Removing The Sheen From Buddhism

[Husky]

1. Among the SL Tamizh Hindus I know living in exile, the ones that speak with fear about the LTTE (and naturally with fear of the SL Sinhala-Buddhist govt as well) are the ones still consciously Hindu. While other Sri Lankan Tamils in the Tamil society here - who do tend to be very pro-LTTE - don't recognise any real Hindu identity anymore, they only identify with the new understanding of what "Tamil identity" entails: something psecular where Hindu is irrelevant or somehow includes christianism. And these same SL Tamil believers in psecular non-Hindu "Tamil identity" tend to marry christians or have approved of their kids marrying christians.

For a supposedly Hindu org, LTTE seems to be promoting only christianism, initially through psecularisation of Hindu Dharma and then through outright christianism.

The Malayalees' society where I live carries out <i>exclusively</i> christian 'celebrations' (easter, christmas), or otherwise steals Hindu religio-festivals and calls them psecular ('christian') Malayalee festivals: Onam. That's because its members now consist of >=90% christians. Poor Hindus among them who have no other place to gather.

The Tamizh society here can be heading that way too: their christian wives and daughters-in-law want jeebus pictures introduced and there's some huddling to consider celebrating christmas now. Christianism has slowly been insinuating itself as part of the SL 'Tamil identity', so that now Indian Tamizhs (Hindus) have to stomach this garbage too. Fat chance.


2. There's one Karuna Amman, ex-LTTE, who split from LTTE some years back with his own army and now says he represents real Tamizh interests. Some are under the impression that Karuna split from LTTE upon realising how it was a christian org.

http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HkPage.aspx...EID=8249&SKIN=W
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->narendran 23/02/2009 09:18:18
<b>Christianity is a bigger danger to civilization than anything else</b>
<b>The LTTE Christian cat came out of the bag the moment Col. Karuna severed his link with Bro.Pirbakaran.</b>Karunanidhi cooled down after being warned by him to stop playing godfather to the genuine Tamils fighting for their cause. In tamil nadu conversion of Hindus to christianity was speeded up in its southern districts on the possibility that India being under the thumb of the catholic woman Sonia Gandhi pretending to be caving in to the demands of Karunadhi under political presure would never prevent setting up of a new Jesuland forming part of Tamil nadu and north of sri lanka.For the time being that dream lies shattered.If bro. pirabakaran's LTTe has now been revealed as Christian militia what doubt can be there that the naxalites and maoists to be not a division of the same army because the supporters of the latter are the same western christian forces supporting the Ltte ,to cite one name ,'the doctors with out boarders',the goddmmed Christian ngos who are the bane of civilization?America even under Obama is reported to be preasurising the Srilanakan govt not to pass a bill banning conversion of innocent buddhists to Christianity by fraud as no man with commeonsense will willingly agree to take to christianity if he knows the abominable history of christianity which caused the death of millions of innocents in the name of infinte love of god for example as was witnessed including in Goa. Thomas Paine began one of his pamphlets with the immortal words;These are times that test the souls of men." Those are applicable to us Indians now.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
And this next person also commenting at the above link seems to moreover be of the view that LTTE members are all/largely christian now - not just their leadership anymore. (Seems unlikely IMO. But I think the only Hindus remaining in LTTE are the brainwashed, the kidnapped and the psecular who believe solely in some 'Tamil identity' forgetful of the fact that their Hindu ancestors fought against the tyranny of christianism in SL) -
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Biju 22/02/2009 22:10:46
<b>LTTE is Christian Terrorist Organization</b>
LTTE is Christian Terrorist Organization now <b>all ltte cadres are converted Christian.</b> in 2004 col <b>Karuna split</b> from ltte and deal got for t peace <b>i think he come out from ltte coz of ltte implementing now Christian agenda.</b>
dear Hindu brothers don't support this Christian ltte. congt Lankan govt. crush this chiristain terrorists.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Whatever be the reasons for the split, it was Karuna Amman who first revealed how Norway was funding LTTE (he would have known this from having been a significant LTTE member previously) and then NAT did the research to find that Yes indeed he was right.

The PDF of the Norwegians against terrorism (NAT) that exposes Norwegian funding of LTTE which IF posted long ago, states:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The Solheim / Karuna dispute</b>
Upon request we have been asked to investigate the allegations made by Erik Solheim that Colonel Karuna is lying about the Norwegian funding of the LTTE and training of the LTTE. We have found that Colonel Karuna allegations of Norwegian funding are correct and Erik Solheim is the liar. We have also found Erik Solheim is lying about the Norwegian military assistance to the LTTE.
(Which then goes on to provide the data)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Meanwhile HR groups have been clocking overhours trying to make Karuna Amman go down for war crimes.

