[Buddha-l] comment on illustration in Zarni's Todays Thoughts

[Jo]

Please look again at the photo here:

http://www.maungzarni.com/2013/03/stop-969-burmas-fastest-growing-neo.html 

 

The younger Muslim woman in the picture of the hypocritical monk Wirathu is
wearing the type of hijab promoted by the Wahhabis and Salafis. When I
visited Burma in 1985, eating at Muslim restaurants on the road from Yangon
to Bagan, NONE of their women wore hijab of any kind nor did they hide from
the customers. The same was true of the Muslims in southern Thailand before
the Arab religious fanatics got to them. Also true of Indonesia before the
same religious promotions ended up with the creation of the Jamaah Islami
there-the group that blew up the nightclub in Bali and other atrocities.

 

This has been a movement going on for several decades already but ignored by
western media, whose owners are ever favorable to the Sunni oil barons. 

 

Attacking an ethnic group denoted as non-Burmese is also a political
strategy of the ruling junta in Burma, who need to divide in order to rule.
Further independent research is needed to ascertain if the Burmese Muslims
(aside from Rohingyas) have supported terrorism and anti-Buddhist actions.
So far, I don't believe it. However, their willingness to take on Arab
monetary support and religious extremism does not endear them to the
populations they live among. Q.E.D.

 

Joanna