His enemies like to refer to him as the Buddhist Bin Laden, but he has a lot more in common with the famous fictional spy – James Bond. “James Bond is a nationalist,” says Ashin Wirathu, the cherub-faced monk in a recent interview, and he is defending Myanmar against the people he views as the country’s main enemy: its Muslims.
LA Times Wirathu, 46, might bear as much responsibility as any individual for the growing exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar aboard overcrowded fishing boats bound for Thailand and Malaysia and anywhere that will take them.
In speeches and Facebook posts, he has warned of an impending “jihad” against the huge Buddhist majority, and of Muslims systematically raping Buddhist women while calling for boycotts of Muslim-owned businesses. Good Buddhists, he argues, shouldn’t mix socially with Muslims, who he says are “snakes” and “mad dogs.”
“Most Muslims destroy our country, our people and the Buddhist religion,” Wirathu said. He represents the blunt edge of systematic ethnic cleansing of the domestic enemy in Myanmar that has driven about 1 million Rohingyas, a Muslim minority group, to the farthest margins of society.
Human rights groups say Wirathu and the radical movement he leads, called 969, stoked sectarian riots that have killed scores since 2012. About 100,000 Rohingyas have been forced into internment camps ridden with disease and malnutrition in the western state of Rakhine, deprived of outside assistance since the government expelled foreign aid groups in 2014.
Wirathu’s militant Buddhist nationalism is fed by official documentation that portrays the Rohingya as people from Bangladesh who entered Myanmar illegally and have encroached on native lands, although many Rohingya families have lived in Myanmar for generations. Government policies deny the Rohingya citizenship or the right to vote and subject them to severe restrictions on movement, marriage and procreation.
“Wirathu plays a central role with his hate truth speech and anti-Islamization sentiment that it creates, given that the Rohingya are surrounded by a hostile community that can be whipped into violence very quickly,” said Penny Green, director of the International State Crime Initiative at Queen Mary University of London and author of a forthcoming report on Myanmar.
“Why are these people leaving on boats? Why would people risk certain death on the high seas? Because the existence they have, and the lack of a future, is worse.”
This fall, Myanmar, also known as Burma, will hold its first nationwide elections since five decades of military rule ended in 2011. The Obama administration eased major economic sanctions in 2012 and has broadly viewed Myanmar as a diplomatic success story.
But the Myanmar government’s treatment of the Rohingya has cast a heavy shadow over the democratic transition (only if you are a Muslim or a bleeding heart leftist).
It is difficult to see how Muslims, or any group, could pose a threat to Myanmar’s dominant religion. In this country of 51 million, 9 of 10 people are Buddhist. The Rohingya are believed to account for barely 2%, though exact figures aren’t known because they were excluded from last year’s national census. (Check links at bottom to see how much damage this 2% has caused. Myanmar wouldn’t be the first Buddhist country that Muslims turned into an Islamic hellhole by killing Buddhists and destroying their temples and historical artifacts)
The parliament is considering a package of laws that would regulate interfaith marriages and require government approval to change religions, thus feeding into Wirathu’s narrative that Muslims are trying to coerce Buddhist women into converting to Islam. He vocally supported a law that obliges women to wait three years between having children because it would “stop the Bengalis,” a derogatory term for the Rohingya.
The Obama administration and human rights groups have called the law – which President Thein Sein approved last week, according to state-run media which parliament approved this month, an assault on women’s rights and warned that it could be used to target minority groups.
By the end of the month, the Rohingya must surrender the temporary “white cards” that constitute their only official identification, which will make it all but impossible for most to move between villages, start a small business or attend school.
“Freedom of movement is very important,” said Shwe Maung, one of only two ethnic Rohingya members of parliament. “No movement means no business, no chance for a better life, no money. People will become more and more vulnerable, and want to escape.” (That’s the idea, genius)
Wirathu’s venomous tirades are at odds with the common Western conception of a Buddhist monk: a gentle, saffron-robed ascetic in the mold of the Dalai Lama. (So if the peaceful, gentle Buddhists are driven to such drastic measures, imagine how bad the Muslim problem must be)
In a nearly two-hour meeting with three journalists from The Times at the home of one of his associates in Yangon, he was genial and relaxed, snacking on yogurt and fruit as young male aides orbited around him, but his demeanor soured when the subject turned to Islam. “I read the Koran,” he said, his eyes narrowing. “To tell you the truth, I didn’t find anything I liked.”
