[Buddha-l] Buddhists taking a stand against Islamaphobia

[Christopher Fynn]

On 03/08/2012, Jo <jkirk at spro.net> wrote:

> Doing my anthropology research, I was present at the beginnings in the
> 1970's of this Saudi-based onslaught funded by Saudi petro-dollars in a
> Muslim majority country, Bangladesh. I watched it spread out of Bangladesh,
> Pakistan, India, and Sri Lanka all over the entire world. Buddha-hellers
> and people of all classes and educations TODAY have NO idea, except
> for a few of us still alive, what Muslim countries OUTSIDE Saudi Arabia
> were like back in the day before the latter started all this bought and
> paid-for, violent missionizing. They were not Wahabbist, did not engage
> in violence against others, did not observe Shari'a laws (except for matters of
> marriage/divorce, child custody), nor did they force their women into
> ridiculous uniforms to cover and even displace their national, traditional
> costumes and hairdos.

The growing intolerance and increasing attacks on Sufis. Shias,
Ishmalis, and others in Pakistan and other south asian countries
certainly seems to correlate pretty closely with the number of Saudi
funded madrasas established in those countries over the last few
decades.