Jfc, why??? What did the most peaceful possible religion do to deserve a fucking airstrike???
Uh, you may want to look more into this. There is a long and bloody history of Buddhists committing horrible atrocities against other religious and minority groups in the region.
This characterization of the illegal military regime and its actions as “buddhist” would be a gross misnomer. The internal strife in Myanmar is one of military versus different socio ethnic and religious groups - this air strike on the buddhist monastery safe housing refugees goes against your very argument.
That’s not what OP is referring too.
Buddhist extremist monks have used hate speach in Myanmar for years to drive a genocide against the Rohingya, who they claim are a thread to the Buddhist identity of Myanmar.
Read about it here, for example.
I am a Buddhist myself, and I have to disagree with the “most peacefully religion ever” part. As the above example shows, every idea can be perverted and used for hate by humans.
Other examples against the idea of Buddhism beeing peaceful are Samurai beeing Buddhists, or that many people in Buddhist countries see disabled people as beeing at fault for their disabilities (the idea here is that the disability is the result of a karmic action in a past life).
Buddhism beeing overly peaceful is a misconception in the minority world (“the West”), possibly because it was introduced to Buddhism by New Age Hippies in the 70s, that worked it into the “Love and Peace” mindset that they already brought with them when encountering Buddhism.
I learned about Buddhism by one of the Lamas (Teachers) whon had encounter such Hippies and had been able to get enoth experience with “Westerners”, to be able to teach about the religion in a way that I could understand and connect from my point of view, while destroying the faulty concepts many of us have about Buddhism in the Minority World.
Holy shit you weren’t kidding
Yeah was just about to say, Buddhists are partially the reason I deleted my Facebook accounts, which sounds odd to say, but it’s true.
the junta, or whoever is in control is.
Oh that seems like a worthy target.
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