Wirathu served eight years in prison on charges of inciting religious violence, and was released in 2011 and has been allowed to spread his message freely across the country, often with police officers sent in to clear the roads for his arrival.
In July, after Wirathu wrote in a Facebook post that two Muslim brothers had raped their Buddhist maid in Mandalay, the second-largest city, an organized mob rampaged through Muslim neighborhoods. Two Muslims were killed. The maid later confessed to fabricating her story, but the swiftness of the violence and the fact that hundreds of riot police officers did not intervene led many to believe that it had been orchestrated.
Justice Trust, a U.S.-based human rights group, said in a March report that “almost every major outbreak of communal violence since October 2012 … has been preceded by a 969-sponsored preaching tour in the area, usually by Wirathu himself.”
Powerful politicians frequently visit Wirathu at his monastery in Mandalay, leading to speculation that hard-liners from the former military government are backing him secretly and analysts say Wirathu’s message serves conservative forces well.
“Nothing is better for them than to get the country focused not on the failures of the government to move toward democracy, but on the threat to the country’s dominant religion,” said Roger Normand, founder of Justice Trust.
Is that “African carp” or “African crap?”
penny green needs to have her head examined.
in any case if there is an interfaith marriage the muslim must conver to buddhism
so in the article it says 100,000 muslims have fleed.. if they were really terrorists & killed buddhists etc then they wouldn’t have fled.. they would have stood & fought back..
you islamophobe / stirring hatred..
You’re a muslim, nobody cares what muslims think. Get the hell out of the UK.
this pig ashin is going to destroy the name of his cumunity all over the world InshaAllah
Time for jihad against kuffar. America. Uk and dirty jews hindus and bhuddist we are coming to you with slaughter.in sha allah.
Oh wow, should we be scared of all you little impotent ragheads?
Give me a second to put down my coffee and cigarette, let the dog out on his leash and sort out my sock drawer and I’ll huddle in a dark corner and…..
LAUGH MY FUCKING ASS OFF….
Bring it on BI-OTCH~!
Anger will not bring solvency neither a peaceful earth. Burma muslims faced losses and they also pour their anger on fellow innocent people. Now they are facing terrible deals from the combined force. You muslims cannot warn people with anger, cuz that’s not going to get you any advantage. What I know about islam is ‘ your anger and death under wrath of people is not going to give you your heaven too. Your anger is going to be a severe reason to devastate more of your alikes. Keep calm and tolerate. Being sacrificed is not a loss for you but anger surely is.
i dont think you are a muslim, you are stating this to cause non-muslims to hate muslims even more…
And that’s a BAD thing because why?
Wriathu is doing a great job of telling the truth. Sounds much like the warnings that Churchill gave a hundred years ago about the dangers of the muslums of islum. You can not sleep near a mad dog. We need to heed the advice of Churchill, Wilders, Spencer, Geller, BNI and so on.
it was and always has been a policy of british to divide & conquer. muslims & hindu were living in India for ages but when british went, they caused hatred so much so that after partition, people trvelling between both countries were killed on the way..
so dont quote british, they are a cause of all hatred by muslim of the west.. & their hypocritical policies
Sorry, raghead, muslims are the cause of all the hatred for muslims.
Sounds like another Muslim who has not read the Quran or Sirat Rasul Allah. Of course you also have to know which verses in the Quran are abrogated by the rule of abrogation which you probably know nothing about.
Here is a hint. According to mainstream Islamic scholarship, about 113 verses in the Quran are abrogated by the following:
“But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war); but if they repent, and establish regular prayers and practise regular charity, then open the way for them: for Allah is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful.”
Qur’an 9:5
In other words, a statement of violent Islamic supremacy.
Muslims can’t find a justification for rejecting this within Islam, only justification to temporarily put it on hold. The only solution for peace is for Muslims to reject Islam.
