jimbellproject.org is looking for volunteers

[Marina Brown]

On 10/24/2017 01:22 PM, jim bell wrote:
> 
> 
> *From:* Marina Brown <catskillmarina at gmail.com>
> 
> *Subject:* Re: jimbellproject.org is looking for volunteers
> 
> On 10/24/2017 11:47 AM, Chad wrote:
> 
>>> Marina Brown catskillmarina at gmail.com
>>> Tue Oct 24 07:56:38 PDT 2017
>>>
>>
>>>> Myanmar
>>> "muh gė́nocide and ethnį̇́c ć̣leansing"
>>>
>>
>>> Wow a (((cohencidence))) that you throw in the Buddhists, and that you
>> name them first.
>>
>>> Your "religion" has to be pretty fucked up for Buddhist children to take
>>> up arms and start killing you in the streets.
>>
>>> You are openly defending the argument "She asked for it.", btw.
>>> Rape Culture, antifaanon.
> 
> 
> 
>>Are you really and truly insane ? Straw man supreme anyone ?
> 
> 
> 
> I'd like to understand the dispute.   This is from the Wikipedia
> article:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rakhine_State_clashes 
> 
> 
> 
> "The current conflict began in October 2016 when ARSA insurgents
> attacked Burmese border posts along the Bangladesh
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh>-Myanmar
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar> border. In response, Myanmar
> authorities launched a military campaign against the Rohingya and from
> October 2016 to June 2017, government operations killed more than 1,000
> Rohingya civilians, according to UN officials.^[28]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rakhine_State_clashes#cite_note-bad_to_worse_2017_09_06_washpost-28>
> ^[12]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rakhine_State_clashes#cite_note-Independent2-12>
>  In August 2017, following attacks on local military outposts by
> Rohingya rebels, a resurgence in violence erupted throughout northern
> Rakhine. According to the UN and other agencies, the Myanmar military,
> aided by violent mobs of local Buddhist Rakhines killed over 400 people
> (whom the military claimed were insurgents or terrorists). Other
> estimates, including the UN's, estimate that at least 1,000 people were
> killed between 25 August and 8 September.^[32]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rakhine_State_clashes#cite_note-un_secretary_gen_2017_09_13_cnn-32>
> ^[14]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Rakhine_State_clashes#cite_note-Ben-14>
>  By September, the violence had resulted in 389,000 Rohingyas fleeing
> their homes.    [end of quote]
> 
> 
> What are we to think?  This is informed by the fact that in decades of
> my reading the news, Buddhists are almost always peaceful, while Muslims
> are quite frequently violent.
> 
> 
>                 Jim Bell


There are a lot of insane things in the world. Wars with ethnic
cleansing and ethnic/religious cleansing are amongst the most horrific
things we have seen.