BUDDHIST-MUSLIM ANTAGONISM: From the standpoint of the West, religious strife usually involves Christians, Muslims and Jews. But sectarianism can rear its ugly, suspicious head anywhere.
#When national elections were held in Myanmar earlier this month the opposition party led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi, won a decisive, overwhelming victory. Now as her National League for Democracy bears the fruits of victory they face long-festering religious animosity between the overwhelmingly Buddhist majority and a weak, impoverished and disenfranchised Muslim minority.
#Though Myanmar is 90 percent Buddhist a very conservative group of Buddhist monks, the Association for the Protection of Race and Religion, has successfully pushed Myanmar to restrict conversions to other faiths and to make illegal interfaith marriage. The targets of these harsh laws are the powerless Rohingya people, even forbidden to vote in Myanmar. Suu Kyi will be called upon to denounce this hate-filled movement and to take steps to begin to include the victimized, isolated Rohingya into a newly democratized nation.
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