Intentions, Methodologies and Strategies of Bodhu Bala Sena (Army of Buddhist Power) are UnBuddhistic Bordering on the Pagan and Archaic

30 April 2013, 5:25 pm

Bodu Bala Sena Rally in Kandy

By

Vishnuguptha

“I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.” ~ Thomas Jefferson 

The intentions, methodologies and strategies of the Bodhu Bala Sena (Army of Buddhist Power) have so far been most unBuddhistic and bordering on the pagan and archaic. Their obvious intolerance and the crudest way they show it on village squares and town-halls, trashing other religions and their faithful devotees sometimes spill over the banks of decency and civility, a verbal diarrhea discharged at the whims and fancies of Buddhist fundamentalists preaching a new kind of ‘oriental jihad’, as some pundit said.

Fact finding report on the recent tensions between Muslims and Tamils in Mulliyawalai

28 April 2013, 8:42 pm

By

WOMEN’S ACTION NETWORK

Muslims and Tamils have returned to the North having experienced immense loss and struggles over the last 30 years. Post-2009 Muslims and Tamils have begun returning to Mullaiteevu and resettlement has been taking place slowly. However the numbers that are attempting to and have returned is much higher than the number displaced 30 years ago.

The ‘Miraculous’ Recovery of Duminda Silva in Mahinda Rajapaksa’s ‘Wonder of Asia’

28 April 2013, 2:02 am on http://www.dbsjeyaraj.com

by Tisaranee Gunasekara

pic courtesy: tamilwin

“I think we are blind….. Blind people who can see, but do not see” ~ Jose Saramago (Blindness)

Miracles happen in the ‘Wonder of Asia’.

Last week, the lawyers representing Parliamentarian Duminda Silva – on the basis of multiple diagnoses by eminent physicians – assured a court of law that their client was a grievously sick man. The judge was told that Mr. Silva’s left side was paralysed, his brain function down by 40% and his

Worries Of Budu Bala Sena

By Rifai Naleemi -

Do we really need to response to the provocations and hated campaigns of this tiny group of extremists in Sri Lanka?  Much has been said and written about them in various news papers and TV broadcasting. It has been highlighted in recent media presentation and press release.  Reading through what has been said and written about them I could notice that there are two schools of thought in our response to the provocations and activities of this group. One school of thought argues that BBS should be

#Video: #Burmese Security Filled Mass Graves With #Muslims

April 24, 2013 | Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH

 

Burmese security forces organised and stood guard over Buddhist attacks on Muslim settlements before burying scores of bodies, some with their hands tied behind their backs, in mass graves, Human Rights Watch said in a report.

"Rally for Unity - Hate Has No Place in Sri Lanka”

 April 28th, Colombo.

A movement to show that moderates are strong & united against hate and are
committed to promote understanding about the strengths of diversity & unity.

Given the recent spate of hate speech and the marginalization of minority
communities in general, a voluntary movement of

Mahinda Picking Muslims Individually While Gota Helping BBS

April 18, 2013 |  Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH

 

By Ajith Parakum Jayasinghe –                     

                                        

Ajith Parakum Jayasinghe

President Mahinda Rajapaksa during his tour of Kataragama visited the mosque situated in the Kataragama Sacred City on April 15. Having been welcomed by the Moulavi of the mosque, the President participated in religious observations and received his blessings. Uva Chief Minister Shasheendra Rajapaksa, Indigenous Medicine Minister

Gotabaya Rajapaksa: Are you listening?

16 Apr, 2013 Thrishantha Nanayakkara Colombo, Features, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Religion and faith

Image from Lanka Standard

After nearly 7 years of postgraduate education and independent research experience abroad, I returned to Sri Lanka in mid 2003, to work in my mother country Sri Lanka that gave me free education all the way upto university level. When I left Johns Hopkins University in USA, some of my friends cautioned me of the danger I might face in a possible breakout of the war in Sri Lanka. Still, a strong compulsion kept me firm on the decision to return. When I was interviewed by the University of Moratuwa, where I received undergraduate education, I made it clear to the Vice Chancellor that my intension of joining the University would be to set up a laboratory to develop new technologies to detect landmines. Within a week,

WikiLeaks: US And The LTTE Should Join Together To Defeat The Muslims – Pro-LTTE Tamils

April 10, 2013 | Filed under: Colombo Telegraph,Most Popular,News,STORIES,WikiLeaks | Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH

 

“Note: The U.S. team repeatedly asked interlocutors about continuing reports of Muslim extremism in the east. Most observers had little clear- cut information about the matter and Muslim interlocutors denied it was a factor. Nonetheless, the team did notice many new mosques under construction and various “Islamic foundation” offices operating in Muslim towns. It is hard to see how eastern Muslims could afford to pay for

Video: A Sri Lankan Buddhist Monk Speaks Out – Let Sri Lanka Have Thousands Of Buddha Putras Like Him

April 8, 2013 | Filed under: Colombo Telegraph,Most Popular,News,STORIES | Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH

In this video a Buddhist monk,  Ven  Galkande Dhammananda speaks on Sri Lanka’s war and the Buddhists way of conflict resolution.

