User:Jlharry12345/Persecution of Buddhists

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The page of the Buddhism in the United States stated the case which occured in the WW2 American- Japanese Buddhism was get harmed for religion discrimination and social situation.

Around 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law Executive Order 9066. This gave the military discretion to do whatever it deemed necessary to secure the safety and security of the United States. Allowed the "Army removed all persons of Japanese ancestry—more than 110,000 men, women, and children—from the west coast and put them in camps surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers. Anyone with even a drop of Japanese blood was rounded up and incarcerated. " The wartime incarceration, which the religion played in the evaluation of whether or not they could be considered fully American because vast majority of them were Buddhist s. In Hawaiian Islands, the authorities were particularly anxious to remove leaders of the religious community. Four days prior to the Attack on Peral Harbo r, 347 Japanese individuals were arrested and the majority of Buddhist leaders in the initial roundup were not simply a panicked reaction to a sudden military emergency, but the enactment of an already considered contingency plan. The Army also gave preferential treatment to Christians, despite the tens of thousands of Japanese American Buddhists who served in the armed services during World War II in both the Pacific and European theaters.

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References

Williams, Duncan Ryuken. American sutra: a story of faith and freedom in the second world war. Belknap Press, 2019.