So tell me, Coyote, have you heard of a large group of Buddhist monks in many locations in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa calling on their members to kill others? The only country I can think of at the moment is Burma where the Muslims and Buddhists are at it. Other than that, in that particular region of the world, the Muslims in southern Thailand are killing Buddhists, and they certainly are giving the Philippines trouble. Perhaps you are aware of where the Buddhists are acting up besides Burma and you can inform us as to where. Of course you don't have to be a car or suicide bomber to kill people. The Boko Haram in Nigeria are doing a fine job of slitting the throats of Christians.
Just as an aside...sometimes, it's helpful to look at the history of some of these superficially religious conflicts.
Take southern Thailand for example. Southern Thailand was once the "Sultanate of Patani". "Peaceful" Bhuddist Thai's conquered it in 1785 and have governed it since then. Ethnic and religious strife have a long history there, as does a seperatist insurgency.
Nigeria, too is another example. The Boko Haram are clearly an extremist and violent group but they attack Muslims as well as Christians (comparable to the Christian LRA in Uganda/Southern Sudan), but are the Nigerian Christians so innocent? Is it really just a religious conflict?
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How about Sri Lanka? Sri Lanka’s Muslim minority (as well as Christians) have been attacked by hardline Buddhists. Muslims were either killed or forceably expelled from the Northern Provence by the LTTE.
So tell me Sally, do you ignore these occurences because they don't fit your narrative?
Truth is - most of these conflicts are not simply religious conflicts.
Author Eliza Griswold, in an interview about her book "The Tenth Parallel" made several interesting observations - though they applied primarily to Africa, they are applicable elsewhere - particularly in the ME where governments have broken down or proven incompetent at protecting their people:
"The fighting itself isn't about religion. It's about control over political power and safeguarding communities," Griswold says. "And it's taking on the color of religion because no other form of identity is protecting the people of CAR now."
Griswold wrote "The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam." She says, in the absence of functioning governments, many Africans are increasingly defining themselves in terms of their religious identity.