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A.M.Ahad / AP
A Bangladeshi Buddhist woman cries at a Buddhist temple which was torched in Ramu in the coastal district of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Oct. 1. Hundreds of Buddhists fled their southern Bangladesh villages in the wake of attacks by Muslims who burned at least 10 Buddhist temples and 40 homes in anger over a Facebook photo of a burned Quran. The Buddhists started returning home Monday amid heightened security and more than 160 arrests.
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Pages of burned religious books remain at a Buddhist temple on Oct. 1 which was torched in an overnight weekend attack in Ramu in the coastal district of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
Reuters reports-- Bangladesh accused Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar on Monday of involvement in attacks on Buddhist temples and homes in the southeast and said the violence was triggered by a photo posted on Facebook that insulted Islam.
Thousands of Muslims went on a rampage in Buddhist areas of Bangladesh near the border on Saturday, setting ablaze more than a dozen temples and monasteries and at least 50 homes. Property was looted, including statues of the Buddha.
"The attacks on temples and houses in Buddhist localities in Ramu and neighboring areas in Cox's Bazar (district) were perpetrated by radical Islamists," Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir told reporters in Dhaka. Continue reading.
After heightened security and 160 arrests, some of the Buddhists began returning home on Monday, according to the Associated Press.
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A Bangladeshi Buddhist Monk reacts as he looks at a burned book shelf at a Buddhist temple on Oct. 1.
Andrew Biraj / Reuters
A woman sits in front of her burned home on Oct. 1 after Muslims attacked and set fire to Buddhist households in Cox's Bazar.
Andrew Biraj / Reuters
Shoshi Barua, 56, a Buddhist woman lies under a mosquito net in her temporary shelter on Oct. 1 after Muslims set fire to her home in Cox's Bazar.
Andrew Biraj / Reuters
A Buddhist woman walks through the gate of a temple as a policeman stands guard on Oct. 1 after a weekend attack on the temple by Muslims, in Cox's Bazar.
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Muslim's showing their abject intolerance to anything not Muslim. A pox on them and all of their people. May great plagues come down upon Muslims everywhere and cause pain and sickness for what they have done to the Buddhists.
"Thousands of Muslims attacked, etc." Oh, that can't be right. We're always being told about how it's just a few extremists among their numbers
I agree with William. It would be wonderful if every Muslim on the planet dies of some horrible disease.
I have known many Buddhists and they are the most passive people I know. My Heart goes out to all of these people that just want peace. The Muslims that did this are just haters!
The Muslim's that did this are from the dark side and that is Islam!
By the way did:William 36041, Jules 3935693, or geminimeg, happend to have read this news papers and other, with articles, from the site pictures, of mutilated bodies, burned shrines, and common residential units, in Burma or Maynamar or whater you call this country, whose slaughter of muslims in thousands in the streets, if it dont surpass Aushiwatz and other holocast site, it at least equal those, but more curde and grusome, as the murderers and cleaning operatives were not slipping on set blood, or fainting on the stench of dead bodies, and the deprivity of peace preaching buddists, the followers of forgiving Buddah, whose nick name reveals his innocent like life and intelect and divinity, soft speaking learned Dulai Lama, you never hear a word of vengenance from him. No........ these are modren people who want rub shoulder with Western culture of terrorism and violence. Gentlemen, at donot spit on the graves of your country's forefathers, and the brave soldiers who laid their lifes, even inthe face of enemy to call an ace, if you can't say a word denouncing the ones who started this tyrenny, at least don't blame of condemn those, who are raising their hands to make the world understand, that violence, does not matter which corner it comes, initiated, is condemnable, needs to be denounced, not to find excuses. My friends please "DO NOT KILL OR ANEASTHETISE YOUR CONCIOUS" `to promote your biases for nothing. GOD HAVE MERCY ON US, GIVE US COURAGE, NOT TO BLACKEN THE FACE OF OUR BRIGHT PAST, TO HYPOCRITICALLY TO PLEASE A FEW....
Um...what??
Ben...Try reading it without being so damned superior...The Buddhist believe in peace and this person is saying not to lower yourselves to commit more violence because all violence is to be condemned, and not to try to make excuses for any violence you take part in, whether in retaliation or trying to right a wrong. Get some education...How many languages do you speak perfectly?