our fault. We don’t blame you for feeling unwelcome, and lashing out against our injustice, our lack of accommodating you, and our disrespect for your rights.

          Muslim: Seriously, stop taking credit for this! We worked really hard to pull this off, and we’re not going to let you take that away from us.

          Liberal: No, we nourished your extremism. We accept full blame.

          Muslim: By Allah! How many people do we have to kill around here to get our message across?

  5. salim says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 5:15 pm

    I personally think the Daily Mail is the most pro islamic of the British MSM (which is generally pro islamic). I also believe it has the most sinister agenda. They wouldn’t publish a comment that remotely criticises Islam.
    What puzzles me is why are they so keen to sanitise Islam.
    Britain is leading the world in surrendering to Islam

    • Judi says

      Jan 21, 2016 at 6:50 pm

      It used to be very right-wing and anti-muslim, with reporters such as Richard Littlejohn. who is (was) pro Israel. I don’t know what has happened. As far as I know, no Arabs have a stake in it.

  6. Angemon says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 5:22 pm

    Julian Glew, 45, who lives in a tent in the woodlands, went on the three-day barefoot rampage because of his religious beliefs.

    I’ll believe it when I see the Buddhist scriptures mandating Buddhists to slash tires. Until then, Hanlon’s razor.

  7. Georg says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 5:48 pm

    These insights with undeniable implications always go over like a lead balloon; a sad commentary on the zeitgeist.

  8. Oliver says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 6:19 pm

    Probably, because they have brains, where the witless Germans, French and English, joined by the Canadians now; and Australians, and misc. other Europeans (Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, etc) do not.

  9. Mo says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 6:35 pm

    Better slashing tires than slashing throats, right?

  10. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 6:55 pm

    “…one may write about any religious beliefs in a way that reflects negatively upon them, even when one’s writing is inaccurate and fanciful. The only exception is Islam, about which a negative word must never be written, however accurate…”

    It’s a rather courageous habit that the press have gotten into; ignore the big dog that threatens to bite your head off but give all the other harmless pooches a kick whenever you feel like it. Setting a great example for our kids to follow. Perhaps they’ll learn to push us about in our dotage but click their heels whenever the master faith blares out its message from the new minarets in our cities.

  11. sidney penny says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 6:56 pm

    another super paragraph from Robert Spencer

    “One may write about any religious beliefs in a way that reflects negatively upon them, even when one’s writing is inaccurate and fanciful. The only exception is Islam,

    about which a negative word must never be written, however accurate;

    when writing about Muslims who commit crimes in the name of Islam and in accord with its teachings, one must cover up the motive and posit some other reason for the violence, however fanciful.”

  12. sidney penny says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 7:06 pm

    In Myanmar,they call themselves Rohingyas but they are Bengali Muslims.

    http://sheikyermami.com/2014/02/short-history-of-so-called-rohingyas-aka-bengali-muslims/

  13. billybob says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 7:19 pm

    We’ve been had by the writer at the Daily Mail, and he is insulting our intelligence. At one point in my life, I had some involvement with Buddhism, and there is no compulsion in that religion to avoid stepping on insects. However, there is an ancient religion in India called Jainism where they do have issues with inadvertent insecticide. From Wikipedia…

    “In addition to other humans, Jains extend the practice of nonviolence towards all living beings. As this ideal cannot be completely implemented in practice, Jains recognize a hierarchy of life, which gives more protection to humans, followed by animals, followed by insects, followed by plants. For this reason, Jain vegetarianism is a hallmark of Jain practice, with the majority of Jains practicing lacto vegetarianism.

    If there is violence against animals during the production of dairy products, veganism is encouraged.
    After humans and animals, insects are the next living being offered protection in Jain practice with avoidance of intentional harm to insects emphasized. For example, insects in the home are often escorted out instead of killed. Intentional harm and the absence of compassion make an action more violent according to Jainism.”

  14. sidney penny says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 7:23 pm

    Newsflash:

    UK PM:”This has nothing to do with Buddhism.

    This is a criminal with a knife who slashed the wheels of 162 cars after he became angry when he accidentally squashed an insect..

    It has nothing to do with being a Buddhist or following the Buddhist faith.”

    Learned British Parliamentarians ( including Lord Tulip Siddiq) debating banning Trump from Britain were grateful that no Muslim was killed in the crime.

    UK’s Daily Mail: Buddhist monk slashed tires “because of his religious beliefs”
    JANUARY 21, 2016 3:43 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER 15 COMMENTS

    The mainstream media would never, ever say that a Muslim murdered 130 people in Paris or 14 people in San Bernardino or 13 people in Fort Hood “because of his religious beliefs,” even if that Muslim was screaming “Allahu akbar” during his attack and explained and justified it by reference to the teachings of the Qur’an. Our governing authorities play the same game. Even when a Muslim in Philadelphia shot and seriously wounded a police officer, and then explained: “I follow Allah. I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic state. That is why I did what I did,” Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said: “In no way shape or form does anyone in this room believe that Islam or the teaching of Islam has anything to do with what you’ve seen on the screen….It is abhorrent. It is terrible and it does not represent the religion or any of its teachings. This is a criminal with a stolen gun who tried to kill one of our officers. It has nothing to do with being a Muslim or following the Islamic faith.”

    That was just the latest and most absurd manifestation of what has become a familiar denial. The Fort Hood jihad massacre was “workplace violence,” and after every new jihad plot or massacre Western leaders take to the airwaves to remind us that all the bloodshed had nothing to do with Islam.

    So here is the Daily Mail saying that someone committed acts of violence “because of his religious beliefs.” Are they saying that about the Muslims who plotted to murder police and soldiers in drive-by London shootings for the Islamic State? No. Maybe about the hijab-wearing Muslima who tried to stab a random teen on a bus? Not a chance. Could it be about the “I am Muslim, do you trust me enough for a hug?” guy, who was jailed for threatening to bomb an MP’s house? Nope. They’re saying it about a Buddhist monk who “slashed the wheels of 162 cars after he became angry when he accidentally squashed an insect.”

