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Archives: Buddhism
![Muslim Rohingya Refugees from Burma: “The Army… burned down my house.”](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921184424im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/09/muslim-rohingya-refugees-from-bu-187x137.jpg)
![Can Turkey’s Erdogan ride Rohingya Crisis to global Muslim Leadership?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921184424im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/09/can-turkeys-erdogan-ride-rohingy-187x137.jpg)
Can Turkey’s Erdogan ride Rohingya Crisis to global Muslim Leadership?
By Simon P. Watmough | The Conversation | - - The emerging humanitarian crisis that has been rocking Myanmar - where an estimated 370,000 Rohingya have been forced out of the country…![Burma Muslims: Dear Peace Nobelist Kyi, It’s too Late](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921184424im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/09/burma-muslims-dear-peace-nobelis-187x137.jpg)
Burma Muslims: Dear Peace Nobelist Kyi, It’s too Late
By Farhana Haque Rahman, Director General, Inter Press Service | (IPS) | - - Rohingya refugees trudge through the rain and mud as they arrive at Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh after days…![Screen Shot 2017-09-07 at 3.29.45 AM](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921184424im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-09-07-at-3.29.45-AM-187x137.png)
Bannon & Trump lost Long ago: White Christians not a Majority in US
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In 1976,when Jimmy Carter was elected, a big majority (81%) of Americans identified as both white and Christian, with 4 in 10 of…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921184424im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/09/201709asia_burma_burningsmap-1-187x137.png)
Burma: Satellite Shows Massive Arson against Muslims by Buddhists
Human Rights Watch . | - - 700 Buildings Destroyed in Single Muslim Village in Rakhine State (New York) – New satellite imagery shows several hundred buildings burned in Burma’s Rakhine State,…![Muslim Rohingya Refugees Drown as They flee Buddhist Persecution in Myanmar](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921184424im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/09/muslim-rohingya-refugees-drown-a-187x137.jpg)
Muslim Rohingya Refugees Drown as They flee Buddhist Persecution in Myanmar
TeleSur | - - Around 27,400 Rohingya Muslims have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar since Friday. Bangladeshi border guards have recovered two dozen bodies from the country’s shore in the last two…![Buddhist Mob Burns Down a Muslim Mosque in Myanmar Village](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921184424im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/07/buddhist-mob-burns-down-a-muslim-187x137.jpg)
Buddhist Mob Burns Down a Muslim Mosque in Myanmar Village
TeleSur | - - A mob has burned down a mosque in the second attack of its kind in just over a week. Scores of Buddhists ransacked a mosque in northern Myanmar…![Left For Dead: Myanmar’s Muslim Minority](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921184424im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/05/left-for-dead-myanmars-muslim-mi-187x137.jpg)
Left For Dead: Myanmar’s Muslim Minority
VICE News | (Video report) | - - "In recent years, democratic reforms have swept through Myanmar, a country that for decades was ruled by a military junta. As the reforms took…![Top 6 Times US government Excluded Millions based on Race or Religion](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921184424im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/12/top-6-times-us-government-exclud-187x137.jpg)
Top 6 Times US government Excluded Millions based on Race or Religion
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and other bigots on the far right are nothing new in American history. Rather, they remind us of the…![relviolence](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921184424im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2013/04/relviolence.jpg)
Terrorism and the Other Religions
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Reprint edn. slightly revised. Contrary to what is alleged by bigots like Bill Maher, Muslims are not more violent than people of other…![Rohingya Muslim Minority Migrants targeted by Buddhists found in Mass Grave](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921184424im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/05/rohingya-muslim-minority-migrant-187x137.jpg)
Rohingya Muslim Minority Migrants targeted by Buddhists found in Mass Grave
Wochit News / IRIN | - "Dozens of police and volunteers exhumed six more bodies on Saturday in the second day of digging out a mass grave near a suspected human trafficking…![Militant Buddhist Monks stir attacks on innocent Muslims in Myanmar](http://web.archive.org./web/20170921184424im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2014/11/militant-buddhist-monks-stir-att-187x137.jpg)