Another stereotype mindset. As though Buddhist are angels.
Why did u deliberately leave out the facts on the suffocation of around 80 Muslim youth detained in army trucks in October, 2004?
Harlow again. The dispute in South Thailand is a political dispute with the perpetrators being Buddhists. It was not a religious dispute.
No one has claimed Buddhists to be angels. I am the first one to admit that there are Buddhists who rape, murder, steal and lie. But the point is ... did Buddhism tell these people to rape, murder, steal or lie?
As for Ramseth's point about no Buddhist doing violence of retaliation, this is due to the first precept that the Buddha taught - Refrain from Killing.
FIRST PRECEPT! Whoever proposes murder as a solution to a problem has moved off the Buddhist path and all Buddhists will denounce him/her. He/she will incur horrendous karma if he/she positions such murder as alignment with Buddhism.
True, there will be Buddhists who kill but they cannot say that Buddhism told them to kill. This is the reason why the Dalai Lama is having problems controlling the younger Tibetans, they want to fight back. They want to kill Chinese. But the DL, as a prominent Buddhist spiritual leader, cannot step away from the first precept.