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Rohingya are seen after arriving on a boat to Bangladesh on September 14, 2017 in Shah Porir Dip, Bangladesh. Picture: Allison Joyce/Getty ImagesSource:Getty Images


Violence in Myanmar shows the world needs to stop romanticising Buddhism

THERE is a perception among the Western world that Buddhists are all peaceful, loving people. But some of them are willing to burn villages to the ground.
September 17, 2017

http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/v...m/news-story/37bf65e55ec59eb1922f82942576161a

WARNING: Disturbing images

PEOPLE don’t generally associate Buddhists with violence, especially not the type of violence that sees houses set on fire and gunfire sprayed around villages.

But one expert says people around the world need to shed their romanticised view of Buddhism and Buddhists as a peaceful religion and confront the reality of one of the worst human rights abuses in the world.

For three weeks now villages have been burning in Myanmar as military take revenge for an insurgent attack on police and paramilitary posts on August 25.

It’s the second outbreak of violence since October last year and nearly 400,000 Rohingya have fled Rakhine state.

People have been arriving at the Bangladeshi border town of Teknaf, crossing the Naf River in small boats. At least 88 people have drowned after their boats capsized while making the crossing.
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Osamah Sami came to Australia as a refugee at the age of 12, and now stars opposite Helana Sawires in Ali’s Wedding. Photograph: Madman


Pauline Hanson, please see Ali's Wedding. It will be worth your while
Monday 9 October 2017
Osamah Sami

My film is Australia’s first Muslim romcom. I hope it will give the senator a more positive perspective on our lives

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...-see-alis-wedding-it-will-be-worth-your-while

Many audiences have commented that once they are watching the film, they forget that all the main characters are Muslim. I think it’s because audiences have connected emotionally with the film’s universal themes of love, family and duty – themes that don’t discriminate against faith or skin colour.

The night Ali’s Wedding screened at the Sydney’s state theatre, in front of a film festival audience of 2,000, a 21-year-old girl came up to me and said: “Hey Ali,” – (I didn’t correct her) – “I’m Ukrainian, and Jewish ... ”

I waited nervously.

“ … and, umm, that, was my story.”

I was speechless.
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The film’s themes of love, family and duty don’t discriminate. Photograph: Madman
 
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