10-26-2006, 11:00 AM
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Let's not forget, these Lankan Buddhists are as violent as Christofascists,<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->(1) You must care about the Christo-missionary-tsunami going on there, because it is affecting the Tamil Hindus at least as much. Christian Eckert's article, though it has not discussed the affects of the missionary-tsunami on the Hindus in Lanka, still holds true for the Hindus there as well. And between the Hindu and Buddhist population, the former are worse off: a greater proportion of Hindus are being converted (often by force, other times through fraud). There are many Lankan Tamil converts now. I don't care that they are Tamil anymore, because Indian 'Tamil' Christos and Lankan 'Tamil' Christos are both the same: equally intolerant and anti-Hindu. So yes, what the Christo missionaries are doing in Sri Lanka bothers me very much.
(2) There's no meaning in lumping even those Buddhists who had nothing to do with the violence against the Hindus with all the rest. Neither Buddhism nor Hinduism has anything to do with Sri Lanka's civil war. In that way, I do care about the Buddhists (I care more about Lankan Tamil Hindus, but that's my community-bias speaking).
If <i>all</i> Lankan Buddhists are tainted by association - even if they have nothing to do with murder of any Hindus - just for being Buddhists, then does that mean that, by extension, Korean Buddhists deserve the Christoterror they've endured because they are Buddhists too? Buddhism has nothing to do with what Lanka's Hindus are facing. Though it's true that religion has now become an easy way to identify the two groups in Lanka: the Tamil Hindus and the Sinhalese Buddhists. (And although both are Indian by ethnicity, they've been identifying themselves by their sub-ethnicities.)
I'm not speaking out of wishful thinking here. My family has close friends from Sri Lanka: Tamil Hindu refugees who fled their land for fear of the Christo LTTE (not for fear of the Buddhists). Until I spoke to them, my sympathies were entirely with the LTTE. But I've learnt that things are not as clear cut as they appear. The LTTE is another arm of the Christoterror in Lanka.
Support the Lankan Hindus, don't support those pushing only the secular 'Tamil' label, because that is what the Christos in general and the LTTE in particular are hiding behind.
Let's not forget, these Lankan Buddhists are as violent as Christofascists,<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->(1) You must care about the Christo-missionary-tsunami going on there, because it is affecting the Tamil Hindus at least as much. Christian Eckert's article, though it has not discussed the affects of the missionary-tsunami on the Hindus in Lanka, still holds true for the Hindus there as well. And between the Hindu and Buddhist population, the former are worse off: a greater proportion of Hindus are being converted (often by force, other times through fraud). There are many Lankan Tamil converts now. I don't care that they are Tamil anymore, because Indian 'Tamil' Christos and Lankan 'Tamil' Christos are both the same: equally intolerant and anti-Hindu. So yes, what the Christo missionaries are doing in Sri Lanka bothers me very much.
(2) There's no meaning in lumping even those Buddhists who had nothing to do with the violence against the Hindus with all the rest. Neither Buddhism nor Hinduism has anything to do with Sri Lanka's civil war. In that way, I do care about the Buddhists (I care more about Lankan Tamil Hindus, but that's my community-bias speaking).
If <i>all</i> Lankan Buddhists are tainted by association - even if they have nothing to do with murder of any Hindus - just for being Buddhists, then does that mean that, by extension, Korean Buddhists deserve the Christoterror they've endured because they are Buddhists too? Buddhism has nothing to do with what Lanka's Hindus are facing. Though it's true that religion has now become an easy way to identify the two groups in Lanka: the Tamil Hindus and the Sinhalese Buddhists. (And although both are Indian by ethnicity, they've been identifying themselves by their sub-ethnicities.)
I'm not speaking out of wishful thinking here. My family has close friends from Sri Lanka: Tamil Hindu refugees who fled their land for fear of the Christo LTTE (not for fear of the Buddhists). Until I spoke to them, my sympathies were entirely with the LTTE. But I've learnt that things are not as clear cut as they appear. The LTTE is another arm of the Christoterror in Lanka.
Support the Lankan Hindus, don't support those pushing only the secular 'Tamil' label, because that is what the Christos in general and the LTTE in particular are hiding behind.