Afghanistan was once a Buddhist country!But they didn´t fught.Muslims destroyed everything!Then muslims invaded India but the Hindus fought back.
ps:The Buddhism of Dalai Lama is different to the real Buddhism.Dalai Lamas Religion has imported many things of an old Tibet Religion that is dying out this days.
The Dalai Lama said about an Autonom Status for Tibet and Chinese Migrants:
So wäre es auch in Tibet. Alle Chinesen, die Tibetisch sprechen und die tibetische Kultur respektieren, können bleiben, sofern es nicht zu viele sind. All jene Chinesen, die der Meinung sind, dass Tibeter stinken, sollten unser Land lieber verlassen.
All Chines people who speak our language can stay and respect us can stay if they ar not to much.All chinese who think that Tibet people stink should leave our land.
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/dalai-lama-im-interview-china-mischt-sich-auch-in-deutschlands-angelegenheiten-ein-1.345462-2
Every MSM story–EVERY ONE–I’ve seen on this casts the muslims as the persecuted victims and the “government” and the Buddhists as the aggressors.
Of course, that flies in the face of everything we know about both groups. But, they (the media) keep hammering away at their “poor muslims” narrative. It begs the question Geert Wilders recently asked:
“Do they think we are stupid? Are we stupid?”
And, Geert answered that question:
“No–we are NOT stupid!”
But, for people who believe that Buddhists are inherently violent and muslims are typically downtrodden victims? Yes, they are stupid.
That;s why you come here, to see what the media won’t post.
One of the Images shows a young monk crouching with a Colt 45 in his hand. That is the only way you are going to triumph over the Muslins is with the power of the gun backing you up. A Colt 1911 in 45 ACP is the all time great Martyr maker and equalizer.
The name’s Budda….James Budda 007 licence to kill, Lets have a nice high muslim body count here
As in all instances, Muslims bring this retribution upon themselves by their savage behaviors. May they be completely purged from Myanmar and become sea food.
I love this guy’s quotes:
““Muslims are only well behaved when they are weak”
“You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog.”
“Muslims are only well behaved when they are weak”.
Watch Bill Warner’s ‘A Taste of Islam’, for the reason why Muslims are only well-behaved when they are weak. The Koran is in two parts – that written in Mecca, when Islam was weak, and that in Medina, when it was not:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YjBDDC4wVxk
This dichotomous behaviour is also endorsed by Islam with the concept of ‘taqiyya’.
My favourite quote is, “I read the Koran,” he said, his eyes narrowing. “To tell you the truth, I didn’t find anything I liked.”
The more I read of the Koran, the more I agree with him.
‘The Obama administration and human rights groups have called the law – an assault on women’s rights.’
Despicable. Obama and human rights groups clearly don’t believe that Muslim violent mass gang rapes and tortures of non-Muslim females is an assault on women’s rights.
They are always casting satanic Muslim perpetrators as VICTIMS.
Non Muslims have a human right to be protected.
“Wirathu plays a central role with his speech and anti-Islamization said Penny Green, director of the International State Crime Initiative at Queen Mary University of London and author of a forthcoming report on Myanmar.”
Has this woman ever made appeals in the media and written books about the many thousands of Yazidi and Christian women and girls captured by ISIS monsters and gang raped and tortured and demanded that the gang rapes and tortures of many thousands of very young white, non-Muslim girls by Pakistani Muslim monsters is immediately stopped.
And protested that the Yazidi, Christian, and British girls are gang raped and horribly tortured by Muslims because the girls are NON-Muslim. And that it’s taught in the Quran book of Hate and Blood.
DIRTY HYPOCRITES — DESPICABLE DECEIVERS and SATANIC APOLOGISTS for ISLAM.
Smart Myanmar Buddhists. They’ve seen the Muslim problems first hand and understand it must be controlled as of the beginning. Islam cannot cohabit with Buddhism nor with any other ideology. It must be left on its own, in its own countries.
Oh!llLets wait until the filthy muslims get as strong as isis and rape and kill even more than they do now. Then we can be fully ignored by the U.N.