“It is indeed heartening to

Video: I Fear Any Time A ‘Black July’ Will Repeat And This Time It’s Against Muslims – Ven. Galkande Dhammananda

April 14, 2013 | Filed under: Colombo Telegraph,News,STORIES | Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH

By Colombo Telegraph -

“I think as a monk that the social/political problems that we are facing in our country has to be solved amicably through duologues which we have repeatedly failed from the independence. Now we are again in a beginning of another round of violence. I fear any time a ‘black July’

Use of Function Keys

இதுல இவ்வளவு இருக்கா...?

நாம் கணினியை பயன்படுத்தும் போதெல்லாம் மேல் வரிசையில் உள்ள Function Key-க்களை பார்த்து இருப்போம். நாம் அடிக்கடி பயன்படுத்தும் ஒன்று F5. மற்ற பதினோரும் கூட மிக அதிகமான பயன்களை தருகின்றனர். அவற்றைப் பற்றி பார்க்கலாம்.

F1
இது பெரும்பாலும் எல்லா ப்ரோக்ராம்களிலும் Help Screen ஐ ஓபன் செய்யப் பயன்படுகிறது. CMOS Setup இலும்

Victory for 9/11 Justice!

Tony Rooke refused to pay a TV
license fee because the BBC
intentionally misrepresented facts
about the 9/11 attacks, he alleged.

It is widely known that the BBC
reported the collapse of World Trade
Center Building 7 over 20 minutes
before it occurred. WTC 7 was a 47-
story skyscraper that was not hit by
a plane on 9/11 but collapsed at
free-fall speed later that day.

So Rooke said the BBC had to have
had prior knowledge to a terror attack
making them complicit in the attack.
He presented the BBC footage to the
judge along with a slew of other evidence,
and the judge agreed that Rooke had a
reasonable case to protest. Rooke was
found not guilty and he was not fined
for failure to pay the licensing fee.

Video (about 8 and a half mins):

Victory for 9/11 Justice!

Here is the broadcast where the BBC
announced the collapse of WTC 7 while
it was still standing behind the reporter:

Video (about 9 mins)

BBC Reports Collapse of WTC Building 7 Over 20 mins Early

Sri Lanka And Indian / American Agendas

April 8, 2013 |  Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH

By Austin Fernando -

Austin Fernando

Having read a post by HE Jaliya Wickramasuriya, our Ambassador in the USA, titled “A Role for Sri Lanka in US Pivot to Asia”, I thought it may be ideal to understand how others compete to be in the US pivot to Asia to do business. I mean “business” only in economic terms and

Thought of the Day

 ”ඔබේ දෙමාපියන්ගෙන් කෙනෙකු හෝ දෙදෙනාම හෝ වයස්ගත වී ඔබෙන් (යැපෙන්නේ වී නම්) ඔවුන් පිළිකුල් සිතෙන අයුරින් ”චී” යනුවෙන් හෝ නොකියනු, තවද ඔවුන් පලවා නොහරිනු, තවද ඔවුන් සමග ගෞරවාන්විතව කථා කරනු. තවද දයාව පුදමින් යටහත් භාවයේ පිහාටු ඔවුන් වෙනුවෙන් පහත් කරනු. හිමියනි! කුඩා වියෙහි මා වෙත කරුණාව දැක්වූවා මෙන් ඒ දෙදෙනාට කරුණාව දක්වනු මැනව යනුවෙන් ප‍්‍රාර්ථනා කරනු” 

(ශුද්ධවූ අල්කුර්ආනය: 17: 23, 24)

A translated article of Ustad Hajjul Akber - Ameer Jamat-e-Islami, Sri Lanka

2013-04-11

සිංහල බෞද්ධ ජනතාවනි!

