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By Latheef Farook.(11/10/2014)
Anti Muslim Sinhala racist outfit
Bodu Bala Sena(BBS),
which does not represent the mainstream Sinhala Buddhists, but had done
considerable damage to pit Sinhalese against Muslims in the name of
Sinhalese and Buddhism, together with Myanmar’s convicted criminal
Ashin Wirathu, have declared war on Islam and Muslims in Sri Lanka and in South Asia.
As part of this program the two sides, BBS and
969,
also signed a special agreement aimed at creating South Asia free of
what they described as (Islamic) terrorism and religious fundamentalism.
Addressing the Sangha Council meeting, organized with pomp and
pageantry by the BBS costing millions of rupees on Sunday 28
September 2014 at the Sugathadasa Stadium, Ashin Wirathu, the dreaded
leader of the 969 movement, the architect of the massacre of Myanmar’s
Rohingya Muslims and described by TIME magazine as the “face of the
Buddhist terror” told, that his organization 969 would work with the BBS
to fight so called Islamic terrorism.
Work together for what? Certainly not to promote Buddhism and
establish a better Buddhist society but to kill Muslims, destroy their
economies and turn them into a community of beggars as the Zionist
sponsored United States led European countries have been doing
worldwide, especially in the Middle East, since the collapse of former
Soviet Union in 1989.
This unholy BBS-Wirathu alliance spells disaster for Sri Lanka and
the island’s besieged Muslim community especially in the context of the
ongoing persecution of the island’s Muslims striking at their very
survival. This has all the ingredients to turn this island into a
killing field once again with unpredictable consequences.
The question is whether the country need or afford such mayhem for the benefit of handful of racists?
Now the question is whether this alliance is to prepare for what
Jathika Hela Urumaya’s Udaya Gammanpila predicted as the” inevitable
repeat attack on the island’s Muslims in 2015 to commemorate the
centenary of 1915 riots”. Perhaps the attacks on
Aluthgama, Dharga Town and Beruwala Muslims in June 2014 were trial balloons for what is to come next year?
BBS has already poisoned the Sinhalese minds against Muslims to
prepare the climate for such an attack. As part of this program,
unnecessarily digging out old wounds, certain section of the local
media, increasingly under Sinhala racist and Israeli influence, started
publishing articles blaming Muslims for 1915 riots.
While the world is moving ahead under the global economic changes now
sweeping all corners of the world to ensure better life for people
here in the island few hundreds of Sinhala racist are taking the country
back to 1915.
It is common knowledge that the BBS and 969 are sworn enemies of Islam and Muslims.
They are not interested in creating a Buddhist society based on Lord
Buddha’s teachings and his message of maithri and karuna. They are not
interested in fighting against social evils such as liquor, gambling,
casino, corruption, prostitution, declining religious, moral, religious,
cultural and family values.
Instead they are busy spreading hatred against Muslims in violation
of the very same teachings of Lord Buddha which they claim to protect.
Their proven agenda is to demonize Islam, kill Muslims and destroy
Muslim societies (and destroy everything that Lord Buddha stood for) as
Wirathu had done in Myanmar and BBS is doing in Sri Lanka.
BBS General Secretary
Galagoda Atte Gnanasara
Thero is not a man of peace. Under normal circumstance where there is
rule of law he should have been in custody for his role in the
Aluthgama-Dharga Town and Berwala attacks on Muslims which reduced once
wealthy families into paupers.
He is a demagogue accused of being behind the hate Muslim campaign
that enjoys the support and protection of the state. Their foreign
masters, perhaps, provide them with enough of money, training and
guidance in their campaign to destroy Muslim societies.
On the other hand Myanmar’s Ashin wirathu and his 969 movement have
been responsible for the massacre of Rohingya Muslims, burning of Muslim
towns and villages, residential and commercial units besides throwing
hundreds of Muslims into the sea where they perished.
This very same Ashin Wirathu was granted an entry visa which was
refused to the legendary man of peace Dalai Lama who warned Sri Lanka
and Myanmar not to harm Muslim minorities.
All peace loving people were shocked when Wirathu was allowed to enter the soil of Sri Lanka thrice visited by Lord Buddha.
Several Ministers including Senior Minister A.H.M.Fawzie, Justice Minister
Rauff Hakeem and Deputy Minister
Faizar Mustapha together with many Muslim organizations pleaded with President
Mahinda Rajapaksa not to allow Wirathu to enter this country.
However, these appeals were dismissed and fell on deaf ears –perhaps
Ashin Wirathu is more important than the Island’s Muslim community?
Wirathu who was given a reception usually meant for heads of states,
thanked President Mahinda Rajapaksa for granting him visa to visit Sri
Lanka.
Muslim community in general feel deeply disappointed and disgusted
.They accuse Muslim politicians whom they consider as sell outs, so
called moulavi thumas who have lost the confidence of the community and
the so called prominent Muslims for hobnobbing with the government
despite repeated humiliation and threats.
For example Muslim parliamentarians continue to remain constituent
members of the government and refuse to raise Muslim issues to
ensure the rights, dignity and safety of Muslims.
Our half baked, jet setting and wheeler dealer “moulavi thumas” went
all the way to Geneva to defend the government not knowing what they
were doing and where they were going .In their keen desire to please the
Sinhala leadership these “moulavi thumas” even compromised Islam when
they asked Muslims to stop reciting “Kunooth”, the most powerful weapon
given by Allah, during times of difficulties.
