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HOW to WRITE an ARTICLE about the BUDDHIST MUSLIM CONFLICT in BURMA

 for the UTMOST DECEPTION, the MAXIMUM MANIPULATION, and the

MOST VILE DEMONIZATION of the BUDDHIST PEOPLE, MONKS, and CULTURE

by Rick Heizman

The numbers of journalists and writers, presenting themselves as ‘Human Rights Defenders’, who aremis-reporting on the conflict in western Burma/Myanmar, is troubling, annoying, and hard to fathom.

They largely have taken, swallowed,and believe the tremendous amountof mis-information, manipulatedphotos and videos, and falseaccounts.See here for quick examples:FalseMedia, Al-Jazeera_exposed,Hacker_video_false.

They seem to try to out do each

other, by making their articles evenmore outrageous and inflammatory than the previous ones.

Here are 16 elements that are in common among these writers and their articles:

1) Create ever more hyper-inflammatory and outrageous headlines

• The Monks Who Hate Muslims, by Emanuel Stoakes, The Independent

• The Face of Buddhist Terror - by Hannah Beech, Time Magazine

• The Buddhist war on Myanmar’s Muslims, by Jason Szep, Reuters

• Burma's Bloodthirsty Monks, by Brennan O'Conner, The New Internationalist

• Poison in the Sangha (Community of Buddhist monks), by Francis Wade, The Revealer

• Growing Up a Proud Racist in Burma by Dr. Maung Zarni, E-International Relations

• Yet Again, Myanmar Rape Allegations Spark Anti-Muslim Riots, Patrick Winn, GlobalPost

• Burma: Open for the Business of Genocide, Rohingya News Agency - RNA

These loaded headlines do not even mention a) the savage and often deadly rapes andattacks against Buddhist women and girls collecting clams, or fetching water and firewood,

b) the 60 years of aggressive Muslim militancy, aimed to expel, fight, and eliminate theindigenous non-Muslims from their own ancient homeland, which the Bengali Muslims haveswarmed into. Now the deeply-rooted Buddhists are having to defend themselves from anintolerant and supremacist campaign against them, the monks, and even Buddhism. 

In this frenzy of demonizing and defiling Buddhists, one might expect the next headline to besomething like: ‘Satanic, Rapacious, Terroristic Ogre Monks Dismember, Cannibalizeand Eviscerate Muslims Who Have Never Bothered Anyone - Anytime nor Anywhere.’

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2) Begin with and feature absurd accusations,especially against Buddhist monks.

• The Buddhist monk grabbed a young Muslim girl and put a knife to her neck. “If you followus, I’ll kill her,”  Jason Szep

•  A Buddhist monk allegedly told a Muslim, “If you don’t want to die, you must sit and worship

us,”  Brennan O'Conner  

• It has become a near-monthly occurrence in Myanmar: a Buddhist is aggrieved, a Muslim isincriminated and a rampaging mob sets a Muslim neighborhood alight. Patrick Winn 

How about using something factual, like: 

• The Buddhist women were walking back to their village after gathering clams on the riverband, when a large group of Muslims viciously attacked them. see: collecting_clams 

• The Muslims in Maungdaw stormed out of the mosque and down the streets, beating andkilling Buddhists, setting homes and Buddhist temples on fire, and yelling in their Bengali

language, ‘Maug-kara-hari, Maug-kara-hari’ , which translates as, ‘Cut off the heads of theRakhine (Buddhists), Cut off the heads of the Rakhine’ . see: Maungdaw_video 

3) Use a provocative photo - ex: young Buddhist monks with toy guns

- to immediately castigate the Buddhists as villainsBoys worldwide - even young Buddhist monks - may play with toy guns, (and video games).

The ‘monks with guns’ photo looks staged.

In a market, ask the young kid

monks to pose with toy guns -now you can help destroy thisBuddhist culture by using thisphoto to portray them as‘violent, gun-carrying, lunaticmonks eager to slaughterinnocent Muslims for noreason’.

If you want to show guns and make references to genocide, you canuse actual photos of Bengali Muslims

(Rohingya) training with REAL guns -in their Mujahideen (Islamic warriors)armies to fight a jihad (‘holy’ war for

 Allah). They are not meditating norstriving for peace and harmony - theyintend to use these weapons to killBuddhists and any other infidels (non-believers). see: rohingya_militants 

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4) Refer to ‘deeply-seated hatred of Muslims in the Burmese psyche’ 

Repeat the simplistic, totally biased, and manipulative ‘psychological insights' into the deepcore beliefs of the Buddhists (and only the Buddhists) and accuse them of harboring a longand unwarranted deep hatred for Muslims.

