Thread: Refugee escapes punishment for shooting man who racially attacked him

Originally Posted by Steve123

You've really got to wonder what those "religion of peace" fuckers in Burma did to piss off peaceful Buddhists that badly that they kicked the cunts out.

If you really think those buddhists are peaceful you might have a bit to learn about the world... from the stories I've heard from friends who have lived and worked in buddhist countries, the image of tolerant westernised buddhism you see portrayed in the media/hollywood is very very different to the day to day poverty-and-fear reality of the normal people.

I think a big part of the issue is that (like many islamic countries) their religion has become mixed into a sense of nationalism so that the hardliners see anyone with different beliefs as rejecting the national identity and therefore 'not one of them' and not deserving any rights. The Burma/Myanmar situation is also a race issue, the Rohingya people being a different ethnic group that the others want to kick out because they're different (and the other neighbouring countries don't want them either and say they should stay where they are).

Basically its a bloody mess, you get assholes in every belief system (including the ones who believe they don't have any beliefs) and things are often not as simple as they appear. Some belief systems do seem to make being an asshole more of a systematic requirement than others though, we probably agree about that.