You can normally expect two types of response from Burmese Buddhists when they are criticized for being who they are in relation to anti-Muslim violence. One is of denial: “This is not my Buddhism!” ('I-am-proud-of-nothing' attitude). Another is the desire to be recognized as a religion struggling to find its rightful place among majority populations in the modern state. Buddhists are not stupid to worship any bald man wearing saffron robes, and yet they certainly abhor Western disrespect and ignorance of their faith and self-perception. Those in the first category may be liberal darlings of tolerance (in the image of the West’s own) but it is the understanding of the second that matters for societal harmony.