Monks ask Bangladesh to rein in violence

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Monks ask Bangladesh to rein in violence

Published: 4 Oct 2012 at 00.00
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About 300 monks and Buddhists rallied at the United Nations Building and parliament yesterday to protest against Muslims who burned down several Buddhist temples in Bangladesh.

More than 200 monks rally outside the United Nations building on Ratchadamnoen Nok Avenue to condemn the violence against Buddhists in Bangladesh yesterday. Thousands of rioters torched Buddhist temples and homes in southeastern Bangladesh on Sept 31 over a photo posted on Facebook deemed offensive to Islam. CHANAT KATANYU

The violence was triggered after a Buddhist man posted a photo of a burning Koran on the social network site Facebook.

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abbub
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Discussion 4 : 04 Oct 2012 at 20.304
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This is of course good, showing by example through a peaceful protest against violence.

Now, what the monks should consider doing is also protesting against the treatment of the Muslims across the Bangladeshi border by Buddhists.

Not only that, but in Burma there were (and still are) Buddhist monks getting the population heated up against the Muslims.
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Discussion 3 : 04 Oct 2012 at 13.183
Dis#2 Do you really think a Buddhist layman would ever be so destructive ? If you come back and say; 'Well it says in the report it was a Buddhist'. If everyone believed every single news report, human existence would be in oblivion. How is it that this one person (may be mentally unstable ) should be responsible for the 'MOB' who then decided to vent their 'anger' on innocent peace loving people and their places of worship. Total ignorance of the mob, that's why it happened.
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Discussion 2 : 04 Oct 2012 at 05.112
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I think Buddhist monk very wrong to protest with board that blame another religion for what happen to the temples in Bangladesh. It not Islam, it bad mob people that do that. It not good also, people burn down temple because one naughty person put something bad on facebook. It was not Buddhist that did this, it was one naughty person.
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Discussion 1 : 04 Oct 2012 at 03.431
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Never mind Bangladesh, let fix our Deep South first!
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