Just horrifying - and they are meant to be Buddhists. What on earth is happening to humanity?

Interesting,their is serious abuse of minorities in next door Bangladesh,condoned by a government that turns a blind eye....and an international media that hardly ever reports it...but Muslim bashing makes all the headlines....could this be why the Myanmar government does not want a Muslim population of supposed Muslims Refugees on its territory?...The lessons of history....be strong...it's how Buddhists have survived in troubled regions....

....moral lesson Jonathan.....don't just condemn one side....it's part of a bigger and wider picture that Guardian Readers seldom learn about...

Oh Minority it is not "muslim" or anything "bashing" to be appalled by this..

It is people murdering and raping other people..To find a "comparison" - that isnt - in Bangladesh is....er...something...

The thing I echo having read around buddism is how in the name of everything it explicitly stands for can this be done...

Yes that is what puzzles me - we all know society everywhere is prone to witch hunts and this is no different but bigger - but how can it be happening in a Buddhist country when Buddhism explicitly condemns this kind of behaviour?

there are Buddhists and then there are Buddhists.

Much like priests who are like saints and some who are gruesome.

Isn't the most important thing to punish the gruesome/guilty - and not allow perpetrators to escape under, the guise of faith(s)?

Many faiths use their status, power, numbers, financial and political clout - to dodge courts, and refuse to cooperate. Vatican City has learned a lot.

Faiths are philosophies


Socrates was executed for teaching a life not analysed isn't worth living

Plato was a sportsman, who thought the greatest philosophers and athletes should rule

Aristotle extolled the Golden Mean - moderation in everything


Most might agree with Aristotle - few religions with Socrates and/or Plato

All cults/relgions simply say that the teachings of the prophet, the holy book and the current leader - are the rule book


Few extoll us using our own ability to gauge right and wrong, thinking ALL must have their religion...and philosophy...

Buddism is if you read it very different to other "religions". It is concerned with psychology, with the principle being that being kind and gentle and happy makes others so.

It explicitly removes the "I" in every sense to achieve this; abandons western notions of ego...

Again, I just don't - despite the rather obvious responses in my view - understand how this comes about under this particular belief and life practice system....

Ps I'm not a buddhist, but I wish I was happy and lucky enough to be so...

Rotting from the head down? This comment was mentioned on CNN Talk yesterday, where the panellists were discussing whether Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel peace prize should be revoked:

"While talking to BBC Today host Mishal Hussein, a respected senior journalist, Suu Kyi said, “No one told me I was going to be interviewed by a Muslim.”"
torontosun.com/2017/09/07/aung-san-suu-k...97-a386-b6ac9f2ce155

is it just me?..I never liked her even when she was under "house arrest" (in a very nice house) for a few years.

Not sure why but I think she has, and always did, a rather nasty looking face. She's an example isn't she of the oppressed becoming the oppressor.

Wonder how credible the latest report was that after being interviewed on UK TV show she spat out when leaving "they didn't tell me I'd be interviewed by a Muslim"