    He did this because of his religious beliefs? Really? Did the Buddha say, “Slash the tires wherever you find them”? Do the Mahayana Sutras say, “He who accidentally squashes an insect must slash the tires of the non-Buddhists”?

    The Daily Mail is an excruciatingly bad paper, an embarrassment to journalism. But in this it just reflects the zeitgeist: one may write about any religious beliefs in a way that reflects negatively upon them, even when one’s writing is inaccurate and fanciful. The only exception is Islam, about which a negative word must never be written, however accurate; when writing about Muslims who commit crimes in the name of Islam and in accord with its teachings, one must cover up the motive and posit some other reason for the violence, however fanciful.

    Julian Glew

    “That’s not very zen! Buddhist monk is jailed for 162-car tyre-slashing rampage after he accidentally stepped on an insect,” by Thomas Burrows, MailOnline, January 21, 2016:

    A Buddhist monk slashed the wheels of 162 cars after he became angry when he accidentally squashed an insect.

    Some reports say that Julian Glew, mistook each of the 162 car tyres as Muslims.

  15. sidney penny says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 7:25 pm

    Newsflash:

    UK PM:”This has nothing to do with Buddhism.

    This is a criminal with a knife who slashed the wheels of 162 cars after he became angry when he accidentally squashed an insect..

    It has nothing to do with being a Buddhist or following the Buddhist faith.”

    Some reports say that Julian Glew, mistook each of the 162 car tyres as Muslims.

    Learned British Parliamentarians ( including Lord Tulip Siddiq) debating banning Trump from Britain were grateful that no Muslim was killed in the crime.

    • Oliver says

      Jan 22, 2016 at 7:02 pm

      A shame–a shame that no Muslims were killed– best, however, if killed by other Muslims; and normal peop-le left alone.

  16. worldcitizen1919 says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 7:31 pm

    Any religionist can become an extremist and do damage no matter which religion.

    Any religion joined to politics can become violent no matter what it originally taught.
    war through greed and lust for power and wealth.

    Dhammapada (Chapter 17 Anger)

    222. He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins.

    223. Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth!

    • Champ says

      Jan 21, 2016 at 7:43 pm

      Oh brother, just more *moral equivalence* from the “worldclassclown” …

      This is such rubbish, and he’s already been asked to stick to the real enemy our world faces: islam & company!

      • worldcitizen1919 says

        Jan 21, 2016 at 7:57 pm

        I was only pointing out that we can’t blame Buddhism for this persons action so why the aggro?

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 21, 2016 at 8:07 pm

        Right, Champ–just more Muslim apologia from the increasingly tiresome “worldcitizen1919”.

        It matters what a faith *teaches*. Buddhism does not teach violence, nor does Christianity. Would that were true of Islam…

        Also, note that he considers your mildly pointed, non-violent comments to be “aggro”–aggressive–a term he has never used in connection with even the most appalling acts of violent JIhad.

        • Champ says

          Jan 21, 2016 at 8:24 pm

          Exactly, Graven! ..great observation.

        • worldcitizen1919 says

          Jan 21, 2016 at 8:52 pm

          Well you seem to be more critical of me personally and I’m just trying to offer a different point of view.

          It’s ok. Say what you want about me. I only posted some good things about Buddha.

          Religion is not the cause of violence politics is. When you mix the two together it becomes deadly or when someone has extreme views it becomes dangerous.

          My point was that the Buddhist became violent because of extremist views like Muslims. P

          It’s not Buddha’s fault and the same with Islam. People with extremist views kill, rape and maime. These things were NOT taught by Muhammad or the Quran and I KNOW that. Only people are ignorant so they are easily misled and brainwashed into thinking evil comes from Islam which is pure nonsense.

        • Western Canadian says

          Jan 21, 2016 at 11:42 pm

          world citizens 19.19 level IQ is rather obvious… Buddhists fight back against vicious muslim,s therefore Buddhists are no better than muslims. That 90% of all wars, terrorist attacks, etc. in the world today, are crimes committed by muslims, is not course not to be mentioned. At least not to morons with room temp in Celsius IQ levels.

        • worldcitizen1919 says

          Jan 21, 2016 at 11:57 pm

          I didn’t say that. Violence by all is to be condemned.mnobody wants Muslims or Buddhists to be killed.

          There is nothing wrong with self defense.

          Whats your IQ test?

          That I demonise the Quran, Muhammad, Muslims??

          NO WAY!!

          Terrorists and terrorism is evil but not the Quran or Muhammad. That’s where you IQ is glaringly deficient to return the compliment.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 21, 2016 at 11:50 pm

          “worldcitizen1919” wrote:

          It’s ok. Say what you want about me. I only posted some good things about Buddha.
          ……………………….

          What utter rot. I have no problem with someone holding that the Buddha had admirable qualities.

          It is the endless apologia and false whitewash of the violent creed of Islam that I take issue with.

        • worldcitizen1919 says

          Jan 22, 2016 at 12:16 am

          As Baha’is we believe in thenQuran and Muhammad.

          Sorry you don’t like that but we don’t only accept Muhammad we accept Buddha and Krishna and Zoroaster and all the major religions as from God but they all decline and become corrupt after time so God sends another Messenger.

          Islam became corrupt so God sent Baha’u’llah we believe.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 22, 2016 at 7:03 pm

          “Islam became corrupt”–what “worldcitizen1919” doesn’t say here is that he believes that the foul warlord, slaver, rapist, pedophile, and mass-murderer Muhammed was a great “prophet” of God and to be emulated.

        • worldcitizen1919 says

          Jan 22, 2016 at 8:34 pm

          Muhammad only taught what was good as did the Quran. Baha’u’llah is the Voice of God for this age.

