What you seem to be doing, binocular, is imputing an ideology and an intention to Burmese Muslims. What is your basis for this claim? Do you think they are a bunch of Bin Ladin clones? Have you been to a Muslim country yourself? I've traveled to Turkey recently as well as Indonesia and my impression was that most people there are Muslim by birth and don't actually know too much what it implies. How much more so in the case of poor Rohingya! I wonder if they knew that they were such a frightening threat to the Bamar majority, that they belonged to an expansionist religion, plotting quietly for the day when they take over? Come on, people are just people and most would have very little clue what being Muslim actually means apart from some vague notions about the Prophet, Allah, distant Mecca and praying.binocular wrote:Islam is an expansive religion. It has a history of conquering and subjecting other cultures/religions. This is what can be expected from it.householder wrote:Do you believe there is a concerted campaign to Islamise the countrybinocular wrote:On the other hand, if the "radical Buddhists" give up, and Burma becomes a Muslim country in a few decades, then who will be to blame?
That has never worked against Islam.(personally I don't see evidence of this,
and would agree with reasonable and non-violent efforts to oppose it if there was),
No.and do you support the tactics currently being used to counter this perceived threat?
No.householder wrote:binocular, to be clear, are you supporting the actions of the rioters or the promotion of anti-Islamic fervor and boycotting?
I think though that by now, it's simply too late for any kind of non-violent, peaceful action to still be effective.
Remember the story of the maluva creeper and the sala tree?Dan74 wrote:Of course this is only made up, because for those of us lucky to be living in a place like Australia, such barbarity is unimaginable. Muslims are a tiny minority in Burma. I understand that they were not particularly noteworthy except for their religion. Other minorities have been waging various struggles for independence and autonomy. But Muslims seem to have been singled out by nationalists and opportunists as fodder for their game. 5% is not going to become a majority in a few decades, this is scaremongering of the lowest kind.
Expect this.
This, to me, sounds too much like the Nazi propaganda against the Jews...