By Mza.zakky –
Mza.zakky
Buddhism is divided into two main divisions and several sub divisions based on country and culture. Fundamental beliefs include the three jewels, the four noble truths, the eightfold path and the five precepts. The three jewels are the Buddha, the Dharma (the teachings), and the Sangha (the community) and taking refuge in them is the basis of Buddhist practice. The four noble truths are the universality of suffering, the origin of suffering, the overcoming of suffering and the way leading to the suppression of suffering.
The way or path is known as the eightfold path and consists of dṛṣṭi (ditthi): viewing reality as it is, not just as it appears to be, saṃkalpa (sankappa): intention of renunciation, freedom and harmlessness, vāc (vāca): speaking in a truthful and non-hurtful way, karman (kammanta): acting in a non-harmful way, ājīvana (ājīva): a non-harmful livelihood, vyāyāma (vāyāma): making an effort to improve, smṛti (sati): awareness to see things for what they are with clear consciousness, being aware of the present reality within oneself, without any craving or aversion, samādhi (samādhi): correct meditation or concentration.
The five precepts outline Buddhist ethics. Do not kill, be kind to all creatures. Do not steal, give rather than take. Do not lie, be honest and open. Do not misuse sex and do not consume alcohol or use recreational drugs.
Alcohol consumption is inconsistent with a Buddhist’s quest to understand and develop the mind. Buddhists believe that by practicing meditation, wisdom and morality, every individual has the innate ability to experience true happiness.
The Buddha encouraged his followers to refrain from consuming any kind of intoxicant. This included alcohol, cigarettes and drugs. These substances are said to be inconsistent with Buddhist beliefs as they distort the mind. Buddhists regard the mind as precious; they work diligently, through meditation, to master it.
Buddhists follow five precepts, serving as guidelines for correct and moral behavior. One of the precepts clearly states that Buddhists should ‘refrain from taking intoxicants’. Buddhists adhere to these guidelines with differing degrees of success.
Only a small number of followers practice Buddhism seriously, even though an overwhelming number of people in Buddhist countries, such as Sri lanka, identify as Buddhists. Despite the Buddha’s teachings, a number of Srilankan Buddhists adolescents consume alcohol.
A survey conducted in a semi-urban community in southern Sri Lanka (total sample size n = 783) revealed that
5% of females and 52.5% of males aged above 10 years old were current alcohol users. Age-specific prevalence
of alcohol use was highest among those aged between 40 to 50 years for both sexes. By ethnicity, the highest prevalence was found among Tamils (43%), followed by Sinhalese (32%) and Muslims (9%).
WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol 2004
Despite the popularity of Buddhism as a philosophy in the west, few people are willing to follow the Buddha’s advice regarding alcohol. People with a shallow understanding of Buddhism may believe that alcohol is acceptable if used in moderation, justifying this in terms of the Buddha’s preaching of the ‘Middle Way’ philosophy.
The Buddha was against any form of alcohol consumption, even in moderation, because of the effect it has on the mind.
Mindfulness is central to Buddhist philosophy. This concept requires a constant awareness of changes occurring in the mind and body. Mindfulness enables the individual to react wisely to emotions and sensations when they arise. Alcohol distorts the mind and makes it impossible to practice this tenet.
Karma is another Buddhist teaching inconsistent with the use of alcohol. The Buddha taught that each individual must be responsible for one’s own Karma. This involves being responsible for the consequences of one’s actions, speech and thoughts. Alcohol tends to encourage irresponsibility. It is possible to generate much negative karma while under the influence of alcohol.
The Buddha taught that true happiness was to be found in letting go of attachments. Many people are deeply attached to the feelings they experience when drinking alcohol. Through meditation it is possible to let go of this attachment. Buddhist meditation has been successful in treating alcoholism.
Many people use alcohol as a means of avoiding problems that arise in life. Buddhism encourages people to deal with life’s difficulties and challenges. It encourages individuals to view problems as opportunities to learn and grow. By practicing meditation, an individual can develop the courage and determination to deal with life, rather than rely on alcohol to create an artificial sense of contentment. Alcohol consumption is inconsistent with Buddhist beliefs for a number of reasons. Buddhists exert an enormous amount of effort through meditation in order to change the mind. By consuming alcohol the individual is unable to have any control over the mind.