          His Words about Muhammad is God speaking. When God says Muhammad is true I don’t dispute even though everyone on earth dispute. God is NEVER wrong. And I stand by that with my life.

          “Blessing and peace be upon Him [Muhammad] through Whose advent Bathá [Mecca] is wreathed in smiles, and the sweet savours of Whose raiment have shed fragrance upon all mankind– He Who came to protect men from that which would harm them in the world below. Exalted, immensely exalted is His station above the glorification of all beings and sanctified from the praise of the entire creation. Through His advent the tabernacle of stability and order was raised throughout the world and the ensign of knowledge hoisted among the nations. May blessings rest also upon His kindred and His companions through whom the standard of the unity of God and of His singleness was uplifted and the banners of celestial triumph were unfurled. Through them the religion of God was firmly established among His creatures and His Name magnified amidst His servants.”

          – Tablets of Baha’u’llah revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas, p. 162

        • worldcitizen1919 says

          Jan 22, 2016 at 8:38 pm

          These are Baha’u’llah’s credentials.mChallenge thrm all you like. It is the agave of your Lord. If the Lord says Muhammad is good and true then all else are lies and false.

          “O ye leaders of religion! Who is the man amongst you that can rival Me in vision or insight? Where is he to be found that dareth to claim to be My equal in utterance or wisdom? No, by My Lord, the All-Merciful! All on the earth shall pass away; and this is the face of your Lord, the Almighty, the Well-Beloved.”

          Excerpt From: Bahá’u’lláh. “The Kitab-i-Aqdas.” Bahá’í eBooks

        • Champ says

          Jan 22, 2016 at 7:12 pm

          Graven wrote:

          It is the endless apologia and false whitewash of the violent creed of Islam that I take issue with.

          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

          Spot on, Graven!! I agree with you 100%; along with probably everyone else here on Jihad Watch, I would submit. Only muslims, or muslim apologists, might agree with “worldclassclown”.

    • Mo says

      Jan 21, 2016 at 9:38 pm

      @ worldcitizen1919

      “Any religionist can become an extremist and do damage no matter which religion.”

      Nonsense. Religions teach entirely different and opposing things.

      • worldcitizen1919 says

        Jan 21, 2016 at 9:43 pm

        It ultimately depends on how each individual interprets it. The Baha’is interpretation of the Quran produces peace, harminy and unity. Other groups their interpretation causes hatred and conflict.

        But yes you are right that they all teach a different aspect if truth. Buddha taught mindfulness, Christ love, Muhammad the city state, Bahaullah – the oneness and equality of all humanity

        • Mo says

          Jan 21, 2016 at 10:32 pm

          @ worldcitizen1919

          “It ultimately depends on how each individual interprets it. ”

          Again, that is nonsense. Just because you “interpret” something a certain way does not mean you are interpreting it correctly. And if you are interpreting something to mean the exact opposite of what it says, then you are either being dishonest/deceiving or you’re nuts.

          Jesus said to love our enemies. Can you explain to me how someone would or could interpret that as “kill your enemies”?

          “The Baha’is interpretation of the Quran produces peace, harminy and unity.”

          First, that is irrelevant. It doesn’t matter how Baha’is interpret it. It matters how MUSLIMS interpret it, since it’s their religion and they are the ones following it.

          Second, it’s nonsensical. The Quran clearly says what it says .I don’t know how anyone can interpret it to mean the exact opposite!

          Words have meanings. They don’t just mean whatever we wish them to mean at any given moment. If that were so, we could not communicate with anyone about anything.

          “But yes you are right that they all teach a different aspect if truth.”

          I never said any such thing.

        • worldcitizen1919 says

          Jan 21, 2016 at 10:55 pm

          This is th Bahais approach to the Quran as to studying it which is quite thorough and not just ad hoc.

          “It is certainly most difficult to thoroughly grasp all the Surihs of the Qur’án, as it requires a detailed knowledge of the social, religious and historical background of Arabia at the time of the appearance of the Prophet. The believers can not possibly hope, therefore, to understand the Surihs after the first or even second or third reading. (Light of Guidance)

        • worldcitizen1919 says

          Jan 21, 2016 at 10:58 pm

          Kill your enemies is simple if you know the history/Quran

          Sura 2;190 says not to attack unless attacked first.

          Enemies refers to those who attack Muslims FIRST. The ‘enemies’ are those who attack first. Quite clear.

        • Western Canadian says

          Jan 21, 2016 at 11:46 pm

          And now you lie about the unholy koran… What a surprise!! The rejection of becoming a muslim is considered at attack, so your lies are rather pathetic, even coming from a muslim. And the Bhais are NOT considered muslim, by muslims, so you strike out on that one as well. Merely having a prophet after mad mo, makes them unmuslim.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 22, 2016 at 12:04 am

          Yet more from “worldcitizen1919”:

          It ultimately depends on how each individual interprets it. The Baha’is interpretation of the Quran produces peace, harminy and unity. Other groups their interpretation causes hatred and conflict.
          …………………………….

          Baha’i make up a tiny minority–perhaps five million adherents worldwide–and the Qur’an is not their primary holy book, nor is Muhammed their primary prophet.

          “worldcitizen1919” coyly refers to “other groups”–that being the *1.6 billion* strong Muslims who *do* follow the Qur’an and Muhammed exclusively, who are responsible for the vast majority of violence in the world today, on just this basis.

          More:

          But yes you are right that they all teach a different aspect if truth. Buddha taught mindfulness, Christ love, Muhammad the city state, Bahaullah – the oneness and equality of all humanity
          …………………………….

          “Muhammad the city state”–huh? Muhammed did not create the city state, and Rome far outstripped anything he ever created, as has the free West more recently.

          Also, all the other attributes you list are moral precepts, though I might quibble a bit on specific points you are broadly accurate.

          But the “city state”–even if there were an argument for it being something the Bedouin Mohammed had been chiefly concerned with–is *not* a moral attribute.

