Nothing and everything. ISIS sprang from
no where as an answer to frustration of Sunnis in Iraq and also in Syria of
their respective governments, and how they discriminated against sects or
people not of the main political party of the Govt.
The BBS is trying to achieve the same
end as that of majoritarian regimes, where minorities are only tolerated, but
are effectively shut out of economic life. Usually it is these same minorities
who are the back bone of the economy and are therefore able to wield considerable
power and are able to draw on resources to strangle the country.
The BBS whilst berating the place of
Buddhism and its position in society have failed to address the root cause of
the Buddhist flight from their belief as it has NOT provided the answers to
everyday problems of society.
In a supposed Dharmishta society that
the Govt. is trying to create, they are anything but Dharmishta! So there is NO
hope for a Buddhist revival in Sri Lanka without a wholesale evisceration of political
power form the current incumbents who are directly to blame for the status quo
they are in.
As it runs completely contradictory to
the tenets of original teaching of Buddhism, the Sri Lankan interpretation of
that is heading for a showdown of realism that cannot be protected by BBS admonitions
and threats to the Buddhist hierarchy at one end and the lay adherent at the
other.
It its zeal to create a mythical
Buddhist state adhering to rules that have nothing to do with Buddhism but have
everything to do with denying all other beliefs their rightful place in the
Country and society, they will create a state of anarchy. It will only be
protected by a powerful security force for a time, before it hits the forces
that they are defending the indefensible, and patently corrupt and unsustainable
rule.
Something will have to give, when
society rots, and the inability of the forces to actually rule a country as they
are NOT trained for it, will inevitably mean that they will permit a state of
anarchy ala ISIS to happen in Sri Lanka.
I am here to warn against such an
outcome, using the context of lessons learned from currently raging conflicts
elsewhere. We must then have only one option available to us to prevent chaos, and
that is to throw the BBS out with its patron the Govt. as soon as is practical
and show the people of the Country that an alternative works.
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