Buddhist scholar & teacher: denounces islam as fascism. - The 4 Freedoms Library2024-03-29T10:41:44Zhttp://4freedoms.com/forum/topics/buddhist-scholar-teacher-denounces-islam-as-fascism?groupUrl=denmark&commentId=3766518%3AComment%3A98020&groupId=3766518%3AGroup%3A1775&feed=yes&xn_auth=noAnd this story about a purely…tag:4freedoms.com,2012-03-25:3766518:Comment:980202012-03-25T22:30:00.600ZKinanahttp://4freedoms.com/profile/Kinana
<p>And this story about a purely Buddhist inspired resistance. Is this the 'fighting spirit' the article speaks of?</p>
<p><b>A Sri Lankan Buddhist Monk with Courage and Wisdom</b></p>
<p>16/09/2011</p>
<p><b>Buddhist Monks Strike Back, Demolish Muslim Shrine</b></p>
<p>Sep15 2011</p>
<p><br></br> A group of Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka led a crowd that demolished a<br></br> Muslim shrine last week, the BBC has learned.<br></br> <br></br> This incident took place on Saturday in Anuradhapura, an ancient…<br></br></p>
<p>And this story about a purely Buddhist inspired resistance. Is this the 'fighting spirit' the article speaks of?</p>
<p><b>A Sri Lankan Buddhist Monk with Courage and Wisdom</b></p>
<p>16/09/2011</p>
<p><b>Buddhist Monks Strike Back, Demolish Muslim Shrine</b></p>
<p>Sep15 2011</p>
<p><br/> A group of Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka led a crowd that demolished a<br/> Muslim shrine last week, the BBC has learned.<br/> <br/> This incident took place on Saturday in Anuradhapura, an ancient<br/> Buddhist city and Unesco world heritage site.<br/> <br/> The monk who led the group told the BBC he did it because the shrine<br/> was on land that was given to Sinhalese Buddhists 2,000 years ago.<br/> <br/> But a prominent Muslim in the area said he was very sad and the<br/> sentiment was shared by many Sinhalese too.<br/> <br/> A Sri Lankan news website showed photographs of a crowd including<br/> monks apparently reducing a small structure to a pile of rubble.<br/> <br/> The mob waved Buddhist flags and – in one picture – burnt a green Muslim flag.<br/> <br/> There have been no other reports of what happened.<br/> <br/> But a BBC has spoken to the monk, Amatha Dhamma Thero, who admits<br/> masterminding the demolition of the Muslim shrine.<br/> <br/> He said he arranged a gathering of 100 or so monks, including some<br/> from other Asian countries, to take action because – he alleged –<br/> local Muslims were trying to convert the shrine into a mosque despite<br/> new constructions being illegal on this site with its many Buddhist<br/> temples.<br/> <br/> He said local government officials arrived and said they would remove<br/> the shrine within three days, but the crowd said “we cannot wait” and<br/> proceeded to tear down the structure.<br/> <br/> The demolition has been denounced by a local senior Muslim and a local<br/> Sinhalese politician.<br/> <br/> ‘Concerned’<br/> <br/> The Muslim, Abdul Razack, denied that a mosque was planned and said<br/> the demolished shrine was about 300 years old and had attracted<br/> visitors of other faiths too.<br/> <br/> He said local Muslims and Buddhists alike were concerned at what<br/> happened but Muslims had avoided the site on Saturday, fearing<br/> sectarian disharmony.<br/> <br/> The politician, Aruna Dissanayake, said the government should act<br/> against those who had attacked the shrine.<br/> <br/> A minority was trying to create sectarian problems in a place where<br/> most Muslims and Sinhalese Buddhists co-existed well, he added.<br/> <br/> Most of Sri Lanka’s majority Sinhalese is Buddhist, and Muslims are<br/> regarded as a separate ethnic group.<br/> <br/> In a recent newspaper column, a veteran Muslim journalist said there<br/> was a growing fear among his community that some people were running a<br/> campaign to incite the Sinhalese against them, including through<br/> Sinhalese websites and print media.<br/> <br/> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14926002" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14926002</a></p> Maybe State power is a requir…tag:4freedoms.com,2012-03-25:3766518:Comment:978182012-03-25T22:25:51.755ZKinanahttp://4freedoms.com/profile/Kinana
<p>Maybe State power is a requirement from Buddhist perspective for the use of force, even lethal force.</p>
<p><b>Most Islamic clerics ordered out have left</b></p>
<p>January 23, 2012, 10:18 pm <br></br> By Ravi Ladduwahetty</p>
<p>The decision to order out 161 foreign Islamic clerics has been handled firmly by the government and Controller of Immigration and Emigration Chulananda Perera told The Island last night a majority of them had left by yesterday.</p>
<p>A majority of them were…</p>
<p>Maybe State power is a requirement from Buddhist perspective for the use of force, even lethal force.</p>
<p><b>Most Islamic clerics ordered out have left</b></p>
<p>January 23, 2012, 10:18 pm <br/> By Ravi Ladduwahetty</p>
<p>The decision to order out 161 foreign Islamic clerics has been handled firmly by the government and Controller of Immigration and Emigration Chulananda Perera told The Island last night a majority of them had left by yesterday.</p>
<p>A majority of them were Pakistanis, Indians and those from the Gulf.</p>
<p>"This was indeed a catastrophe where these clerics who arrived in Sri Lanka were without proper visas and we have told religious leaders of the requirements needed to be present for religious programmes of that nature, Perera told The Island last night.</p>
<p>Perera who said that he had advised those religious dignitaries that they needed to announce what they were here for, the duration and the visas would be provided only on that basis.</p>
<p>Those clerics who arrived in the country on tourist visas had not followed proper visa procedures and they had not told the government the real reasons they were in Sri Lanka for and we sent our investigation teams to see where those people were and they were not there at the venue where they professed to be, he said.</p>
<p>There have been widespread allegation from sections of the Muslim community that these foreign preachers were mainly involved in preaching a radical Islam that was even hostile to Muslims following a more moderate line of the religion.</p>
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<p> </p> Will Durant (The Story of Civ…tag:4freedoms.com,2012-03-25:3766518:Comment:978112012-03-25T00:43:01.882ZKinanahttp://4freedoms.com/profile/Kinana
<p>Will Durant (<i>The Story of Civilization</i>) called the fall of India to the Muslim invaders ‘probably the bloodiest story in history.’ ‘…a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex order and freedom can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without and multiplying from within.’</p>
<p>The bitter lesson that may be drawn from this tragedy is that <strong>“eternal vigilance is the price of civilization. A…</strong></p>
<p>Will Durant (<i>The Story of Civilization</i>) called the fall of India to the Muslim invaders ‘probably the bloodiest story in history.’ ‘…a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex order and freedom can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without and multiplying from within.’</p>
<p>The bitter lesson that may be drawn from this tragedy is that <strong>“eternal vigilance is the price of civilization. A nation must love peace, but keep its powder dry.” </strong></p>
<p>Quoted in ‘The Sword of the Prophet’, by Serge Trifkovic</p>