I read the news about religious conflict.
I wrote the summary and my opinion about the news.
<Summary>
Three Muslims who are the owner of a gold shop, his wife and employee collided with Buddhist customer at the gold shop.
According to the report, the owner beat a Buddhist customer on the head. Besides, Buddhist monk was attacked and died.
Then, the news of this collision spread in Burma and it happened big communal violent clashes between Muslim and Buddhist communities in Meiktila and three other towns.
Unfortunately, this collision have forced 12000 Muslims to displace from their home and their neighborhoods have been demolished.
According to state prosecutors, religious extremists cause many cases against a lot of people like Buddhist and Muslims.
Last month, Burmese president Thein Sein advised that if it is necessary, the government would use force to stop “political opportunists and religious extremists” and all people who committed violence would be prosecuted to the extent of the law.
Last year, nearly 200 people died and many people were forced to get out their home by violence in Rakhine. It is the worst conflict.
In recent month, Rohingyas have run away from persecution in Burma because they are not recognized as Burmese.
<Opinion>
I think that the clash like this between Muslims and Buddhist will never happen in Japan. Because Japanese are not sensitive about religious.
However, in the world, religion make life, culture, community and so on. It means that religion is an important thing for them. It is far different from Japan, so Japanese is difficult to understand religious conflict but I think we have to understand and think about it.
Finally, to understand religious, Japanese should be interested in own religions. It is the best first step to understand what religion is.