BBS To Promote A Sinhala Buddhist Leader To Further Their Agendas
September 25, 2014
The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) has annonuced that they will select and declare a leader who can promote their Sinhala Buddhist campaigns in politics, during a Sangha Sammelanaya (Summit of Buddhist monks) on Sunday.
BBS General Secretary Galagoda Atte Gnanasara had stated that Sri Lankan Buddhists are in dire need of a leader who can ensure their rights are won and had added that they will be taking up the task of choosing an individual capable of leading the Sinhala Buddhists.
“There is a need to promote a set of principles that will teach a good lesson, particularly to politicians who have demeaned Sinhala Buddhists,” Gnanasara had stated.
He had said that politicians who ‘barked’ at Buddhists were taught a good lesson at the recently held Uva provincial polls.
“We have turned into an invalid community in our own motherland. The Tamils with just a 12% and the Muslims making up for just 7% of the population, are demanding their rights and yet no one calls it racism. They are demanding for the whole pound of flesh,” Gnanasara said.
Furthermore he had stated that it is time for all structures in the country to change into a system that is governed by true Buddhist values and he had added that the BBS is aligning the country towards such a system.
The Hidden Story Of India’s Partition And Its Mistakes
By Mohammed Jehan Khan -September 25, 2014
Mohammed Jehan Khan
Today the development of the modern nation states (India, Pakistan andBangladesh) throughout the Indian subcontinent is a fascinating and heartbreaking process. 67 years ago, subcontinent Muslims were a part of the British Raj, a large multi-ethnic state which came under the British Empire. This period of the subcontinent, is what most scholars refer as the golden age of South Asian Muslims. Undoubtedly this generation has produced some great Muslim scholars, poets and scientists.
Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs lived in peace, there were no Talibans, no RSS Hindutva extremists, no Lakshar-E-Taiba, there were no Baluchistan freedom fighters, no Kashmiri separatist movements, there was no military oppression in Kashmir – what they had was a peaceful life. However a complex and intricate course of events in the 1940s and 70s brought about the end of the domination of Muslims in the region and the rise of these new nations with borders running across, diving Muslims from each other, creating rifts and inciting them to take arms and blast innocents, all in the name of a religion that forbids killing or harming any innocents.
It is an undeniable fact that the creation of Pakistan and Bangladesh has brought a great misfortune to the subcontinent Muslims. Apparently the partition of India weakened the subcontinent Muslims, and devolved their power into four different and opposite extremes. It is the root cause of the ongoing Kashmir crisis, Bangladeshi liberation war that took four million lives and created an Indian dominated vassal state in greater Bengal region ruled by two corrupted families, the Kargil war and the Operation Polo that annexed the Hyderabad State to Indian union and ended the monopoly of Muslims in the Deccan.Read More