But, make no mention of the much more factual, pervasive, and deeply embedded hatred ofall infidels (non-believers of Allah) with Hindus and Buddhists considered worse than othersbecause they don’t believe in one supreme God - which is essential to the Islamic faith.

Ever since Islam started it has fought andconquered others - in the belief that their God(Allah) commanded them to kill - ‘smite thenecks’  (cut off the heads - as the Qur’an says)those who refused to convert to Islam. And this theydid, century after century, annihilating Buddhistscultures (and others) down to very very fewsurvivors, or even zero survivors in many places,

such as in the lands now called Iran, Afghanistan,Pakistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, and others.

Rakhine Buddhists are well aware that as the Bengali Muslim presence in Arakan increases, itwill repeat the path that it has pursued for centuries. They only haveto look at neighboring Bangladesh - a land of exalted BuddhistKingdoms for more than 1000 years - where the Hindu and Buddhistpopulation was decimated by the Muslim conquest of India (Indianhistorians say 70-80 million Hindus and Buddhists were slaughtered- in the name of Allah - during 8 centuries of Muslim rule).

Furthermore, at the time of Indian independence in 1948, the landnow called Bangladesh had over 20% Buddhists, and now has lessthen 1% - and soon the Buddhists will be extinct - in a land that hasa far longer Buddhist history and heritage than that of the Muslims.But, the Muslims there, and worldwide, have no qualms about that,for Islam teaches that it is the duty of Muslims to destroy the infidelreligions, put their lands under the law of Islam, and if the infidelsdon’t convert, destroy them - and Allah will reward you.

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5) Use the words ‘Extremist’, ‘Militant’, ‘Neo-Nazi’ and ‘Hate Speech’ often

- and only with ‘monks’, ‘Buddhist people’ , and even ‘Buddhism’

These are ‘militant’ Buddhists gathering, and ‘compassionate’ Bengali Muslims gathering.

In both cases they are engaged in their religious practice.

 And the reality is that there are no photos of a group of Buddhists monks with guns in theirhands, but there are thousands of photos of islamic jihadists, terrorists, suicide bombers, and

militants with all forms of deadly weapons - and thousands of instances where those weapons

were used to kill as many as possible. 

The Buddhist monks are invoking compassion, insight, and metta (loving-kindness) and theBengali Muslims are praying for violent blood-letting of Buddhists, or do you believe they arepraying to sing together, dance with, and laugh and play with Buddhists? - isn’t it strange forthem to be praying with guns in their hands? 

The mis-use of the term ‘Hate Speech’ isbecoming absurd. It is more and more used to

stifle any and all criticism or analysis of Muslims,and of Islam.

Writers are constantly referring to the ‘sermonsof hate’ from monk U Wirathu and others - yetTHERE ARE NO CALLS TO BE VIOLENT, NORTO CAUSE HARM OR DESTRUCTION!

Can anything that ANY MONK allegedly saidcome even close to the following? 

•  “I decree that every person who can get to a Buddhist should kill him,” - Sheikh Bilal al-Masri

• “There should be no diplomacy whatsoever, we Muslims must fight.” - Abu Arif, a ‘Rohingya’Ulama (high Islamic cleric and scholar) 

• “We need the Mujahideen from Indonesia to train….especially in bomb making.” -

Commander Abu Shafiyah, of the extreme militant Islamic Rohingya Solidarity Organization (RSO)

• "I address Myanmar's youth: take up the sword and kill in the path of God. No doubt, God is with us”- advice and encouragement from notorious terror group Tehreek-e-Taliban, Pakistan

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  Indonesians ready to kill Buddhists. Anyone seen Buddhists carry such signs?

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6) Be sure to mention ‘The monk who calls himself bin-Laden’

There are no audio or video clips where U Wirathu callshimself ‘the bin-Laden of Burma’. None. Zero. There is no

 journalistic integrity about this. None. ZERO. Writers and journalists seem to be in an orgy of painting U Wirathu as a

monster, accusing him of being the cause of much of theviolence, and of preaching hateful violence - but there ARENO audio and video clips or written material where he saysto use violence or kill! He does talk about the problems,threats, and reality that the Buddhists are facing, and he talksstrongly about it. Some people may like or dislike his style - but, there is freedom of speech,and freedom to criticize, and freedom to agree or disagree. Any reasonable look at thiscan see that Buddhists do not exhibit the grotesque hate speech and actions that areseemingly constant in the Muslim world.