Islam also has same philosophy about alcohol consumption. Islam’s holistic approach to health and well-being means that anything that is harmful or mostly harmful, is forbidden. Therefore, Islam takes an uncompromising stand towards alcohol and forbids its consumption in either small or large quantities. Alcohol is undoubtedly harmful and adversely affects the mind and the body. It clouds the mind, causes disease, wastes money, and destroys individuals, families, and communities. Researchers have proven that there is a strong link between alcohol and gambling. Drinking impairs judgment, lowers inhibition, and encourages the type of risk taking involved in gambling and dangerous activities. God tells us in the Quran that intoxicants and gambling are abominations from Satan and orders us to avoid them. (Quran 5: 90)
Alcohol is considered highly carcinogenic, increasing the risk of mouth, pharynx, larynx, esophagus, liver, and breast cancers. Drinking alcohol during pregnancy can lead to Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, causing the child to be small at birth, have some facial malformations, small eye openings, webbed or even missing fingers or toes, organ deformities, learning disabilities, mental retardation and much more.
Even though it is clear that alcohol is responsible for a great many evils it is legal and even encouraged in most societies. In Muslim countries where alcohol is forbidden many people still find it difficult to resist temptation and fall prey to the disease that is alcoholism. Amazingly even in the light of such startling evidence against alcohol, people around the globe continue to consume alcohol in ever-increasing amounts.
At the time of accident, 89% of drivers and 28.1% of pedestrians were under the influence of alcohol. Alcohol was related to 67.4% of accidents taking place during the night.
According to the Department of Traffic Police, the detections of driving under the influence of alcohol were 8.86% in 1990 but had increased to 20.75% in 1993.
According to the Ministry of Health, the number of cases of those hospitalized due to alcohol psychosis, alcohol dependence and alcohol withdrawal had increased by 4436 cases from 1998 to 1999.
– WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol 2004
Alcohol affects the mind and makes sinful behavior and evil actions fair seeming. It creates enmity and hatred between people, prevents them from remembering God and distracts them from praying, and calls them to participate in unlawful sexual relationships. Alcohol generates shame, regret, and disgrace, and renders the drinker witless. It leads to the disclosure of secrets and exposure of faults.
“Satan wants only to excite enmity and hatred between you with intoxicants (alcoholic drinks) and gambling, and hinder you from the remembrance of God and from the prayer. So, will you not then abstain?” (Quran 5:91)
“O you who believe! Intoxicants (all kinds of alcoholic drinks), gambling, idolatry, and diving arrows are an abomination of Satan’s handiwork. So avoid that so that you may be successful.” (Quran 5: 90)
The Quran is a book of guidance sent to all of humankind. It is a set of instructions from the Creator for His creation. God links alcohol and gambling to idolatry and declares it filthy and evil; however, He is merciful and generous towards the believers and acknowledges the power of addiction. Islam is a community-oriented faith. There is no place for an individual to do what he wants to do, if it hurts others. Alcohol abuse affects not just the alcoholic but also his or her family, and community. There is great wisdom in the prohibition of alcohol.
A survey conducted in a semi-urban community in southern Sri Lanka (total sample size n = 783) revealed that 5% of females and 52.5% of males aged above 10 years old were current alcohol users. Age-specific prevalence of alcohol use was highest among those aged between 40 to 50 years for both sexes. By ethnicity, the highest prevalence was found among Tamils (43%), followed by Sinhalese (32%) and Muslims (9%). WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol 2004
According to this report Tamils and Sinhalese are first opponents of a main concept (precepts) of Buddhism. We can’t kill human by approving alcohol. So as Muslims, we follow Islam as well as many concepts of Buddhism. We never give halal certificate to alcohol. In these things Muslims are real Buddhists. Why don’t refrain alcohol from srilanka? We are ready to make history. We Muslims invite Sinhalese to make our nation as wonder of Asia by giving haram (not acceptable) certificate to alcohol
*Mza.zakky – student of Faculty of medicine, Eastern university
Plain truth / June 3, 2013
Well done Zakky. We hope and pray that people listen to this teaching beyond racial and communal bias: In Sri Lanka people are good only tiny bit of them bias and racists but 95% percentage are good: They do not like to harm any one: this % may learn something from this: people like Lester.Leela, and Jimsofty should read this and learn lessons of true Buddhism
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Amarasiri / June 3, 2013
Dear Mza Zakly,
A very good write up. Of course there are difference between the religions, on how to live this life, how to prepare for afterlife, and what to expect in afterlife.
In a nutshell, Sufism much closer to Buddhism, but basically try to get to to the same end point in this life.
Islam rewards with Heaven, and punishes with Hell. Islanm has a Universal God. Buddhism has no Universal God. It is a Philosophy. Even, Hinduism has a Universal God, and it differs here with Buddhism
Buddhism rewards with, Nirvana, Nibbana, Rebirth, Sansara and punishes with perpetual rebirth, and Apaya.
What is interesting is that Akbar the Great had great conferences and debates, where Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Christian, Jains, Zoroastrian and others were asked to explain their beliefs, and Akbar wanted to come up with a Universal Religion. He declared that every religion had good points, but was incomplete. He formed his own religion Sulh-e-kul, meaning universal peace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar
Religious policy
Portrait of the Mughal Emperor Akbar invocation of a Dua prayer.