The government also did not take into consideration the so called
prominent Muslims who once invited Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse
to discuss Muslim issues in a peaceful and relaxed atmosphere but
refused to raise any issue stating that “we cannot hurt our guest.”
These very same prominent Muslims who discarded the sufferings and
misery of Muslims in aluthgama, Dharga Town and Beruwala attended Iftar
parties to please the Sinhala power even before their tears dried.
Despite all these it appears the government has written off the Muslim community.
This is the reality in today’s Sri Lanka which BBS’s once reported to have resigned President Ven
Kirama Wimalajothi
described as a Sinhala Buddhist country and not a multi religious and
multi racial country. The theme of his speech and the Sangha Council
itself was open hostility towards Islam and Muslims who were the most
peaceful of the three communities as once stated by former Chief Justice
Sarath N Silva.
What they failed to realize is the sacrifice Muslims made to ensure
the territorial integrity of the country during the three decades of
LTTE separatist war. In fact if the Sinhala racists cannot live with the
Island’s peaceful Muslim community in harmony, despite continuous state
sponsored discrimination, they will never be able to live in peace with
anyone in this planet.
In the meeting BBS submitted proposals which could take the country back to medieval age.
Suggested changes included change Sri Lanka to ‘Sinhalay’,State
Religion to be ‘Buddhism’, Sinhala to be state language while Tamil and
English to be recognized as state communication languages, learning
Sinhala, Tamil and English to be compulsory, Sinhala race and Sri Lanka
nation to be synonymous, so everyone in Sri Lanka will be called
‘Sinhalese’ and not ‘Sri Lankan’.
The other suggestions were; all
minorities to be called ‘Sinhala-Muslim’, ‘Sinhala-Hindu’,
‘Sinhala-Christians’, One Race, One Nation, One Law, change the National
Flag to the 1915 National Flag ,National Anthem to be only sung in
Sinhala,Vesak to be National Day, do away with the Independence day,
Sinhala Buddhism will be the primary culture, minorities will be able to
have sub cultures as long as they recognize the Sinhala Buddhism as the
primary culture, change the Sri Lanka constitution to be more in line
with Buddhist values and do away with European government styles.Sri
Lankan leader to be an Executive Prime Minister, but the Executive
Presidency need not be abolished within the next 6 years.
This resembles what is going across the sea in India where Sinhala
racists’ new found friend fanatically anti Muslim RSS (Rasthriya
Swayamsevak Sang) claim that in India “we are all Hindus”.
However BBS suggestions which take the country back to pre medieval
age are simply recipe for disaster of an unpredictable consequence. The
irony is that they had forgotten even recent history and once again
putting innocent people of all communities at loggerheads to fulfill
their racist agendas.
The speakers at the Sangha Council meeting manufactured lies to
ridicule Islam and demonize Muslims .In doing so they spoke their
Zionist –American masters’ language of killing Muslims and blaming the
victims of terrorism.
This is typical Zionist and Zionist ruled US-UK and European strategy
to associate Muslims with terrorism to justify their invasion of Muslim
countries, destroy their infra structure and slaughter Muslim men,
women, children and the aged, destroy the society and push them into
refugee camps to suffer in abject poverty as they had done and still
doing in Iraq and Syria.
Here in the island too powerful forces unleashed a wave of anti
Muslim campaign describing them as extremists and terrorist without any
shred of evidence although top army and police officials have repeatedly
stated that there are no such elements. In fact it was Sinhala
extremists, who have attacked Mosques, destroyed Muslim shrines, threw
slaughtered pigs into mosque and carried placards with pigs’ faces
described as Allah and such hooliganism without the fear of being
taken into custody.
No Muslim ever indulged in such hooliganism. However Muslims have been accused of extremism and terrorism.
In this regard it is worthy to recall what Ven. Professor Kotapitiye
Rahula Thera, Director of Postgraduate Institute of Pali and Buddhist
Studies University of Kelaniya told Daily mirror on Wednesday 8 October
2014.
In an interview with Shihara Maduwage Prof Kotapitiya stated;
“Buddhism is one of the oldest and most valuable heritages of Sri
Lanka. Today, at a time when there is much hullabaloo about Buddhism
being destroyed, it is important to protect the true teachings of the
Buddhist philosophy. In the present day, although some, including
Buddhist monks, were of the view that Buddhism was slowly disappearing
from the world, it was a narrow-minded view.
“A lot of people in this country
and even some of the Buddhist clergy are alarmed thinking that Buddhism
will lose its value in the world. They are making such a big noise,
urging the masses to protect Buddhism and are sometimes even seen acting
in rash, unwise and aggressive ways because of their panic. However,
these are people who have no idea of what is going on in the world. They
think in a very narrow way because they have not seen the world’s
reaction to Buddhism. In fact, they are alarmed for no reason at all,”
he assured.
He further stated that if anyone wanted to promote and preserve
Buddhism, the best way to do so was not holding protests or going on
religious rampages but to learn the teachings of Buddhism and study
Buddhist philosophy and culture in depth. This was in fact one of the
main goals of the PGIPBS – spreading Buddhism to the world through
proper, structured education rather than through fear or blind
acceptance
