The Golden One - March 08, 2026


Have you head about the Buddhist monk Wirathu？


Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

172.26149

Word count

260

Sentence count

10

Harmful content

Hate speech

2

sentences flagged


Summary

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Viratantu has served as a Buddhist monk in Myanmar for many years. He is a noble and kind man who has served his country well in bringing harmony and spiritual guidance to the people of Myanmar. And yet, he has been vilified by the media as a terrorist and Islamophobe.

Transcript

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00:00:00.160 The Buddhist Tiger of Burma. On the front cover of the Time Magazine edition from July 2013,
00:00:07.520 the face of a Buddhist monk is seen, alongside the title of The Face of Buddhist Terror.
00:00:13.440 The image of the monk is edited and presented in a subtle but telling way.
00:00:17.440 He is meant to look sinister. Just a quick look at the picture on the text and the message
00:00:22.400 becomes abundantly clear. The article can, without a doubt, be labelled as a hit piece.
00:00:28.000 the monk in question is named viratu and there are plenty of other pictures and videos of him
00:00:33.840 in those one can analyze his physiognomy without the distortion of the hostile depiction present
00:00:39.520 by time magazine viratu has a noble and kind physiognomy his eyes reveal a great burden
00:00:46.160 perhaps a certain sadness even they also reveal that he is a man who has had enough a man whose
00:00:51.520 patience has been pushed to the limit for a long time burma now also known as myanmar
00:00:57.440 has been a troubled country for many years and religious figures like Viratu have served a 0.99
00:01:02.320 fundamental role in bringing harmony and spiritual guidance to the people.
00:01:06.960 What is particularly interesting about Viratu is how he has been treated by the media.
00:01:11.520 This treatment will be intimately familiar for everyone who has in some capacity engaged
00:01:16.960 themselves in the cause for European civilization. In order to understand why a buddhist monk is 0.99
00:01:22.880 being labelled as a terrorist and Islamophobe, we must first discuss Burma's ethnic composition
00:01:28.240 and intriguing modern history.