Akbar, as well as his mother and other members of his family, are believed to have been Sunni Hanafi Muslims.[102] His early days were spent in the backdrop of an atmosphere in which liberal sentiments were encouraged and religious narrow-mindednness was frowned upon.[103] From the 15th century, a number of rulers in various parts of the country adopted a more liberal policy of religious tolerance, attempting to foster communal harmony between Hindus and Muslims.[104] These sentiments were earlier encouraged by the teachings of popular saints like Guru Nanak, Kabir and Chaitanya,[103] the verses of the Persian poet Hafez which advocated human sympathy and a liberal outlook,[105] as well as the Timurid ethos of religious tolerance in the empire, persisted in the polity right from the times of Timur to Humayun, (the second emperor of the mughal empire), and influenced Akbar’s policy of tolerance in matters of religion.[106] Further, his childhood tutors, who included two Irani Shias, were largely above sectarian prejudices, and made a significant contribution to Akbar’s later inclination towards religious tolerance.[106]
When he was at Fatehpur Sikri, he held discussions as he loved to know about others’ religious beliefs. On one such day he got to know that the religious people of other religions were often bigots ( intolerant of others religious beliefs ). This led him to form the idea of the new religion, Sulh-e-kul meaning universal peace. His idea of this religion did not discriminate other religions and focused on the ideas of peace, unity and tolerance.
In the end, new religion, Sulh-e-kul meaning universal peace, did not take off because it was not Muslim enough for the Muslim Ulemahs and Mullahs, and not Hindu enough for the Hindu Priests. This was pure self interest of the Mullahs and Priests.
So, what is the moral of the story from the Akbar, the Great’s Experiment?
The answer is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind….
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Rod Atkins / June 3, 2013
Amare, I like to read your replies than reading any articles… keep it up, you are suppose to be a good journalist
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Ajith Kumara / June 3, 2013
Good attempt to pass the ball to SL Buddhists again
But Zakky should come out of the box he is in. Nobody knows how old the human use of alcohol is and even our Lord Buddha’s’ time (much before the birth of Islam) it was around. But Lord Buddha never asked the then rulers to ban it and it is not the Lord Buddha who first found and taught that alcohol is bad in every aspect either. Does Zakky know the alcohol and narcotic drug use statistics in those (Muslim) countries it has been already banned but freely available/ smuggled at high price for the needy under hand and used behind closed doors? And How many Muslim countries have banned Alcohol use? Many people in those oil rich countries that don’t have to depend on external trade and services (tourism etc.) are alcohol addicts as they frequently travel to east and west for sex tours and to enjoy other things not available in their land that provide them enough money to do the banned things beyond the borders. We know that majority of the drug traffickers and sellers not only in SL but also in those Muslim countries are non other than Muslims. So it is, as Lord Buddha correctly said, all about self discipline and you or anybody can not free or represent one group as majority of the human kind regardless of their religion and race is bad not only towards the entire outside world (living and environment) but also towards himself.
PS: His interpretation to Noble triple gem should be corrected as ‘The three jewels are the Buddha, the Dhamma (the teachings of Buddha), and the Sangha (the community of monks who had followed and have been following the path of Buddha and Dhamma) and following the path of the three is the basis of Buddhist practice.
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Goraka / June 3, 2013
Ajith, what Zakky was discussing was the similarities about Buddhism and Islam on intoxicants. There are drunkards, murderers, rapists belonging to every religion. It is not the fault of the religion, it is the fault of the people not following. Lets solve the problem of drunkeness, not pointing fingers at others.
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Amarasiri / June 3, 2013
Dear Goraka,
“It is not the fault of the religion, it is the fault of the people not following.”
Well said and articulated. Read the following and enjoy.
By the way, Al-kuhul, or Alcohol is an AlChemi word, introduced by the Islamic Alchemist Scientists. The invented distillation, to concentrate alcohol from fermented wine and other products, the forefathers of Whisky, and Kasippu. Al-kuhul was invented After Islam was introduced,and there was a debate as to whether, Al-kuhul was “wine” or not. The Ulema won out, using analogical reasoning, and it was prohibited.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Knox_(sailor)
Robert Knox, wrote that when he was in Ceylon, the people, Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims did not drink alcohol. There is some truth to alcohol consumption and taxes, the “Sin” tax, a kind of modern day “Indulgence” Tax to be paid to the State in this life.
During the voyage Knox wrote the manuscript of An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon, an account of his experiences on Ceylon, which was published in 1681. The book was accompanied by engravings showing the inhabitants, their customs and agricultural techniques. It attracted widespread interest at the time and made Knox internationally famous, influencing Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe as well as sparking a friendship with Robert Hooke of the Royal Society. It is one of the earliest and most detailed European accounts of life on Ceylon and is today seen as an invaluable record of the island in the 17th century.
