{"id":103961,"date":"2020-06-26T22:36:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T04:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103961"},"modified":"2020-06-27T09:00:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:00:33","slug":"obscene-attack-by-muslim-professor-on-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/26\/obscene-attack-by-muslim-professor-on-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Obscene attack by Muslim professor on President"},"content":{"rendered":"

H. L. D. Mahindapala<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Imagine for a moment Gunadasa Ameresekera,\nlast of our novelist in the great tradition, writing a tirade against the\nMuslims, giving it the title F*** you, Mr. Rauf Hakeem\u201d. Imagine if it is\npublished in a leading Sinhala newspaper. Can you imagine the reaction? The\nentire phalanx of the NGO moralists would come out screaming like bats out of\nhell to condemn it. In one voice they will argue that this is not the language\nfor reconciliation, peace or to maintain common decency. Prof. Savitri\nGunasekera, Prof. Arjuna Aluvihare, her side-kick, Dayan Jayatilleka, Paki\nSaravanamuttu, Jehan (Pacha) Perera and their fellow-travellers will denounce\nit from roof \u200b-tops. Even\nNGOs, Ingos, Yasmin Sooka, ICJ et al will front up before international media\nto brand it as virulent Sinhala nationalism, a century-old phenomenon one\ncould trace back, to name just one person, to Don David Hewawitharane, also\nknown as Anagarika Dharmapala\u201d, or weep saying the Muslim is today\u2019s object of\nSinhala nationalist war of terror.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The quote above was written by Prof. Quadri\nIsmail, who teaches English at the Minnesota University, USA. He didn\u2019t stop\nhis accusations against Sinhala-Buddhists at that.  He went all out to\nhurl abuse at President Gotabaya Rajapakse. He told him: F*** you, Mr.\nPresident!\u201d  He labelled Sinhala-Buddhists as a***holes\u201d.\nSinhala-Buddhist had said many things about the minorities but I can\u2019t recall\nanyone of them spitting foul obscenities on any Tamil or Muslim leader. Nor can\nI remember Tamils or Muslims being called a***holes\u201d by any Sinhalese. The\nminorities may have been called pariahs\u201d at worst by the Sinhalese. But that,\nof course, is a Tamil word used by Tamils to describe their own outcastes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Professori\u2019s article was carried in the\non-line publication, GROUNDVIEW\u2014 the micro-mini organ of Pakiasothy\nSaravanamuttu. At all times he parades as the high priest of public morality.\nHe also claims to provide decent alternatives to indecent politics. His Centre\nfor Policy Alternative has been pontificating on the need for\ndecent discourse on public affairs. But when it comes to\nSinhala-Buddhists and the Rajapakses he delights in \u200babusing them with \u200bno-holds-barred\nobscenities. Obviously, the Professori and Paki\u201d seem to be birds of a\nfeather who suck together! What is \u200bequally obnoxious \u200bi\u200bs that \u200b\u200bthe Professori has\nnothing new to say in demonising the Sinhala-Buddhists and, in particular, the\nPresident. In his piece he has been vomiting the same old anti-Sinhala-Buddhist\nvenom expectorated earlier by his partisan hacks in the NGO circuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from that, he has brought the English\nDepartment of the MU into disrepute by abusing those whom he hates with the\nfour-letter words. It is not the lack of refinement that is worrying. After\nall, the F-word\u201d has many uses. One of them has been to release the frustrations\nand anger of pompous professoris who have failed to find the mot\njuste<\/em><\/strong> to target their bete noirs<\/em><\/strong>. At a higher\nlevel, it gained a celebrity status when D. H. Lawrence used it in Lady\nChatterly\u2019s Lover<\/em><\/strong>. The use of it was challenged in courts and it passed\nthe test with flying colours at the trial. In the Lawretian sense, with shades\nof Freud kicking in, it acquired an earthiness and respectability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lawrence picked the F-word appropriately to\nexpress the rawness of Lady Chatterly\u2019s sensuous relationship with her virile\ngardener \u2013 unlike her paralysed husband — watering her grassy patch. When\nLawrence uses it, it is literature. When our Professori uses it, it\u2019s an\nobscenity because it is packed with hate. Anything packed with hate is an\nobscenity. When our Professori used the cheapest word in the richest language\nof the world to express his anger it means that he has either to (1) go for\nsome training in anger management or (2) go for a refresher course in English\nto express his anger with a more effective and elegant verbal punch in keeping\nwith the declaration of the English Department of MU: enlarging  our\nunderstanding of the human condition and power of creative imagination.