{"id":19788,"date":"2013-08-22T13:21:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T17:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=19788"},"modified":"2013-08-22T14:54:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T18:54:36","slug":"buddhist-muslim-tensions-in-burma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/08\/22\/buddhist-muslim-tensions-in-burma\/19788\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist-Muslim Tensions in Burma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the past year in Burma, also known as Myanmar, Buddhist mobs have raged against the country&#8217;s Muslim minority, encouraged by the incendiary rhetoric of a radical Theravada Buddhist monk named Wirathu. He leads a nationalist movement called 969 and has called on Buddhists to shun people of other faiths. In July a bomb exploded near where he was speaking, viewed by some as a possible assassination attempt, and this month hundreds of monks demonstrated against both the bombing and the rising international criticism of Wirathu. R&amp;E summer interns Mark Meyers, a senior at Liberty University, and Jordan Bowen, a junior at the University of Missouri, interviewed George Washington University religious studies and international affairs professor Eyal Aviv about Wirathu, Buddhist extremism, and prospects for interfaith understanding. <em>Interview by Jordan Bowen. Edited by Mark Meyers and Fred Yi.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is a lot of irony in the fact that the monk Wirathu and his followers are using fear in order to incite acts of violence that are precisely against the spirit of so much Buddhist teaching,&#8221; says Eyal Aviv, a professor of religious studies and international affairs at George Washington University. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/08\/22\/buddhist-muslim-tensions-in-burma\/19788\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":19790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[1382,1770,7188,6430,417,6753,9833],"class_list":["post-19788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-buddhism","tag-burma","tag-extremism","tag-interfaith-dialogue","tag-islam","tag-religious-persecution","tag-religious-violence","topics-international","topics-war-and-peace","faith-buddhist","faith-muslim"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Buddhist-Muslim Tensions in Burma | August 22, 2013 | Religion &amp; 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