{"id":127110,"date":"2022-07-19T04:14:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T11:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=127110"},"modified":"2022-07-19T04:14:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T11:14:47","slug":"us-fingerprints-found-behind-sri-lanka-unrest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/07\/19\/us-fingerprints-found-behind-sri-lanka-unrest-2\/","title":{"rendered":"US fingerprints found behind Sri Lanka unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senaka Weeraratna<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

This particular discussion was commenced by objecting to the use of inappropriate and humiliating language ‘ Buddhist Terrorism’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was in that context that Kalinga Seneviratne’s article becomes relevant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.indepthnews.net\/index.php\/the-world\/asia-pacific\/2588-why-a-white-christian-isn-t-called-a-terrorist<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 ‘ Why are Christians not called Terrorists by the International Media while all others belonging to non – Christian religions are called Terrorists?’ <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cherry-picking targets for demonizing and group defamation carries potential criminal liability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kalinga’s question has still not been answered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No country has 100% of its population belonging to one religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Look at Malaysia. It has more or less 50:50 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, Malaysia has no hesitation in calling itself a Muslim country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Malaysian Constitution non – Muslims are free to practice their religion provided <\/p>\n\n\n\n

that is done in harmony with Islam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is worth considering inserting a similar provision into the Constitution of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buddhist Civilizational Values deserve pre-eminence in the Constitution of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Sri Lanka is to be defined as a country of nations according to religion, then <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sinhala Buddhists have a claim to be defined as the First Nation of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All other religious communities came into the picture long after the Sinhalese had created the unique Buddhist civilization<\/p>\n\n\n\n

at Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Dambadeniya, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All western european countries are multi-ethnic and multi-religious. But they have no hesitation in calling themselves, Christian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All European Constitutions have a Christian flavour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secularism in the West came into being with a view to separating the State from the Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Western country recognizes non – Christian religions as equal to Christianity in their Constitutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri Lanka gives public holidays to all four religions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name one European country that has declared a public holiday for non – Christian festivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what is called western hypocrisy and double standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any country that has more than 50% of its people belonging to a particular religion<\/p>\n\n\n\n

has the right going by current practice to describe that country as either a Christian, Hindu, Muslim <\/p>\n\n\n\n

or Buddhist Country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 50% of Sri Lanka’s population are Sinhala Buddhists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you use religion to define a country, Sri Lanka is a Buddhist country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senaka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senaka Weeraratna This particular discussion was commenced by objecting to the use of inappropriate and humiliating language ‘ Buddhist Terrorism’. It was in that context that Kalinga Seneviratne’s article becomes relevant https:\/\/www.indepthnews.net\/index.php\/the-world\/asia-pacific\/2588-why-a-white-christian-isn-t-called-a-terrorist  ‘ Why are Christians not called Terrorists by the International Media while all others belonging to non – Christian religions are called Terrorists?’  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senaka-weeraratna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127110","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=127110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}