Facebook on the hunt to remove nationalist Burmese
patriot monks from their platform, Posted by Ann Corcoran 6/10/18.
Burma (aka Myanmar) is far away. Why should Americans care?
Burma
is a Buddhist country and the Buddhists want to keep it that way. That is the
long and short of the battle between nationalist patriot monks and the Rohingya
Muslim minority that has been increasingly aggressive in pushing for what they
see as their rights. Angry monks fighting for their country and their religion!
Of course, the global Left is on the side of the Rohingya and therefore
so is Facebook! I’ve
been following the Rohingya controversy for over ten years and the Rohingya are
far from being pure as the driven snow having instigated many of the violent
conflicts between the government and themselves which has played out in rural
villages, but you would never know that to hear the mainstream media spine.
So now we learn that Facebook is hunting for monks on their platform in
order to silence them and keep them from going around the biased media with
their side of the story.
Because the Rohingya are the largest
Muslim refugee group entering the US right now under the Trump Administration!
Newsweek has the story: FACEBOOK BANS
BUDDHIST MONKS FOR MUSLIM HATE MESSAGES—BUT THEY’RE FIGHTING BACK WITH FAKE
PROFILES
A
group of Myanmar hardline monks have pledged to stay on Facebook despite being
banned for posting hate messages aimed at Rohingya Muslims.
Nationalist
activists from the Southeast Asian country have been using the social
networking site to share angry and violent propaganda that they consider as
“the truth.”
According
to Reuters,
the United Nations uncovered the abuse while investigating a possible genocide
in Myanmar.
The
group see Rohingya Muslims as illegal immigrants residing within the country.
Around 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have now fled to Bangladesh out of fear,
according to the U.N. and aid agencies.
After a string of Rohingya insurgent attacks in August last year [Yes,
that means the Rohingya attacked first!—ed], the Myanmar army stepped in for what
Washington has labeled as “ethnic cleansing.” Myanmar has outright denied
the charges and claims it was fighting “Bengali terrorists.” [Don’t you just love this fast and loose language by the Newsweek
reporter—Washington has labeled it ethnic cleansing! Who in Washington?—ed]
Facebook
eventually stepped in and removed the accounts, but the nationalist monks
responded by creating fake profiles. . Prominent nationalist Buddhist monk,
Ashin Wirathu, removed from facebook!
Speaking
to Reuters, Patriotic Myanmar Monks’ Union member Thusietta
said it was a “violation of freedom of expression” to remove their
content. “We will keep using Facebook with different names and accounts to
tell the truth to people,” Thusietta said. Another member,
who had his account suspended by Facebook in May, said he has already made new
profiles. Pinnyawenta
pledged he would “continue to write about the truth.” Facebook had warned him
several times to remove his posts.
Facebook
told Reuters it
was investing more in local teams to “understand and respond to Myanmar’s
unique technical challenges.” “There’s
always more we can do to get ahead of these repeat offenders, and we are
committed to improving our detection tools to remove them from Facebook as
quickly as possible,” Facebook said. No social media service has more reach in
Myanmar than Facebook, where nationalist hard-liners have been able to gather
substantial followers by fanning the flames of anti-Muslim sentiment.
One
of the most prominent nationalist Buddhist monks, Ashin Wirathu, whose profile
was removed from Facebook, recently admitted that other social networks such as
YouTube and Twitter do not work as well.
More
here. See my HUGE Rohingya Reports file where I
have posted 225 previous stories about the Rohingya-as-victims issue over the
last ten years. When I first began reporting, the US State Department was
dragging its feet on admitting the Rohingya because some are believed to be
associated with Islamic terrorist groups in that region of the world. Now the
Rohingya are our number one Muslim refugee group being
placed in your towns and cities.
Someone
should write a book, much of your background research is already on these
pages! So what can you do? Post this story on Facebook by copying and
pasting the
link and be
sure to use the photo — the world is not only for Muslims!
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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