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2003-07-29 Southeast Asia

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Posted by Christopher Johnson 2003-07-29 3:42:01 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 You try living in a town called Kok Pring, and see if you don't get a little, er, testy.

Posted by BH 2003-7-29 4:41:51 PM|| 2003-7-29 4:41:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Whatever the Christians did, it must've been something huge to get Buddhists all riled up.

Posted by Rafael 2003-7-29 5:15:56 PM|| 2003-7-29 5:15:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 "Police said the mob believed the churchâs presence was the cause of a three-year drought."

WTF??

"The vandals accused the church ... of having contempt for the Buddhist community."

They do now.

And so do I - for their actions, and for the drought lunacy. (NOT applied to all Buddists - just these nuts.)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2003-7-29 6:03:19 PM|| 2003-7-29 6:03:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 "A mob of some 100 Buddhists recently ransacked a church in Kok Pring during a Sunday mass, destroying the cross at the altar, breaking windows and throwing Bibles into puddles of water."

When I was in high school, I saw a movie with Christian Slater called "Pump Up the Volume" where he played an underground DJ. My favorite line was when he announced on air that he was sitting in his room "naked, wearing only a Kok Pring."

Posted by Tibor 2003-7-29 6:25:51 PM|| 2003-7-29 6:25:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Check the source, folks. This is the same story that was posted here about 2 weeks ago. It sources from a Christian proselytizing org that terms it "recently" - methinks it needs those donations and tithes... "Keep 'em coming, folks - we're in danger! There's so much work to be done!" Just keeping up the drumbeat.

C'mon. Fresh News. Fresh perspectives. Not lame self-serving rehashed hash that was dubious in the first place. Retire this dog, it don't hunt.

Posted by PD 2003-7-29 6:51:35 PM|| 2003-7-29 6:51:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 It sources from a Christian proselytizing org that terms it "recently" - methinks it needs those donations and tithes... "Keep 'em coming, folks - we're in danger! There's so much work to be done!"

Actually, the persecution of Christians is not exactly a new phenomenon. They've been persecuted all over East Asia - the most notorious instance in the 20th Century was the massacre and mutilation of tens of thousands of Chinese Christians and dozens of foreign missionaries by Chinese pagans during the Boxer Rebellion. Non-Muslims, whether Hindus or Buddhists, also attack Christians - the difference is that they confine their attacks to local believers and foreign missionaries.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-7-29 8:48:11 PM|| 2003-7-29 8:48:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 And has anyone seen Japan lately? Their monks were the original jihadis ...

Posted by Lu Baihu 2003-7-29 10:17:14 PM|| 2003-7-29 10:17:14 PM|| Front Page Top

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