Sri Lankan tourists sent back home

[HeinzG]

My cousin and my uncle both sacrificed thier lives in defence of our country Sri Lanka not for some utopian Sinhala buddhist country of some bunch of yellow robed thugs..Where were these cardboard patriots when the LTTE were blowing bombs in Colombo??Where they on the front line defending thier Sinhala Buddhism?? Bloody wankers!!

You should understand that it was the same yellow robed thugs that went to Mavila aru to protest against LTTE actions, it was the same yellow robed thugs that went to Monkey-bridge to protest the illegal LTTE camps based their. It is the same yellow robed thugs that created the resolute ideology to give fight back to end LTTE. It was the same yellow robed thugs who went to Vavuniya during the notorious Wanni debacle to chant pirith. So Mr.Gibbs get your facts correct.

it has been ages since mahinda ther introduced buddhism. there are many religions in SL since then and we have adherents of different religions. SL is a larger set of races.
to make it clear to u,
SL = buddhism+ Hindu+ Muslim+catholic+ anglican+ jewish (oh yeah we have)+ athiest
SL=/= buddhist got it?

after all moor/bugher/sinhala catholic/ hindu soldiers didnt die and kill for their motherland so that some sorry buddhist can brag on an internet forum of how their country is a buddhist country. they died for a multi cultural and a multi religous country.

Sri Lankan identity is Buddhism. SL shaped itself and Sinhalese developed their culture around Buddhism. So their is no issue in calling Sri Lanka is a Buddhist country.

Their is no difference races in SL (maybe I don't know what Muslims think about themselves). All people in SL share same genes. We are only separated by cultures.

Indeed,

SL = buddhism+ Hindu+ Muslim+catholic+ anglican+ jewish (oh yeah we have)+ athiest

But SL identity in only Buddhist. Understand.

 

[Gibbs]

I want to know something from Indian members. India has different national anthems?

Indian national anthem is in Bengali..Not the majority Language of Hindi..And every single indian sings it proudly irrespective that it's in a minority language..Some thing we can jolly well emulate no??..Also South Africa has 5 lanuguages in it's national anthem irrespective thier majority language..NZ sing in Maori and English thier main languages..So does Switzerland

If the majority Sinhalese people goes on with this inferiority complex especially agsint thier own fellow Sri Lankans i'm afraid nothing will stop your own demise

 

[Skyline]

Indian national anthem is in Bengali..Not the majority Language of Hindi..And every single indian sings it proudly irrespective that it's in a minority language..Some thing we can jolly well emulate no??..Also South Africa has 5 lanuguages in it's national anthem irrespective thier majority language..NZ sing in Maori and English thier main languages..So does Switzerland

If the majority Sinhalese people goes on with this inferiority complex especially agsint thier own fellow Sri Lankans i'm afraid nothing will stop your own demise

I know Indian national anthem is in Bengali, Just wondering India has Tamil national anthem as Saradiel mentioned.

 

[Gibbs]

You should understand that it was the same yellow robed thugs that went to Mavila aru to protest against LTTE actions, it was the same yellow robed thugs that went to Monkey-bridge to protest the illegal LTTE camps based their. It is the same yellow robed thugs that created the resolute ideology to give fight back to end LTTE. It was the same yellow robed thugs who went to Vavuniya during the notorious Wanni debacle to chant pirith. So Mr.Gibbs get your facts correct.



Sri Lankan identity is Buddhism. SL shaped itself and Sinhalese developed their culture around Buddhism. So their is no issue in calling Sri Lanka is a Buddhist country.

Their is no difference races in SL (maybe I don't know what Muslims think about themselves). All people in SL share same genes. We are only separated by cultures.

Indeed,

SL = buddhism+ Hindu+ Muslim+catholic+ anglican+ jewish (oh yeah we have)+ athiest

But SL identity in only Buddhist. Understand.

What a load hog hogwash..SL identity is Sri Lankan and it's unique..It does not belong to any bloody Buddhist,Muslim,Hindu or a Christian..Get real buddy

I was not talking about those brave Sanga that stood up for the unity of the country or faced bullets and machet's of the LTTE defending border villages..But of these cardboard patriots that have sprung up out of no where racists thugs in yellow robes that wants to drag back the country in another civil war along with thier bunch of gullible morons who call themselfs pseudo Sinhala Buddhists..Esposing religious hatred to save a corrupt regime now increasing getting unpopular within the general population

So you better get your facts right..Thousands of Sinhala,Muslim and other Lankan service men did'nt sacrifice thier lives for a bunch of idiotic xenophobes destroy my..Yes my motherland again!!

I know Indian national anthem is in Bengali, Just wondering India has Tamil national anthem as Saradiel mentioned.

Better need to ask an Indian..

