{"id":58064,"date":"2016-08-27T20:04:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T02:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=58064"},"modified":"2016-08-27T12:54:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T19:54:56","slug":"buddhists-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/08\/27\/buddhists-beware\/","title":{"rendered":"BUDDHISTS BEWARE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Janaka Perera<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Beware of Non-Buddhists claiming to protect Buddhism.<\/p>\n<p>Beware of Non-Buddhists seeking to identify and define the enemies of Buddhists and Buddhism<\/p>\n<p>Beware of Non-Buddhists attempting to create rifts between Buddhists and Hindus and Buddhists and followers of other religions<\/p>\n<p>Beware of Non-Buddhists trying to exploit\/create disputes between Sri Lanka and neighbouring countries such as India, through by manipulating history.<\/p>\n<p>Beware of non-Buddhist humbugs trying to \u2018protect\u2019 and prevent elephants from participating in annual Buddhist festivals like the Kandy Perahera &#8211; <strong>while maintaining a deafening silence<\/strong> on elephants being compelled to perform circus acts almost daily in zoos, brutal cattle slaughter, throwing live crabs into boiling water e.g. Ministry of Crabs, horse racing (where \u00a0horses are forced to run throughout their lives with no retirement plan for them), animal sacrifice, Holocaust of animals during Christmas and other non-Buddhist festivals, maintaining zoos to imprison animals for life for no fault of theirs and other abuses of animals.\u201d (Has these \u2018animal lovers\u2019 taken the Christian Churches to task for not supporting the Animal Welfare Bill?)<\/p>\n<p>Beware of Non-Buddhists attempting to re-construct history to place their religions alongside or ahead of Buddhism in a fictitious attempt e.g. Basilica at Ragama, to claim a slice of the glory as creators of the unique Buddhist civilization of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Beware of non-Buddhists trying to make a mountain out of a molehill with a view to attracting foreign intervention in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<p>Beware of Non-Buddhists campaigning for R2P<\/p>\n<p>Beware of Non-Buddhists claiming the right to speak on behalf of Buddhists<\/p>\n<p>Beware of Non-Buddhists trying to define the identity of the country and the status of Sinhala Buddhists in Sri Lanka. 500 years of ruthless oppression under three Christian Colonial powers (1505 &#8211; 1948). This should make us suspicious of Trojan Horses and the &#8216;Greeks bearing gifts&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janaka Perera Beware of Non-Buddhists claiming to protect Buddhism. Beware of Non-Buddhists seeking to identify and define the enemies of Buddhists and Buddhism Beware of Non-Buddhists attempting to create rifts between Buddhists and Hindus and Buddhists and followers of other religions Beware of Non-Buddhists trying to exploit\/create disputes between Sri Lanka and neighbouring countries such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-janaka-perera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58064","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=58064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}