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To the Buddists in Myanmar (Burma), the Buddhist monk accused of inciting riots that have killed hundreds of Muslims, this Buddhist monk is a savior – saving their country from Muslim rapists, murderers, and infiltrators who want to do to Myanmar what they did to Afghanistan and other Buddhist countries.

They’re known for preaching peace, kindness and love, but a radical breed of anti-Islamic Buddhist monk is wreaking havoc in Myanmar, resulting is lynch-mob killings and the forced removal of more than 150,000 Muslims from their homes.

Mass boycotts of Muslim-owned stores and anti-Islamic riots have plagued Myanmar’s transition to democracy after decades years of military rule, according to the New York Times. Up to 250 Muslims have been killed and countless others injured in the riots – the most violent of which occurred in the central city of Meiktila in March.

Passionate sermons by self-proclaimed “Radical Buddhist”, Wirathu, are being blamed for stirring the troubles. “You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog,” Ashin Wirathu told the Times. “I call them troublemakers, because they are troublemakers.”

Look at the photos below. In typical ‘Pallywood’ fake propaganda style, the top photo claims to be Muslims slaughtered by Buddhists. The bottom one confirms it is a photo of Tibetan monks helping victims of an earthquake.

“I am proud to be called a radical Buddhist.” Wirathu is a key leader of “969,” an ultra-nationalist movement of monks that preaches that the country’s small Muslim minority threatens racial purity and national security. His face covers Time magazine’s foreign editions this week over the headline: “The Face of Buddhist Terror”.
“People give me various names,” Wirathu said told Britain’s The Times recently. “The Burmese Bin Laden, the bald Neo-Nazi. “Do you know the English Defence League?” he asked. “We would like to be like EDL. Not carrying out violence, but protecting the public.”

What started as a fringe movement has now gone nationwide in the country of 55 million, in which 90 per cent of the population is Buddhist compared to the muslim minority (4 to 8 per cent). “If we are weak, our land will become Muslim,” Wirathu said in a recent sermon in which he also called the March riots a show of strength.

Ten Muslims have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 28 years in connection with the riots in Meiktila but it’s believed no Buddhists have been convicted. The group Human Rights Watch has called the actions against Muslims in Myanmar “ethnic cleansing” (no, it’s called self-preservation) while the Dalai Lama said killing in the name of religion was “unthinkable”.