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== Mistaken images == | == Mistaken images == | ||
Hello, I stumbled accross this site on the [ | Hello, I stumbled accross this site on the [http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Images_of_Jihad_-_Indonesia Images of Jihad (Indonesia)] and [http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Images_of_Jihad_-_Indonesia_-_Killings_Various_Dates Images of Jihad (Indonesia): Killings, Various Dates] articles, and there are several pictures which are mislabelled and have nothing to do with religious violence. | ||
Chinese didn't actually get killed in the streets on May 1998. What happened was Indonesian looters attacked Chinese shops and tried stealing from them, but accidently started a fire and burned themselves to death instead. And then after that, dozens of rapes were reported against the Chinese. Most violence against Chinese was not killing, but attempted looting and raping. And thats no whitewashing of what happened, since rape is a very repulsive act. | Chinese didn't actually get killed in the streets on May 1998. What happened was Indonesian looters attacked Chinese shops and tried stealing from them, but accidently started a fire and burned themselves to death instead. And then after that, dozens of rapes were reported against the Chinese. Most violence against Chinese was not killing, but attempted looting and raping. And thats no whitewashing of what happened, since rape is a very repulsive act. | ||
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Its because some idiots on internet forums in China heard what was going on in Indonesia in May 1998 with looting of Chinese stores and rapes, so when they looked up "Indonesia riots" on the internet, they got the wrong photos, and pasted these photos all over their forums. This is how these photos originally got mislabelled. | Its because some idiots on internet forums in China heard what was going on in Indonesia in May 1998 with looting of Chinese stores and rapes, so when they looked up "Indonesia riots" on the internet, they got the wrong photos, and pasted these photos all over their forums. This is how these photos originally got mislabelled. | ||
In Myanmar, some Islamists falsely took photos of earthquake victims in China and of Tibetan protestors setting themselves on fire, and labelled them as Rohingya Muslims getting killed by Burmese Buddhists. | In Myanmar, some Islamists falsely took photos of Tsunami victims, earthquake victims in China, and of Tibetan protestors setting themselves on fire, and labelled them as Rohingya Muslims getting killed by Burmese Buddhists. | ||
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2012/0803/Pakistan-s-extremists-whip-up-frenzy-over-Burma-s-Muslims | |||
http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/12867/social-media-is-lying-to-you-about-burmas-muslim-cleansing/ | |||
http://www.irrawaddy.org/rohingya/canadian-ngo-protests-rohingya-misinformation.html | |||
http://archive.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/where-lies-reign-supreme/ | |||
http://www.globalresearch.ca/fake-photos-with-dead-bodies-in-media-reports-on-myanmar-conflict/5302994 | |||
http://tibet.net/2012/08/04/pak-extremists-exaggerating-violence-against-burmas-muslims-to-fund-own-agendas/ | |||
What happened here is not deliberate like what those Islamists did, but it still needs to be corrected.[[User:Cleft|Cleft]] ([[User talk:Cleft|talk]]) 23:22, 10 August 2014 (PDT) | What happened here is not deliberate like what those Islamists did, but it still needs to be corrected.[[User:Cleft|Cleft]] ([[User talk:Cleft|talk]]) 23:22, 10 August 2014 (PDT) | ||