Review the US Prohibition below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States
Prohibition in the United States was a national ban on the sale, production, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933.[1] The dry movement was led by rural Protestants in both political parties, and was coordinated by the Anti-Saloon League. The ban was mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and the Volstead Act set down the rules for enforcing the ban and defined the types of alcoholic beverages that were prohibited. Private ownership and consumption of alcohol was not made illegal. Prohibition ended with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, on December 5, 1933.
The introduction of alcohol prohibition and its subsequent enforcement in law was a hotly debated issue. The contemporary prohibitionists presented it as a victory for public morals and health, but once the laws were passed they did little to help enforce them. The consumption of alcohol overall went down by half in the 1920s; and it remained below pre-Prohibition levels until the 1940s.[2]
Anti-prohibitionists (“wets”) criticized the alcohol ban as an intrusion of mainly rural Protestant ideals on a central aspect of urban, immigrant and Catholic everyday life. Effective enforcement of the alcohol ban during the Prohibition Era proved to be very difficult and led to widespread flouting of the law. The lack of a solid popular consensus for the ban resulted in the growth of vast criminal organizations, including the modern American Mafia, and various other criminal cliques. Widespread disregard of the law also generated rampant corruption among politicians and within police forces.
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Kalu Koha / June 4, 2013
You messed up the meaning of Al Kahool and it’s inception . The word means “The stain” which expansively means the permanent stainer of life. The word was simply being used for the ladies’ ‘black eye stains’ which is applied around the brim of the eyelids used during the medieval time and continued to the present. Pointing out that consuming ‘Khamir’ or ‘Khumr’ is harmful to the commons’ health during the initial time of the propagation of Islam does not mean that they are the forefathers of fermented, rather they are warners on the subject of it’s toxicity to the health of the consumers. Al Kahool has nothing to do with Alchemy (Al Khamis) which was a personal noun of a Chemist of a later time.
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Kalu Koha / June 4, 2013
Please read inclusively the word ‘kasippu’ after the word fermented.
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Jaliya Wickramasinghe / June 4, 2013
But he directly pointing at Tamils and Sinhalese for wrong doing (last para) without seeing the 3 fingers pointed at him who talk in behalf of Muslims.
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Janjalaya / June 5, 2013
… and the big thumb towards the fishnet one.
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Fairose / June 4, 2013
In Sri Lanka who are the DRUG traffickers(KUDU MUDALALI? Who are the KASIPPU Mudalali’s? Who are the ROBBERS? Who are the RAPISTS? Who are the CONTRACT KILLERS? Think for yourself and post a reply. Do not look-up and spit without knowing the fact that it will fall on your ‘FACE’.
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Fairose / June 4, 2013
Crimes are committed by people of all faith. Crimes have no relationship with any religion as all the religions have advice to abstain from it. Therefore, blaming a religion or a race for a crime is baseless and unjust. The relationship the crimes have are extreme poverty, greed, lust, hatred, jealousy, desires, grudge, racism, evil intention and etc.
I regretfully noticed, Mr. Ajith Kumara has tactfully associated the Muslim community for the Drug trafficking in Sri lanka while conveniently ignoring that large scale importers who are well known to the ordinary citizen of Sri lanka except for this ignorant ‘Ajith Kumara’.
In Sri Lanka, Muslims are the largest community that obey the Law and Order of the country because they have the lowest crime rates in comparison with the population proportionate. They have the lowest ‘Murderers, Robbers (Although they dwell in the city and urban townships), Gangsters, Contract Killers, Prostitutes, Kudu Kings, drunkards and Rapists are mostly non-Muslims. I am not trying to portrait the non- Muslim in general are bad or evil. Evil people of any religion can only be evil. Good people of any religion can only be good.
Muslims believe in an Almighty God and hereafter. They believe they have only a single-life and after death they will either go to hell or heaven according to the deeds. I believe, this is the main reason for muslims to abstain from sinful deeds. Whereas the non muslims except Christian and Jewish, believe in many lives and reincarnation. They do not believe in Hell or Heaven. Therefore, they fearlessly do things harmful to others without remorse. My Sinhala Buddhist friends get away from the mindset that teaches ‘Killing an insect or cattle is sin but killing a human is honour’.
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Ajith Kumara / June 5, 2013
You total Idiot Fairoose
I never said that Buddhists are better than Muslims as no such statistics are available in public. How do you know that Muslims have the lowest crime rate? Bullshit. I said majority in any society is bad. Lord Buddha took a fistful of sand and said this much proportion compared to total earth only get good births after their death and rest is going to 1 of 4 hells (animal world, nonhuman and invisible pretha and yaksha worlds, Asura world and deep hell). So all your talk about Buddhism and their conducts and crime statistics are nothing but bullshit as Buddhists do believe in hell and heaven. But world knows Pakistan and Afghanistan is the source for narcotic drugs smuggled in to Asian countries.
