Buddhist – Muslim violence and arson continues in Burma

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UPI.Com

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar, March 28 (UPI) — More than 100 homes belonging to Muslims in central Myanmar were raided during sectarian violence, a local police official said.

Anti-Muslim riots spread to Muslim townships of Monyo and Padigon, about 100 miles north of Rangoon. A Monyo police officer told The Irrawaddy, a Thai newspaper covering Myanmary, that overnight clashes were spreading but there were no deaths reported.

“A mosque was totally destroyed and nearly 100 Muslim-owned houses were ransacked,” the officer said on condition of anonymity.

Myanmar’s government imposed curfews and martial law over parts of the country as violence between Muslims and Buddhists erupted last week. The United Nations estimates at least 12,000 people have been displaced by the fighting.

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Buddhists fight back against Islam and halal slaughter

Leftists must be beside themselves trying to figure out who to back on this one.

The buddhists are more likely to be vegetarians or if not, would support humane slaughter while Muslims want the most painful spectacle they can make happen; all people are the same general colour and would be considered minorities in Western nations. Yet still, Islam is the love-child of the modern left because classical liberals, now called far right extremists, want Islam stopped before it destroys us all.

I guess they will just have to ignore these events, or pretend they aren’t really happening, or lie outright about what is going on.

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The hardline Buddhists targeting Sri Lanka’s Muslims

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 BBC Asia

After a series of attacks on mosques, wild rumours about animal slaughter and an attempt to outlaw the halal system of classification, the BBC’s Charles Haviland investigates how Sri Lanka’s Muslim minority is being targeted by hardline Buddhists.

On a January morning a crowd of Buddhist monks storm a law college, yelling, chanting and even hitting one or two seemingly random people and pushing back the police. Furiously they shout that the exam results have been distorted to favour Muslims.

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Buddhist-Muslim violence spreads in Myanmar

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Yahoo News:

By AYE AYE WIN | Associated Press – 7 hrs ago

  • A Myanmar police officer rides a motorbike past debris of buildings and a truck destroyed during ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslim, as he provides security in Meikhtila, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, March 25, 2013. Sectarian clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar spread to at least two other towns in the country's heartland over the weekend, undermining government efforts to quash an eruption of violence that has killed dozens of people and displaced 10,000 more. On Sunday, Vijay Nambiar, the U.N. secretary-general's special adviser on Myanmar, toured Meikhtila, where soldiers were able to impose order after several days of anarchy, and called on the government to punish those responsible. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
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  • Three Buddhist monks walk on a road near a mosque in Meikhtila, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, March 25, 2013. Sectarian clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar spread to at least two other towns in the country's heartland over the weekend, undermining government efforts to quash an eruption of violence that has killed dozens of people and displaced 10,000 more. On Sunday, Vijay Nambiar, the U.N. secretary-general's special adviser on Myanmar, toured Meikhtila, where soldiers were able to impose order after several days of anarchy and called on the government to punish those responsible. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)View PhotoThree Buddhist monks walk on a …
  • A man walks among debris of buildings destroyed during ethnic unrest between Buddhists and Muslim in Meikhtila, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) north of Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, March 25, 2013. Sectarian clashes between Buddhists and Muslims in Meikhtila spread to at least two other towns in the country's heartland over the weekend, undermining government efforts to quash an eruption of violence that has killed dozens of people and displaced 10,000 more. On Sunday, Vijay Nambiar, the U.N. secretary-general's special adviser on Myanmar, toured Meikhtila, where soldiers were able to impose order after several days of anarchy, and called on the government to punish those responsible. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)View PhotoA man walks among debris of buildings …

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Anti-Muslim mobs rampaged through three more towns in Myanmar’s predominantly Buddhist heartland over the weekend, destroying mosques and burning dozens of homes despite government efforts to stem the nation’s latest outbreak of sectarian violence.

President Thein Sein had declared an emergency in central Myanmar on Friday and deployed army troops to the worst-hit city, Meikhtila, where 32 people were killed and 10,000 mostly Muslim residents were displaced. But even as soldiers restored order there after several days of anarchy in which armed Buddhists torched the city’s Muslim quarters, the unrest has spread south toward the capital, Naypyitaw.

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Sri Lanka: Buddhist group wants back their monestary that was taken over by Muslims

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Jihad on Buddhists.Org

Kuragala

Budhugala seen from Kuragala

Bodu Bala Sena (meaning “Buddhist Power Force”) is a Buddhist group working to protect Buddhist culture and religion on Sri Lanka against Islam and Muslim dominance. They recently managed to block halal labelling of meat produced in Sri Lanka, thereby limiting the barbaric practise of Islamic halal slaugther. Now Bodu Bala Sena move to reclaim an ancient Buddhist temple taken over by Muslims.

