Burma

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Burma 'orders Christians to be wiped out':

The military regime in Burma is intent on wiping out Christianity in the country, according to claims in a secret document believed to have been leaked from a government ministry. Entitled "Programme to destroy the Christian religion in Burma", the incendiary memo contains point by point instructions on how to drive Christians out of the state.

The text, which opens with the line "There shall be no home where the Christian religion is practised", calls for anyone caught evangelising to be imprisoned. It advises: "The Christian religion is very gentle – identify and utilise its weakness."

Clearly the Burmese government is unaware of the theocratically-oriented forms of Christianity all too frequently encountered by those of us in Australia and the US. Interestingly, though, this attempt at religious genocide is being made in the name of Buddhism, which those of us in the West often regard as a belief system whose practioners are "very gentle":

Its discovery follows widespread reports of religious persecution, with churches burnt to the ground, Christians forced to convert to the state religion, Buddhism, and their children barred from school.

Human rights groups claim that the treatment meted out to Christians, who make up six per cent of the population, is part of a wider campaign by the regime, also targeted at ethnic minority tribes, to create a uniform society in which the race and language is Burmese and the only accepted religion is Buddhism.

The supporters of government-enforced Christianity and Buddhism actually share a common 'religion': a psychotic obsession with homogeneity and the punishing of those who dare to represent the true diversity of humanity.