Chase Madar Retweeted Alex Shams
The Buddhists in Sri Lanka can also be quite nasty and are in bed with Sinhalese nationalism. There's a whole tradition of Buddhist religious violence: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/buddhist-warfare-9780195394832?cc=us&lang=en& …https://twitter.com/seyyedreza/status/970766540223152128 …
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Alex Shams @seyyedreza
Brilliant piece about history behind Myanmar's slaughter of Rohingya - and more broadly how the colonial origins of modern states have hardened religious identities, contrary to the widespread notion that modernity somehow undermines sectarian affiliation. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/opinion/buddhists-violence-tolerance.html?smid=fb-share …
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