{"id":91561,"date":"2019-07-19T22:43:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T04:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91561"},"modified":"2019-07-19T15:37:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T22:37:16","slug":"how-long-are-the-sinhala-people-going-to-tolerate-this-nonsense-of-the-tyranny-of-minority-politicscontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/07\/19\/how-long-are-the-sinhala-people-going-to-tolerate-this-nonsense-of-the-tyranny-of-minority-politicscontinued\/","title":{"rendered":"How long are the Sinhala people going to tolerate this nonsense of the tyranny of minority politics\u2026continued"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mario Perera, Kadawata<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Forever\nuntil the Sinhalese are no more \u2013 Dilrook<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dilrook\u2019s\ncomment must be printed in RED and posted in every street corner of this\ncountry. Read any and every article in our newspapers and journals. They all\nestablish and confirm the stark reality that ‘we live in a fairytale’. Hope as\nregards the hopeless is not hope. It is delusion. The vast majority of our\nSinhala writers are personifications of Nero playing his lyre and singing while\nRome was burning. The core issue has not filtered into their consciousness.\nEven those who strike the alarm do not advance compatible solutions. Every\nremedy they foresee is from within the existing structure. It does not strike\nthem that the prevailing frame-work is totally sterile and inapt to restore the\nstatus quo which is Sri Lanka \u2013 the land of the Sinhala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes\nthe Sinhalese need a Sinhala Buddhist nation. Both realities, Sinhala and\nBuddhism have undergone a massive erosion, so that calling this nation\nSinhala-Buddhist is being taken by minorities with a pinch of salt. That the\nwhole Island is NOT Sinhala-Buddhist is obvious. The North is exclusively\nTamil. The East is predominantly Tamil and Mussie. What about the rest of the\ncountry? Well, it is fast being flooded by Tamils and Mussies. Wattala,\nDehiwala, Mount Lavinia…name it: they are all gone. The others are fast gong\u2026going.\nHope that someone or something will fix this is day-dreaming at its worst. It\nmust be called for what it is: ramblings of deluded minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\ncannot expect the Buddha to visit this country again. If he does, the Hindus\nwill brand him ‘Vishnu’: that is what it is in India. The mussies will declare\nhim to be a prophet of Allah: that is how they consider Jesus. They will change\nthe nature of Buddha and Buddhahood making him unrecognizable to even die-hard\nBuddhists. Indeed: how long are the Sinhala people going to tolerate this\nnonsense of the tyranny of minority politics? The answer cannot be evaded. The\ntruth is before all eyes to see. It is: Forever until the Sinhalese are no more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If\none reads the Mahavamsa, it becomes obvious that Sri Lanka is a country under\nsiege. The veritable symbol of this reality is the image of Duttu Gemunu lying\ncurled up in his bed. How can I stretch myself when the enemy is all around?\nNothing of that has changed today. It is even more fearful. They have\npenetrated into the Sinhala heartland from all directions. \u2018\u2018This is the\nreality. House by house, road by road, school by school, shrine by shrine,\nvillage by village, later district by district go to Tamils and Muslims but the\nconverse is not true.\u2019\u2019 (Dilrook). What is even more tragic is that \u2018\u2018No one is\ninterested in this and no one can fix this.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed\nno one can fix it. Do not count on the Diyawanna Oya rulers of both ruling\nparty and opposition. They all had their way and their say at some time, and\n.they all flopped. They will play the same old game until their chairs are\npulled away from underneath their filthy backsides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If\nhistory is a factor to go by there is something that should strike our minds.\nWe know how SWRD died. He came into power with the same hands that took that\npower away from him. They gave their ballot for him, and fired their bullet\ninto him. No doubt there was much intrigue and machination about which\nspeculation will always be rife. Yet there is no mistake in the assertion that\nSWRD was bending backwards to accommodate the Tamils. Tragically yet\nsymbolically the men who paid the ultimate price were ones in the yellow robe.\nThey put him on the throne: they brought him down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\nall know the legend of the dying young rebel monk who entered the womb of\nVihara maha Devi and emerged as Duttu Gemunu. The monks led the Sinhala\nregiments even incrusting Buddhist relics into their spear heads. And when the\nwar was over, many of them, including famous Dasa Maha Yodayas donned the\nyellow robe. We saw how a monk assuming a fast unto death made the powers that\nare to tremble. We saw the immense gathering of monks in Kandy and heard their\nrumblings. What we are seeing could well be the tip of an iceberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nTheravada doctrine established by the Sinhala Sangha is not just another form\nof Buddhism. It is a radical version of the Buddhism known in India. It was\nconceived and elaborated specifically to meet the unique challenges faced by\nour island nation, Lanka. It was the threat of Indian invasions and the\nabsorption of Buddhism into Hinduism. Theravada was like cannons placed on\nbastions and turrets pointing at the sea to safeguard that treasure. Did not\nDuttu Gemunu says that he agonized at being circumscribed by the ocean?  Theravada not only safeguarded Lanka, it also\nsafeguarded the Buddha who left India and stepped into Lanka consecrating the\nland with his hallowed footstep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\nam I advocating? Is it violence? Is it killing? It is time to call a spade a spade.\nThe blessed one never laid down commandments. Thou shall not kill is not a\ncommandments ascribable to the Buddha, certainly not the Buddha of Theravada\nBuddhism. The Blessed One insisted on right thought and right action. It is for\nhis followers to take right decisions and translate them into right actions. If\nthat right action makes the Sinhala to kill and be killed then so be it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nquestion is: how long are the Sinhala people going to tolerate this nonsense of\nthe tyranny of minority politics? The answer predictably is: Forever until the\nSinhalese are no more. But the Sinhalese being no more means Theravada Buddhism\nbecoming extinct. It means sending the Buddha into oblivion. It means the\nBuddha becoming Vishnu and a prophet of Allah in the very land that once was\nthe land of the Sinhala of Theravada Buddhism, of the chosen sons of the Buddha\nand in his chosen land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\nis happening in Sri Lanka is not a political upheaval. It is a crime against\nthe Buddha. We know the following verse that sprang from the lips of a monk, a\nguardian of the nation. The sword is\npulled from the scabbard, it is not put back unless smeared with blood. Our\nmothers turned their blood to milk to make us grow. Not for ourselves but for\nthe country. My brave, brilliant fighter son leaving home to defend our cause.\nThat act of merit is enough to reach Nirvana<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ntragic situation facing the Sinhala-Buddhist nation cannot be cured any more by\nthe ballot. The presidential election will be just another farce. Is there an\nalternative? YES. Enlightened minds among Sinhala-Buddhist know it. It is NOW\nthe time to have recourse to it. The treacherous rulers must go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mario\nPerera, Kadawata<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mario Perera, Kadawata Forever until the Sinhalese are no more \u2013 Dilrook Dilrook\u2019s comment must be printed in RED and posted in every street corner of this country. Read any and every article in our newspapers and journals. They all establish and confirm the stark reality that ‘we live in a fairytale’. Hope as regards […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mario-perera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91561","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=91561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}