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Fairose / June 5, 2013
You are a real Idiot, there is no argument over it. Go take the statistic from the Police Head-Quarters, Ethnicwise crime rate.
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Ajith Kumara / June 5, 2013
Baby Fairose
You are the one who should support your own claim with true statistcs with the source
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Fairose / June 5, 2013
The Climate of those countries suits well for the growth of the poppy seeds that were used as herbal medicine in the olden days. When modern world discovered the art of making heroine out the opium, the demand increase and the awareness of the health hazard and the dangers were exposed that made many countries to ban the narcotics and drugs. If Buddhist have ‘Hell and Heaven’, who manages it. I am sure it is not lord buddha. Go tell poppy stories to those believe your dogma and prostrate front of a ‘Stone-Statue’. Wake-up or perish you dummy fool.
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Ajith Kumara / June 5, 2013
Fairose you are a real donkey
Yanne Koheda? Malle pol. (Whrer are you going? Coconuts in the bag)
OK! OK! forget about that. What about the killing each other within Muslim groups, 5000 odd a day in Muslim countries: Syria, Karachchi, Afganistan, Libya, Sudan to name a few?
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Asanka / June 5, 2013
Another face of Islamic extremism. Considering a part of the Islam to show two religions are equal and let non Muslims to worship it.
Comparing Buddhism to Islam like comparing non alcoholic rapist to a very good, intelligent, educated, peaceful person.
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Bangarappa / June 5, 2013
The critic is poorly constructed, argument adjourned!
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Sufi son / June 3, 2013
Everything in Sri Lanka is taxable. There will be a pedestrian tax to come soon. The alcohol bring Revenue to the government. There would be more Licensed shop to come and not shut downs. In this regard Muslims and Buddhist will always differ. At the Colombo airport welcome with the load Buddha’ s blessing and behind that Duty free alcohol shop. What a hypocrisy nation…….
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JimSofty / June 3, 2013
If Zakky wants to do it, we all for it. Start a campaign.
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Ajith Kumara / June 3, 2013
But anti slaughtering campaign should come first
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Rod Atkins / June 3, 2013
Ajith, have you ever heard that Cow, Goat, Chicken is less? its enought even though for a year 140 billion is laugthered. you stop the Arrack then you know the diffrence between the Cow and bull, as you dont know since you are one of them
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kayal / June 3, 2013
Ajit Kumara, stop consuming Alcohol first, then only you will be able to do anti slaughtering campaign in stable mind. Take the good things what Zacky is saying. You always find the wrong side of the story in order to make an irrelevant issue important.
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DODU / June 4, 2013
No no campaign against Genocide of Tamils should come first!
Then we will lead the slaughtering campaign!
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Fathima / June 3, 2013
We have a Buddhist President. But I doubt how much Buddhist he is when it come to alcohol addiction!
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NAK / June 3, 2013
Fatima,
The Buddhist president pratice what the Buddha preached. Never ban anything.Not even slaughter of cattle.
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D Possy / June 5, 2013
Most beneficially, no ban on rape, homosexuality, killing machines etc. which leads his way towards Nirvana.
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JimSofty / June 3, 2013
Mr. Mza Zakky:
Buddhism is not a religion it is way of life. Buddhism is called Buddha Dhamma or Buddha’s doctrine. The word Buddhism and “it is a religion” are all westerners’ translation as those words are the closest what they have in their dictionary.
Anyway, as buddhism is a way of life and any other religion can follow it. We are certainly with you if you want to make Sri Lanka Alcohol and Drug free.
But, we can not agree to the concept that there is almighty which controls every thing.
Further Quran is a book that can be interpreted by the clarics the way they want to do. That is why there are many sects of Islam from peaceful groups to violent groups.
Buddhism varies only with respect to the final enlightenment. It is multifaceted. Buddhism also has the ability to get adapted to the individual culture. that is why there is Tibetan buddhism, Chen Buddhism and Zen Buddhism all of which are called Mahayana. Sri Lankan Buddhism has three sects all of which represent the first teacher – monk of the sect.
Remember when you we are against alcohol consumption, there is no buddhism or Islam there. We all are togetheer in that. Non-consumption of Alcohol should be a way of life.
Remember all the names given were by devotees of the later ages.
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DODU / June 3, 2013
“MUSLIMS NEVER GIVE HALAL CERTIFICATES TO ALCOHOL”. A very good point and it is impossible to get a halal certificate for casinos and Gampling also. Muslims can give up eating beef! Can buddhists completely ban liquor shops, Gambling, prostitution, Casinos…. here?