Why do the biased writers and journalists not report on the much, much, much more serious

hate speech and actions coming constantly from the Muslim world? see: kill_all_buddhists 

They can’t find any Buddhist calls for violence or killing in the sermons and speeches of UWirathu, but they deliberately refuse to report on the readily available and public calls forkilling, violence and destruction.

From a mosque in Kyauk-taw, Arakan:

TRANSLATION:

Oh Allah, eternal God,

 Accept those who believe in Islam and

destroy all the other non-believers.

Demolish the infidels communities,

Oh Allah, Break the foundation of their false religions.

Destroy and pulverize their villages and towns, and

even the ground beneath their homes must bedestroyed.

Those who don't believe in Allah, those who don't

listen to Allah, may everything be cursed for them.

Oh Allah, bring the natural disaster to the infidels,

bring the worst diseases to the unbelievers,

bring all forms of catastrophe to them.

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7) Mention the 969 group - bad, the 786 group - what?,

and the OIC Organization - why not?

The 969 Buddhist group is primarily a very popular nation-wide Buddhist religious groupconcerned with Buddhist teachings, activities, community, and the issues with the Muslim

situation. U Wirathu suggests that the Buddhists buy only from the Buddhist shops, and not

the Muslim shops. The Buddhist shops are marked with the numbers 969.

Many Western activists and writers quickly and loudly said that is so racist and hateful - butthey ignore the fact that the Muslims have for decades marked their shops with 786 (anIslamic practice throughout much of Asia), and have long advocated that Muslims buy onlyfrom Muslims.

Most likely, many of the people opposing the Buddhists’ right to choose where to shop, haveendorsed and followed similar boycotts, for example (I am speaking from San Francisco),there have been boycotts of anything to do with Arizona, and Texas, boycotts of certain

restaurants (Chipolte), boycotts against Boy Scouts, against China, and against corporationsin general, etc. Buddhists who have been treated badly, insulted, cheated, lied to, threatened,and beaten have the same rights to boycott, warn others, and legally shut down bad andabusive businesses. Conversely, they can also endorse, recommend, and promote good,honest, and friendly businesses.

 Another group that needs to be examined and exposed - and, is pushing to have influence inthe conflict - is the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a group of 57 Islamicgovernments, that promotes a unified Islamic front against thenon-Muslim world - concerning nearly anything from human

rights to economics and education to terrorism. However, theOIC has its agendas and bias, and it would be unreasonableand even ridiculous to allow the OIC any role, at all, in theissue at hand, primarily because the OIC would conclude,(as it already has and does) that the Bengali Muslims are thepeople that belong on Arakan soil, and the OIC would donothing to recognize the Rakhine voices.

Read about 10 OIC countries, with informative descriptions of their repression and eliminationof their non-Muslim populations: OIC_1 

Learn what’s in the charter of the OIC, and learn about the more insidious Muslim WorldLeague: OIC_2 

Then you will see that the OIC clearly promotes Muslim to Muslim business, and above all -promotes the forceful and the subversive spread of Islam, and the domination of Islam.The activists and writers should criticize and condemn 786 and the OIC before engaging indisingenuous smears of 969.

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8) Be sure to use the term ‘NEO-NAZI’, and use it only with Buddhists 

‘Neo-Nazi monks’, ‘Neo-Nazi Rakhine organizations’, ‘Neo-Nazi agenda’ - are terms that arecompletely demeaning to the Rakhine people especially the monks.

There are NO known Buddhist admirers of Hitler, nor any similarities or connections betweenBuddhism and Nazism.

HOWEVER, here are the real Nazis and ‘Neo-Nazis’: It is well known that Muslims colludedand conspired with Hitler, and that many Muslims, both then and now, admire Hitler andNazism. Hitler was attracted to Islam, and Muslims attracted to Hitler for good reason - theywere similar in many ways.

“The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France.”  Adolph Hitler,

 April 2, 1945

Hitler was greatly admired throughout the Islamic world and received numerous telegrams ofsupport. He was on the friendliest of terms with Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti ofJerusalem, and the ranking leader of the Muslim world.

There are plenty of articles to write about Muslim adoration of Hitler from WWII days to thecurrent times. 

