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Member of European Parliament envisages converting Tamils to Buddhism
Thursday, 31 July 2008 - 6:13 PM SL Time
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`Frequently now I wonder whether Sri Lanka would have been a much more peaceful and much more homogeneous place if say 40% or so of the Tamil speaking population had been Buddhists and not exclusively Hindu or Christian. Is taking the Buddhist religion to Tamil people such a difficult task?` wonders Niranjan de Silva Deva-Aditya, Member of European Parliament (MEP) from U.K. and Honorary Ambassador-at-Large for Sri Lanka, in a statement after his recent visit to Sri Lanka as Vice-Chairman of the EU delegation. The Sinhala speaking MEP is tagged with a title, `Vishwa Keerthi Sri Lanka Abhimani` (universally famous pride of Sri Lanka), bestowed onto him by the Buddhist clergy of Sri Lanka.
The Conservative MEP, Mr. Niranjan de Silva, who is popularly known by his shortened name Nirj Deva, is also a member of the EU committees on Foreign Affairs, delegation for relations with India, delegation for relations with the countries of ASEAN and committee on development.
The recent EU delegation to Sri Lanka, led by Robert Evans, Labour MEP and Chairman of the European Parliament`s Delegation to South Asia, came down heavily on the Sri Lankan government, in its report last Friday.
According to observers, the aim of the statement on Tuesday by Mr. Nirj Deva, was to clear him from the wrath of Sinhala extremists and media for being a part of the delegation and to reassert his sympathies with the Sinhala agenda. Mr. Nirj Deva has extensive business interests and owns property in Colombo.
The delegation was forced to cancel its main program of visiting Trincomalee due to failure in deliberations between the delegation and the government in facilitating travel to Trincomalee.
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Imperator
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 31 Jul 2008 14:01:53 GMT Report for Abuse
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this is a joke, right?
The source is TamilNut :) |
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31 Jul 2008 15:34:19 GMT Report for Abuse
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The only joke here is Deva, who has now had egg liberally spread all over his donkey mug by the other MEPs and members of the delegation that visited SL, pointing out all the bovine excreta he was screaming out, for just what it was.
Little Sinhala State toadie should wonder if perhaps his buddhist taliban members would be more tolerant of others, instead of behaving like backward tribals, maybe there would be no need for 40% of Tamils to convert to anything. |
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 31 Jul 2008 18:14:10 GMT Report for Abuse
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| At least this Sinhala Deva MEP (EU) who lives in UK and had been an MP too has not learned anything from the liberal attitudes of British towards others of different religion or language. He spilled the beans but Rajapakse brothers do it with subtility. |
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 31 Jul 2008 19:31:49 GMT Report for Abuse
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| I understand that Mr Cameron and co are reacting to this in the UK. |
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 31 Jul 2008 23:58:31 GMT Report for Abuse
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| He is so correct name one Buddhist ever killed a another human or a animal or cut down a tree for his or her self gain. Buddhist are the salt of the earth not like the Christean's they would let a snake byte and kill them than killing the snake. Assassin Ven Somarama is exception. |
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 1 Aug 2008 00:48:40 GMT Report for Abuse
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It is obvious this report is quite biased and is written in a manner to exasperate diaspora. However, it is not surprised to hear such a moronic suggestion from Niranjan De Silva, given his track records, marked with idiocy and moronity.
Peace prevailed on this island in the past without any Tamil Hindu being converted to Buddhism and v.v. Hindus and Buddhists had no major issues about tolerating each other until European invaders messed it up. Before their arrival, we managed to absorb Hindu God Vishnu into our religion as the next person to become a Samma Sambuddha whereas Hindus absorbed our Gauthama Buddha to their religion as an avatar of God Vishnu. Such is the tolerance that prevailed and the whole concept of conversion remained almost alien to both the religions.
However, it appears that Niranjan has been influenced more by those cultures that wage crusades against other religions than by what has been practiced on this island in the past.
-Muchalinda
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Edited By - Mucha-linda - 1 Aug 2008 00:50:50 GMT |
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1 Aug 2008 01:40:12 GMT Report for Abuse
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Ha ha ha ha this is a joke, right?
The source is TamilNut :)
Are you both saying that Deva did not say this? :) |
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