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DODU / June 3, 2013
Gambling
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DODU / June 4, 2013
Buddhism is not a way of life at all!
Buddha could not find a reasonable solution to a very simple conflict – i.e. eating of meat. Buddha ate meat and his last meat was Pork! He wanted his followers also to eat meat. How could it be possible, without killing an animal? He says do not kill animals but eat meat. You mean to say this is what the way of life Buddha preached! Funny!
Thw most funny one is rebirth! Can a Buddhist show a single person in this world who has re-born to justify this shit philosophy?
Buddha never preached a uniform practice to his followers! The rituals and practices followed by Buddhists are invented by monks after death of Duddha – many Hundered of years later!
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DODU / June 4, 2013
Buddha
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Ajith Kumara / June 6, 2013
You are a coconut donkey not only stupid but blind also
Lord Buddha was a man who attained a state much more superior to god in his last life after spending billions of lives as all the kind of animals, gods and men/Wemen etc. in the 11 known worlds. He never asked to eat meat and the story of his last meal was pork is a hatred story fabricated by non-Buddhists. In many occasions the Lord Buddha had kept silence as idiots like you cannot understand or may misunderstand what he says or it leads to further complexity and/or words cannot explain it where only the self-perception could. You do not have to kill to consume meat or fish and eating or accepting such remains for your survival is not a sin. what you put out of your mouth (or write) may be a much bigger sin than what you take in it.
Lord Buddha has never said anything to believe in rebirth which means reappearance of the same person. What he said is Punar-Bava which says who is going to next lives is not him and not anybody else; that is, he gets a new life and new look immediately after his death in any of the 11 worlds (6 heavens, 4 hells and 1 human world) according to his past commitments. If you do not believe in this you can never find a reasonable answer to why you being so stupid among many wise men among CT posts alone (we, Buddhist suggest that it may be due to your being an alcoholic or associating only with idiots in this life and/or in all or some of your past lives).
By the way can you also prove (can anyone believe) the existence of a single god and his creation of the entire thing (who created him then) and ones birth in the hell or in haven or their existence in there after death according to the Gods sayings as non-Buddhists blindly believe those without questioning themselves.
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තම්බියා / June 13, 2013
Well said MAchang !! Dodu is a trypucal “තම්බියා” who is very stupid like his other MUslim idot friends !!
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PEACELOVER.. / June 16, 2013
.. halo WEDDAA Thambiyaa
…… MODA and extremist BAUDHAYAA LIKE YOU CALLED AS PAYYALAA in SRI LANKA, WIL INSULT ISLAAM ….NO ANY INTELLECTUAL , LOGICAL PROOF TO DEFEAT ISLAAM.
MR. THAMBIA , ( ITS MEAN ” MALLI ” – you know that so baudha sinhalese are AYYALA TO MUSLIMS, BUT bicos of you wedda people called not AYYALA but PAYYA , PAAYALA ( utmost mocking phrase )
And muslims call all respectful , learned budhist sinkale people as AYYALA……. now you will feel the taste.. arent you ??
HEI, PAYYAA , STUDY AND PONDER OVER BUDHISM IN THIS VIDEO…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPPBQEy2SA
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තම්බියා / June 12, 2013
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Muliyawaikkal / June 3, 2013
Increase in alcohol consumption mainly due to tourism.
Very good if Muslims abstain from animal slaughter as stated in Buddhism. If Muslims work towards Nirvana it is even better.
Animal slaughter is a worse sin than alcohol use. It must stop first.
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DODU / June 4, 2013
Muslims are do not believe in Nirvana!
Yes, Yes, Animal slaughter is worse than Alcohole, that is why Buddha ate meat and he did not drink alcohol!
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Muliyawaikkal / June 5, 2013
They don’t have to believe it to go there!
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Hue & Cry / June 5, 2013
If you run naked like Archimedes shouting ‘Eurika’ it will be the act attaining the real word to word meaning Nivana. The word is derived from an archaic word ‘Aryaan’ meaning naked, meaning without clothes and assimilated to Indic vocabulary meaning ‘nothingness’.
So, if you attain Nirvana, you will dwell in a limbo of emptiness, into in nothingness, and like how you lived in this Sansara without a wisdom and heuristics but nourished with an artificial knowledge.
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Lester / June 3, 2013
According to Islam, alcohol is haram, but smoking is okay. In fact, smoking is far worse (from a health perspective) than alcohol. Drinking a moderate amount of red wine everyday is even beneficial to cardiovascular health.
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Arsath / June 3, 2013
Hi Lester, Don’t know where you get your bullshit from; to say smoking is allowed in Islam bullshit it is.. Anything that is harmful to human body including cigarettes is prohibited in all religions including Islam.
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JimSofty / June 3, 2013
I think Muslims, in Sri Lanka, sell Narcotics. but they don’t consume narcotics.
