[Buddha-l] NYTimes.com: Let Us Pray for Wealth

[Christopher Fynn]

SJZiobro at cs.com wrote:

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>  in India there are areas where either Muslims or Hindus persecute Christians.

This may be the case today but there has been a Christian community -
particularly in South India since the earliest days of Christianity
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Malabar_Nasrani
If this information is accurate apparently they were persecuted by the Portugese
rather than the Hindus:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Malabar_Nasrani#Persecution_by_Portuguese>

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> The Communist Chinese invaded Tibet, as you know, and have expended much labor in
> destroying the Tibetan culture, which includes its religion.

Interestingly Tibetan Muslims seem to remain as loyal to the Dalai Lama as their
Buddhist brethren. see:
see: <http://tibet.com/Muslim/tibetan-muslim.html>
<http://www.berzinarchives.com/web/en/archives/study/islam/historical_interaction/overviews/history_muslims_tibet.html>
<http://www.tibet.com/Muslim/staunch-muslims.htm>

  > Communism, besides being a political ideology, is also a religion inasmuch
 > as it has its doctrines, symbols, hierarchy, rituals, etc.  They have tried to
> extinguish Christianity, Buddhism, and other religious communities wherever 
> they are in power. Where they fail to extinghish a religion they heavily control it.

But isn't Communism a western ideology which first arose in Judeo-Christian
culture? IMO this kind of proves the point about the frequently intolerant
attitude of western religions.

- Chris