[Buddha-l] Bangladesh Muslim lovefest

[Dan Lusthaus]

> That ilnk doesn't get anywhere.
> Here's a shorter one:
> http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/314813/rioters-torch-buddhist-temples-h
> omes

Note that the article begins by calling the event "rare". We seem to be 
encountering this term a lot. I guess it depends on what one takes the word 
"rare" to mean. 'Doesn't happen on a weekly or monthly basis' perhaps 
qualifies?

In the previous post, I included a link to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_Temples:_What_Happened_to_Them#cite_note-7

which discusses the book _Hindu Temples - What Happened to Them_, "a 
two-volume book by Sita Ram Goel, Arun Shourie, Harsh Narain, Jay Dubashi 
and Ram Swarup" and various attempts to refute or undermine it. The article 
points out, "The Appendix of the first volume contains a list of 
temple-destructions and atrocities that the authors claim took place in 
Bangladesh in 1989."

I guess for journalists, every twenty years or so is "rare."

Cautionary note: In twenty years someone might "claim" that Buddhist temples 
and homes were destroyed in 2012, but we -- wink, wink -- will know better, 
huh?

Dan