 

[HeinzG]

Indian national anthem is in Bengali..Not the majority Language of Hindi..And every single indian sings it proudly irrespective that it's in a minority language..Some thing we can jolly well emulate no??..Also South Africa has 5 lanuguages in it's national anthem irrespective thier majority language..NZ sing in Maori and English thier main languages..So does Switzerland

If the majority Sinhalese people goes on with this inferiority complex especially agsint thier own fellow Sri Lankans i'm afraid nothing will stop your own demise

Indians accepted Bengali as the language of national anthem because it was composed by a renown Bengali poet IMO. Not because they are so secular that they tolerate everything. And furthermore Indians aren't divided on linguistic lines as Sri Lankans. Therefore they can BE A INDIAN as anywhere else in the world. I think some Indian member could shed some light on this issue.

Our national anthem is composed by a Sinhalese poet hence the national anthem is in Sinhalese, just like India. Then why is this fuss?

 

[HeinzG]

What a load hog hogwash..SL identity is Sri Lankan and it's unique..It does not belong to any bloody Buddhist,Muslim,Hindu or a Christian..Get real buddy

What is Sri Lankan identity? Specify? What is Sri Lankan identity? How does it's reflects Sri Lankaness?

cardboard patriots that have sprung up out of no where racists thugs in yellow robes that wants to drag back the country in another civil war along with thier bunch of gullible morons who call themselfs pseudo Sinhala Buddhists..Esposing religious hatred to save a corrupt regime now increasing getting unpopular within the general population

Who are you talking about? BBS? And how are they being racist? Against whom?

So you better get your facts right..Thousands of Sinhala,Muslim and other Lankan service men did'nt sacrifice thier lives for a bunch of idiotic xenophobes destroy my..Yes my motherland again!!

I know lot of service men are from Muslim and other minority ethnicities. But that does not mean that minority ethnicities can take over the identity of Sri Lanka.

 

[Yogi]

Indians accepted Bengali as the language of national anthem because it was composed by a renown Bengali poet IMO. Not because they are so secular that they tolerate everything. And furthermore Indians aren't divided on linguistic lines as Sri Lankans. Therefore they can BE A INDIAN as anywhere else in the world. I think some Indian member could shed some light on this issue.

Our national anthem is composed by a Sinhalese poet hence the national anthem is in Sinhalese, just like India. Then why is this fuss?

If u don't know much about something better not bring in ur personal opinions there.

Do u even know that the original poem written
by Rabindranath Tagore was
translated into Hindi by Abid Ali, a Muslim. The original Hindi version of the song Jana Gana Mana, translated by Ali and based on the poem by Tagore, was a little different. It was "Sukh Chain Ki Barkha Barase, Bharat Bhagya Hai Jaga....".

Yes, the song was written by Rabindranath Tagore n all Indian r proud of him irrespective of there ethnicity but thats not the only basis for selection its bcoz of its content n bcoz it had mass appeal as the text, though Bengali, is highly sanskritised (written in a literary register called Sadhu bhasa). The song has been written almost entirely using nouns that also can function as verbs. Most of the nouns of the song are in use in all major languages in India. Therefore, the original song is quite clearly understandable, and in fact, remains almost unchanged in several widely different Indian languages. Also as quasi-Sanskrit text, it is acceptable in many modern Indic languages, but the pronunciation varies considerably across India.

Hope u got the answer n just a piece of friendly advise don't try to base ur identity on the basis of any Religion as we already have a live example in our neighbourhood, u need not repeat the same mistake to learn the lesson...

 

[Gibbs]

If u don't know much about something better not bring in ur personal opinions there.

Do u even know that the original poem written
by Rabindranath Tagore was
translated into Hindi by Abid Ali, a Muslim. The original Hindi version of the song Jana Gana Mana, translated by Ali and based on the poem by Tagore, was a little different. It was "Sukh Chain Ki Barkha Barase, Bharat Bhagya Hai Jaga....".

Yes, the song was written by Rabindranath Tagore n all Indian r proud of him irrespective of there ethnicity but thats not the only basis for selection its bcoz of its content n bcoz it had mass appeal as the text, though Bengali, is highly sanskritised (written in a literary register called Sadhu bhasa). The song has been written almost entirely using nouns that also can function as verbs. Most of the nouns of the song are in use in all major languages in India. Therefore, the original song is quite clearly understandable, and in fact, remains almost unchanged in several widely different Indian languages. Also as quasi-Sanskrit text, it is acceptable in many modern Indic languages, but the pronunciation varies considerably across India.

Hope u got the answer n just a piece of friendly advise don't try to base ur identity on the basis of any Religion as we already have a live example in our neighbourhood, u need not repeat the same mistake to learn the lesson...

Thanks for the clarification on the Indian national anthem..and yes Ethno religious nationalism is the worst kind of facism out there..History is litterd with socierties decimated by it and still does..One does not need to look far on how non secular countries are suffering from civil wars todate..Embroiled in neverending violence in the name of religion..

Also as quasi-Sanskrit text, it is acceptable in many modern Indic languages, but the pronunciation varies considerably across India.