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Rod Atkins / June 3, 2013
Mervin Brings, and Budhist Monks Bring Drugs to Island…. then give to Muslim Jobless fellow to sell, as SL budhist dont give Jobs to Muslims so they sell the Drugs and earn, waht to do? Monks are 1st class dealers in drugs… they import inside teh Yello Smelly Thobe… if you are man enough, check one of the top monks?
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JimSofty / June 4, 2013
Why did not you write the name here.
then everybody knows.
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Siri / June 3, 2013
Just because few would do that means not that a large majority of muslims would do so. This should be common to every community on the other hand, but today, many among the buddhists in the country behave anti-buddhistic- but by the name of protection of buddhism. That should be stopped to save our peaceful buddhism that our grand ones protected for centuries.
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DODU / June 4, 2013
Duminda Silva Imports!
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Marwan / June 3, 2013
Kudos to the writer. May you be amply rewarded in merits through this Da’wah to reign in some sanity to a majority of those misguided Buddhist population (which is truly unfortunate), to understand and reform by realizing their follies.
Don’t fabricate lies Lester. Typical of you. On which, or whose authority you base the statement ‘According to Islam, alcohol is haram, but smoking is okay’. Please learn Islam in its true perspective, not from Islamophobia websites like all your other concocted views and assumptions, which invariably include anything to degrade the noble teaching of Islam. The true fact is that all intoxicants, habitual craving abusive drugs, anything that alters state of mind (even the mildest) are prohibited in Islam, except in isolated cases for purpose of medication, permitted in extremely small quantities. What you present here are Lester’s Law, not God’s Law.
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zakky mza / June 3, 2013
thanks.jazakumullahu hairan,
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Marwan / June 3, 2013
Watabarakallahumma lana walakum. All praise is due to Allah and Allah alone, for what Ni’amath He has gifted me, of which I make use to propagate His Deen.
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Lester / June 3, 2013
Where does Quran say smoking is haram? Anyone who has been around Arab Muslims knows how much they smoke.
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Marwan / June 3, 2013
@Lester,
Islam is a Revelation from Allah with a complete code of life. It tells what is good and what is evil: Allah says in the Holy Quran: And We have shown him (man) the two ways (good and evil). (Quran 90:10)
He allows them all that is good and lawful, and prohibits them as unlawful all that is evil (things, deeds, beliefs, persons, foods, drinks, etc.). (Quran 7:157)
So, is smoking (cigarettes, pipes, etc.) evil or not? Let us examine its effects:
* Smoking is a killer: causes lung-cancer, lung-tuberculosis and heart diseases.
Allah says: And do not kill yourselves. (Quran 4:29)
He also says: And do not throw yourselves into destruction. (Quran 2:195)
These verses are sufficient to make smoking Haram.
* Smoking is a wasting of wealth. Allah says: …But spend not wastefully (your wealth) in the manner of a spendthrift, Verily, spendthrifts are brothers of the devils, and the Devil (Satan) is ever ungrateful to his Lord. (Quran 17:26-27)
* The smoker is unjust to himself as well as his family by burning away his money and his chest!
* The smoker not only causes harm to himself, he/she also inflicts harms upon others around him/her.
The Prophet (p.b.u.h.) said: “There should be neither harming nor reciprocating harm.” (Saheeh Al-Jami 7517)
* The smokers cause the spread of evil; they smoke openly and thus encourage others to do the same.
* The smokers dislike fasting and praying because they become impatient. They want to go for the next “round”. The smoker becomes like an edict.
* The smoker smells bad! His car, home, clothes etc. carry the bad smell too.
From the above, it is clear that smoking is evil and thus it is Haram (unlawful). If you are under any kind of stress, then turn to Allah, read the Holy Quran, and be with non-smokers. Seek Allah’s help and don’t be enslaved to something that burns you and your money.
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Smokey Salamander / June 5, 2013
But, you can show magic with a ‘Hookah Sheesh’ and vent from your rearside, isn’t it?
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NAK / June 3, 2013
Can you explain then why,while there are no liquor shops in Saudi Arabia,any brand of cigatrettes are freely avilable! Also they smoke that cannabis laden pipe thing(I forgot the name for it)in pulibc. Also certain priviledge people have well stocked underground cellars.
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DODU / June 3, 2013
In Islam smoking also bad. It is Makrooh. You better drink any amount of Kasippu. Just because few muslims takes liquor you cannot say alchahol is ok in Islam!
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Le Compiler / June 3, 2013
READ THIS BEFORE YOU FEED THIS TROLL
The Legend of Lester
on Colombo Telegraph
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“Malaysia was divided and Singapore given independence because the Malaysian Parliament voted 126-0 to secede.”
