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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: RetiredNow who wrote (211192)11/9/2004 4:10:00 PM
From: brushwud  Read Replies (1) of 1571734
 
Yes, it would be nice if all religions did an overhaul. I'd recommend they pay attention to Budhism for starters. Now there is a religion of peace.

weeklystandard.com

"MILITANT BUDDHISM may sound like a contradiction in terms, especially while Islamic holy war is hogging the headlines. Nevertheless, in one of its periodic flare-ups in Sri Lanka, extremist Buddhist nationalism is threatening both the physical safety and the legal rights of that nation's Christian minority.

"For purposes of comparison, consider: Sri Lanka is witnessing attacks on Christians at a rate far higher than the much noted wave of anti-Semitic violence in France. While church burnings and assaults on pastors and congregations have been mounting since the late 1990s, they apparently reached a crescendo early this year.

"...extremist Buddhist monks have often proved to be instigators of the violence..."
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