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1/3/22, 11:55 AM Dangerous disinformation: a Buddhist monk’s fake rendition of the Muslim call to prayer | Dangerous Speech Project [11] Kyaw Ye Lynn. 2016. Census data shows Myanmar Muslim population has fallen AA. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia pacific/census-data-shows-myanmar-muslim-population-has-fallen/612764 [12] “Myanmar Rohingya: What you need to know about the crisis.” 2020. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia- 41566561 [13] Libresco, Leah. 2015. “Myanmar’s Rohingya Refugees Are The World’s Largest Group of Stateless People.” https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/myanmars-rohingya-refugees-are-the-worlds-largest-group-of-statelesspeople/#:~:text=Myanmar’s%20Rohingya%20Refugees%20Are%20The%20World’s%20Largest%20Group%20of%20Stateless%20Peo By%20Leah%20Libresco&text=More%20than%201%2C500%20Rohingya%20Muslim,on%20the%20oceans%2C%20fleeing%20Myanm [14]https://www.hrw.org/report/2013/04/22/all-you-can-do-pray/crimes-against-humanity-and-ethnic-cleansing-rohingya- muslims [15] Ibid. [16] UNHCR. 2020. “Myanmar: Key Figures.” https://reporting.unhcr.org/node/2541#:~:text=The%20total%20estimated%20population%20of,in%20Kachin%20and%20Rakhine%20 https://dangerousspeech.org/dangerous-disinformation-a-buddhist-monks-fake-rendition-of-the-muslim-call-to-prayer/ 3/3

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Dangerous disinformation : a Buddhist monk’s fake rendition of the Muslim call to prayer

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Date Published: Jan 4, 2014

Abstract: While delivering a sermon in the Taunggyi Township in the Shan State of Myanmar, Ashin Ka-U Nawbata, a Buddhist monk, taught his followers to fear their Muslim neighbors by falsely translating the Islamic call to prayer that they hear five times a day from local mosques, but cannot understand as it is in Arabic. The monk said that the call to prayer tells Muslims to destroy all non-Muslims and raze their cities and villages. In fact, the call is a reminder to Muslims to stop, listen, and pray. This dangerous speech is one of many examples of similar rhetoric from religious and military figures of authority in Myanmar, portraying the country’s tiny Muslim minority as a terrifying, powerful threat to its Buddhist majority and Myanmar’s existence as a Buddhist nation. Such messages were spread offline and online and were widely believed. Violence broke out against Muslims in 2012 and 2013, and in late 2016 the Burmese military began to drive hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims from their homes, raping and killing many of them en masse. It was genocide, independent investigators concluded, since it was committed with intent to wipe out the whole group.

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