ඔබලා අපගේ අය්යලා බව කියවුනි; අපි මල්ලිලා බව සිතුවෙමු; ඔබලා අපට බිරියන් ලබාදුන් බව කියවුනි; අපි ඥාති සම්බන්දතා පැතුවෙමු; ‘මෙය සිංහල රටක් බව... ඔබලා කීවත් රට බෙදා වෙන්කරලා අපටත් කොටසක් දෙන්නැයි කියා අප කිසිවිටකත් නොඉල්ලූවෙමු. ඇතැම් ආගමික විශ්වාසයන්, වත් පිළිවෙත් හා අපගේ භාෂාව හැර අන් කිසි දෙයකින් අපව ඔබලාගෙන්

The battle for sacred ground - Kuragala, Sri Lanka

The misty mountain village of Kuragala, just off Balangoda, came alive on Monday when a Sri Lanka Air Force helicopter landed in the area carrying Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa and a full retinue of military, Police and intelligence officers onboard.
Accompanied by dozens of Buddhist monks including Jathika Hela Urumaya Leader Ellawela Medhananda Thero, Moulavis, Chief of National Intelligence Major General (Retd) Kapila Hendawitharana and officials from the Department of Archaeology, the Defence Secretary undertook a site visit of the rock face on top of which sits an Islamic heritage shrine. Kuragala is home to an ancient Sufi shrine, sacred to Muslims because Arabic rock inscriptions, tombstones and other historical evidence point to a greatly revered Islamic saint having meditated in the rock caves for 12 years on a pilgrimage to Adam’s Peak. Once a year, pilgrims flock to the site to commemorate the death anniversary of Saint Sheikh Muhiyadeen Abdul Qadir. At all other times, it is a haven for meditation and solitary reflection that

Religion, Reconciliation & future

Please find below the links of the presentation of the senior Diplomats & Intellectuals  on Religion, Reconciliation & future on 08/04/2013

"Religion, Reconciliation and Future" - Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka.

http://youtu.be/IlIm7_AMHhw

"Religion, Reconciliation and Future" - Mr. M.A. Sumanthiran. MP

http://youtu.be/BkVgopBVouI

"Religion, Reconciliation and Future" - Mr. Javed Yousuf.

http://youtu.be/RrLXzXBiGZQ

"Religion, Reconciliation and Future" - Rev. Duleep De Chickera (Former Bishop)

http://youtu.be/20S-iifCREc

"Religion, Reconciliation and Future" - Mr. Pubudu Jagoda.

http://youtu.be/iezNkeuezD0

Bodu Bala Vs. Mera Bala

April 9, 2013 | Filed under: Colombo Telegraph,Opinion | Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH

By Kasun Adikari -

Kasun Adikari

“We have still not got over the shock of the traumatic events of last July. It was a tragedy that we failed to avert. It was a tragedy that did the country no good. The duty, an inescapable duty, to the country is to see that another disaster of that nature never overtakes our people.” – S. D. Bandaranaike – reported in the Sunday Observer on 30th October 1983

Introduction

“Adirajyavadi Balavegaya”, “Anthavadeen” are the two Sinhala terms often used by the Regime and its new wing Bala Sena to face any challenges locally as

Attacks on Muslims' Religious Places in Sri Lanka

Click Below:
Attacks on Muslims' Religious Places in Sri Lanka

Source:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/134168238/Attacks-on-Muslim-Religious-Places-SL

Hadhiz of the Day

"කෙනෙකු අල්ලාහ්ගේ දූතවරයා වෙත පැමිණ ඉස්ලාම්හි ඉතා උසස් කුමක්දැයි විමසා සිටියේය. එයට දූතවරයාණන් කුස ගින්නෙන් පෙළෙන්නන්ට ඔබ ආහාර ලබාදීම ද, ඔබ දන්නා අයටද නොදන්නා අයටද සලාම් පැවසීම" යනුවෙන් පිළිතුරු දුන්හ. (විස්තරකරන්නේ: අබ්දුල්ලාහ් ඉබ්නු අම්ර් (රලි, මූලාශ‍්‍රය: බුහාරි)

Is Sri Lanka Capable of Conducting Independent Investigation Into Mass Graves Found in Matale,,,,?

8 April 2013, 1:38 am

By

Ranga Jayasuriya

True to Sri Lankan style, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has decided to appoint a ‘presidential commission’ to conduct an inquiry into the Matale mass grave.