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is offensive is the Professori\u2019s\ninexcusable crudity which arises from his inability to express his anger in\nmeasured tones and tempered terminology. That is appalling. It is possible to\ntolerate it if it came as an explosion of anger at the sophomoronic level but\nnot from the professoriate of the English Department of MU. By using that trite\nobscenity, he is obviously trying to emphasize his anger with what he thinks is\nthe most effective weapon in his verbal armoury. In other words, he is trying\nto impress that he is master of the English language who put the U\u201d in KCUF!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His use of the four-letter word is a\nreflection on the standards maintained by the English Department of MU. It\nboasts that by studying or creating literature in English we enlarge our\nunderstanding of the human condition and power of creative imagination.\u201d This\nstatement is inspiring and incontrovertible. But in what way has the MU\nProfessori contributed to its ideals? Leaving aside all other considerations,\nit is only fair to judge him by the ideals outlined by MU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first question that comes to mind is: How\ncan a member of the MU\u2019s professoriate enlarge our understanding of the human\ncondition and power of creative imagination\u201d by spitting the\nanti-Sinhala-Buddhist ideology he had swallowed from the hate-mongers of his\nilk. Among the Sri Lankan literati he is known to have circulated in circles\nthat lived on a diet dished out by anti-Sinhala-Buddhist NGOs \u2013 a diet that\nconsisted mainly of the grass that came out of the other end of bull. So, it is\nnot surprising that there isn\u2019t a single original thought in his bitter attack\nthat can elevate him to the ideals laid out in the laudable declaration of MU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, how can anyone enlarge our\nunderstanding of the human condition\u201d when it is laced with only venomous hate\n\u2013 all of which is encapsulated in F*** you, Mr. President\u201d? He would also know\nthat when he spits at the President he is also spitting at the nation \u2013 in\nparticular, the Sinhala-Buddhist voters who elected him. He should also know\nthat in the overheated inter-ethnic environment of Sri Lanka his vulgarity can\nbe explosive. It is provocative and the Professori has no moral right to act as\na pyromaniac throwing verbal sparks into a field saturated in Wahabist\/Arabic\nfuel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the sake of those who had not read his\nbitter bile let me summarise it. The first thing to note is that the Professori\ntoo has joined the anti-Sinhala-Buddhist queue that is raving and ranting\nagainst the newly elected President, Gotabaya Rajapakse, who won the\nPresidential election on November 19, 2019 exclusively on the Sinhala-Buddhist\nvote. It is a victory that has stunned Professori\u2019s mob, the Muslims, who\nclaimed that they were the makers-and- breakers of governments with their\nminority votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The victory of the Sinhala-Buddhist majority\nhas thrown off balance the two major minorities \u2013 the Tamils and the Muslims.\nThe Muslims who always had a share in one or the other governments in the past\nhave suddenly found themselves without even a toe-hold in the present\nadministration. The loss of political leverage by not being in the government\nis unbearable to them. Their reaction to the majority winning on its own is\npredictable: they are crying that the Sinhala-Buddhist majority is overpowering\nthe minorities. This, however, is only fear-mongering \u2013 a common game played by\nminorities against majorities. But in case it happens who is to be blamed? The\nminorities boastfully joined the anti-Rajapakse side hoping to dictate their\nterms and conditions as king-makers. But when they lost the election they also\nlost the power to manipulate power at the centre. Their next move was to cry\nfoul and complain that majoritarianism is threatening the minority \u2013 an\nallegation which is yet to be