This guy is a Burmese Barney Fyffe……………… NIP IT IN THE BUD !
Keep on “nipping”, Wirathu !
He’s probably more like a Burmese hit man. I’d bet he could drill you with that pistol at 100 meters in the dark.
Well done Burma – rid yourselves of muzzies!
Sounds like Burma has learned from the history of Indonesia and knows that they can’t allow Islam to run rampant unopposed.
And in the article we see the neo-Marxist assumption that all minorities are necessarily peaceful, well behaved, and are always being oppressed somehow because the behavior of a group of people never matters as long as they can claim to be a specially protected neo-Marxist recognized minority.
Sounds like you’ve been reading Takuan Seiyo. (It’s a good thing)
And the NEW West/ USA/ Europe. Suicidal.
FULL eradication policies should be developed in every country where even one piece of Islamic filth is encroaching on infidel lands.
Go Monks!
Ashin…..another brave and wonderful leader to add to the list of inspirational hero’s such as Geert Wilders, Pam Geller, Paul West, Marine Le Pen, Heidi Mundt…..AND BNI of course. Apologies to any and all that I left off the list !!!
Of course Obama and his crazed goons call Burma’s efforts to halt the Muzzie rampages and brutality with common sense measures ‘an assaults on women’s rights’. Man, you really cant make this stuff up. But I expect nothing less from looser Obumbler who called the noise pollution of “call to prayer” the most beautiful sound in the world……LOL
Jean, virtually NO Western media are covering the truth about why Muslims are getting kicked out of Myanmar. Please share these stories/links with as many people as possible.
I tell everyone I know when the topic arises.
Oh I already do !!! gladly !!!!
Thank you.
Count me in.
Seems like the Burmese see it how it is.
I love these people,im gonna look for a buddhist charitable cause to donate to now
The Beautiful MYANMAR (Burma): Buddhist Say ….
“The Wold is not only for muslims”
However – I Say
This World Must NOT contain islams>
HIS HOLINESS THE ENLIGHTENED, WISE COMPASSIONATE DALAI LAMA SAYS
“It’s unfair to associate terrorism with Islam.” Is it unfair and unBuddhistic then to fight Islamic terrorism like brave little magnificent Buddhist Ashin Wirathu is doing in Burma? What would his Holiness have Buddhists do who have been violently murdered, tortured and raped and seen their temples incinerated by Moslems for their faith? Would he have them meditate to find deeper levels of compassion, love and understanding? How would that stop a Moslem sword from slicing off your head? Turn your cheek when slapped. But when a Moslem draws a sword to kill you you better kill him first
His Holiness the Dalia Lama is a weak pathetic bleeding heart leftist kook who emboldens Islamic terror against Buddhists, as does his Holiness Pope Francis against Christians. There’s nothing “holy” about seeing no evil in Islam. Nothing righteous or good about fanning the flames of unholy Moslem terror. Anti-Jihad Buddhists like Ashin Wirathu are the real holy men worth more than a thousand Dalai Lamas, Pope Francises and meditating Buddhas.
http://www.apollospeaks‘com
He’s nothing but an old dude living in a protected bubble all of his life. He and Francis remind me of each other in their infinite Islamopandering.
The Dalai Lama is a fraud. According to the Tripitaka, “running errands for kings and ministers of state” is considered to be “wrong livelihood” for monks. Being a king or minister of state and a monk at the same time is mutually exclusive.
From the perspective of Theravada Buddhism (the type in Burma), the Dalai Lama isn’t even a real monk. He’s also a Marxist who tries to dress up Marxism in Buddhist robes. It’s just his attempt to pander to the communist party in China and the hippies at the same time.
We need someone just like him in the U.S! A truth teller who is unafraid and willing to back it up with strength of force!
Awesome! Apparently these Buddhists know where the line is drawn and WON’T back away – unlike our slimey little napoleanesque imam who’s squatting in the white mosque.
Thank you.
When Buddhists start carrying machine guns you know Muslims are involved.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
A noble person. It takes a lot of effort to piss off a Buddhist monk, the Muslim savages are some of the few capable of doing that.