If there are people who think that the
Tamil problem is an internal problem caused by the intolerance or whatever of
the chauvinist Sinhala Buddhists of the country then they must be suffering
from Sinhalaphobia with a hatred towards
the Sinhala Buddhists. When some Muslims claim that the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) is
after the minorities and when the anti Sinhala Buddhists are of the opinion
that in Sri Lanka the religious and ethnic minorities are not safe they are
only expressing their anti Sinhala Buddhist prejudices planted in them by the
English and other western colonialists.
There are some ungrateful Muslims, not
those of the caliber of whom I may call Sinhala Islamists, who forget the
protection given by the Sinhalas and their kings to the Muslims from the
fifteenth century onwards and speak of Aluthgama incidents as if the Sinhala
Buddhists and the BBS are responsible for everything that happened there few
months ago. They conveniently forget the behaviour of some Muslim youths who
obstructed a Bhikku who was going for a Dharma deshana on a Poya day and the
assault of the Bhikku by one of the thugs. They claim that the Buddhists all
over the world are the same referring to Myanmar. We shall come back to this
topic later and the so called Buddhist fundamentalism when it is only the
Buddhists who do not have an ideology as such. Without an ideology or a science
or whatever one wants to use, there cannot be a fundamentalism and when Nibbana
has no existence in either space or time or space-time or whatever, one cannot
speak of an ideology.
We live in a world where intense
fighting is going on between Muslim culture and the Judaic Christian culture.
We in Sri Lanka should not take a stand against any one of them in general but
support the cause of one or the other on
a case by case approach. In Palestine we may support the Palestinians
but in Australia we cannot condone the Muslims who want Sharya Law to be implemented
in that country. It is up to the Muslims living in the Christian countries to
respect the culture of the country they have adopted and live as Muslims in
Christian countries. Living in a Christian (or Buddhist for that matter)
country as a Muslim is different from living in a Muslim country as a Muslim,
and no Buddhist would ever ask for freedom to live in a Christian country as
he/she lives in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, or any Mahayana country, as
Bududahama has no ideology as such. The clash is between civilizations
(cultures) that have ideologies, and when Huntington said Theravada is no
civilization as such it reflected the fact that Theravada has no ideology as
such, though the authour may not have realized that.
Theoretically neither the Muslim
countries nor the Christian countries should take up arms in any form against a
Theravada country. However, in Theravada countries one finds not only the
Christians and Christian countries but Muslims agitating against the Buddhists.
It may be that as far as believers are concerned no ideology is worse than
having an antagonistic ideology. It is in this context we should try to
understand the attitude of the western Christian countries against the Sinhalas
and the Sri Lankan state. It has to be mentioned that in general no Muslim country
has acted against the Sinhala people unlike the western Christian countries.
How does one understand the recent
decision by the European Union to allow the LTTE to raise funds in the western
countries against the Sinhala people and the Sri Lankan state. The resolution
adopted by the Christian EU does not
spell out it in so many words but it amounts to that in the final analysis. It
is also a resolution against Mahinda Rajapakse as the west is hell bent on
defeating him at the coming presidential elections and then sending him to the
gallows The UNP may claim that there are no electric chairs but this is not
different from their claim of the armed forces going to Pamankada instead of
Alimankada. Whether there are electric chairs or not there are so called
international juries and they are waiting for Mahinda Rajapakse to be relieved
from presidential activities so that they could try him at one of those juries.
Mahinda Rajapakse is the most hated
leader of a nation by the western countries and Sinhalas are the most hated
nation of the world by the same gentlemen who preach peace and tolerance from
the Altar. One could ask why the west should hate Mahinda Rajapakse so much and
what evidence I have to say so. Of course the westerners are crafty people who
do not speak their minds unlike the Sinhala villager and one would not find in
their careful worded statements, resolutions etc., any hatred towards Mahinda
Rajapakse or the Sinhalas especially the Sinhala Buddhists. However, the
Sinhala people who are being used by the west are not that skilful and the
latter cannot hide their anti Sinhala venom in their writings, weekly columns,
resolutions adopted by various freedom people and other such documents and
speeches.
I am not claiming that all these henchmen
and henchwomen are paid for their work but once a person is indoctrinated with
an ideology especially in the name of a science that is western and that
dominates the world it is possible to get anything done by him/her. The
ideology is sometimes far more important than money and the henchmen and
henchwomen who are after various missions are working according to a plan set
up by the western intellectuals. I would not call it a conspiracy but that is
the way ideological states behave in a clash of cultures (civilizations).
The EU by their decision has given the
LTTE and its front organisations a free hand to collect funds, organize
terrorists and do whatever possible to oust Mahinda Rajapakse from Presidency.
In spite of the development that is taking place in the Northern Province, the
people still depend on the money sent by the dispersed Tamils in the Christian
west, and the EU has given the Tamil terrorists and racists living in the west
(in fact harboured in the west) the freedom to manipulate the vote of the
Jaffna people at the forthcoming presidential elections. Naturally money will
be poured on the candidate(s) other than Mahinda Rajapakse with the sole
intention of defeating the latter.
Ideologies clash not only in the cyber space or electronic and
print media, and ideological states sponsor terrorism against other countries
with different ideologies or no ideology. The west may preach from the Altar
that they are against terrorism but in effect they support and encourage
terrorism against “enemy” countries. Sri Lanka though not believed so by the
Anglophiles trained by western schools here as well as abroad and western
universities of Oxbridge Peradeniya types, is an enemy of the Christian west
and those countries with Christian ideologies do whatever possible to demolish
other ideologies (or no ideology) in the enemy countries.
In Sri Lanka and the rest of the world
clash of civilizations (cultures) have been going before Huntington and these
clashes are at least five hundred years old. Huntington himself wanted to cover
up things and he pushed the clash of civilizations to the future. It is the
west that supports terrorism in the world and one should not be surprised if
Muslim terrorism takes the upper hand in the near future against the wish of
the Christian west.
The so called ethnic problem in Sri
Lanka was created by the clash of cultures and would continue for some time,
with the west always blaming the Sinhala Buddhist chauvinists for the crimes
committed by the westerners themselves.
Nalin De Silva
24-10-2014