proved. Well, as in all politics, those who make\nthe bed can\u2019t refuse to lie on it, can they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On top of losing the political clout they had\nin the past, the Muslims are facing the anger of the nation for breeding\ncovertly the multi-millionaire Muslim terrorists who, for no reason arising\nfrom local conditions, blew up Churches on Easter Sunday (2019) killing 270\nTamils and Sinhala worshippers. Our Professori is now angry that there is a\nbacklash against the Muslims as a result of the brutalities caused by some of\nthe richest terrorists of the world, next, of course, to Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The angry reaction that has stirred the\nnation against Muslims is predictable. The aggressive and provocative actions\nof a minority trying to impose their will on the majority ineluctably causes\nfriction and tensions. The government has kept the lid on it preventing any\nviolent reaction against the innocent Muslim civilians. No mass murders of\nMuslims have taken place despite the angry reaction of the Buddhist monks and\nthe public at large against the Muslims in the wake of Muslim terrorists\nblowing up innocent civilians. However, when the Professori points a finger at\nthe Sinhala-Buddhists he fails to realise that the other four are pointing at\nhim. He paints all those whom he hates (mainly the Sinhala-Buddhists) as\na***holes\u201d. He also declares that they should be effed\u201d from the President\ndownwards.  In the same breath, he proclaims that he considers dissent a\nvirtue\u201d. If so why does he label dissentients whom he hates (mainly the\nSinhala-Buddhists) as a***holes\u201d? He even insists on penetrating forcibly\nhis bete noirs<\/em><\/strong> with circumcised sausages. What is the\nvirtue in that, eh Professori?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is also\nbitter that the Buddhist monks and the majority have reacted angrily at the\nMuslims by staging public protests against the Muslim leaders holding public\noffice \u2013 leaders who are being investigated for maintaining close political\nlinks with the Muslim terrorists. The Presidential Commission of Inquiry\nprobing the Easter Sunday morning bombings was told that Rifkhan Bathiudeen,\nbrother of former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen, had assisted National Thowheed\nJamaath (NTJ) Leader, Zahran Hashim in fleeing to India by sea in 2018. (The\nIsland).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They launched\nthe Arabification of the East with the fanciful notion of creating a Wahabist\ncaliphate for the Muslims. Also, with Saudi money, madrassas mushroomed to\nradicalise young Muslims. Books were distributed to school children instructing\nthem to kill Muslims who change their religion and cut the hands off of those\nwho steal. In November 2018 they killed two Policemen in Vavunathivu,\nBatticoloa. In a provocative act, Muslim radicals vandalised Buddhist statues,\na la Bamian barbarism, in central Mawanella. Muslim leaders are accused of\nraping the virgin forest of Wilpattu to plant Muslims who destroy the\nenvironment. These and other violent acts have roused fears and suspicions\nabout the next move of the Muslims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is the irrational crimes committed by the\nMuslim terrorists that have provoked the wrath of public at large against those\nwearing the hijab, nijab, abaya and bisht, the long white robe worn by men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides, the\nMuslims have generated fears, suspicions and anger against them through their\nown violent actions. It is a global phenomenon. But with his cock-and-bull\ntheories the Professori tries to make out that the anger against the Muslims is\nvicious reaction of only the Sinhala-Buddhists. In support of this accusation\nhe traces the origins of anti-Muslim anger to Anagarika Dharmapala, who revived\nSinhala-Buddhism as an anti-colonial, anti-Western ideology over a century ago.\nPretending to be a political scientist who knows the undercurrents of the\nsocial forces at play he says: The Rajapaksas, of course, don\u2019t bear sole responsibility\nfor virulent Sinhala nationalism, a century-old phenomenon one could trace\nback, to name just one person, to Don David Hewawitharane, also known as\nAnagarika Dharmapala.