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Every religion has extremists and people who hate in the name of religion. As a human I understand how hatred in the name of religion is possible, but as a Buddhist I believe this type of behavior by a monk is harmful to everyone. Advocation of hatred and violence will always bring more hatred and violence. Wirathu seems to be on a dark path that will only lead him back to himself. His behavior does not represent the Buddhism I know or want to know. His advocacy does not represent Buddhism. Wirathu is wrong. May he soon understand and acknowledge that.
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His name is Wirathu, he calls himself the “Burmese Bin Laden” and he is a Buddhist monk who is stoking religious hatred across Burma. The saffron-robed 45-year-old regularly shares his hate-filled rants through DVD and social media, in which he warns against Muslims who “target innocent young Burmese girls and rape them”, and “indulge in cronyism”.
To ears untrained in the Burmese language, his sermons seem steady and calm – almost trance-like – with Wirathu rocking back and forth, eyes downcast. Translate his softly spoken words, however, and it becomes clear how his paranoia and fear, muddled with racist stereotypes and unfounded rumours, have helped to incite violence and spread misinformation in a nation still stumbling towards democracy
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