The mandate of the proposed commission is to be finalized in two days, Presidential Spokesman Mohan Samaranayake, said, confiding to our correspondent that he too is awaiting further instruction with regard to the latest presidential decision. Indications are that the decision to appoint a commission was made in a hurry, in an apparent move to wade off an international

WikiLeaks: No Concrete Signs “Jihadis” Are Gaining Ground In Sri Lanka – G8 Ambassadors In SL

April 7, 2013 | Filed under: Colombo Telegraph,News,STORIES,WikiLeaks | Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH

The Colombo Telegraph found the related leaked cable from the WikiLeaks database. The cable discusses the ”Ideological radicalization” in Sri Lanka. The cable is classified as “CONFIDENTIAL” and written on April 09, 2006. The cable is signed by the US Ambassador to Colombo Jeffrey J. Lunstead.

The ambassador wrote;

The Husband Who Was Too Shy To Look At His Wife

....So I said to him: “And the likes of her truly deserve that from you.”....

This story was recounted by Prof. Khalid Al-Jubeir, consulting cardiovascular surgeon, in one of his lectures:

Once I operated on a two and a half year old child. It was Tuesday, and on Wednesday the child was in good health. On Thursday at 11:15 am – and I’ll never forget the time because of the shock I experienced – one of the nurses informed me that the heart and breathing of the child had stopped. I hurried to the child and performed cardiac massage for 45 minutes and during that entire time the heart would not work.

Then, ALLAH decreed for the heart to resume function and we thanked HIM. I went to inform the child’s family about his condition. As you know, it is very difficult to inform the patient’s family about his condition when it’s bad. This is one of the most difficult situations a

சிங்கள மக்களுடன் ஒரு சில நிமிடங்கள் - ஹஜ்ஜுல் அக்பர்

உஸ்தாத் ரஷீத் ஹஜ்ஜுல் அக்பர்,

அமீர், இலங்கை ஜமாஅத்தே இஸ்லாமி

April, 2013

சிங்கள பௌத்த மக்களே..!

உங்களனைவரையும் விளித்துப் பேசுவதற்காக முதலில் மன்னிப்புக் கேட்கிறேன். நீங்கள் அனைவரும் முஸ்லிம்களது பார்வையில் விமர்சனத்துக்குரியவர்களல்லர். எனினும், உங்களில் சிறு தொகையினர் கண்ணியமிக்க பிக்குமார்களின் தலைமையில் முஸ்லிம் விரோத செயல்பாட்டை மிக அண்மையில் துவங்கியிருக்கிறார்கள். அவர்கள் பேசுகின்ற பேச்சுக்களைப் பார்த்தால் முஸ்லிம்கள் மீது அவர்களுக்கு உண்மையான வெறுப்பு இருப்பதாகத் தெரியவில்லை. ஏதோவொரு நோக்கத்தை அடைந்து கொள்வதற்காக இல்லாத வெறுப்பையும் குரோதத்தையும் அவர்கள் வலிந்து எடுத்துக் கொண்டுள்ளார்கள் என்றே தெரிகிறது. அந்த வெறுப்பையும் குரோதத்தையும் சிங்கள பௌத்த சமூகத்தின் மீது அவர்கள் வலிந்து திணிக்க முற்படுகிறார்கள். முஸ்லிம்களோடு சகவாசமில்லாத, முஸ்லிம்கள் பற்றிய உண்மைகளை அறியாத பலர் இந்த வெறுப்பையும்

The First Racial Riot in Sri Lanka:

The First Racial Riot:

The very first racial riot in the island was in 1915. It was between the Sinhala Buddhists and the Muslims – 136 Muslims were killed and 205 were injured and raped. Nearly 85 mosques were damaged and more than 4,075 Muslim-owned shops were looted by the Sinhala rioters, from Central province to the Western and North Western provinces.

The riot subdued the fighting spirit of the Muslims, but the attack on Muslims again started in 1974, and tension intensified between the Sinhalese and Muslims in Mylumkulam in Puttalam. Government officials and the Police showed their partiality and supported the Sinhalese.

In January 1976, as

FACE-OFF FOR BBS ON THE 3RD APRIL 2013

FACE-OFF FOR BBS ON THE 3RD APRIL 2013

BRAVO MR  K.T. RAJASINGHAM, REALLY HATS OFF TO YOU FOR THIS PIECE OF GREAT, GREAT JOURNALISM

PERHAPS------THE JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR WORLDWIDE - 

MR K.T. RAJASINGHAM 

PLEASE VISIT

www.asiantribune.com

Dear Mr. Arne Fjortsot,

I am the Chief Editor of Asian Tribune. I wish to seek you clarification regarding the visit to Norway of Ven GalagodaAththe Gnanasara Thero, presently, Secretary General of Bodu Bala Sena - a Buddhist outfit of Sri Lanka.

