{"id":530,"date":"2013-06-27T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/06\/buddhists-boycott-mobile-contract-to-muslim-firm.html"},"modified":"2014-07-29T07:36:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T12:36:38","slug":"buddhists-boycott-mobile-contract-to-muslim-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/06\/buddhists-boycott-mobile-contract-to-muslim-firm.html","title":{"rendered":"Buddhists Boycott Mobile Contract to Muslim Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-JXXwvyC9gok\/Ucz03gEmM7I\/AAAAAAAAC34\/gfXZuEAaOIM\/s610\/radical+buddhism.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-JXXwvyC9gok\/Ucz03gEmM7I\/AAAAAAAAC34\/gfXZuEAaOIM\/s400\/radical+buddhism.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"265\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The animosity between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar is so strong that even the government award of a mobile telephone contract to a firm in Qatar led to a boycott within hours, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/28\/world\/asia\/mobile-deal-in-myanmar-elicits-anger-over-religion.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to the NY Times.<\/a> The leader of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/05\/31\/myanmar-anti-muslim-violence-969-movement_n_3366863.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Buddhist 969 movemen<\/a>t wanted to know why the government awarded the contract to a Muslim firm. \u00a0The 969 group has boycotted Muslim shops in the past, lynched more than 200 Muslims, and forced more than 150,000 Muslims from their homes. \u00a0Here is a slideshow from the NYTimes called<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2013\/06\/20\/world\/asia\/20130620_BUDDHIST.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> Radical Buddhism Ascendant in Myanmar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The animosity between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar is so strong that even the government award of a mobile telephone contract to a firm in Qatar led to a boycott within hours, according to the NY Times. 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