A’isha, this link goes to a used textbook site’s homepage.
It goes to Amazon’s page for Michael Jerryson’s scholarly book about the Buddhist violence against Muslims in South Thailand (where you can buy the book used, new, or on Kindle).
It’s the work cited in the Thailand section of the Wikipedia article on Buddhism and Violence.
I thought they danced the Limbo.
Odd, that’s not where it goes for me. Might be a cookie issue. Thanks for the other link, I’ll find it that way.
Huh, that’s weird. When I went to double-check the link, I could swear it said something about textbooks.com, but now that I look at it again, it’s the amazon.com link I thought I’d put in there when I posted it.
EDIT: Wait, now it’s a textbooks.com link again. What the heck?!
Okay, let’s try this again: http://www.amazon.com/Buddhist-Fury-Religion-Violence-Southern/dp/0199793247/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1453826583&sr=8-1
Success! Thanks.
Theravāda Buddhists, who are ultimately as doctrinally removed from a Pure Land sect like Jōdo Shinshū as, say, the Eastern Orthodox Church is from the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
You misspelled coremelt.
Hail Gaudere, full of irony, Cecil is with thee.
No, Uniquoeorn, it’s on the level.
But Bobby Fischer certainly was under the influence of dark powers.
That he was.
And I’ve lived in Japan, travelled extensively in India and Nepal, been to Bodh Gaya where Buddha achieved enlightenment and to Dharam Sala and attended talks at the Dalai lama’s monastery. So I can say with some confidence, myself and Mr Dibble are both correct. Pure Land buddhism does not “own” Amitābha, other forms of buddhism have statues of him in temples and venerate him, and in some schools he’s an incarnation of Gautama and in some schools he is not. Pure Land just especially elevates him to a the most important position. Actual practising Pure Land buddhists I’ve spoken with in Japan still didn’t believe in any Deities, but I’m sure that varies from individual to individual. The point is, it doesn’t matter, the spirits and Deities in buddhism are either a distraction, just another manifestation of Maya, or they’re helpers but the end goal is always enlightenment which is a self achieved act.
As for Buddhist violence in the south of Thailand, its a complex issue but its certainly not a one way street. The Muslims in the south are fighting for independence and or more autonomy from the central government, including a long running bombing campaign. The Thaksin government was especially heavy handed in its tactics to suppress that and yes there have been incidents of extremist buddhist monks calling for violence. But most of the violence is not specifically religiously motivated. The Bangkok area has close to a million muslims, mosques are common and buddhist - muslim violence is almost unheard of here, because the muslims here are not fighting the government. Same in other areas such as Koh Lanta which has a high muslim population but little or no violence issues.
One of the demands of the southern insurgents is that they want to live under islamic law. Their current situation is not “buddhist law”, its a secular legal system and while individual buddhists might be prejudiced against muslims there is freedom of religion in Thailand and its illegal to discriminate on the basis of religion in employment etc. I’d also like to point out that you are completely free to set up shop here and attempt to convert buddhists to any religion you want. There is no restrictions on proselytizing or apostasy.
So yes I’d agree that the demand for political theocracy in the south is one of the main causes of the buddhist / muslim conflict here. But as I said in my last reply to Kimstu I still believe political theocracy is fundamentally more likely to occur in muslim majority populations, so you can’t separate issues with islam from issues with political theocracy, they’re too closely intertwined.
Thailand isn’t the only place with Buddhist monks preaching and inciting violence.
Oh, and a few months ago the parliament of Burma passed laws (promoted by an organization of Buddhist monks) which would criminalize marriages between Buddhists and members of other faiths and conversions away from Buddhism.
I have never denied the existence of buddhist violence, whats your point? Countries with Buddhist majorities and muslim minorities including Thailand, Sri Lanka and Myanmar have conflicts, over land ownership and over political theocracy and yes there are a few idiot monks trying to enflame the situation. I can’t speak personally to the situation in Myanmar, but I can tell you that in Thailand muslims are not systematically oppressed (by the government I mean) simply for being muslim.
Neither are there any organised buddhist groups waging terrorist campaigns against other countries, calling for the entire world to live under a buddhist theocratic world government or wanting to live under “buddhist law” in countries which have buddhist minorities. So no its not equivalent, terrorism, political theocracy and religious violence in general are statistically far worse problems in muslim majority countries than in buddhist majority ones.
And while you might have heard what I say before you must admit that a buddhist sympathising islamophobe is probably a welcome change from the usual right wing christian islamophobes 
Further in coremelt’s defense: I think he’s done quite well in this thread. It is difficult in any thread where you’re clearly being outnumbered, and much more so in a thread in the Pit where those ganging up on you are slinging insults like they’re going out of style, but coremelt has stuck around, calmly made his points, and kept the signal:noise ratio higher than his opponents. Even if he’s wrong on some points, he’s coming out of this smelling a lot better than those arguing against him.
Speaking of Fischer, he was mentioned yesterday on Listverse: 10 Craziest Events In The History Of Chess. He’s listed at #3.
Sure you are, princess. Whenever a Muslim practices their backwards-ass religion and inevitably kills, rapes, or otherwise horribly subjugates another, liberals breathlessly run into the room and declare that their horrible behavior has nothing to do with Islam, and that if you notice the hell on Earth Muslims are uniquely inflicting on each other and everyone else, you’re some kind of horrible bigot. Unfortunately for you, it’s no longer working. Any civilized country making the mistake of letting these culturally retarded clowns in is finding out how fucked they are in short order, and reality is impugning liberal dipshit orthodoxy yet again. Have no fear though, just wait a few hours for the next Muslim atrocity so you can get some more use out of your thesaurus’ entry on “Islamophobia.”
Truer words were never spoken. Having fun, troll?
It’s clearly a sock, but whose sock is it?