Buddhist Monk Called Neo-Nazi for Protecting Religion/Heritage in Myanmar

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/04/28/new-numerology-religious-hatred-grows-as-myanmar-turns-from-its-military-past/

http://www.maungzarni.com/2013/03/stop-969-burmas-fastest-growing-neo.html
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http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/04/defeating-myarabia/#more-28296

In the US and Western Europe, it comes naturally to apply denigrating labels to anyone who works to protect the religion and culture of his nation or people. So knee-jerk is this reaction that we now have a Buddhist monk and his followers being referred to as neo-Nazis or criminals for doing so .

Now that the military junta has backed off and allowed some Democratic reforms, the Western media are now free to focus their attacks on the real enemies of the Left - religious people who honor their faith and heritage.

Wirathu, whose name coincidentally sounds very close to that of *Viriathus, a leader of a major Celtiberian  revolt against Roman rule in Hispana,  has initiated campaign to protect the religion and cultural inheritance of the people of Myanmar (Former Burma). One of his plans is to have Buddhists patronize establishments owned by their coreligionists as opposed to those of Muslims. The symbol that he has designated to mark his campaign is "969". In an echo of the pre-independence campaign of  non-importation in which American colonists engaged to support local business while denying the loss of hard cash to Great Britain, Buddhist businesses are expected to post the 969 outside of their establishments.

What the Western media have not surprisingly left out is that Muslims in the same country have utilized a similar plan. The use of "786", a Koranic reference, has been going on some time before the maligned 969 campaign began. Buddhist activists hold that Muslims in their country have been the beneficiaries or loans from other Muslims nations, that Muslims have long supported businesses owned by their own coreligionists, and that these have worked to spread Islam in a traditionally Buddhist nation. As expected, there also have been numerous reports of young girls being raped.

The Leftist media, in this case with even FoxNews joining in with the assault, have made Wirathu out to be a racist monster for his efforts to put a stop to the steady creeping of Islam in his nation.

As noted in works such as Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations, only a tiny minority of the various ongoing conflicts between different peoples or groups do not include one participant which does not claim Islam as its religion. These conflicts, which again overwhelming comprise of one Muslim side, are euphemistically refereed to as "ethnic tensions" or "sectarian clashes". Like those in the US and Western Europe who, in recognition of the threats to the identifies and security of their respective nations, call for integration and reductions in immigration, even non-Western/white individuals who take similar actions are hit with the labels of fascist, Nazi, and racist.

The logo for the 969 movement includes symbolism used by Asoka, the greatest ruler of the Maurya dynasty. This dynasty ruled over a large empire, which included the lands of modern Afghanistan in which the Bamiyan Buddhas once stood until the tolerance of Islamic took its toll. Wirathu no doubt is fully aware of what will be in store for his people if, a few generations from now, Myanmar becomes a Muslim-majority country.

Notes on *,**,and ***, are at bottom.

-Excerpts from Gates of Vienna:
The GOV post is linked near the top and should be read in its entirety.

"The [Mainstream media] article also depicts Wirathu as a criminal and a creator of conspiracies: “His credo was and is that the Burmese Buddhists must protect themselves against the ‘Muslim conspiracy’, because if not, then the country will turn Islamic at the latest in 100 years”. And another article goes on saying that “Wirathu’s rhetoric is flush with conspiracy and paranoia. He claims that Muslim merchants receive cash injections from Middle East oil state brethren and use these funds to undercut Buddhist rivals.”

Sound familiar? Has the concept of Eurabia also not been declared to be a hoax and a colourful conspiracy theory? Have those warning about Eurabia** not been treated as paranoid mavericks and fuellers of “Islamophobia”?...........

The hair-raising and astonishingly barefaced MSM lies about the so-called “Ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Myanmar” and the alleged brutalities of the monks which followed this are nothing to be surprised about, of course. In the words of Oswald Spengler***: ““To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery (the media) that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama.” These words are more valid today than ever before.......

