smugness aside, since you asked Vaj, what is next is mass murder in Sri Lanka:
http://tinyurl.com/d6phnp Ethnic cleansing and mass murder in the name of Buddhism and tolerance By: TCHR/CTDH Courtesy: www.tchr.net (10 May 2006) TAMIL CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - TCHR/CTDHCENTRE TAMOUL POUR LES DROITS DE L'HOMME (Established in 1990)(UN accredited NGO to the World Summit on Information Society) Ref : EH074/PR/2006 Is it necessary for any President or even the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka to identify themselves in public or to the media as being a Buddhist? From historical evidence the world knows that only a Buddhist can be President or Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. The Late Minister of Foreign Affairs Lakshman Kathirgamar, a Tamil who dedicated his life to strengthening the Sinhala nation was shocked and disappointed in April 2004, when his candidacy for the Premiership was opposed by the present President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Today in the absence of Lakshman Kathirgamar, to gain political mileage, the Sinhala nation praises him as a National Hero and has created a Kathirgamar Charity. All this is political hypocrisy. On 19 November 2005, Mahinda Rajapaksa was sworn in as Sri Lanka's fifth executive President. Now, after almost five months in office, what has been achieved by Rajapaksa in the name of Peace and Peace negotiations to end the island's twenty years of bloody conflict? It is well known that Mahinda Rajapaksa frequently impresses the international community with the importance of Buddhism and tolerance. " I am a Buddhist. I believe in the importance of tolerance " (President Mahinda Rajapaksa in an interview with 'TIME' 12 February 2006) "President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said no other leader in the world in the recent past would have displayed the degree of patience that he was exercising in the face of the highest level of provocations". (http://www.peaceinsrilanka.org - 25 April 2006). Are the international community and countries practising Buddhism duped by these sweet words of President Rajapaksa? The events which have taken place within the last five months have proved that Rajapaksa "does not practice what he preaches". Being an Executive President, claiming to have a high degree of patience and tolerance, he has been responsible for the killing of more than 300 innocent Tamils. Academics, educationalists, parliamentarians, journalists, businessmen and others have been killed by security forces and the paramilitary forces for which President Rajapaksa is the Commander in Chief? Do Buddhism and tolerance permit these killings? (Detailed list of killings of innocent people, from 19 November 2005 is given below) If Rajapaksa were genuinely committed to patience and tolerance, then this would have to be taken seriously by members of the international community and civil society. The sweet words of a person who is responsible for more than 300 killings and various other serious violations within five months of being in office, cannot be trusted in future. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > > > On Apr 16, 2009, at 5:16 PM, nablusoss1008 wrote: > > > According to recent reports, members of Pulguksa Temple in North > > Kyongsang Province, one of the nation?s oldest temples, were found > > last week to have run an illegal golf practice range within its > > compound for three years. > > I knew it was only a matter of time till the evils of golf hit the > Buddhist world. What's next, bowling and Bingo? >