          I am not surprised you were unable to come up with a moral attribute for this profoundly *immoral* figure.

        • worldcitizen1919 says

          Jan 22, 2016 at 4:56 am

          I was mistaken. I meant to say national state not city state.

          Muhammad’s Teachings Fostered the National State

          “Regarding your questions: It is not the City State, but the National State which Muhammad’s teachings fostered. Christ had nothing to do with the City State concept in any direct manner.”
          (From a letter written on behalf of the Guardian to an individual believer, October 22, 1949)

        • Karen says

          Jan 22, 2016 at 3:24 pm

          World Citizen, my copy of the Nobel Koran does not mention who fought first in the scripture you mention, 2:190, although 2:191 does when speaking in the context of sanctuary. So it seem rather broad. In any event, 9:29 gives wide permission to ‘fight’ and presumably almost anyone. How do you reconcile that? I’m sincerely curious; seems like many in Islam use this as a very wide excuse for violence.

        • worldcitizen1919 says

          Jan 22, 2016 at 6:31 pm

          Hi Karen,

          These translations should hopefully help.

          2: 190 And fight for the religion of GOD against those who fight against you; but transgress not by attacking them first, for GOD loveth not the transgressors.

          George Sale

          2:190 And fight for the cause of God against those who fight against you: but commit not the injustice of attacking them first: God loveth not such injustice:

          J M Rodwell

          2:190 Fight for the sake of God those that fight against you, but do not attack them first. God does not love aggressors.

          N J Dawood

          2:190 Fight in the way of Allah against those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. Lo! Allah loveth not aggressors.

          Marmaduke Pickthall

          2:190 AND FIGHT in God’s cause against those who wage war against you, but do not commit aggression –for, verily, God does not love aggressors.

          Muhammad Assad

          [2:190] You may fight in the cause of GOD against those who attack you, but do not aggress. GOD does not love the aggressors.

          Rashad Khalifa

        • Champ says

          Jan 22, 2016 at 6:44 pm

          Karen wrote:

          “…my copy of the Nobel Koran”

          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

          Perhaps Karen is being sarcastic, but the unholy quran is certainly NOT “Nobel” …it’s a manual for murder!

        • mach37 says

          Jan 22, 2016 at 7:06 pm

          worldcitizen1919, you keep quoting 2:190, which is peaceful; but what about some of the other verses in the Koran? How do you interpret these:

          3:85 – If anyone wants a religion other than Islam, never will it be accepted of him.

          4:56 – Indeed, those who disbelieve in Our verses – We will drive them into a fire. Every time their skins are roasted through We will replace them with other skins so they may taste the punishment. Indeed, Allah is ever exalted in might and wise.

          5:33 – Those that make war against God and His apostle and spread disorder [mischief] in the land shall be slain or crucified or have their hands and feet cut off on alternate sides, or be banished from the land. They shall be held up to shame in this world and sternly punished in the hereafter: except those that repent before you reduce them. For you must know that God is forgiving and merciful.

          8:39 – Make war on them (the disbelievers) until idolatry shall cease, And God’s religion shall reign supreme.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 22, 2016 at 7:13 pm

          Muhammed had even less to do with the national state–instead, Islam promotes the Caliphate and the Ummah.

          More importantly, the concept of the national state is no more a moral precept than is a city state.

          And then in Islam *any* resistance to Muslim conquest is deemed aggression. According to this poster, those who resisted enslavement and dhimmitude at the hands of the “Prophet” deserved whatever they got.

        • Champ says

          Jan 23, 2016 at 4:02 am

          mach37 asks:

          worldcitizen1919, you keep quoting 2:190, which is peaceful; but what about some of the other verses in the Koran?

          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

          I would guess that “worldclassclown” has never heard of the *doctrine of abrogation*: in which later pronouncements of the ‘prophet’ declare null and void his earlier pronouncements. In other words, his peaceful teachings were replaced by the violent ones.

        • worldcitizen1919 says

          Jan 23, 2016 at 6:36 am

          That is mere imagination.

          Please show me the sura in the Quran that specifically says sura 2:190 is abrogated??

          God revealed the Quran and only He can abrogate it not scholars or other verses of the Quran or Hadiths as Hadiths are not the revealed Word of God .

          Can you find such a verse which says 2:190 is abrogated? Where is it. It should read something like this …………..

          “In the name of God or I Allah do decree Sura 2:190 is henceforth abrogated to be replaced by such and such a verse. “Where is this ‘abrogation’

          The Quran is the revealed Word of God and only God has authority to abrogate any of its verses or the entire Book. Only another Prophet can abrogate these verses not any professor or scholar.

          Sura 2:190 sets the stage and perimeters for self defense only for all battles.

          Muslims can choose to disobey the Quran but only another Prophet of God can abrogate it.

        • mach37 says

          Jan 23, 2016 at 2:38 pm

          worldcitizen1919: is S 2:190 the only peaceful verse in the Koran you can come up with? I have found a lot of others that are similar, but those do not negate the verses that call for bloody murder of those who oppose the words that Muhammad claims were given to him through a third party, words attributed to Allah.I am not an atheist, but i refuse to accept the words that other people claim to be God or Allah speaking; I will only accept the words that I personally receive from God; and so far I have not received any such words.

          I refuse to believe that the God of Abraham is the same entity as the Allah of Islam; the two have uttered completely different commands on how to deal with disbelievers.

        • worldcitizen1919 says

          Jan 23, 2016 at 6:49 pm

          Hi, thanks for replying.

          The main reason I quote from sura 2:190 is because it sets thr parameters for Holy War or Jiahd throughout the entire Quran. All the attacks on none believes are attacks against non believers who have ‘attacked them first’. All the attacks against any Xhristians or Jews are against Dhristians and Jews who have ‘attacked first’ or secretly broken their peace treaties and assisted the enemies in other words treachery.

