Buddhism (Buddhist scripture) doesn’t show any hostility to other religions. Islam, the written scriptures, does. So do the Christian scriptures and the Jewish scriptures. (The four Gospels are all openly anti-Jewish, and the Torah requires the extermination of various people who seem to have opposed the Jews).
That said, in five years of living in various Muslim countries I never encountered any hostility directed at me, any more than in two years living in Burma.
An independent Isaan does not serve anybody’s interests except perhaps Bangkok’s (it will raise the Thai GDP per capita and all measures of economic progress). The Lao commies do not want it (obviously it’s destablilizing) and the Red Shirt/Isaan leaders would be foolish to separate from a country where they have the majority of votes.
You mean as opposed to the persecution of Buddhist tribes people in the Chittagong Hill tracts, which is far worse than what happens in Burma. It’s obvious you are the self-anointed spokesperson of the PFLR (Popular Front for the Liberation of the Rohinyga), but your Arafatian rhetoric is blase. NO, sorry, Buddhists in Burma and Sri Lanka did not forget the teachings of the Buddha, but Bengali Muslims seem to have given up Sufi Islam eons ago. Don’t throw stones in glass houses. Don’t do to minorities in Bangladesh, what Punjabi Muslims did to the Bengali Muslims. That is YOUR take home lesson.
Netiwit, you truly are the beacon of light for young Thai people. I salute you. I want to add the following observation. I think that the lack of free will could be the reason why these academicians changed their position on the Thai education. The lack of free will is a impediment to the development of true democracy. However, when one looks at free will, the lacking of it, one can see that countries such as France, America, South Africa, and India use this argument to achieve freedom from their oppressors. People like Gandhi, Mandela, and Aung San Suu Kyi certainly use “free will” to liberate self and enlighten us.
Personally, I think that cultural norm rather than free will dictates how we behave in society. In Thailand, having wealth and acknowledgment in society is prized. Self-interest and family always take precedent despite individual or family wealth and accomplishment. Generosity is done in hope of gaining more merit in this life and the next for individual doer. Little is done to actually help poor Thais rise, specifically in the area of education. Many Thais now believe that people in power essentially want them to be ignorant so that they can easily be controlled.
With the Junta government in power, Thailand will continue to slide backward. Human rights abuses such as retaining people without cause with the disappearance of many who were retained; threatening execution of those who dare to be different; taking away passports; removing people from their lands without compensation; and abusing LM112 by those who cannot accepting different in others will continue to set Thailand in the path of destruction. In addition, the implementation of more “Thainess” in the school curriculum will only serve to alienate young Thais from reality. “Thainess” can be problematic when certain behaviors are being practiced in the West. Recently posted videos on YouTube show people filming themselves encouraging others to harm other people, specifically to a woman known as Rose. Another YouTube clip shows a woman and her assistant delivering feces to Rose’s house. A young woman in Dubai loses her job because her mother dares to be proud of her accomplishments. They become victim to revenge and jealousy. The job position lost by a young woman constitutes a wrongful dismissal and Thais who experience such discrimination should pay attention to “wrongful dismissal.” I equate this “Thainess” to a disease–a viral infection. Individuals with weak immunity fall victim to the disease and the condition is hard to treat because there is no antibody to cure a viral illness.
To help Thailand move forward, the people who illegally took control of Thailand must be removed. The right to choose one representative government must be returned to the people. International experts on Thai study must tell the world the truth about what actually is happening in Thailand. Many Thais, if not the majority, have now awakened. I ask you, all the influential people of the world, don’t let Thailand become another North Korea. For Thais who are in the position of leadership, stand up with your true conscience for the future of the people of Thailand and not just for a handful of people who are already rich.
I think the author was too easy on assuming that Muhammadiyah Univ student is a Muhammadiyah youth. I believe they are not always the case. They may actually member or supporter of PKS, which usually can be easily found in Islamic Univ.
This also explained why Alinda reported different case when she approached IMM member, which is a genuine Muhammadiyah youth organisation.
I also think that Muhammadiyah member perspective toward Amien Rais has been shifted from a Muhammadiyah (spiritual) leader toward PAN leader or political being. This position is now held by Buya Syafi’i. Muhammadiyah member is easier to align with Buya Syafi’i’s point of view than with Amien’s
My main concern with Jokowi is that the man seems to be beyond criticism. Ever since he broke into the national limelight in 2011, nobody can’t criticize him without receiving a stinging rebuke from his supporters. Yes, even Anies Baswedan and Jusuf Kalla suffered the same fate before they jumped into Jokowi’s wagon.