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is\nhilarious. He is parroting the anti-Sinhala-Buddhist venom that was first\nbruited by G. G. Ponnambalam in the thirties. It was his attack on the Mahavamsa<\/em><\/strong> and\nSinhala-Buddhist history that sparked off the first racial riots in Ceylon, as\nit was known then. And the Professori wants to be taken seriously for\nregurgitating the hatred propagated by an antiquated Tamil politician from the\nJurassic Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do not know whether Minnesota University is\na chunk hived off this earth and fired out to float among the debris\ncirculating in outer space. But if the Professori\u2019s feet are planted firmly on\nour planet he would know that the Muslims should take full responsibility for\nthe fear they have created among citizens of the world wherever they may be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Muslims have brought down the wrath of\nthe public upon themselves with their violent politics. In Sri Lanka they lived\namicably with the rest until they began to aggressively confront the rest with\ntheir new radicalism, rituals, practices, dress code, and violent\nanti-Sinhala-Buddhist politics threatening their traditional place in history.\nEven in Kattankuddy the traditional Muslims resisted the violent aggression of\nWahabist radicalism. In fact, Zaharan had to flee from the East and hide in\nMawanella and Kurunegala. Was the internecine warfare between the traditional\nMuslims and the Zaharan\u2019s also caused by Dharmapala? Is the global antagonism\ntowards Muslims also caused by Dharmapala? The vast majority of the innocent\nMuslims too have become victims of the ideological fanaticism and\nindiscriminate violence of a few suicidal maniacs who are in a hurry to lift\ntheir bisht and go between the legs of virgins \u2013 an issue that needs to be\nexplored by our Professori who is obsessed with Fraud \u2013 oops, Freud!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last thing the nation needs now is\nprovocative obscenities from a trousered mullah in Minnesota. If he is\ngenuinely interested in serving the interests of the Muslims should he provoke\nthe Sinhala-Buddhists with his obscenities? Can he explain how his obscenities\ncan help the security of the Muslims? Isn\u2019t he merely showing off that he is a\ngreat hero by throwing obscenities at the Sinhala-Buddhists knowing that he has\nthe freedom to do so in the Sinhala-Buddhist democracy? Since he displays a\nserious concern about the Sri Lankan journalists, can he show us how brave he\nis by holding Prince of Saudi responsible for the torture and killing of Jamal\nKashoggi? Will he also tell him to Eff-off\u201d for this crime and get it into a\nSaudi publication?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All what he has done so far is to rap the\nknuckles of the Muslim terrorists who killed 279 Tamil and Sinhalese\nworshippers, including 45 children, with a wet tissue. He says that the Muslims\nmust be understood in a global frame \u2013 its targets were Christians and\nwesterners \u2013 represents the antipolitical as such, solicits only antipathy from\nanyone on the left or, indeed, any decent human. In their case, suicide\nconstitutes a passport to paradise. Since Islam prohibits suicide, they conjure\njihad as their visa.\u201d Please note, there is no Eff-off\u201d for the ideologically\nperverted Muslim terrorists. He hurls such abuse only at the Sinhala-Buddhists\nfor resisting Muslim fanaticism and violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As stated earlier there is nothing original\nin Professori\u2019s anti-Sinhala-Buddhist ravings to convince the readers that he\nis a creative product of MU. This is jejune stuff repeated umpteen times by\nevery Tom, Dick and Ismail. Sadly, he has proved to be nothing more than a\nvulgar ventriloquist trained to repeat what his counterparts broadcast in the\nNGOs circles. He is, in short, a disgrace to the Minnesota Department of\nEnglish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last word: Since you are unlikely to bring any kudos to the English Department of the MU why don\u2019t you, QUADRIPED PISMAIL, go forth and multiply, activating your circumcised sausage, if it is not at a dysfunctional state these days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

H. L. D. Mahindapala Imagine for a moment Gunadasa Ameresekera, last of our novelist in the great tradition, writing a tirade against the Muslims, giving it the title F*** you, Mr. Rauf Hakeem\u201d. Imagine if it is published in a leading Sinhala newspaper. Can you imagine the reaction? The entire phalanx of the NGO moralists […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h-l-d-mahindapala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}