They're known for preaching peace, kindness and love, but a radical breed of anti-Islamic Buddhist monk is wreaking havoc in Myanmar, resulting is lynch-mob killings and the forced removal of more than 150,000 Muslims from their homes.
Mass boycotts of Muslim-owned stores and anti-Islamic riots have plagued Myanmar's transition to democracy after decades years of military rule, according to the New York Times. Up to 250 Muslims have been killed and countless others injured in the riots - the most violent of which occurred in the central city of Meiktila in March.
Passionate sermons by self-proclaimed "Radical Buddhist", Wirathu, are being blamed for stirring the troubles.
“You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog,” Ashin Wirathu told the Times.
“I call them troublemakers, because they are troublemakers."
Wirathu is a key leader of "969," an ultra-nationalist movement of monks that preaches that the country's small Muslim minority threatens racial purity and national security. His face covers Time magazine's foreign editions this week over the headline: "The Face of Buddhist Terror".
The group Human Rights Watch has called the actions against Muslims in Myanmar "ethnic cleansing" while the Dalai Lama said killing in the name of religion was "unthinkable".
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