Jokowi is simply infallible. Those who argue against him are evil, up to no good, and corrupt.
Most recent example was Jokowi’s opposition toward the purchase of Leopard MBT for the army. And suddenly there were people who opposed the purchase, simply because Jokowi said so. When people of military knowledge disagreed with Jokowi, almost immediately they received mud slinging from his supporters who simply couldn’t accept that Jokowi can make mistakes and gaffes just like any other politicians.
Hi everyone, could someone direct me to a more comprehensive source on these programs and all that it entails please.
I have taught communicative English in China, several years ago and I am a qualified TESOL teacher.
I am greatly intrigued.
OK, that might be the reason you give to the Australian government, but reading Hla-Oo’s blog will tell you more about other “tricks/reasons” why Burmese and other Asians really want to migrate to Australia!
The problem with applied game theory is always how to disaggregate and aggregate “the population” as such. I am pretty sure that there is no coherent Singaporean population -at least from my experiences in this thriwing little town. As long as the dynamics at the microlevel are not well elaborated, game theory fails, in my humble opinion, to explain any future development in Singapore at all.
Isaarn’s now rapidly growing separatist movement is not waiting on academic “discourse” about what they should do – eg. whether an indepedent Isaarn is economically viable or not. Isaarn’s separatists are looking for two things :1)to rejoin their phi-nong Lao brothers and sisters, and 2) to call on their phi-nong to GET OUT the Thai army of occupation, currently occupying Isaarn,
“i need a reason for burmese immigrants coming to australia please”
That’s cute!
May be a teeny-bit different to teeny-bit romantic notion of migrants being adventurous and all that. Current day migration is concocted and produced by the very same ingredients everywhere like in “tourism” or even “study tours” like the ones all staffers of ANU are doing all the time.
It is mostly net result of deep division between different geographical and racial divide in technical and principally financial terms.
These migrations are dependent on financial power difference where the “host” nation being, at least for the time being, on the winning side and vice-versa. Like “tourism” being a modern and subtle form of slavery where kindly patrons exert some effort to get pampered by power of their currency advantage.
Don’t feel so vexed though. Some “migrants” may be useful like say- Werner Braun in US all those years ago- here of course it was not the economy but other coercion.
The practical reality of the Burmese being in Australia is this. Australia wants to be seen as oh-so caring and mature and progressive and all that as well as trying to have connections which may prove useful later and to have a variety in the society to counter the other groups of people already rooted there like using Vietnamese to counter Greek mafia in Victoria Market,for example. Or the same group to counter the “Libanese” in western Sydney.
Anyhow there are quotas and rules made. (That is also one duty for the Deputy Sheriff as well.) And people who want to get in make sure they fit in the rules and viola! all are happy except Pauline Hanson’s official and non-official electorate.
Remember people who get in are the ones who fit the criteria. That is universal rule of this particular game.
Again, unlike the romantic notion of yonder days where migration is for the adventurous and may serve a noble purpose, current day migration anywhere is simply indicator/ indictment of unrelenting, entrenched and never-ending exploitation of one group of societies over the others and some cynical people taking advantage of the resultant crumb.
Singapore under the leadership of Lee Kuan Yes has developed a form of elistism unrivalled any where. For a small island state of immigrants, such a system works quite efficiently. The PAP recruits the best educated elite who received the best paper qualifications. Veru much to Mr. Lee’s credit. He produced a relatively uncorrupt government. However, there will be problems. First, too much reliance on one strong leader leads to robotic behavior. Secondly, elite breed intellectual arrogance. The government knows best. Thirdly, there will not be strong and credible opposition parties to stimulate thoughts. In the end, it may not be a good thing.
I was disappointed when my friend Prof. Aziz Bari lost his job as a constitutional law professor. Malaysia should uphold the rule of law. It should recognize that equal opportunities for all races and ethnical groups is the root of stability.
Malaysia has suffered tremendous public image damage because of the loss of two planes of its national airlines. Malaysian government should reflect on its policies and structure for improvement. The world’s attention is focus on that country.
