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A growing forest fire rages in nearby Camarillo, seen from space (NOAA/SCPR.org) |
What a wonderful time to welcome the Summer Tourist Season, coinciding as it does with Fire Season. But don't worry, the only smoke at the is on the Venice Boardwalk with its dispensaries.
Fall Out Boy's Punk and Monk
(NMEcom) The cover image -- shot by photographer Roger
Stonehouse -- features a "punk and monk" [shown at left]. The band have said that the
artwork reflects the idea behind the album, which represents "the idea
of old and new clashing. Tradition and change coming together." In a
statement posted on the band's Tumblr, they said: "When
we were beginning the journey of making this record we wanted to find
some inspirational images. We came across the punk and monk image on the
internet and it really solidified what we were trying to get across on
the record -- the idea of old and new clashing. Tradition and change
coming together. There was something striking about it." More
Buddhist Rioting in Burma
Wisdom Quarterly (COMMENTARY)
In totalitarian Burma, renamed "Myanmar" by the military-dictatorship led by Gen. Than Shwe, the once peaceful Theravada Buddhists are behaving like Indian mobs on the attack. The target? The ethnic Muslim-Rohingya people. We hasten to clarify that this is a cultural problem. Rioting is race-related, not religious.
Ethnicity, particularly among the poor and uneducated, divides the Burmese. But religion and race and so intertwined around the world as to make them hopelessly inseparable in the pedestrian mind. That a monastic should encourage discontent or enmity is a miserable development (and a Vinaya violation).
But some monks say this is political, resisting the jihadi effort of some Muslims to create a Muslim state in western Burma. on the border of Islamic Bangladesh, whose own ethnic Buddhist minority generally lives peacefully in the Hill Tracks and Chittagong marsh region. The country was settled on the east end of India by Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, and Tibeto-Burman peoples. Burma, then, once blended with India. Buddhism made it all the way east to the shores of Vietnam on the South China Sea.
What’s fueling Buddhist-Muslim clashes?
Buddhists clash with Burmese Muslims |
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