Buddhist World In Crisis & Buddhist Nations Are In Danger

(Senaka Weeraratna’s article from The Buddhist Defense League on 11 March 2014.)

The Crisis facing the Buddhist World – The Buddhist World lacks an effective mechanism to help save a Buddhist Nation in Danger.

The crisis facing the Buddhist world is neither a decline in religious conviction nor an apprehension that truth underpinned by rational argument and new scientific discoveries will one day overtake and outstrip the core teachings of its founder which is a perennial fear bordering on despondency that characterizes several other competing religions, but the lack of an effective institutional mechanism that can lend support when a Buddhist institution, Buddhist community or even a pre-dominant Buddhist nation is in danger.

We see the lack of substantial networks of support driving threatened Buddhist nations or Buddhist communities into a sense of despair and hopelessness at times of an emergency.

Traditional Buddhist countries such as Thailand, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Laos are now under severe pressure to distance themselves from extending state patronage to Buddhism and erase their Buddhist country identity and embrace a secular identity while no such pressure being applied to countries in other parts of the world such as the Middle East or the Catholic belt of Europe.

KIA: US-Backed Bad-Arse Insurgents Visiting Washington

(Based on news articles direct from the Burmese and Kachin Blogs in April 2014.)

KIA Gun Maw in D.C.

General Gun Maw the notorious rapist-warlord of so-called Kachin Independence Army (KIA) the bad-arse ethnic-insurgent mob in Burma is now in Washington D.C. after being invited by his US government backers. Funded generously by the US Government KIA General Gun Maw landed at the US capital on April-13 last Sunday.

His 12-days-long visit was sponsored by the US State Department and his four-member KIA team has plans to meet senior State Department officials and some members of US Congress who have blindly supported the thuggish KIA Christians in Kachins’ decades-long insurgency against Buddhist Burmese majority in our Burma.

Back in Burma Gun Maw has steadfastly refused to accept Burmese peace offers and also refused to let Burmese Government conduct Census collection in the border territories controlled by his KIA thugs.

Imams Gang-Raped and Killed 12-yr-old Inside Mosque

(News article direct from the GULF NEWS and NATION PAKISTAN on 13 Apr 2014.)

BADIN: The cleric of a local mosque reportedly killed a 12-year-old girl after sexually assaulting her along with three accomplices, local media reported on Sunday. According to reports, the girl was at the seminary for religious studies when Maulvi Ghulam Murtaza dismissed the class and asked her to stay back.

Imam Murtaza then reportedly called three other men and the four of them gang raped the girl in one of the rooms in the mosque. They then strangled her in an apparent attempt to cover up the crime.

After the family received information about what had happened, they rushed to the mosque to rescue her but it was too late. Doctors confirmed she was killed after a violent sexual assault. Following the doctor’s confirmation, police arrested the cleric and registered a case against him. The other three men are on the run.

Sin-phyu-shin: The Newest Burmese-built Frigate (F14)

(Translation of News article direct from the MYANMAR NAVY on 31 March 2014.)

Frigate Sin-phyu-shin (F14).

YANGON: The launching ceremony of Burma Navy’s third locally-build frigate 108m long was held at Burma Naval Dockyards at Thilawar Naval Base in Rangoon.

The ceremony was attended by Deputy Defense-Services-Chief and Army Chief-of-Staff Vice-Senior-General Soe Win, Navy Chief-of-Staff General Thuya Thet Swe, and other senior army and navy officers.

At the ceremony the newly-built second stealth-frigate with hull-code F14 was named UMS Sin-phyu-shin. Sin-phyu-shin or Sinbyushin meaning literally “The Possessor of White Elephant” was a famous Burmese king from Burma’s glorious imperial past.

Burma Navy’s second locally-built frigate Kyan-sit-thar (F12) -- the first locally-built stealth-frigate of burma Navy -- is now being fitted with her latest electrical and communication and weapon systems and expected to be commissioned this year 2014.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Bravest Woman Alive!

(Based on the articles direct from the WIKIPEDIA and the NEW YORK TIMES.)

