Ashin wirathu biography of william shakespeare

  • This is the first book to provide a broad overview of the ways in which Buddhist ideas have influenced political thinking and politics in Myanmar.
  • Ashin Wirathu is leading Buddhist nationalists against the Muslim Rohingya.
  • The 969 monks have become controversial for their strong anti-Muslim stance, the most famous member being U Wirathu—the 969 spokesperson—who.

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    Not so long ago, the internet often felt like a fully detached realm of ephemeral fun. Today, we wake up to tweets from a president that seem intended to goad a rogue state into nuclear war. Hackers launch ransomware worms that tear across the globe in a matter of hours, paralyzing massive multinational infrastructure companies. And organized hatred online reaches out directly into the physical world, embodied in terrorist violence from the streets of New York City to Istanbul to Egypt to Charlottesville.

    More than ever, the internet has shown that its dangers aren't somehow unhooked from real world. The internet is the real world, for better and, in multiplying, unexpected ways, for worse. With that in mind, these are the dangerous characters we’ve been watching online in 2017.

    Donald Trump

    For the third year in a row, Trump tops our list of world's most dangerous online personas. In just the most recent months of his first year as president, he's used his Twitt

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    Chapter 12 Buddhist Islamophobia: Actors, Tropes, Contexts

    In recent years, Muslim minority communities in Buddhist majority states have experienced an increasing number of attacks on their lives and properties. Violence against Muslim minorities has taken place in the wake of intense anti-Muslim campaigns, most vociferously articulated by certain groups of Buddhist monks, who in sermons and public speeches have warned against the dangers of Islam. Such aggressive and militant anti-Muslim campaigns are based upon the idea of a global Islamic conspiracy to eradicate Buddhism. This chapter analyses various aspects of Asian Buddhists’ fear of Islam: how do Buddhist conspiracy theories envision the Islamic take-over, and how are individual Muslims seen as local agents of such larger schemes? And why do Buddhist conspiracy theories about Islam flourish from 2012 onwards, and how are they related to domestic and regional politics?

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    Yilmaz, Ihsan & Morieson, Nicholas. (2022). “Nationalism, Religion, and Archaeology: The Civilizational Populism of Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud.” Populism & Politics. European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS). October 10, 2022. https://doi.org/10.55271/pp0015

    Abstract

    This paper examines civilizational populism in Israel and focuses on the largest and most powerful party in Israel since the 1980s, National Liberal Movement (Likud), and its most significant leader of the past twenty years, the populist politician Benjamin Netanyahu. We show how Netanyahu incorporates ‘civilizationism’ into his populist discourses by, first, using the notion that Jewish civilization predates all others in the region to establish the legitimacy of the state of Israel, the hegemony of Jewish culture within Israel, and at times his own political decisions. Second, through his portrayal of the Arab-Muslim world as an antisemitic and barbaric bloc that, far from being a civilization, t

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