I still entertain doubts about this Karuna Amman: I can understand why his army is taking a swipe against the LTTE. But why is he being supported by the Lankan govt???? Is it really only because the "enemy of my people's first enemy is my friend"? Or is a Hindu Tamil movement again being 'represented' by non-Hindu interests and non-Hindus, rather like the christoLTTE has been doing?

There seems to be no genuine representation of Hindu interests in SL. All one can see is
- subversion of the younger generations living in exile ("Tamil only identity" and "we are marrying Tamils - they just happen to be *christian* but note how they are 'Tamil' and are consequently for 'our cause'". And what cause was that? Christianism? Yes. The christian wives 'coincidentally' happen to be supporting LTTE.)
- one or more subversive movements that <i>say</i> they represent 'Tamil' interests but do so by bypassing and negating the <i>Hindu</i> in Tamizh.


Repeat of Sandhya:
www.christianaggression.org/item_display.php?type=ARTICLES&id=1141381467
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->(LTTE) is anti-Buddhist, anti-Muslim, anti-Indian and anti-Asian, and has no Hindu sympathies either. It crushed the Batticaloa-based cadre that resulted in Karuna's revolt in 2004. The LTTE has in fact been described as "a neo-colonial fifth column" in the Midweek Review Island Newspaper, because it seeks to denude Tamil nationalism of its Hindu roots and is too close to Christian missionaries.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

3. General stats: about 73% of Sri Lanka is Sinhalese, about 18% is Tamil. (The remainder consists of 7% islamics and the rest is 'others'.)
About 85% of the SL Tamils were still Hindu in Feb 2006 according to Sandhya's article from that time.


4. <!--QuoteBegin-G.Subramaniam+Feb 24 2009, 07:09 AM-->QUOTE(G.Subramaniam @ Feb 24 2009, 07:09 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->From 1948 to 1983 it was solely buddhist monks against hindus
The xtian dominance in LTTE came after 1986[right][snapback]94879[/snapback][/right]
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->There seems to be some <i>christian</i> subversive meddling that encouraged or at least occurred in parallel with the <i>Buddhist</i> action against <i>Hindus</i> in SL between 1948-1983:

www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/8060
"Sri Lankan Tamils, the ‘Cats Paw’ of the Church"
(Note: My comments below in purple)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->After more than 150 years of rule, when the British were compelled to leave the Island on the new world order brought about by the realization of the unceasing nature of the domination by arms, a privileged elite class of Anglo Saxon thinking, lead by the Church, had emerged in Sri Lanka from among locals. Unlike in India, in Sri Lanka there was no national struggle to win independence and as a result the patriotic indigenous leadership did not synchronize. The British handed over the power to the new local elites expecting them to preserve that status quo.

The new Government of the Independent Sri Lanka was initially towing the British line but eventually with the masses taking over the reigns of power the much awaited, progressive legislations were introduced. For instance, at the time of independence (1948), only 6% of the country’s population was conversant in English, the official language of the time. As a result 94 % of the country’s population was in the dark, being governed by the English speaking elite. Swabasha was introduced in 1956 to overcome this anomaly. With that move the foundation of the English speaking elite started to crack. The vested interests of the Church reacted to this in all possible ways. Even though there was provision for reasonable use of Tamil in the new legislation the Church propagated to the world about the unreasonableness of the legislation. The fact that there was a disproportionate amount of Tamils in the state service due to a one sided education policy for centuries gave credence to the ‘Tamil grievance’ as a corollary of the swabasha Bill. The church baptized the bill ‘Singhala only’

<b>They found a very willing ally in Chelvanayagam, son of a clergyman, who was more Anglican than Tamil.</b> He was obsessed with the thought that ‘How come these uneducated Sinhalese, being only a few million in population, could have a country of their own when the Tamils numbering 50 million could not have theirs’.
<b>(Note that the christoterrorist SJV Chelvanayagam's considerations above concerned the Hindu state of Tamizh Nadu in the reference to 'a country of their own'. Note how this pre-LTTE christoterrorist's thought spills over from SL into Hindu Tamil Nadu, into wanting Hindu Tamil Nadu's independence from Hindu Bharatam. Then again, christianism has long goals and designs.)</b>
According to him the ‘Singhalese were not big enough to govern us the Tamils’. The elite Tamil community who themselves had lost their privileges after the exit of the British was a good breeding ground for ‘alleged discrimination’. Chelvanayagam was not interested in implementing the reasonable use of Tamil because he would rather keep the ‘grievance’. He instead used this as an opportunity to introduce the first steps of the bifurcation plan in the form of Bandaranaike Chelvanayagam Pact where he demanded the land rights to North and the East. His strategy for total separation eventually was ‘little now and more later’. The B-C pact was rejected by the discerning public giving more propaganda matter to the Church and the Tamil elite.
It is not that the Tamils in general had no issue to demand more from the state but it is just that with a Sinhala dominated Government in power, the separatist minded Tamil elite like Chelvanayagam were able to project the Sri Lanka Government of the time as the source of all short comings. <b>The popularity of the separatist politics of Chelvanayagam made even Ponnambalam resign from the Government, placing the Tamil community in a confrontational course with the Government of the day just two years after independence.</b>

