Religion and Politics

Buddhists Monks Against Humanitarian Aid?

Burmese Buddhist monks are “actively preventing humanitarian aid from reaching” the often persecuted “Rohingya Muslims,” an ethnic minority who reside in a western Burmese state, writes Krystina Friedlander for The Huffington Post. Friedlander notes that the common view in “American culture … [is] that Buddhists are, and can only be, nonviolent actors at the mercy of their oppressors.” The situation in Burma shows that like all religions, “[t]he history of Buddhism is bloody, too,” writes Friedlander. 

Read at The Huffington Post

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