Why every day on UK news do I hear about Muslim terror, why do I never hear about Bud

or Confucianism

In modern times, fanatical members of SOME (not all) faiths are engaging in terrorist activities in the name of their faiths. Numbered among these are Islam (AL quad, Iranian government and Hamas), Christianity (Texan-born Presidents and Ku Klux Klan) and Judaism (Israeli government).
For the record, a Buddhist could not engage in terror without automatically shedding his Buddhist way.

Buddhists don't kill.

Muslims value the afterlife more than life!

buy something else other than the daily mail/express/sun

somethings just dint get reported , everyday things :

'Air strikes by Israeli warplanes at dawn on Thursday caused serious damage to the Gaza Strip's only power plant, plunging the territory -- which already suffers from frequent outages -- into darkness.

Media reports said the air strikes hit two sites belonging to Hamas near the Gaza power plant in Moghraqa village, central Gaza.

Engineer Darar Abu Sisi, director of operations for the Gaza plant, told The Electronic Intifada that at 2:47am an Israeli air attack on a Hamas site near the power plant scattered rocks and debris into the air. A rock crashed into the a current transformer and voltage transformer in a substation, causing the unit to shut down.'

'In the US Army manual on counterinsurgency, the American commander General David Petraeus describes Afghanistan as a "war of perception . . . conducted continuously using the news media". What really matters is not so much the day-to-day battles against the Taliban as the way the adventure is sold in America where "the media directly influence the attitude of key audiences". Reading this, I was reminded of the Venezuelan general who led a coup against the democratic government in 2002. "We had a secret weapon," he boasted. "We had the media, especially TV. You got to have the media."

Never has so much official energy been expended in ensuring journalists collude with the makers of rapacious wars which, say the media-friendly generals, are now "perpetual". In echoing the west's more verbose warlords, such as the water boarding former US vice-president Dick Cheney, who predicated "50 years of war", they plan a state of permanent conflict wholly dependent on keeping at bay an enemy whose name they dare not speak: the public.'

... or more importantly Christian or Judaism Terrorism

I am certain that there are Buddist, Taoist and Confucianist nutters hell bent on destroying anyone and everyone who does not reflect their values, but that won't sell many papers.

It's just that they are more extreme than other religious groups.

also, the media loves to scare people. and terrorists are scary. ID

Maybe you should stop being passively buying all you get in the tabloids and refer to real, impartial media like Guardian, New York times, Deutsche Welle, Le Monde, Der Spiegel etc and come to the conclusion that it's not about any particular religion, color or ethnicity...

17PDT go ogled Christian and Judaism terrorists and that all he came up with? shame on you ..

True Buddhist who looking for the enlightenment soon, can't even kill a human being for the self defense.
Because the person who try to kill you is also likes to live.But you will get minimum consequences if you kill that person for the self defense.
In Islam after preaching Islam peacefully to non Muslim countries, then you can invade other non Muslim countries if they don't convert to Islam.They think they rescue more people from the hell, even though they have killed thousands.
If you study the history there have been no holy wars in name of Buddhism.But how many wars there even under prophet Mohammad? How many people have died?Didn't they love to live more?

Because in certain defensive and offensive circumstances killing has been commanded by 'Allah' and later repeated by his paragon of humanity, Prophet Muhammed. In these circumstances homicide is a required holy virtue meriting the highest of rewards in the afterlife. Fortunately most Muslims ignore these commands except for those few who won't rest in pleasing Allah and emulating his messenger.

And since to date 'kill my enemies' has not been abrogated by 'love your enemies' or turn 'the other cheek' those commands are as alive now now as they were1.400 years ago.

The beloved 'context' says is that past mass homicides were justified by the religious standards of the time but does not go on to add that if these standards remain the same- and the Koran is the transcribed copy of the unchanging 'Word(s) of Allah' , then those same standards must also apply now and in the future, and are not left behind in the past along with the mass homicides they created.

Since of course, 'context' is a principle and not an event, it will be able be used by the future to make sense of the conduct of Far liberals and the Left today, as they liberally employ it sensitively interpret the Al Queda of today and yesterday.

They have better PR.

The Dalai Lama received money from the CIA to spread terrorism to prevent the spread of communism; the Dalai Lama himself was a dictator and his society used corporal punishment, including mutilation, and serfs.

Many of those who committed war crimes from Japan during WW2 would have been involved in a form of Buddhism.

While China is officially communist and therefore secular does still have a lot in its society derived from Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism and 60 million have died there.

The idea that Buddhists are free of hypocrisy is ridiculous. All major religions promote some level of peace and understanding and most followers ignore this. Jesus explicitly speaks out against violence and the importance of forgiving your enemies, didn't stop Oliver Cromwell allegedly a strict puritan.

There's nothing wrong with Buddhism on paper and the Tao Te Ching is fantastic reading regardless of religion but Shangri-la is a myth. Buddhists are humans and humans are flawed.

They'll be next. The western media always needs someone to focus their hate on.

But who are the real terrorists, is it the unknown fighter pilot who was ordered by an unknown general to bomb a unknown target who by accident releases a 500lb bomb to late and kills 10 Innocent unknown kids sheltering in a hole 500 yards away from the main target.

Or is it the father of one of these kids who takes revenge for the death of his only son by blowing up Innocent people 6 months later in a country a thousand miles away.

Or the thousands of unknown people in yet another country thousands of miles away who without knowing all of the facts voted for a politician who gave the unknown general his brief, who gave the unknown fighter pilot his orders, who are the real terrorists, who.

Its easy to see who somebody is a terrorist at the end, but its not always so easy to see why he is a terrorist at the beginning, and religion is not always the driving force behind his reasoning, sometimes it can be just pure revenge.

They are non-theistic religions. They are more philosophies. Gods are the ultimate judge and need to be appeased in order to grant good health and eternal life etc. Without a god it is less easy for holy men to re-interpret the religious texts in order to compel men to act in a way they desire. But a religion with god(s) they can by suggesting they need to act in a certain way in order to appease the god(s).

Islam is a cult and it does say that any non believer must be killed if in power or harassed to the point that they will want to convert. The game plan is very simple they pay for one side to cause terror and then on the other side claim they are peaceful. When the reality is they are the same.

This has been going on for the last 20 years where you hear them claim they are victims and they justify the acts of killing as sanction by what ever they want to worship.

Other religion may of had some bad aspects in their past but I don't see any other religion killing people in the world - only "Islam"

So go figure that one out.