Luckily enough, Wirathu has been given a voice at the Burmese online magazine “The Irrawaddy”. His declarations made to this magazine allow us to know the side of the story which the MSM so dhimmishly conceal:

“…I have been told about many cases, such as cases of fighting between Burmese and Muslims and rape cases of 4th- and 7th-grade girls. Most rape victims are students. Other cases are physical attacks and insulting Buddhism — to tell you the truth, there was a case of verbal abuse of monks. Other cases include illegal mosques; mosques and Muslim graveyards constructed without government permission. I’ve received over 50 such cases and I provided suggestions in over 100 cases. I told them to solve the cases in accordance with the law and most take my advice, even the senior monks. Everything is fine as I deal with the cases within the law. In our community, the real 969 [campaigners] do not use violence”.

But nevertheless Wirathu is very aware of the real danger. He says that “If you buy in a Muslim shop, then your money does not remain there. It will be used to destroy your race and your religion.” That is, the money spent in a Muslim shop (or at least a part of it) will inevitably be used to fund any of the various forms of jihad.

This economic aspect of the issue allows us to draw our attention to another important feature of Wirathu’s initiative. According to another MSM article:

“This crisis is erupting in concert with the fast-spreading 969 campaign, which draws its code from a numerological arrangement of Buddhism’s core teachings. It is ostensibly a pride movement that urges Buddhists to patronize Buddhist shops. But the loudest proponents of 969, a set of nationalist monks, urge followers to avoid all shops unwilling to fix the 969 emblem to their storefronts. […]”
As one may have already guessed, this was dubbed as racist and nationalistic behavior, a sign of utter intolerance towards Muslims, a merciless “crusade” (it seems that the term “crusader” applies from now on not only to those of Christian faith; when it comes to “discrimination” against Muslims, certain words are suddenly granted an endless freedom of usage) against shops owned by Muslims. A Buddhist vendor was so daring as to declare that “‘Buddhists should go with Buddhists,’ he added, his eyes darting to a trio of Muslim men standing nearby and his voice lowering to an uneasy whisper. ‘And Muslims should go with Muslims.’”........

But, as always, the MSM forgets to convey the other side of the story, that which uncovers the full picture about the activities of the Burmese Rohingya Muslims.

Wirathu again: “Well, it is not the Burmese way, but a Muslim way and they do practice this [marking their shops with “786”]. So go around town and see how many Muslims visit Burmese shops. If they support their own shops, why won’t we Buddhists [Burmese] do the same? If we support our Burmese shops, we will not have problems and it cannot be that bad. Look what happened in Meikhtila; if people supported the Burmese gold shops then there would not have been an argument. [The unrest in Meikthila supposedly began as a fight between a Muslim gold shop owner and a Buddhist customer.] This kind of buying behavior doesn’t mean it’s discrimination. It can protect our people’s interests............"

*I am always searching for names-words that have survived the span of time and geography. Although the Burmese are clearly East Asians, their Buddhist religion was founded by a cultural descendant of the Indo-Aryans that migrated to India and brought the language (Sanskrit) that would become Hindi. Bengali, Marathi, etc., and provided the basis Sanskrit literature such as the Vedas and the Ramayana. Some Buddhist names may derive from their pre-East Asian origins in India. As the Celtiberian Viriathus  was a descendant of Indo-Europeans that had migrated westward, I have to wonder if the names Viriathus and Wirathu  have a proto-Indo-European cognate.

** Eurabia is the term coined by Bat ye'or for the intention of political Muslims to change the demographics of Europe by immigration and high birthrates to become the majority groups in these countries. Once this is completed, the Constitutions of these nations will be changed to reflect the new order and the attaching of Europe to the Islamic world. Although the concept is ridiculed relentlessly by Leftists, it only summarizes what political Muslims in and outside of Europe has fully admitted for decades. Video is below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKhULwO3l_U

***I am ashamed to admit that it was only last week that I began to read Oswald Spenglers's The Decline of the West. I have put it off of far too long.