{"id":423,"date":"2007-10-07T17:58:12","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T16:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2007\/10\/07\/the_other_side_of_burmas_peaceful_monks"},"modified":"2007-10-07T17:58:12","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T16:58:12","slug":"the_other_side_of_burmas_peaceful_monks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2007\/10\/07\/the_other_side_of_burmas_peaceful_monks","title":{"rendered":"The other side of Burma&#8217;s &#8220;peaceful&#8221; monks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title = \"The other, invisible suffering of Burma &laquo; Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist\" href=\"http:\/\/marranci.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/30\/the-other-invisible-suffering-of-burma\/\">The other, invisible suffering of Burma &laquo; Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the recent rush to support the monk-led uprising against the military junta in Burma, the situation of the long-suffering Muslim minority, particularly in the state bordering Bangladesh where they make up 50% of the population but do not enjoy the rights other Burmese citizens enjoy.  The country&#8217;s monks have also played a role in the Muslims&#8217; suffering, for example <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9506E2D7133BF937A15750C0A961958260\">attacking mosques<\/a> on the basis of rumours of Muslims raping Buddhist girls; there have also been pamphlets circulated &#8220;glorifying race purity and Buddhism and actually reinforcing anti-Muslim sentiments&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other, invisible suffering of Burma &laquo; Islam, Muslims, and an Anthropologist In the recent rush to support the monk-led uprising against the military junta in Burma, the situation of the long-suffering Muslim minority,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-muslim_world","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-6P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}