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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Hindu extremism to the rescue of Buddhist extremism
According
to Buddhism, everyone in the world is equal and a particular group is
not inferior to another due to their race, religion, language or caste.
Actions only determine a person’s superiority or inferiority.
However,
extremist groups that vow to commit their lives for Buddhism and their
leaders say Sinhalese are superior, Buddhists are superior. All those
who were born in the Sri Lankan land, but are not Sinhalese and
Buddhists are the ones who do evil for the Sinhala nation and Buddhism.
The double-standards of these Buddhist extremist groups is that they
show their muscle power to the average Hindus and Muslims and at the
same time have links with extremist groups in those religions.
The Hindu Maha Sabha Lokantric, a political party with Hindu extremists,
has sent a letter to the Indian central government’s home affairs
minister, asking for intervention to save Bodu Bala Sena general
secretary Galagodaatte Gnanasara Thera, who is evading courts. The
chairman of the party says warrants have been issued for Gnanasara
Thera’s arrest at the insistence of Muslim ministers in the Sri Lankan
government. Its letter says the Thera is in danger of getting arrested
over his activities against Muslim extremists.
Both these extremist groups have made friends with the enemies of their
common enemy. Everybody knows well the history of Hindu extremist acts
against Buddhists of India. Buddhist extremist actions against Lankan
Hindus have not widespread yet because Buddhist extremist organizations
have made Muslims their common enemy.
Anyway, Buddhist extremists will not hesitate to obtain the support of
Muslim extremists to unleash violence against the Hindus, in accordance
with the theory of making friends with the enemies of their common
enemy. That is why extremism should be defeated despite in whatever form
and from whatever side it comes from.