          So ANYWHERE and EVERYWHERE you read throughout the ENTIRE Quran to go and kill it is in response to being attacked FIRST. This verse was revealed in MEDINA. Along with another sura about not killing the innocent.

          [5:32] Because of this, we decreed for the Children of Israel that anyone who murders any person who had not committed murder or horrendous crimes, it shall be as if he murdered all the people. And anyone who spares a life, it shall be as if he spared the lives of all the people. Our messengers went to them with clear proofs and revelations, but most of them, after all this, are still transgressing.

          Remember, those who were killing off Muslims had genocide and ethnic cleansing as their goa,l considered a war crime today and what for? Muhammad was attacked for believing in one God so He defended Freedom of Religion which is part of every western democracy and a universal right. They were fighting for their rights to exist and practice their Faith not for power or wealth.

        • mach37 says

          Jan 24, 2016 at 1:12 am

          Whoa, worldcitizen1919- did you not read the verses I listed above? They do NOT in any way show ‘Freedom of Religion’ to be Muhammad’s goal. I have to repeat S 3:85- “If anyone wants a religion other than Islam, never will it be accepted of him.” “Allah is forgiving and merciful” is just meaningless words, following the command to slay the idolators wherever you find them.

        • worldcitizen1919 says

          Jan 24, 2016 at 1:45 am

          That simply means that if they reject God’s Messenger then the beliefs they accept will not be accepted by God as sincere and genuine.

          Reflect: What IF Muhammad was the One that Christ said would come after Him? Then Christians who denied Muhammad would in effect be denying Christ.

          Baha’is believe that to deny Muhammad and the Quran is to also to deny Jesus and the Bible and renders claims to believe in Jesus null and void no matter the person claims to be a follower.

          same goes for the Jews who claim to believe in Moses but reject Jesus. Are they true believers by rejecting Christ? God will judge each person’s sincerity in the next world but it’s not for us to condemn each other here.

        • Karen says

          Jan 24, 2016 at 12:30 am

          Hi Champ! ‘Noble Koran’ just refers to a particular translation from Saudi Arabia. I tend to gravitate to it because it seems to have fewer PC additions that other translations use to please and deceive Western readers, although I readily admit I’m no expert here.

        • mach37 says

          Jan 24, 2016 at 1:01 am

          When in doubt I go to corpus.koran.com, which puts seven ‘official’ translations on the same page. But they left out the Dawood, which I like best.

        • worldcitizen1919 says

          Jan 24, 2016 at 1:34 am

          The original Arabic is clear about not attacking first. The passage only permits self defense not anything else.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 24, 2016 at 1:56 am

          “worldcitizen1919” wrote:

          This verse was revealed in MEDINA. Along with another sura about not killing the innocent.

          [5:32] Because of this, we decreed for the Children of Israel that anyone who murders any person who had not committed murder or horrendous crimes, it shall be as if he murdered all the people. And anyone who spares a life, it shall be as if he spared the lives of all the people. Our messengers went to them with clear proofs and revelations, but most of them, after all this, are still transgressing.
          ……………………………

          This verse–infamously–is *not* instructing Muslims not to murder people.

          Instead, it is chiding the *Jews* for supposedly not living up to their *own* moral precepts. Note that this decree is only for the Children of Israel.

          And “worldcitizen1919” does not quote the *following* Ayat, Qur’an 5:33:

          “Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth to cause corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment,”

          This makes it clear what this pair of Qur’anic verses are really about: threatening Jews.

          More:

          Remember, those who were killing off Muslims had genocide and ethnic cleansing as their goa,l considered a war crime today and what for? Muhammad was attacked for believing in one God so He defended Freedom of Religion which is part of every western democracy and a universal right. They were fighting for their rights to exist and practice their Faith not for power or wealth.
          ……………………………

          “worldcitizen1919” has flogged the claim here before that Muhammed only enslaved and butchered his enemies because they were out to exterminate all Muslims–but it does not hold water.

          This is, in fact, projection. Muhammed wiped out the entire Banu Qurayza tribe, beheading up to 900 unarmed men and boys, and enslaving all the women and small children.

          And the idea that Muhammed defended Freedom of Religion could not be more grotesque.

          Arabia had been, in fact, a place with many faiths–Christians, Jews, and many pagan sects–not always coexisting peacefully, but *very* diverse.

          One of the very last sayings attributed to the vicious “Prophet” is this:

          “I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula and will not leave any but Muslim”.

          Certainly, within a very few years, this was in fact the case, as conquering Muslims drove out, forcibly converted, and murdered Jews and Christians outright.

          Does “worldcitizen1919” believe we don’t know this?

    • Jura says

      Jan 22, 2016 at 3:26 am

      How many buddhists do become extramists in the name of their religion?

      • worldcitizen1919 says

        Jan 22, 2016 at 4:51 am

        It depends on politics. When there’s a political,issue all religions get used and extremists are the first ones to get dragged in.

        Religion is not the cause of many conflicts, politics is but religion gets dragged in and used.

  17. Nimrod says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 9:21 pm

    This guy seems more like a radical environmentalist who tried to atone for his accidental killing of a bug by saving “nature” from a bunch of cars by slashing their tires.

    Radical environmentalists have tried to claim that Buddhism is about nature worship but it isn’t. If anything this idea comes from American transcendentalism and neo-paganism.

    But then again, if I preached neo-Marxism and tried to claim it was Buddhism, most people would be too ignorant of both to question the validity of what I was claiming.

    • Arnold Hiller says

      Jan 21, 2016 at 11:28 pm

      Yes. He appears more of an environmental radical rather than a buddhist extremist carrying out his actions on the teachings of Buddha.

      He also comes across as a complete nutter. I’m suprised he hasn’t converted to islam.

      But this will be used by muslim apologists to point out that all religions cause violence.

      And yes Arnold Hiller is my real name. Add me on facebook.