The legacy of the Anglican Church in Sri Lanka was that of colonial crusades, forced conscriptions, discriminatory treatment and economic exploitation. Hence it could not have picked any of those as a grievance against the now liberated Sinhala Buddhist population. But by taking the side of the Tamils it is saving itself and the status quo of the English speaking elite while projecting an image of a ‘fighter of the underdog’. Therefore <b>with Sri Lanka gaining independence the Church changed its role from ‘blessing the aggressor’ to ‘fighting for the underdog’.</b> That probably was the best way to check the progressive measures of the new Sri Lanka Government thereby preventing the transformation of Christian religion from the ‘patronized religion’ to the ‘religion of an insignificant minority’.

With the advent of Swabasha education the new liberated schools like Ananda and Nalanda broke the Christian monopoly on education and even the Maha Vidyalayas came to the fore with academic achievements surpassing the Christian schools. The Christian education suffered another body blow when they were taken over by the Government with progressive legislation in the 1960.s. Up to that time these Christian schools with their suave and ‘international’ standards were catering to the exclusive sections of the society producing even the leaders of the post independent Sri Lanka. Even today the English language media and the corporate sector in the country is made up of ‘old boys’ of these Christian schools. That way, what the Church could not accomplish in the form religious conversions had been compensated for in the form of conversions in culture and in thinking. In 1962 the senior police and security forces staged a coup de’tat against the elected Government of the day. All those officers who were involved were Christians and had that being successful; it was very likely that there would have been religious riots in Colombo as a corollary.

The Church had been consistently ‘sympathetic’ to the needs of the Tamils and helped them in innumerable ways to built up a Diaspora from the 1960’s. <b>It was the Vatican through its communication network disseminated to the world the events of July 83</b> painting the Sinhalese Buddhist as ‘uncivilized barbarians’. From that point onwards the western funded and the Church guided National Peace Council unleashed its propaganda machine to justify all the heinous crimes committed by the LTTE as ‘retaliatory activities’ prompted by the July 83 incidents. In actual fact, by July 83 the Tamil guerillas had broken in to 15 banks and 18 police stations making it impossible for the civil administration to maintain law and order and in the North. Hence July 83 was the effect of those activities. But the NPC propaganda made July 83 a ‘cause’ to justify the killings and maiming of thousands of innocent civilians, in their homes, in their sleep, in places of worship, places of work or just on the road. Ironically even though the LTTE has now come to be known as the ‘world’s most ruthless terror organization’ none of its activities received the same publicity that July 83 received in the Vatican.

It should also be borne in mind that <b>it was the World Council of Churches that sponsored the LTTE office in London which commenced its operation from 1984</b> denigrating the SL Government in general and the Sinhalese Buddhist in particular. The heads of the different Christian denominations in SL issue press statements from time to time, on the ongoing conflict, blaming mostly both parties to the Sri Lankan conflict, quite oblivious to the fact that on the one hand you have the legitimate Government of the country bending over backwards for peace and on the other the intransigent, ruthless and a totalitarian terrorist organization. They also make pilgrimages to Kilinochchi and eulogize the most ruthless terror leader and his activities. These are mostly done for the consumption of the Tamil Diaspora and the LTTE sympathizing Governments in the west.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Note that the Chelvanayagam mentioned belonged to the Church of South India, Jaffna Diocese. I think that makes him a catholic christoterrorist, even though his education was Anglican (christoBritish protestant).


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5. Interesting comment:
http://haindavakeralam.com/HkPage.aspx?P...249&SKIN=W
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Muthu 23/02/2009 05:50:23
<b>Anita pratap .... all falls in line</b>
Anita Pratap married to the Norwegian diplomat . Yes all the above converted ones doing all this mess is very evident.
Haindava editors must investigate this.
Read this and one will know. One must investigate the role of Anita pratap, vis a vis Norway in Sri lanka.

http://tamilinsight.org/mydesk/blog/tamil-...y-anita-pratap/
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->When you read the page at that link, she talks only about "Tamil" identity. Not a mention of how <i>real Tamizhs are Hindus</i>.
This is what christoterrorists do: steal our identities by psecularising it first - thus negating the essential characteristic of the identity - and then sidelining and victimising us the way they've done to the silenced Hindus of Kerala.