MUSLIM CRIME AND VIOLENCE
Dr. Daya Hewapathirane
ISLAM AND VIOLENCE
Buddhists
cannot consider Islam as a religion of compassion and peace. Those professing
Islam have been the biggest enemies of Buddhists and Buddhism throughout
history. There are ample historic records which describe vividly the atrocities
committed against millions of Buddhists in several countries. Their criminality
has not subsided in spite of their living among other religions in different
countries.
It
is a well known fact that Buddhism disappeared from India under the sword of Islam. Dr.
B.R. Ambedkar, the great Indian Buddhist leader said that there is absolutely no
doubt that the fall of Buddhism in India was due to the invasions of the
Musalmans or the adherents of Islam. For five centuries, from the 13th
to 17th centuries, most parts of India were under Muslim rule. Over
50 million Buddhists and Hindus were massacred by Islamists in greater India (which
in the past included Pakistan, Bangladesh
and Afganistan).
Islam
destroyed Buddhism not only in India but wherever it went. Before the onslaught
of Islam, Buddhism was the religion of almost the whole of Asia - ancient
countries/regions such as Bactria, Parthia, Afghanistan, Gandhar, Chinese
Turkestan, along with Tibet and Inner Mongolia were Buddhist nations that
formed almost the whole of the Asian continent. Buddhism was the dominant
religion of the people of this vast area of the Asian continent. Islam
destroyed and eliminated Buddhism from almost all these countries.
Bactria was the country between
the range of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya (Oxus). Its capital, Bactra (now Balkh),
was located in what is now Afghanistan,
and southern Tajikistan.
Bactria was bounded on the east by
the ancient region of Gandhara. Parthia
Includes a large area to the northeast of modern Iran, and at its height
covered all of Iran proper, as well as the modern countries of Iraq,
Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Eastern Turkey, Eastern Syria, Turkmenistan,
Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Kuwait, the Persian Gulf coast of Saudi
Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. Afganistan- Gandhar or
Gandhara is a clan of people of Uttar Pradesh in India. In the very ancient
times (the Mahabharata period) the present Kandahar province of Afghanistan was
called Gandhar. Chinese Turkistan is a great chunk of modern China
located at the extreme west of the country alongside Tibet and Inner Mongolia.
CRIME AND GRUESOME
DESTRUCTION
The
Muslim or Musalman invaders totally destroyed the Buddhist Universities of
Nalanda, Vikramsila, Jagaddala, Odantipur among others. (For further details
read my paper in Lankaweb - titled “NALANDA:
lIustrious International Buddhist University 5th century CE to 12 century CE “. At the end of 12th century, Muslim invaders
demolished the university, burnt down its priceless library, and mercilessly
massacred its scholars including Buddhist monks).
They razed to the ground Buddhist monasteries
with which the country was studded. The monks fled away in thousands to Nepal, Tibet and other
places outside India.
Muslim invaders killed thousands of Buddhists outright. How the Buddhist monkhood
perished by the sword of the Muslim invaders has been recorded by Muslim
historians themselves.
Seen
in this light the wanton and heartless destruction of the colossal Bamiyan
Buddha statues by the Taliban as recent as in February 2001 does not seem out
of place. Smashing the head of Brahma in Thao Maha Brahma or Phra Phrom Erawan
Shrine in Bangkok was done by Muslim youth. It reflects the atavistic
iconoclastic behaviour of Islam.
BANGLADESHI BUDDHISTS
Buddhists of Bangladesh have been
subject to untold violence by Muslims in recent years. The Chakmas form the
community of Buddhists that inhabit the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. Chakma Buddhist monks were
forced to flee their traditional lands due to Islamic persecution and violence in
the early 1990s. Some obtained Indian citizenships and formed the organization
called Peace Campaign Group and are actively
focusing on working against human rights violations systematically carried out by Muslims in Bangladesh.
