Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Sri Lanka bans Time magazine over cover story...

Sri Lanka has banned the current issue of Time magazine over a cover story on violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Myanmar because it could affect religious sentiments on this Buddhist-majority island, a customs official said Wednesday.

Customs department spokesman Leslie Gamini said it has seized 4,000 copies of Time's July 1 edition, which bears a photo of Wirathu, a radical Myanmar monk, with the headline "The Face of Buddhist Terror."

"We have decided not to release this edition" because it could hurt religious feelings in Sri Lanka, he said. Buddhism is Sri Lanka's state religion.

Myanmar's government has also banned the issue of the magazine "to prevent the recurrence of racial and religious riots."

 Wirathu is a leader of a movement of monks that preaches that Myanmar's small Muslim minority threatens racial purity and national security. He has called for restrictions on marriages between Buddhists and Muslims, and for boycotts of Muslim-owned businesses. Nearly 250 people have died and tens of thousands, mostly Muslims, have fled their homes in religious violence in Myanmar in the past year. Full story...

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