9) Make the extremely ignorant statement that using the long used and

accepted term ‘Bengali Muslim’ is racist and insulting, because

‘Rohingya’ has been used for centuries, and the ‘Rohingya’ havelived in Arakan since the 7th century……

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10) Use the word ‘GENOCIDE’ - like others: wrongly used, greatly abused

The word ‘Genocide’ is grossly and manipulatively overused. There are so many shouts andaccusations of ‘genocide’ that are not even close to the proper use of the word. Genociderefers to huge numbers of people killed - so much so that it threatens the very survival of theethnicity or culture. Example of genocide include:

• the genocide of 1.5 million Armenian Christians by the Muslim Turks (1915-1923)

• 3.5 million non-Muslim Sudanese Africans killed by northern Arab Sudanese (1953-2005)

• 3 million Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims killed in Bangladesh’s Independence War in 1971

• Saddam Hussein’s genocide (300,000-500,000 killed) against the Kurds, 1980s-1990s

• Pol Pot’s genocide against his own Cambodian people (1-1.5 million dead) in the 1970s

The only true genocide in the Rakhine State conflict is the 1942 Maungdaw genocide, whereBengali Muslims armed by the British to fight the Japanese in WWII did not fight theJapanese, but instead, turned the weapons on the dominant, indigenous Buddhist Culture,killing 30,000 in Maungdaw town alone.

In 2012, there was great violence in Arakan, and the death toll was several hundred, perhapseven 500, (and about half the victims are Rakhine Buddhists) but as bad as that is, it’s noteven close to a genocide.

 A detailed comparison of Muslim genocides and Buddhist genocides: genocide 

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11) Use the word ‘Mobs’ - but only as ‘Buddhist mobs’

Ignore the Muslims mobs, for example, the mobs that started the full scale wave of violenceon June 8, 2012, when they poured out of the Maungdaw Central Mosque, surging down thestreets, beating and killing Buddhists, looting and burning shops, homes, and Buddhisttemples.

12) Always blame everything on the Buddhists, and say how they

attack the peace-loving Muslims for no reason - no reason at all.

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13) Ignore the atrocities that Muslims are committing around the world:

•  Against the Buddhists of southern Thailand, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, etc.

•  Against the Christians of Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan, Bangladesh,and plenty more.

•  Against the Hindus of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India, the Bahai and Zoroastrians ofIran, Jews anywhere, and even against other Muslim groups - the Ahmadis, the Druze, theAlawhites, the Sufis, and of course the relentless killings between Sunnis and Shiites inIraq, Syria, Pakistan, and others.

 AND, don’t leave out: Against the Rakhine Buddhists, and Burmese Buddhists.

Bangladesh_Eliminates_Buddhists

Bengalis_drive_out_Bodos

Panthay_muslim_history

 Jihad_in_Thailand

 

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14) And, if you really want to stand out (in a terribly outrageous way)write about how you believe that Buddhist women and girls who reportbeing raped by Muslim men are just making fake rapes stories -especially the girls who are found dead and raped:

Patrick Winn, writing for the GlobalPost puts out his extremist hate speech, “It has become a

near-monthly occurrence in Myanmar: a Buddhist is aggrieved, a Muslim is incriminated and arampaging mob sets a Muslim neighborhood alight.”  

“Their grievance: a Muslim manallegedly tried to rape a Buddhistwoman as she walked home…..”

“From each episode of mob violence,an origin tale emerges in the Myanmar

 press to explain how it all started:”

“a refrain from Myanmar’s anti-Muslimrhetoric: Muslim men are out to preyon Buddhist women.”

Read real rape accounts here:Rape of Burmese Buddhist Women - 7 cases 

Patrick Winn should receive the award for being the most callous, closed-minded, deplorable,

misogynist sub-human of the year. Imagine the feelings of these rape victims if they were toldabout Patrick Winn and his evil hate. He has made himself nearly equal to the rapists.

15) Use the phrase:

‘The ‘Rohingya’ are the most persecuted people in the world’

16) Ignore the reality that:

‘The Rakhine Buddhists are the most falsely accused people on earth’

Follow all these points, and you will have the next false, extremist, demonizing,untruthful, manipulative, and outrageously accusatory hit piece, and you cancarry in your soul your contribution in harming a Buddhist culture under siege.

Rick Heizman, San Francisco, Nov 2013, full report:  Arakan-conflict-report

 

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