(For further details read my paper
titled “Muslim Aggression Against Indigenous Buddhist
Community In Bangladesh” - Lankaweb
March 18, 2011)
THAI BUDDHISTS
Muslims
are a very small minority settler community in Southern Thailand, smaller than
the Muslim settler community of Sri Lanka. Their objective is to have a
separate country for Muslims in Sothern Thailand. Buddhist civilians and monks
have been frequent targets of Muslim attacks in Southern Thailand in recent
years. In late 2005, Muslims again started killing Buddhists in Southern
Thailand. The bloodshed here could mark a resurgence of a long-simmering Muslim
insurgency and, some officials fear, fertile ground for Islamic terrorists.
More than 500 people were killed in 2006, in three southern Thai provinces,
including attacks targeting Buddhists in possible bids to drive out
non-Muslims.
Authorities
are investigating possible links between these Muslim separatist groups and
Islamic terrorist organizations such as Jemaah Islamiyah, which seeks a
pan-Islamic state in Southeast Asia. It is blamed for attacks including the
2002 bombing in Bali that claimed 202 lives. Thitinan Pongsudhirak, an assistant
professor of international relations at Bangkok's
Chulalongkorn University says "We have not yet
seen escalation, "but I still think we may be headed from bad to
worse." "The gruesome fashion of beheadings of Buddhists by Muslim assailants ... is not normal
violence," said Pongsudhirak. "It is driven by deep animosity and
hatred."
(For further details read my paper titled “Muslim Violence Against Buddhists In Thailand
- Dhamsara May 12, 2012 and in People’s Watch Andhra Pradesh, March 22, 2011).
PWAP · PEOPLS WATCH ANDHRA PRADES PWAP · PEOPLE'S WATCH ANDHRA ACTION
NEEDED BY PEACE-LOVING NON-MUSLIMS
Why
do Muslims battle all societies they infiltrate? Why are there no Muslim
democracies? Aren’t these relevant questions for us to pose? The fact is that Muslims are notoriously militarized, more
intransigent, belligerent and thus disproportionately involved in conflicts in
the world.
Action
is required to contain the menace caused by uncaring and ruthless Muslim
settlers living in non-Muslim countries where peaceful cohabitation and
religious freedom has been a hallmark for a long period of time. Buddhists need
to be vigilant and need to organize themselves against the abuse of privileges,
aggression and misdemeanor by the Muslims living in Sri Lanka - our only motherland.
NATIONAL INTEGRATION
A big problem
with Islamists is that they believe that there is one ‘chosen religion’ and one
‘chosen people’. In an Islamic state, no consideration is given to people of
other faiths. Non-Muslims cannot construct a temples, churches and monasteries
in any of the Middle Eastern Islam countries. They cannot hold their religious
functions or prayers in public in these countries.
In countries
such as ours, where they are in a minority, Muslims insist on living an
alienated and un-integrated life by agitating for concessions specified by
their Islamic religion. Muslim minority community in India and Sri Lanka,
misguided by its leaders, thinks and works only for its own narrow interests.
The interest of the country is not its concern because it is not an Islamic
country. They appear to be not interested in joining the national “mainstream”
and work towards national unity and well-being. No Muslim gives any other religion a status of
equality with Islam. Such an assumption is against the tenets of his creed. The
struggle between Muslim communalism and Sinhela nationalism is a fast emerging
serious problem in our country.
What is most
unfortunate is that no meaningful dialog on Islam is possible with most Muslims
in our country. They feel intimidated whenever we pose legitimate questions
pertaining to Islam or the Quoran. We are considered as being anti-Islam when we pose such questions. Most Muslims lack the
courage to respond to even the most abject injustices evident in the religion.
They fail to realize that true open-mindedness consists of contemplating all
premises and weighing the evidence, not of refusing to draw conclusions no
matter how strong the case.
Reasoning
involves deduction and induction. This is the basis of the scientific process:
modeling and inferring from observations, relations and patterns.
Criticizing a
minority ethnic religion may be treated as racism and bigotry, but acquiescence
to Muslim intransigence and double standards, here and abroad, is the polite
norm. Why are there no Muslim democracies? Why do Muslims cause disharmony and battle
all societies they infiltrate?
Dr. Daya
Hewapathirane
Vancouver,
CANADA
December 03,
2012
මෙහි සිංහල පරිවර්තනය ඉදිරියේදී බලාපොරොත්තු වන්න.
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