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Burmese riots now have 20 dead

“Islam has bloody borders” -don’t remember but probably millions of people, mostly dead or injured.

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Several videos and some news here

Myanmar town in state of emergency with 20 dead

Myanmar declared a state of emergency Friday for a riot-hit town where 20 people have been killed in Buddhist-Muslim violence that has sparked fears of spreading unrest.

Swathes of Meiktila, located 130 kilometres (80 miles) north of the capital Naypyidaw, have been reduced to ashes as the authorities struggle to establish control after three days of clashes and arson.

“At least 20 people have been killed. We estimate that it could be higher but it is also difficult for us to gather all the figures,” a police officer who did not want to be named told AFP.

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At least 10 dead in Myanmar riots: MP

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NZ Sports

At least 10 people have been killed in riots in central Myanmar, an MP said Thursday, prompting international concern at the country’s worst communal unrest since a wave of Buddhist-Muslim clashes last year.

Huge plumes of black smoke were seen rising above the town of Meiktila after buildings were set ablaze in a second day of fighting in the previously peaceful area, where a night-time curfew was imposed.

Several mosques were reported to have been torched.

The United States said it was “deeply concerned” by the unrest, which according to police erupted on Wednesday after an argument in a Muslim-owned gold shop intensified and caused about 200 people to fight in the streets.

Win Htein, a member of the opposition National League for Democracy party, said he had seen bodies at the scene of fresh clashes Thursday.

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Two dead, mosques destroyed in Myanmar unrest–police

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AF:

YANGON–Two people including a Buddhist monk were killed and at least three mosques were destroyed after riots broke out in a town in central Myanmar, police said Thursday.

Around 200 people fought in the streets after an argument in a Muslim-owned gold shop turned violent in Meiktila on Wednesday, according to a post on Myanmar Police Force’s Facebook page.

“One injured monk and Than Myint Naing, 26, who were being treated for their injuries died from their burns at hospital,” it said.

Police imposed a curfew from evening to early morning to control the situation.

“People tried to burn down the mosques,” one local police officer told AFP.

The unrest comes amid heightened concerns over Muslim-Buddhist relations in Myanmar, where communal conflict in the western state of Rakhine has left at least 180 people dead and more than 110,000 displaced since June 2012.

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Buddhists trash muslim house in Burma

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Muslims Forced to Shave Beards at Gunpoint, Report Says

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Moscow Times:

12 March 2013 | Issue 5086
The Moscow Times

A group of OMON officers allegedly forced several Muslim visitors at a Surgut cafe in the Khanty-Mansiisk autonomous district to shave their beards off at gunpoint, a news report said Tuesday.

According to Faizulo Aminov, a leader of the local Tajik diaspora, witnesses said the incident occurred on March 3 at a cafe near a local mosque. Men in OMON uniforms with automatic weapons broke in and forced the cafe’s visitors to get on their knees, he said, and then forced three of the visitors to shave off their beards.

It is not clear why the incident is only now being reported.

Several other visitors were reportedly taken to the local police station, where their documents were checked and they were soon released.

The Interior Ministry’s branch in the Khanty-Mansiisk autonomous district told Interfax on Tuesday that a check would be opened into the incident.

China: Official Tightens Religious Restrictions Affecting Muslim Uyghurs

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Eurasia review:

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China


China: Official Tightens Religious Restrictions Affecting Muslim Uyghurs

By — (March 4, 2013)

A recently appointed official of a county in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region is cracking down on religious activities—from mandatory daily prayers to traditional burial rites—of the mostly Muslim Uyghurs, causing much anxiety among the community.

Vice governor Haki had severely tightened restrictions since taking office two years ago, forcing residents to hold religious practices normally performed at home in mosques, where women and anyone under age 18 are not permitted, according to Uyghurs in Ghulja county in Xinjiang’s Ili autonomous prefecture.

A Uyghur woman said that in a recent incident plainclothes officers took photos of a group of children at a mosque with their parents as part of prayer ceremonies for a recently-deceased relative, prompting a “Cultural Revolution-style self-criticism” led by Haki in the house of worship.

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2011 arrest of Chinese Muslims by PRC army looking much like a hockey fight

Russian bust of muslims shows classic islamic literature available in mosques everywhere.

Thank you Magic Matin and Dar-Link for finding and translating this video respectively.

I feel this is important as it shows the concern the Russian armed services have over common islamic materials they found in a jihadi camp.

Paraphrasing Maj. (ret) Stephen Coughlin:

Nawawi is a classic jurist (read jihadi) whose writings have great standing.  Nu Ha Mim Keller, the commentator/translator of Reliance of the Traveller, relies on him a lot in that book. Nawawi is a Shafi’ite.

For a better understanding of how these books influence the WWJ (World-Wide-Jihad) please watch this brief by Maj. (R) Stephen Coughlin

More here at Gates