  18. Karen says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 9:30 pm

    May I tell Glew that his tent probably squashed thousands of insects, or would that be incitement?

    • Ronen says

      Jan 23, 2016 at 1:19 am

      What about the billions of bacteria his emunity system kills every day?

  19. Cassowary says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    The Daily Mail is a good paper which often reports on Radical Muslims. This has caused it to be condemned as Islamaphobic newspaper. See this link. http://www.islamophobiatoday.com/2011/12/16/daily-mail’s-bigoted-and-inaccurate-reporting-provokes-more-right-wing-anti-muslim-hysteria/

    • Arnold Hiller says

      Jan 21, 2016 at 11:34 pm

      I love the daily mail. The comments section really makes me laugh.

  20. hocus pocus says

    Jan 21, 2016 at 11:48 pm

    burmese muslims FIRST killed and massacred and raped buddhists which is what provoked the violence against muslims. those muslims are bengali muslims who belong in bangladesh

    • worldcitizen1919 says

      Jan 22, 2016 at 12:13 am

      Well I’ve lived in Burma for 5 years and am in touch with Burma everyday and it’s fanatics on both sides that are the problem.

      • Cunamarra says

        Jan 22, 2016 at 1:01 am

        Well after living in a Buddhist country for four and a half years and living in an Islamic country for the last ten, I find your statement simply not believable.

      • Jay Boo says

        Jan 22, 2016 at 2:43 am

        I agree Cunamarra

        Many statements by worldcitizen1919 are not believable.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 22, 2016 at 6:42 pm

        So true, Jay Boo.

      • homosaps says

        Jan 23, 2016 at 2:43 pm

        Yeah sure, yeah right, the world is threatened by fanatical (show compassion to all living things) Buddhists.

        • worldcitizen1919 says

          Jan 23, 2016 at 7:02 pm

          I believe in Buddha. I have the Buddhist scriptures and love them. One cannot be a Baha’i unless He believes in Buddha so there is no question of my complete loyalty to Buddha.

          I would defend Buddha and Buddhist like I defend the Quran and Muhammad.

          All I am saying is that religion and politics don’t mix and aren’t compatible.

          That is a reasonable statement don’t you think?

          The Buddhists of Burma are peaceful wonderful people and there is no blame attached to them but they should leave it to the government to resolve the issue and not become involved in politics or their religion will turn violent.

          Religion, any religion joined to politics becomes destructive.

  21. Mahendra Singh says

    Jan 22, 2016 at 1:21 am

    They do so for a very good reason. The Rohingiyas (i.e. Banladeshi
    illegals) started ambushing young girls and raping them, just the way
    the ‘ refugees’ have started doing to German women. Also they
    overpopulate, have no desire to contribute anything to their
    parent country.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 22, 2016 at 6:54 pm

      You aren’t wrong:

      “Rohingya Muslims In Burma And Their Rape and Grisly Murder of Buddhists”

      https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/recap-the-innocent-rohingya-muslims-in-burma-rape-and-grisly-murder-of-buddhist-girl-and-riots-by-illegal-bangladeshi-muslims/

      A gang of Muslims raped and murdered a young woman. After arrests were made, Muslims mobs rioted after Friday prayers, burning down twenty Burmese villages, five primary schools, and a Buddhist Monastery and school.

      The message from Muslims is the same: that they must be allowed to rape and murder Infidel girls with impunity.

      Here’s a similar story from Pakistan:

      “Muslims kill Christian girl: ‘Christian girls are only meant for one thing: the pleasure of Muslim men’”

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/muslims-kill-christian-girl-christian-girls-are-only-meant-for-one-thing-the-pleasure-of-muslim-men

  22. citycat says

    Jan 22, 2016 at 2:01 am

    Maybe he’s done that to illustrate the ridiculousness of the Islamic Apologists in Engeland, and the ridiculousness of Muslims getting away with rape etc due to the Qur’an, the Book Of Sinister Horror.
    Or maybe he needed somewhere warm for the winter or to meditate. And no one has mentioned the poor squashed insect victim. Or the poor many raped girls, hardly. A very uncaring dog eat dog society we live in.

  23. Jay Boo says

    Jan 22, 2016 at 2:51 am

    Another example of Islam off limits substitute
    Award winning and liberal critically approved motion picture.

    An Israeli woman (Ronit Elkabetz) seeking to finalize her divorce from her cruel and manipulative husband finds herself effectively put on trial by her country’s religiously-based marriage laws, in this riveting drama from sibling directors Shlomi and Ronit Elkabetz (Late Marriage and The Band’s Visit) who is also one of Israeli cinema’s most acclaimed actresses. In Israel there is neither civil marriage nor civil divorce; only rabbis can legalize a marriage or its dissolution, which is only possible with the husband’s full consent.

    http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gett_the_trial_of_viviane_amsalem/

