A remark today by one of the speakers at a session of the 2017 Religious Freedom Annual Review of BYU’s International Center for Law and Religion Studies spurs me to bring a situation to your attention that receives very little news coverage in the United States, if indeed it receives any at all:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016–17_Rohingya_persecution_in_Myanmar
I think that many of us, while we’re all too familiar with the horrific violence perpetrated in the name of Islam, are inclined to think that, if there’s really a religion of peace anywhere, it’s likely to be Buddhism.
The case of the Rohingya people, though, represents Muslims being mercilessly hounded and abused by . . . Buddhists.
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