Ayaan Hirsi Ali or Ayaan Hirsi Magan Isse Guleid Ali Wai’ays Muhammad Ali Umar Osman Mahamud (born 13 November 1969) is the Somali-born American (formerly Dutch) women's rights and atheist activist, writer and politician who is known for her views critical of female genital mutilation and Islam.

She wrote the screenplay for Theo van Gogh's movie Submission, after which she and the director both received death threats, and the director was murdered in Amsterdam in broad day light. The daughter of the Somali politician and opposition leader Hirsi Magan Isse, she is a founder of the women's rights organisation the AHA Foundation.

When she was eight, Hirsi Ali's family left Somalia for Saudi Arabia, then Ethiopia, and eventually settled in Kenya. She sought and obtained political asylum in the Netherlands in 1992.

Burma Accuses UK Of Interfering In Arakan Affairs

(News article direct from the MYANMAR TIMES on 9 Apr 2014.)

Imam Hugo Swire does not like us Buddhists at
all and he wants to Islamize Burma like his UK.

YANGON: Presidential spokesperson U Ye Htut has accused Britain of interfering in Myanmar's internal affairs after it summoned the Myanmar ambassador in an effort to convince the government to allow humanitarian aid activities to resume in Rakhine State.

"The president has already explained to the secretary-general of the UN [Ban Ki-moon] that the government has taken the necessary measures to ensure the safety and protection of all international organisations [working in Rakhine State]," U Ye Htut said. "So we don't need to say anything more."

U Ye Htut, who is also a deputy minister for information, also took issue with Britain's usage of the term "Rohingya" in a statement issued following the meeting with the ambassador. He said no official documents from the British colonial period had ever referred to Muslims in Rakhine State as Rohingya.

Another Gang-Rape in Muslim-Infested Sydney-West?

(News article direct from the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD on 9 Apr 2014.)

The Fairfield park where a brutal gang-rape took place.

SYDENY: Two 16-year-old girls who were skipping school to go shopping in Castle Hill were lured off a train by three men and raped in Fairfield Park. Two teenage girls who had become lost after skipping school to go shopping in Castle Hill were lured off a train and raped in broad daylight on Tuesday, police say.

Police are hunting for three men who struck up a conversation with the 16-year-old school friends on a train near Blacktown and convinced them to get off at Fairfield and go to a park where they were allegedly sexually assaulted.

Detective Superintendent Peter Lennon, commander of Fairfield Local Area Command said it was likely police would learn the identities of the men on Wednesday and asked them to come forward "before we come knocking on their door".

Burmese People Prefer Army-Led Government Over NLD

(Rare good news article direct from normally anti-military IRRAWADDY on 7 Apr 2014.)

Even ASSK attended Burma Armed-Forces Day.

RANGOON — An opinion poll by a US government-backed pro-democracy institute has found that members of the Burmese public largely believe their country is “heading in the right direction” three years after President Thein Sein undertook an ambitious reform program.

Eighty-eight percent of respondents indicated that they thought the country was on the right track, while 6 percent thought Burma was headed in the wrong direction, according to a poll of 3,000 people conducted by the International Republican Institute (IRI), a Washington-based organization that receives funding from the US government.

The IRI results seem to indicate that public sentiment runs counter to views voiced by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who last year criticized the government for providing “no tangible changes” in Burma, which was ruled for five decades by a military dictatorship that ceded power in 2011.

US Muslim Woman Cut Clit off Her 10-Month-Old Baby

(News article direct from the LEDGER-ENQUIRER on 11 March 2010.)

LAGRANGE, Ga. A LaGrange woman has been arrested and accused of female genital mutilation and cruelty to children in the second degree.

The 35-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday after relatives caring for her 10-month-old daughter realized the baby girl appeared to have been circumcised, said Sgt. Chad Mann of the Troup County Sheriff's Office.

The 10 month old was in the care of her father when another family member made the discovery. The baby girl was then taken to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta where she was examined by a doctor who determined some form of surgery to remove the infant’s clitoris had taken place.