  24. kay says

    Jan 22, 2016 at 3:41 am

    Read this lousy worthless sensational “reporting”. This is clearly insect killing which is NOT insect murder. There was no murderous intent, therefore no murder.
    The transgression in Buddhist terms is twofold: serious anger and significant property destruction. A western psychologist is needed.
    There is no reason whatsoever to think this flake is in any way associated with Buddhist lineage. I strongly suspect he has neither read the Dhammapada nor recited thrice the basic Buddhist refuge.
    People who wield knives in anger are of course shunned.
    If someone formally lacks Buddhist refuge and goes out in the street and stabs a bunch of people, it’s not a Buddhist thing. Just like San Bernardino jihadi shootouts are not. And Pearl Harbor was an Imperial Shinto thing.
    The basic Five Precepts or the basic Ten Precepts are very clear. Usually stated as “No killing”, the technical meaning is however this: No MURDER or VIOLENCE against HUMAN BEINGS. Murder of a food animal in the wilderness to stay alive is not murder of a human being.
    Buddhist ethics are always “scalable response”, or “situation ethics”. Buddhists get to be police officers and shoot people in the head, by following the strict police rules of engagement e.g. US case law. So, Buddhists get to kill people, but only to minimize violence.
    I would be very happy to head over to Nigeria and shoot down a bunch of Boko Haram / Islamic State mass murderers. That’s totally okay with Sakyamuni Buddha as the original teachings CLEARLY state. Actively saving human life in such a way enacts high and noble Mahayana Buddhist ethics.
    I require would be Buddhist students to study ethics and everything else in the book “Dakini Teachings”, by Padmasambhava. My core practice manual. Second tier and third tier Buddhist ethics are very difficult, so I canNOT recommend Mahayana Buddhism. It’s hard work.
    I think US Navy SEALs are way more Mahayana Buddhist in spirit than lots of Buddhist teachers. You also find the strong and active Mahayana Buddhist ethic in Lord of the Rings, in Harry Potter and in Seven Samurai. Many people intuitively get this stuff. Many “Buddhists” never do.
    Todd Gitlin said: “Politics isn’t where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life.” Same goes for Mahayana. Much or most of my Mahayana work in 2015 was counter-jihad. I’m all in.
    See Zatoichi swordfight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYaXwv1peeQ

  25. citycat says

    Jan 22, 2016 at 3:47 am

    worldcitizen 1919
    “not to attack unless attacked first” could be a war move as in martial arts- depends on the scenario

  26. harbidoll says

    Jan 22, 2016 at 3:48 am

    does he look INDIAN to you,—just saying.Looks homeless.

  27. Barnaby says

    Jan 22, 2016 at 4:39 am

    This post is an embarrassment. Where exactly does the Mail article say what you claim it says? It doesn’t. This post is nonsense.

    • Alpo says

      Jan 22, 2016 at 7:30 am

      Barnaby, it is all there on MailOnline page, word by word. Perhaps you goofed with your browser somehow.

  28. Alpo says

    Jan 22, 2016 at 7:25 am

    Could the reason for the silence of the mass-media about crimes where the culprit is a Muslim be simply fear of retaliation? Basically, is it much different to openly broadcast the evil acts of the Muslims (day by day as they happen these days) compared to a single case where drawings of a false prophet were published. It could even be that the peaceful followers of the of the false god have sent out specific warnings to the chief editors of the main stream media.

    Such intimidation by Muslims could be currently going on even more widely. That would explain the large volume of absolutely absurd statements that so many politicians have released.

  29. Brother Mark:) says

    Jan 22, 2016 at 9:05 am

    This looks to me to be more typical slander towards the Buddhist religion. It goes like this, the more you can portray a peaceful religion like Buddhism as violent, then perhaps the easier it will be to consider all religions as violent and on the same playing field. The easier it may be then to convince the guible that an inherently violent religion is actually… Peaceful!

    There’s a rebuttal I once gave to “Danios” over at “Loon Watch” with this same type of nonsense. It was a response to the article “Warrior Monks The Untold Story of Buddhist Violence (1)” written by “Danios”

    It can be found at my website
    http://www.talktruthful.com

    I have never heard back from him.

    This is not to say that a Buddhist monk can do no wrong, but that there is certainly not the same type of inclination for violence. We do not teach violence in our religious scripture.

    I have been a Buddhist monk for 13 years and now live in a temple in Cambodia.
    This homeless man was living in a tent in the forest and apparently said that he was a “Buddhist monk”.
    So of course, that is what is reported by the U.K. Daily Mail.
    I have all due respect for my homeless friends who live in the forest, and with his behavior, if he ever were a Buddhist monk, this sort of silliness would be a very quick way to end your monastic career.

    I wish everyone here a a spiritually prosperous life.

    Brother Mark 🙂

    • kay says

      Jan 22, 2016 at 3:50 pm

      A USEFUL “news” article would focus on groups of people with significant social impact. The Mail article was just filler on some loose wandering nutjob and lacked any significance.
      If the Mail wanted to spend some time taking about Buddhist friction with Christians or Tamils in Sri Lanka, or Buddhist-Muslim friction in Burma / Myanmar or Thailand, or oppression of Tibetan or Buddhist groups in Occupied Tibet or in China, then they would have something substantial.

      In general the Buddhist populations East or West are quietist, nonpolitical, uninvolved, disengaged, and very much ignored by the press and Westerners. Many people make personal or social claims about Buddhism without having spent ten minutes reading and understanding the basic Wikipedia articles or the Dhammapada. Many so-called Buddhists and non-Buddhists foolishly think that Buddhism is essentially free of ethics or classical philosophical principles, or that there is some type of equivalence between Buddhists and Muslims, or that Buddhism is somehow connected to Abrahamic traditions.

      Almost no Buddhists anywhere are familiar with the history of Buddhism in medieval India and the destruction of all Buddhist South Asia by Islam. As Dr. Bill Warner points out in his crucially important youtube video “Why We Are Afraid”, the Muslims destroyed Nalanda University, the greatest university in the world, a many centuries old Buddhist university in north India. Along with all the key Buddhist teaching institutions in South Asia. The Hindus said “You had ten thousand people at Nalanda, your great university. If each of you there had just picked up one rock and threw it at the Muslim jihadis, that would have accomplished something. But no, you DIDN’T.”
      So the great Library of Nalanda was burned to the ground. It took a couple weeks to burn.
      That in a nutshell was the relationship of Buddhism to Islam. Murderous attack, and no defense.