“…. don’t kid yourselves that they are beholden to anyone.”
That is true. They just have taken so much (infinite amount) from the Chinese and can’t figure out how to get out of it. That’s all. In fact they have made this lying and cheating to an art form.
Since the time of Aung San where the history of “Modern Burma”must be traced back, only one consistent act of them has been treachery. As far as Myitsone goes, Than Shwe simply double crossed the Chinks. Usually on this sort of deceit especially involving money, the Chinks turn up to your doorstep with meat cleavers and if you hgo hiding kidnap your wife and kids, hence the multitude of tunnels in the “Abode of Than Shwe and Mi baya kaung gyi” which the general populace also seems to enjoy having in a variant of “Stockholm Syndrome”. As an aside, that much-oppressed and starving Burmese populace would certainly endorse their Sit-tut spending billions of dollars buying fighter jets, drones and submarines so long as they know they got better and bigger killing implements than the Thai’s and various Kalars.
And that is the irony. It is not clear what the “people” want. To make themselves free of the tyranny of the Sit-tut or continue to enjoy their slavery so long as they are told they can live like the Singaporeans and Thais one day.
Laos and Cambodia having entirely different approach and Burma being relatively a late comer, Thailand is just as much having the the same disease as erstwhile Ceylon.
What is that? In this disease, there are easily identifiable two sides. Then one side, obscene majority, bullies -cruelly and fatally and shamelessly- to minority as in time-honored fashion of all self- respecting cowards and jelly-spines.
That’s where this thing called “Buddhism” comes in like a label. The beauty of being Buddhist or being a Burmese for example is that the proponent has no further qualification than being borne.
That fact immensely appeals to all the Kyat-less, quality-less masses just as much as other self-styled protector of the race or religion or whatever takes one’s fancy. Same as such noble thing as gender equality, forest preservation, Keep Little Puppies Happy, Save Dolphins, anything noble and progressive sounding.
So it is simply mixture of some ingredients to the mindless masses (In Burma they are usually crowd described as “Wai-lay-lay” and a ignition seed of professional real “executioners” -Aung Thaung’s Taungthar Tatmadaw) to foment vicious killing and destruction. Some rumor, some insult- real or perceived- but mostly fear- widespread irrational but visceral fear. Unreasonable but believable to ready ear provided the ears are pre-primed.
So if it is not Buddhism, it would be something else. As we saw in Rwanda, it was simply slightly lighter skin and may be slightly taller stature which the artful Belgians exploited so effectively to divide and pit people against each other so effectively and fatally.
Yet it is out in the open why these hordes of monkeys are dancing to the tune of organ grinder to their own deaths and destruction once peaceful and united societies.
Even though these kindly Buddhists and Hindooos have annihilated each others since Duttagarmani (160BC)in Ceylon, current bout of self annihilation to each other came about since 1970 with the rise in that land of Buddha’s disciples of “Neoliberalism” according to that “Washington Consensus” which in short simply means how to squeeze the life blood out of the masses and exploit the natural resources for the benefit of a few using monetary and fiscal policies under cover of usual channels of publications drumming up the resultant policies as noble and desirable.
In practice these are done with collusion of authoritarian and ruthless dictatorship-(which will now be renamed in NEWSPEAK as “democratic” in unison by the said “media”) – by IMF and WB or its sister banks.
The only difference between the Brothers Rajapaksa, The Klan Shinwatra and Burmese Sit-tut is the chronology. They all are moving in the very same direction under the same instructors, doing the same thing with the same strategy and the same devastating results to their respective societies.
Yet ready component of GREED and false PRIDE filled societies and total lack of insight as a society are basic ingredients for these most inhumane atrocities to “prosper.”
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Causes of intolerance and prejudice in Buddhism
Buddhism (Buddhist scripture) doesn’t show any hostility to other religions. Islam, the written scriptures, does. So do the Christian scriptures and the Jewish scriptures. (The four Gospels are all openly anti-Jewish, and the Torah requires the extermination of various people who seem to have opposed the Jews).
That said, in five years of living in various Muslim countries I never encountered any hostility directed at me, any more than in two years living in Burma.
Thailand’s coup: same same but different?
