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Another Anti-Buddhist Hate Crime in Sri Lanka

Jan 1, 2019 8:00 am By Shwe Kalaung

In the early hours on the 26th of December, at least two revered statues of Buddha were vandalized in the Delgahagoda village near Mawanella, Sri Lanka, by two Muslim youths. One youth was captured by residents of the house next to the Buddha statue after they heard the sound of breaking glass.

After the incident, the local mosque issued a press statement condemning the hate crime and expressed their apology to the Sinhalese community. The suspects were arrested on the same day by Sri Lankan police.

But responding to the media, Muslim government ministers and Parliamentarians were too quick to pay the damages caused to the statues, and in return they asked to settle the dispute, without a response from the Sinhalese to give more information about the circumstances of the hate crime to ease tensions between the communities, leaving many unanswered questions. So far there is no public backlash to the recent anti-Buddhist hate crime.

The current hate crime comes after the massive public outrage in March 2018 which led to conflict, when a Sinhalese Buddhist truck driver was brutally attacked by at least four Muslim youths; the victim succumbed to the injuries he sustained during the assault. The public outrage over this senseless murder led to large-scale riots among the Sinhalese ethnic community, which states that it is continually targeted for violence by Islamic jihadists.

The photos show a typical pattern for the destruction of Buddha statues across Asia, where the face and head are usually the primary targets for destruction, often starting with the nose, ears and sometimes the fingers of the statues. Also, these hate crimes commonly involve desecration of holy sites, such as smearing excrement or placing soiled undergarments on statues and the surrounding sacred areas. Village mobs of Islamic jihadists have been known to burn down entire Temples, and Buddhist monks are often the victims of frequent harassment and gruesome murders.

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Filed Under: Buddhists, Featured, Islamic bigotry and intolerance, Islamic supremacism, Sri Lanka Tagged With: Delgahagoda, Mawanella


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  1. christianblood says

    Jan 1, 2019 at 8:22 am

    This is how it started in Myanmar a decade ago. Rohingya muslims in Rakhine state in Myanmar started harassing Buddhists, raping and love-jihading Buddhist women and damaging Buddhist Temples, property etc! And when the Buddhists resisted this jihad and started fighting back the pro-Islamic, pro-jihadist Western world and its deeply biased media started demonizing the Myanmar nation and its leaders, including its Buddhist religious leaders! Now, if this escalates and the Sri Lankan Buddhists start defending themselves and their Temples just watch how pro-Islamic, pro-jihadist West and its biased media demonizes the Sri Lankan Buddhists demanding to impose sanctions and other punitive measures on them.

    • Prabh108 says

      Jan 1, 2019 at 10:29 am

      Thanks for providing some much needed perspective.

      China is a threat to ideals of India.

      Prabh

    • Kephas says

      Jan 1, 2019 at 6:44 pm

      I’m not for beating up on anyone, but Buddhist SInhala in Sri Lanka have historically been rather nasty to their Hindu Tamil minority. In Myanmar, the Buddhist Bamar have also been rough on Christian Mizo, Karen, and Kachin.

      I get it that Islam is a threat. As a Christian, the kinship I see between Islam and Christianity is a little like the kinship I see between Marxism and Christianity (Marxism’s cosmic optimism that mimics Augustine’s view of historical progress, but stripped of any Christian theism); and I really don’t like Marxism at all. But we live in a nasty world.

      • christianblood says

        Jan 2, 2019 at 8:40 am

        Kephas

        Islam and Islamists are real danger to all others like the Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Atheists, Sikhs, Communists, Animists and to all humanity!

    • LB says

      Jan 2, 2019 at 8:55 am

      The exact same thing happened in Kosovo when Albanian muslims first started crossing the Yugoslavian border after WWII. After decades of raiding, pillaging, kidnapping, maiming, murdering, banishing, over-breeding, drugs organ and human trafficking, desecrating of ancient Orthodox churches and cemeteries, the Serbs finally snapped in late 90s. And who was to blame for the conflict? According to the trustworthy MSM: the genocidal Serbs who are ethnically cleansing the poor oppressed muslims, of course. And bam! 20 tonnes of depleted uranium gets dropped on their ass.

      It’s the same M.O. all over the world: Israel-Palestine, Pakistan-India, Rakhine-Myanmar, etc. Everywhere where muslims border non-muslims, the same thing happens. All for the purpose of a global caliphate. And the petrol-dollar fueled corrupt Western politicians and media are all too quick to help them out.

  2. John Thomas says

    Jan 1, 2019 at 8:49 am

    Remind me. Which one is the “Religion of Peace”?

  3. mortimer says

    Jan 1, 2019 at 10:09 am

    Religion of peace and tolerance … only if you are a Pollyanna.

  4. jewdog says

    Jan 1, 2019 at 10:39 am

    If or when the Buddhists finally retaliate is when the western media will accuse them of Islamophobia and racism.

  5. Freda says

    Jan 1, 2019 at 1:06 pm

    The birth rate of the Muslims in Sri Lanka far outpaces that of all other religions like everywhere else. There could be more problems here in the future. My neighbour’s cows were stolen by Muslims for slaughter at the last eid.

  6. Arthur says

    Jan 1, 2019 at 4:08 pm

    Next place infested by religion of peace and tollerance

  7. Barbara RENTON says

    Jan 21, 2019 at 8:02 pm

    It is truly sad when a Buddhist country like the Philipines or Thailand cannot be left in peace. They must boot out ALL pislamics like China has (altho China hates everybody)

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