      Buddhists are at present worthless to counter-jihad, about 99.5% of them. They won’t care or do anything about rape jihad in Sweden or Germany or address Rotherham, nor will they address Boko Haram nor the destruction of Christian and Kurdish and Yazidi communities in the Near East. Over a hundred western Buddhist teachers signed a political letter supporting the Rohingya Muslim community and condemning the Burmese Buddhists who fought the Muslims. To score an own goal.
      Also, we are told the Dalai Lama now strongly supports respectful dialogue with the butchers and slavers and child abductors and rapists of Islamic State. But these criminally insane activities and these psychopaths are exactly what Buddhists must shun, reject, and in Mahayana terms completely oppose. Looks like the Dalai Lama claims to be okay with Boko Haram as well as Sharia and Political Islam. I am not. With the source references of Dr. Andrew Bostom et al I would gladly stand alone in debate against the Dalai Lama and Dr. Tariq Ramadan both. And win decisively. Resolved: “Islam is only three things: jihad, Sharia, and the falsification of Abrahamic tradition.” Islam is everywhere always false and anti-social and the destruction of civilization east and west, and the worst thing that ever happened to women. Or to Buddhism. Or to democracy and the open society.
      Mahayana Buddhism has martial arts, protector deities and a tradition of spiritual warriorship. It’s not all invertebrates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO1yoEn4-Xo

      • Brother Mark:) says

        Jan 22, 2016 at 11:29 pm

        I once wrote an article titled “The Riots In Burma and The Burmese Buddhists Monks” at my website :

        http://www.talktruthful.com

        Is the Theravada Buddhist monk or Theravada Buddhism in general too passive?
        By our scripture a better resistance can be given than what is currently in vogue, although we are forbidden from even teaching someone the dhamma who carries a weapon.

        I tell little children all the time when I see them playing with a toy gun or the sort, that the solder is good with the gun or the knife or the fist, but who gives the solder his orders?
        The General. That’s who.
        What is the Generals weapon of choice?
        The mind.

        I will also state with certainty that there is nothing in our Pali Canon that would suggest that someone following the Buddhist dhamma should never defend themselves if need be.
        What you see in S.E. Asia, that then becomes considered the norm for Theravada Buddhism is the result of the monks being made overly submissive by the respective dictatorship type governments who of course deny that they are anything near a dictatorship. The Khmer Rouge and it’s aftermath is just one example of this.
        The Buddhist dhamma is actually one that carries quite the anti authoritarian tendency, and many a government is well aware of this.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 22, 2016 at 7:16 pm

      Thank you, Brother Mark.

    • Angemon says

      Jan 22, 2016 at 7:22 pm

      Brother Mark:) posted:

      “There’s a rebuttal I once gave to “Danios” over at “Loon Watch” with this same type of nonsense. It was a response to the article “Warrior Monks The Untold Story of Buddhist Violence (1)” written by “Danios”

      It can be found at my website
      http://www.talktruthful.com

      I have never heard back from him.”

      Were you banned from loonwatch? That’s my experience, and I’ve met several people with similar stories – disrupt the echo chamber too much and you’re booted.

  30. Shan says

    Jan 22, 2016 at 9:14 am

    When the media starts to slander or libel a religion, we know that that is truly the religion of peace. When the media tells us islam is a religion of peace, we stay away & run the opposition direction.

  31. Bert Fannin says

    Jan 22, 2016 at 12:34 pm

    Indeed, it is not very Buddhist. While we believe in the sanctity of all life, including that of a lowly bug, we also believe in the middle way. nothing in excess. This person should spend his jail time re-reading the Sutras.

  32. Herman says

    Jan 22, 2016 at 5:49 pm

    Do I believe a UK newspaper?
    You know those newspaper who did not report the destruction of young, vulnerable girls by mozlims…
    And now the found a ‘Buddhist’
    I don’t think so!

  33. mach37 says

    Jan 22, 2016 at 6:41 pm

    The judge seems to equate tire-slashing with the bloody murder sprees of Muslims: “… the judge said his actions were ‘not those of a person who lives for a peaceful co-existence.’” Did Glew kill anyone? Behead or stone anyone, or chop off anyone’s hands or feet?

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 22, 2016 at 7:23 pm

      Exactly, mach37. Even if Glew really *were* a “Buddhist Monk” acting in the name of Buddhism, and not just a homeless guy who likes to pick up books on eastern religion at the library, this was property destruction, not dismemberment and murder.

  34. gravenimage says

    Jan 22, 2016 at 7:25 pm

    Check out the comments on the Daily Mail article–almost no one believes this homeless guy is a “Buddhist Monk”:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3409765/Buddhist-monk-jailed-162-car-tyre-slashing-rampage-accidentally-stepped-insect.html#comments

    • Nimrod says

      Jan 23, 2016 at 12:28 am

      Anyone claiming to be a Buddhist monk should be asked the question: Who was your preceptor? If they can’t identify the person who ordained them then they’re not likely to be recognized as a Buddhist monk by any monks.

      All legitimate Buddhist monks have been ordained by a preceptor who is also a Buddhist monk.

  35. D Cripps says

    Jan 25, 2016 at 5:55 am

    There has been a slew of British papers with essentially the same headlines, yet articles state that Mr Glew had lived in the woods for 10-20 years and only that he had “previously lived in a Buddhist monastery”. Moreover, in the c.c.t.v. footage he is not wearing the garb of a monk (traditional work-clothes look different also). Does seem a little keen, to me, to make some sensational spurious connection.

    I am not sure exactly who killed the insect. Some sources say that he accidentally trod on one, so slashing others’ tyres seems non-sequitous; and from a Buddhist perspective in such a case, he would do better to generate goodwill and compassion toward the (deceased) insect, experience his sorrow/regret honestly and with clear comprehension, and apply compassion and goodwill toward himself over the accident, than turn anger within. (Maybe squashed bugs on windscreens set him off, but I have not seen that mentioned.)

    As a Buddhist practitioner, I would accept that Mr Glew may have been trying to approach his life from a Buddhist perspective, the newspapers’ keenness to make a dubious monastic connection notwithstanding. Having a good intention (e.g compassion) yet unrealistic ideals (I think that even breathing kills microbes) without a skillful way to resolve resultant quandaries for oneself may result in issues ‘squelching out’ in various ways.

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