This maybe true for Indic languages based on sanskrit but what about the Dravidian ones..Is there a a seperate version..This is a timely quiry for us LAnkans because there is a huge debate going on in the island on reintroduction of a multi lingual national anthem..It's good to get inputs from similar multhi ethnic countries

 

[Yogi]

Thanks for the clarification on the Indian national anthem..and yes Ethno religious nationalism is the worst kind of facism out there..History is litterd with socierties decimated by it and still does..One does not need to look far on how non secular countries are suffering from civil wars todate..Embroiled in neverending violence in the name of religion..



This maybe true for Indic languages based on sanskrit but what about the Dravidian ones..Is there a a seperate version..This is a timely quiry for us LAnkans because there is a huge debate going on in the island on reintroduction of a multi lingual national anthem..It's good to get inputs from similar multhi ethnic countries

AFAIK No the song remains the same as the motto has always been unity in diversity but what u don't see is that South Indians have better command over Sanskrit over North Indians besides even North Indian can't fully understand the song as there r hundreds of languages in North India itself but overall the general public of India gets the general feel behind the song as it uses various nouns like names of various prominent places n river n mountains as well as names of different states.

However, there were translations in other prominent languages including Tamil, Malayalam n Kannad but i don't know whether they sing it or not but the song remains the same....

 

[HeinzG]

If u don't know much about something better not bring in ur personal opinions there.

OK.

Hope u got the answer n just a piece of friendly advise don't try to base ur identity on the basis of any Religion as we already have a live example in our neighbourhood, u need not repeat the same mistake to learn the lesson...

What about Japan? Mongolia? France? England? Italy? Religion is their identity. It is nothing to afraid of. India chose to be secular so be it. But you cannot preach that secularism is the only true identity of any country.

 

[Gibbs]

OK.





What about Japan? Mongolia? France? England? Italy? Religion is their identity. It is nothing to afraid of. India chose to be secular so be it. But you cannot preach that secularism is the only true identity of any country.

What the hell are you on about??Japan is as secular as you get even though it's a constitutional monarchy,Can you pls tell us the national religion of Japan??..France is the first western democracy to seperate church from governance through it's revolution..France does'nt even recognise religious symbols let alone religion in it's constitution pls learn your history..Mongolia is a mono ethnic society with a mere 2,800,114 population and most of them are animist..it's beyond your comprehention and finally England is a contitutional monarcy not a democracy where the Church of England is recognised with the monarch not vise versa

Word of advice pls reserch on the subjects before you post here macking not only a mockery of your self but rest of us as well..Cos some people well may relate all of us togeather simply because we're Lankans..

 

[Yogi]

OK.





What about Japan? Mongolia? France? England? Italy? Religion is their identity. It is nothing to afraid of. India chose to be secular so be it. But you cannot preach that secularism is the only true identity of any country.

Look brother i not here to preach anything, just sharing my opinion n its absolutely upto u whether u wanna accept it or not.

There is no denying that many countries have religion as there identity but generally such countries don't have sizable minorities or they r grossly the same(like shia-sunni).

But generally citizens of such countries become intolerant towards other religion n ultimately end up harming there own brothers(minorities). I can give u n no. of examples even for developed nation.

My point ur nation is as much urs as much is its their (minorities) ur r all brothers. Infact Buddhism is itself one of the finest example of tolerance n secularism.

Religion is a personal thing it should never be politicized n history is in front of u filled with such examples.

Now its upto u guys n u'll have to decided it mutually n not one sidedly...

 

[HeinzG]

What the hell are you on about??Japan is as secular as you get even though it's a constitutional monarchy,Can you pls tell us the national religion of Japan??..France is the first western democracy to seperate church from governance through it's revolution..France does'nt even recognise religious symbols let alone religion in it's constitution pls learn your history..Mongolia is a mono ethnic society with a mere 2,800,114 population and most of them are animist..it's beyond your comprehention and finally England is a contitutional monarcy not a democracy where the Church of England is recognised with the monarch not vise versa

Word of advice pls reserch on the subjects before you post here macking not only a mockery of your self but rest of us as well..Cos some people well may relate all of us togeather simply because we're Lankans..

Well I'm not looking for what they do with the religions in those countries. But look at their identity. Those are with their religions.

 

[Gibbs]

^^^^

Thankfully the vast majority of the Sinhala Buddhists in the country abhore such extremist fringe hate mongering groups..Including the great prelates of the three Bhuddist chapters..Who are the true guadians of Theravada Buddhism.

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Sinhala Buddhists are one of the most tolerant secular people in the world..They have fostered and prospered along side many other cultures and religions for thousands of years in this island..Couple of hundreds of misled xenophobic morons working under the auspices of certain sections of the regime cant change that

 

[Gibbs]

Well I'm not looking for what they do with the religions in those countries. But look at their identity. Those are with their religions.

Mate..I dont know where you get your information from or who is brain washing you but you need to actually get out there and experience the world..diffent cultures and countries..Every country you've mentioned above bar Mongolia which is inconsequencial anyway are some of the most secular nations out there..There is very little religious aspects to thier citizenry in thier day to day lives unlike third world societies..There is little or no discrimination based on religion,race or sexual preferrence which are main pillars of religious bigotry..Atleast they have very strong laws against intolerence