Buddhist Vigilantes & Muslim Sex Predators
| by Patrick Winn
Courtesy: The Global Post
Image: Buddhist monks feed pigeons near the Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon on May 9, 2014. |
No evidence suggests these plots actually exist. Yet vigilante extremists — whose views on racial and religious purity evoke the Ku Klux Klan — are successfully exploiting these fears to spark deadly anti-Muslim riots. Rape allegations have proven particularly effective in whipping up a mob rampage through anti-Muslim neighborhoods.