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Student interns for the PBS news site, Religion and Ethics<\/a>, ask George Washington University religious studies and international affairs professor Eyal Aviv to explain Buddhist extremism in Burma and the role of their leader, Wirathu.<\/p>\n

The name of the nationalist movement he leads is the 969 Movement. According to the New York Times<\/a>, \u201cits agenda agenda now includes boycotts of Muslim-made goods.\u201d The movement has included lynch mobs responsible for killing more than 200 Muslims and forced more than 150,000 from their homes.<\/p>\n

In another story from the New York Times<\/a>, a mob swarmed a car of U.N. Rights Envoy. The envoy, Tom\u00e1s Ojea, said the experience gave him empathy for the fear and tension under which the Muslims live in Myanmar.<\/p>\n

This is not the kind of Buddhism<\/a> for which the Dali Llama \u00a0is spokesman.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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