Unfortunately, some Christian zealots do pray for devastation of
non-Christian properties.
SUBJECT: Rebuttal to Chan Akya:
“Islam and the absence of Chinese terrorists” By Chan
Akya.Asia Times refused to print this reponse to Akya even though
regular diatribes on Islam are regularly printed in the online
paper
The incomprehensible “gabalty-gook” written by Chan Akya in his
article “Islam and the absence of Chinese terrorists” was totally
devoid of any semblance to reality. His selective use of historical
facts showed dishonesty and blatant Islamphobic bigotry.
FACT: Hinayana Buddhism lost its classical
fight against Brahmanism in Hindu Kush, Taxila, Kushan, Kashmir,
and other areas of the Subcontinent and was banished from India
FACT: To survive in China Hiniyana
transformed itself into Mahayana (Hiniyana light with a more
acceptable light skinned oriental Buddha, instead of a dark-skinned
Indian Siddharta/Buddha).
Sitting on a sanctimonious horse acting “holier than though”,
and passing judgment on another religion shows pure unadulterated
racism. Living in a Buddhist glass house, Ankya should know better
than to throw stones at Islam!.
Neither Hiniyana, nor Mahayana Buddhist is immune to violence or
terrorism. Ankya says that “the history of Buddhism has much to do
with this divergence.”. He may be partially right, Muslim
terrorists originally trained by the CIA (Bin Laden who turned on
the their maker) kill one or two, or dozens or hundreds. For every
Bin Laden there is a Kim Jung II.
Buddhists also kill by the dozens, but there is a qualitative
and quantitative difference in Buddhist atrocities. The Buddhist
terrorists kill millions. Let me remind Akya of some historical
anomalies in his ridiculous article.
1) The Sinhalese-Tamil
(Buddhist-Hindu) civil war in Sri Lanka is of course taken toll of
thousands of lives, and as of last week was on the cover story of
all major news organizations. The Sri Lankan government and the
Tamils are both accused of terror tactics and committing
atrocities.
2) The Cambodian killing fields were red
in blood, not because the Khemers were docile Buddhists.
3) The violent perpetuated in Buddhist
Vietnam between rivals (US as well as Vietnamese) was more violent
than any we have seen in recent times.
4) Where was Mahayana
Buddhism during the Sun Yet Sun and Maoist civil war?
5) Where was Buddhist “ahimsa”
(non-violence) during the Cultural Revolution?
6) Why was Buddhist-Taoist philosophy
unable to “to fill the poor with greater optimism about their lot”
during the Japanese invasion of Korea?
7) Why was Buddhist philosophy in hiding
during the rape of Nanking by Buddhist (Japanese) soldiers?
8) Why was the “enlightenment” absent
during the abduction of 300,000 Korean women by Buddhist (Japanese)
soldiers in Korea?
9) Why doesn’t Mahayana Buddhist-Taoist
philosophy stop the genocide of Ughurs?
10) The human rights records of Laos, and Burma are
not written in gold in the history books of tolerance and
enlightenment.
11) ) The Thai massacres of Muslims in Thailand should not be a
reason to criticize all Buddhists!
All Buddhist countries have seen unprecedented violence in the
past 70 years. To pretend otherwise is disingenuous! Ankya knows
well, that neither Islam, nor Hinduism, nor Sikhism, nor Judaism,
nor Buddhist nor Christianity has a monopoly on terror or violence
or genocide.
It is not the religion, but politics, injustice, colonialism,
and occupation that create violence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYdnkUbzgRU
Non-violent Buddhist monks rioting in the streets and
looting banks
THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE IS NOT TO DENIGRATE ANY RELIGION–THE
PURPOSE OF THE ARTICLE IS TO REFUTE THE CHAN AKYA TYPE OF
PROPOGANDA AGAINST ISLAM AND OTHER RELIGIONS