Dr. Rajitha Senaratne – Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources when speaking to Asian Tribune said that you took Ven Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero to Norway and introduced him to Norwegian Government officials and

Al Quran Verses

මතු දිනය අසත්‍ය කරන්නා ඔබ දුටුවේද? ඔහුයි අනාථයින් පළවා හරින්නේ. තවද දිළින්දන්ට ආහාර ලබා දීමට ද ඔහු නොදිරිගන්වයි". (ශු අල්කුර්ආනය 107:1-3)

Peace lovers !!!

Below links are the presentations made by various religious leaders @ a press conference on 2nd April 2013. Organized by Interfaith Study circle.

Ven. Baddhegama Samitha Thero speaks on the current issue:
http://youtu.be/NPbQpUDmUN0

Dr. Hunupolagama Vajira Sri Nayaka Thero @ Interfaith Study Circle Press Conference
http://youtu.be/m4DHP6fMWlc
Fr. Chrispin Leo - Spiritual Director - St.Peter's college Speaks on the current trend in Sri Lanka,..
http://youtu.be/k1nlYwBaa-A

Mani Sree Nivaya Gurukkal’s statement of current issues
http://youtu.be/9JF4BRzYmk8
Ash Sheik M.F.M Faroodh – express his views on the current hatred issues….
http://youtu.be/GWYvVK3B9wI

Interfaith Study Circle Press Conference - Fr. Sakthivel says…….
http://youtu.be/PjoGgTzfxko

The Muslim in me

• By  Malinda Seneviratne
• Sunday, 31 March 2013 00:00

One of the greatest lessons that Buddhism has taught me is that the idea or concept of ‘self’ is untenable. Paikkūlamanasikāra or “reflections on repulsiveness”, where body parts are contemplated in a variety of ways teaches us not just about impermanence but makes us question ‘I’. It helps diminish ego. Similarly, if one contemplated sensations and thoughts deep enough, immediately one begins to understand that ‘I’ is made of innumerable ‘externalities’. This too makes a composite, name-related ‘self’ a meaningless proposition.

Patriotism, Allegiance And Loyalty Of Sri Lankan Muslims To Mother Lanka

April 2, 2013 | Filed under: Colombo Telegraph,Opinion | Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH

By Rifai Naleemi -

Dr. Rifai Naleemi

It is imperative to examine and gauge the true nature of Muslim peoples’ patriotism to mother Lanka. Particularly, this is a timely needed subject in the context of prevailing current debates about Muslim people in Sri Lanka.  Muslim population in Sri Lanka according to the recent census constitutes 9. 2% and do they really have loyalty and allegiance to this land?  Do they love this land as the majority people of the land do? Or do they have loyalty to another land in the world map?

Taking old friends too seriously: Sri Lanka, Burma and Buddhist extremism

1 Apr, 2013 Meghal Perera Colombo

People collect pieces of metal from the rubble of a neighbourhood in Pauktaw township that was burned in recent violence October 27, 2012. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun (Caption and content from Reuters)

Sri Lanka’s long relationship with Burma is something that anyone who has even a nodding acquaintance with Sri Lankan history is aware of. In both nations, Theravada Buddhism has been a vital political idea that has cemented the legitimacy of monarchs. Both Burma and Sri Lanka saw a Buddhist revival as a response to colonial occupation, a revival which has

Lesson of the Day

අල්ලාහ්ගේ දූතයාණන් (සල්) තුමාණන් කළ ප‍්‍රකාශය තමන් ශ‍්‍රවණය කළ බව අබූහුරෙයිරා (රලි)තුමන් විස්තර කරයි: ”මා අල්ලාහ් මත දිවුරා පවසමි, නියත වශයෙන්ම මා දිනකට හැත්තෑ වාරයටත් අධිකව අල්ලාහ්ගෙන් සමාව අයද සිටිමි” (මූලාශ‍්‍රය:බුහාරි)

Who’s fooling who???...April Fool’s Day

By Abu Muhammad Yusuf

It may be "cool"…but it’s a foolish and unislamic practise of another fool!

Allah, The Most Wise, says:

 "Truly Allah guides not one who transgresses and lies." (Qur’an-40:28)

"Curse of Allah upon those who lie." (Qur’an-3:61)

Origins and History of April Fool Day

There are differing opinions concerning how this day originated:

·          Some said it developed from the celebrations of spring at the equinox on March 21.

·         Some said that this innovation appeared in France in 1564 CE, after the introduction of a new calendar, when a person who had refused to accept the new calendar became the victim of some people who had subjected him to embarrassment and made fun of him, so he became a laughing-stock for others.