An independent Isaan does not serve anybody’s interests except perhaps Bangkok’s (it will raise the Thai GDP per capita and all measures of economic progress). The Lao commies do not want it (obviously it’s destablilizing) and the Red Shirt/Isaan leaders would be foolish to separate from a country where they have the majority of votes.
Causes of intolerance and prejudice in Buddhism
You mean as opposed to the persecution of Buddhist tribes people in the Chittagong Hill tracts, which is far worse than what happens in Burma. It’s obvious you are the self-anointed spokesperson of the PFLR (Popular Front for the Liberation of the Rohinyga), but your Arafatian rhetoric is blase. NO, sorry, Buddhists in Burma and Sri Lanka did not forget the teachings of the Buddha, but Bengali Muslims seem to have given up Sufi Islam eons ago. Don’t throw stones in glass houses. Don’t do to minorities in Bangladesh, what Punjabi Muslims did to the Bengali Muslims. That is YOUR take home lesson.
Confused Thai Educators
Netiwit, you truly are the beacon of light for young Thai people. I salute you. I want to add the following observation. I think that the lack of free will could be the reason why these academicians changed their position on the Thai education. The lack of free will is a impediment to the development of true democracy. However, when one looks at free will, the lacking of it, one can see that countries such as France, America, South Africa, and India use this argument to achieve freedom from their oppressors. People like Gandhi, Mandela, and Aung San Suu Kyi certainly use “free will” to liberate self and enlighten us.
Personally, I think that cultural norm rather than free will dictates how we behave in society. In Thailand, having wealth and acknowledgment in society is prized. Self-interest and family always take precedent despite individual or family wealth and accomplishment. Generosity is done in hope of gaining more merit in this life and the next for individual doer. Little is done to actually help poor Thais rise, specifically in the area of education. Many Thais now believe that people in power essentially want them to be ignorant so that they can easily be controlled.
With the Junta government in power, Thailand will continue to slide backward. Human rights abuses such as retaining people without cause with the disappearance of many who were retained; threatening execution of those who dare to be different; taking away passports; removing people from their lands without compensation; and abusing LM112 by those who cannot accepting different in others will continue to set Thailand in the path of destruction. In addition, the implementation of more “Thainess” in the school curriculum will only serve to alienate young Thais from reality. “Thainess” can be problematic when certain behaviors are being practiced in the West. Recently posted videos on YouTube show people filming themselves encouraging others to harm other people, specifically to a woman known as Rose. Another YouTube clip shows a woman and her assistant delivering feces to Rose’s house. A young woman in Dubai loses her job because her mother dares to be proud of her accomplishments. They become victim to revenge and jealousy. The job position lost by a young woman constitutes a wrongful dismissal and Thais who experience such discrimination should pay attention to “wrongful dismissal.” I equate this “Thainess” to a disease–a viral infection. Individuals with weak immunity fall victim to the disease and the condition is hard to treat because there is no antibody to cure a viral illness.
To help Thailand move forward, the people who illegally took control of Thailand must be removed. The right to choose one representative government must be returned to the people. International experts on Thai study must tell the world the truth about what actually is happening in Thailand. Many Thais, if not the majority, have now awakened. I ask you, all the influential people of the world, don’t let Thailand become another North Korea. For Thais who are in the position of leadership, stand up with your true conscience for the future of the people of Thailand and not just for a handful of people who are already rich.
Neutral No More?
I think the author was too easy on assuming that Muhammadiyah Univ student is a Muhammadiyah youth. I believe they are not always the case. They may actually member or supporter of PKS, which usually can be easily found in Islamic Univ.
This also explained why Alinda reported different case when she approached IMM member, which is a genuine Muhammadiyah youth organisation.
I also think that Muhammadiyah member perspective toward Amien Rais has been shifted from a Muhammadiyah (spiritual) leader toward PAN leader or political being. This position is now held by Buya Syafi’i. Muhammadiyah member is easier to align with Buya Syafi’i’s point of view than with Amien’s
Jokowi vs Prabowo: tight-run race a turning point
Excellent post John.
My main concern with Jokowi is that the man seems to be beyond criticism. Ever since he broke into the national limelight in 2011, nobody can’t criticize him without receiving a stinging rebuke from his supporters. Yes, even Anies Baswedan and Jusuf Kalla suffered the same fate before they jumped into Jokowi’s wagon.
Jokowi is simply infallible. Those who argue against him are evil, up to no good, and corrupt.
