Ashin Wirathu (Burmese: ဝီရသူ, Pali: Vīrasū; born 10 July 1968 in Kyaukse, Mandalay Division, Burma) is a Burmese Buddhist monk, and the leader of the...

international media it has received criticism. The Straits Times reported that Ashin Wirathu, the movement's leader, responded to recent anti-Muslim violence with...

racism and Islamophobia within Burmese society and how Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu inflames the hatred within Myanmar's Buddhist majority population towards...

Jazeera English, the group has ties to ultranationalist Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu. The primary position of the Thway Thout is in support of the Tatmadaw...

bin Laden (born 1976), Saudi businessman and son of Osama bin Laden Ashin Wirathu, Burmese Buddhist monk labeled "Burmese Bin Laden" for religious intolerance...

members, including both senior scholar monks and nationalist monks. Ashin Wirathu is a prominent member of PAM and is described as "the leader of the...

Ko Taw (Burmese: ပေါက်ကိုယ်တော်; pronounced [paʊʔ kò dɔ̀], also known as Ashin Ariawuntha (Burmese: အရှင်အရိယဝံသ; pronounced [ʔəʃɪ̀ɰ̃ ʔəɹḭjə wʊ̀ɰ̃ θa̰]...

anti-Muslim nationalist sentiments. One of the most infamous of which is Ashin Wirathu, who believes most Muslims are violent radicals who are raping Burmese...

organisations of extreme nationalism with particularly reference to Ashin Wirathu, who has been accused of hate speech and incitement of violence against...

Danish Lama and a convert to the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Ashin Wirathu (born 1968), Burmese Buddhist monk, and the spiritual leader of the...

"legitimising genocide" in Myanmar. Some buddhist leaders in Myanmar such as Ashin Wirathu promote violence against Muslims. Nazi ideology's racial theories considered...

2014, Rakhine mobs protested across Rakhine State, egged on by monk Ashin Wirathu demanding that the census be stopped or changed to prevent the Rohingyas...

delivered a sermon, he singled Ashin Wirathu, then in hiding, out from among the saṅgha, asking in rhetoric, "Where is Wirathu? He is my comrade." In February...

occupied parliamentary seats without an election. He also denounced Ashin Wirathu, a leading nationalist Buddhist monk, saying, "He sides a little towards...

bills to parliament, which were introduced by the controversial monk, Ashin Wirathu. Women’s rights advocates and several of ethnic and religious minorities...

In 2014, Gnanasara Thera and the BBS signed a pact with Myanmar's Ashin Wirathu and the 969 Movement to build a Buddhist Alliance in order to protect...

magazine, whose cover features a picture of Burmese extremist monk Ashin Wirathu with the headline "The Face of Buddhist Terror", is banned in Sri Lanka...

Technology of Myanmar and former member of parliament in the Pyithu Hluttaw Ashin Wirathu, a nationalist Buddhist monk Ledwintha Saw Chit, an author Shwe Sin...

Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist country. The movement was led by Ashin Wirathu, a Buddhist monk called "The Face of Buddhist Terror" by Time magazine...

hardline group. He is also known to have signed a pact with Myanmar's Ashin Wirathu, a key figure in Myanmar's anti-Muslim riots and massacres. On 18 May...