Most recent example was Jokowi’s opposition toward the purchase of Leopard MBT for the army. And suddenly there were people who opposed the purchase, simply because Jokowi said so. When people of military knowledge disagreed with Jokowi, almost immediately they received mud slinging from his supporters who simply couldn’t accept that Jokowi can make mistakes and gaffes just like any other politicians.
Volunteer English teaching programs in Thai temples
Hi everyone, could someone direct me to a more comprehensive source on these programs and all that it entails please.
I have taught communicative English in China, several years ago and I am a qualified TESOL teacher.
I am greatly intrigued.
Study of Burmese migrant experiences in Australia
OK, that might be the reason you give to the Australian government, but reading Hla-Oo’s blog will tell you more about other “tricks/reasons” why Burmese and other Asians really want to migrate to Australia!
Causes of intolerance and prejudice in Buddhism
Your ignorance and irreverence to Buddhism is really glaringly reminiscing of the Colonial days.
Causes of intolerance and prejudice in Buddhism
‘Buddhist extremist’ is an oxymoron.
Bargaining with the PAP
The problem with applied game theory is always how to disaggregate and aggregate “the population” as such. I am pretty sure that there is no coherent Singaporean population -at least from my experiences in this thriwing little town. As long as the dynamics at the microlevel are not well elaborated, game theory fails, in my humble opinion, to explain any future development in Singapore at all.
Thailand’s coup: same same but different?
Isaarn’s now rapidly growing separatist movement is not waiting on academic “discourse” about what they should do – eg. whether an indepedent Isaarn is economically viable or not. Isaarn’s separatists are looking for two things :1)to rejoin their phi-nong Lao brothers and sisters, and 2) to call on their phi-nong to GET OUT the Thai army of occupation, currently occupying Isaarn,
Study of Burmese migrant experiences in Australia
“i need a reason for burmese immigrants coming to australia please”
That’s cute!
May be a teeny-bit different to teeny-bit romantic notion of migrants being adventurous and all that. Current day migration is concocted and produced by the very same ingredients everywhere like in “tourism” or even “study tours” like the ones all staffers of ANU are doing all the time.
It is mostly net result of deep division between different geographical and racial divide in technical and principally financial terms.
These migrations are dependent on financial power difference where the “host” nation being, at least for the time being, on the winning side and vice-versa. Like “tourism” being a modern and subtle form of slavery where kindly patrons exert some effort to get pampered by power of their currency advantage.
Don’t feel so vexed though. Some “migrants” may be useful like say- Werner Braun in US all those years ago- here of course it was not the economy but other coercion.
The practical reality of the Burmese being in Australia is this. Australia wants to be seen as oh-so caring and mature and progressive and all that as well as trying to have connections which may prove useful later and to have a variety in the society to counter the other groups of people already rooted there like using Vietnamese to counter Greek mafia in Victoria Market,for example. Or the same group to counter the “Libanese” in western Sydney.
Anyhow there are quotas and rules made. (That is also one duty for the Deputy Sheriff as well.) And people who want to get in make sure they fit in the rules and viola! all are happy except Pauline Hanson’s official and non-official electorate.
Remember people who get in are the ones who fit the criteria. That is universal rule of this particular game.
Again, unlike the romantic notion of yonder days where migration is for the adventurous and may serve a noble purpose, current day migration anywhere is simply indicator/ indictment of unrelenting, entrenched and never-ending exploitation of one group of societies over the others and some cynical people taking advantage of the resultant crumb.
Sleep well. Sweet dreams!
Bargaining with the PAP
Singapore under the leadership of Lee Kuan Yes has developed a form of elistism unrivalled any where. For a small island state of immigrants, such a system works quite efficiently. The PAP recruits the best educated elite who received the best paper qualifications. Veru much to Mr. Lee’s credit. He produced a relatively uncorrupt government. However, there will be problems. First, too much reliance on one strong leader leads to robotic behavior. Secondly, elite breed intellectual arrogance. The government knows best. Thirdly, there will not be strong and credible opposition parties to stimulate thoughts. In the end, it may not be a good thing.
The vulnerability of Malaysia’s legal discourse
I was disappointed when my friend Prof. Aziz Bari lost his job as a constitutional law professor. Malaysia should uphold the rule of law. It should recognize that equal opportunities for all races and ethnical groups is the root of stability.
3R: race, religion and royalty in Malaysia
Malaysia has suffered tremendous public image damage because of the loss of two planes of its national airlines. Malaysian government should reflect on its policies and structure for improvement. The world’s attention is focus on that country.
Sectarian conflict in Mandalay
“…. don’t kid yourselves that they are beholden to anyone.”
That is true. They just have taken so much (infinite amount) from the Chinese and can’t figure out how to get out of it. That’s all. In fact they have made this lying and cheating to an art form.
Since the time of Aung San where the history of “Modern Burma”must be traced back, only one consistent act of them has been treachery. As far as Myitsone goes, Than Shwe simply double crossed the Chinks. Usually on this sort of deceit especially involving money, the Chinks turn up to your doorstep with meat cleavers and if you hgo hiding kidnap your wife and kids, hence the multitude of tunnels in the “Abode of Than Shwe and Mi baya kaung gyi” which the general populace also seems to enjoy having in a variant of “Stockholm Syndrome”. As an aside, that much-oppressed and starving Burmese populace would certainly endorse their Sit-tut spending billions of dollars buying fighter jets, drones and submarines so long as they know they got better and bigger killing implements than the Thai’s and various Kalars.
And that is the irony. It is not clear what the “people” want. To make themselves free of the tyranny of the Sit-tut or continue to enjoy their slavery so long as they are told they can live like the Singaporeans and Thais one day.
Causes of intolerance and prejudice in Buddhism
Laos and Cambodia having entirely different approach and Burma being relatively a late comer, Thailand is just as much having the the same disease as erstwhile Ceylon.
What is that? In this disease, there are easily identifiable two sides. Then one side, obscene majority, bullies -cruelly and fatally and shamelessly- to minority as in time-honored fashion of all self- respecting cowards and jelly-spines.
That’s where this thing called “Buddhism” comes in like a label. The beauty of being Buddhist or being a Burmese for example is that the proponent has no further qualification than being borne.
That fact immensely appeals to all the Kyat-less, quality-less masses just as much as other self-styled protector of the race or religion or whatever takes one’s fancy. Same as such noble thing as gender equality, forest preservation, Keep Little Puppies Happy, Save Dolphins, anything noble and progressive sounding.
So it is simply mixture of some ingredients to the mindless masses (In Burma they are usually crowd described as “Wai-lay-lay” and a ignition seed of professional real “executioners” -Aung Thaung’s Taungthar Tatmadaw) to foment vicious killing and destruction. Some rumor, some insult- real or perceived- but mostly fear- widespread irrational but visceral fear. Unreasonable but believable to ready ear provided the ears are pre-primed.
So if it is not Buddhism, it would be something else. As we saw in Rwanda, it was simply slightly lighter skin and may be slightly taller stature which the artful Belgians exploited so effectively to divide and pit people against each other so effectively and fatally.
Yet it is out in the open why these hordes of monkeys are dancing to the tune of organ grinder to their own deaths and destruction once peaceful and united societies.
Even though these kindly Buddhists and Hindooos have annihilated each others since Duttagarmani (160BC)in Ceylon, current bout of self annihilation to each other came about since 1970 with the rise in that land of Buddha’s disciples of “Neoliberalism” according to that “Washington Consensus” which in short simply means how to squeeze the life blood out of the masses and exploit the natural resources for the benefit of a few using monetary and fiscal policies under cover of usual channels of publications drumming up the resultant policies as noble and desirable.
In practice these are done with collusion of authoritarian and ruthless dictatorship-(which will now be renamed in NEWSPEAK as “democratic” in unison by the said “media”) – by IMF and WB or its sister banks.
The only difference between the Brothers Rajapaksa, The Klan Shinwatra and Burmese Sit-tut is the chronology. They all are moving in the very same direction under the same instructors, doing the same thing with the same strategy and the same devastating results to their respective societies.
Yet ready component of GREED and false PRIDE filled societies and total lack of insight as a society are basic ingredients for these most inhumane atrocities to “prosper.”
Causes of intolerance and prejudice in Buddhism
He raised a very interesting subject on the possible origin of this “intolerance”. However, I find it hard to follow his reasoning.
Causes of intolerance and prejudice in Buddhism
Friendly fire Hang Tuah. Still stings.