Lol, really, you believe Malaysia seceded from Singapore??? Wouldn’t that be like China seceding from Hong Kong? :D Singapore was never a part of Malaysia, Heshan/Lester. We have been through this on Groundviews where your silly ignorance was exposed and ridiculed. Singapore joined the Malaysian Federation briefly, but was eventually expelled.
Don’t try to make up history the way you habitually do like when you claimed Hitler was victorious in WW2, that the US won the Vietnam War, and that North korea had been expelled from the UN :D
“If Muslims did not wish to be part of Malaysia or India, except as conquerors, what makes you think they will embrace a pluralistic Sri Lankan identity?”
Because they have embraced the SL identity for centuries and show no sign of rejecting it.
David Blacker – May 2, 2013
11:17 am
at https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/pictures-hate-has-no-place-in-sri-lanka-marched-through-colombo/
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How do you know there were lots of them? I don’t see a single lady in abaya in that picture. 17 pictures without a single Muslim participant says a lot.
Maybe you need to stop using your imagination when interpreting, it makes us feel that you still got more than a glimpse of stupidity in you! :)
Lester – April 29, 2013
1:42 am
Reply
Looks like you’re blind as well as retarded, Heshan/Lester. Have a look at pic number 10, moron. Quick, quick, now say that one pic is not enough lol.
David Blacker – April 29, 2013
11:07 am
Reply
Maybe the photographers didn’t realize they’d need to photograph each ethnicity separately to so that Internet trolls didn’t have a leg to stand on?
Either way, there were more than enough people from different walks of life. I’m not sure why you need to be wearing an abaya to be Muslim, but if a picture of a Muslim woman is what is needed, then so be it – https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BI60VVFCEAI-cwr.jpg:large
John – April 29, 2013
11:25 am
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@ John,
That is an interesting picture. It shows how advanced Sinhalese culture is compared to any Islamic society. How does a minority woman rationally protest against injustice by the majority community, when she practices a religion that forces her to dress in medieval garb? In other words, the woman in the abaya is already the victim of oppression.
Lester – April 30, 2013
8:29 pm
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Le compiler’s side note: :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Way to move the goalposts, Heshan. Which woman are you referring to? You claimed there were no Muslims in those pictures.
David Blacker – May 2, 2013
11:31 am
@ Jamal:
If a nun covers her head, it does not affect anyone. A nun lives in a convent with other nuns. But Muslim women try to go for jobs in their scarfs and wears the scarf because her husband is jealous of other guys looking at her.
Lestert – May 2, 2013
11:46 pm
Le compiler’s side note: the comment by ‘Lestert’ is probably not to blamed on Lester however hilarious that is :D Nun lives in the convent? The real Lester must have seen nuns out in europe for sure :D :D
“Lestert”, why does her husband’s jealousy affect you — are you unhappy that your masturbatory files are being restricted by the scarf?
David Blacker – May 3, 2013
10:28 am
at https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/pictures-hate-has-no-place-in-sri-lanka-marched-through-colombo/
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Have some mercy on the “Dr.” He has been kicked out of the glass house. He is a nothing in academia (never was, either). All he has left are a few diplomatic connections and a book that will sell 1 or 2 copies worldwide. Poor chap is reduced to vouching for seasoned mass murderers on random internet blogs.
Lester – April 2, 2013
2:06 pm
Reply
Lester/Heshan/Observer, you mean the way you were kicked off Groundviews after you lost a debate to the doc? Still can’t get over that, eh? :D
David Blacker – April 3, 2013
3:35 am
Reply
at
https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/our-moment-of-destiny/
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So just because there are some pictures on CH4, Lester/Heshan (who btw applauds Hitler for the Holocaust, and for what’s being done to the Muslims today) has decided that I am the perpetrator :D I challenge Heshan/Lester to prove anything that he accuses me of. I won’t hold my breath on that, because this individual has actually claimed that the US won the Vietnam War, that Hitler won WW2, that North Korea isn’t a member of the UN, and that Ranil Wickramasinghe entered parliament by magic. He is deluded. It’s not surprising that he attracts fans like Normally Pukapassa who thinks that opposing racism is a bandwagon or fad :D
David Blacker – April 6, 2013
9:21 pm
Reply
Heshan/Lester, why are you ashamed of what you said on Groundviews? And how is the military part of the BBS attacks on Muslims? GR isn’t in the military. You wishing he was won’t make it so. The Defense Secretary is part of the Civil Service. Lol, this is a great addition to your claim that the British head of state is the PM, and that North Korea isn’t part of the UN, and that Japan hasn’t a military :D
David Blacker – April 9, 2013
12:09 pm
at
https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/our-moment-of-destiny/
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So, most of you guys do not know who their father is!
Is it true that Muhammed was an orphan? That would explain a lot.
Lester – May 30, 2013
11:31 pm
Reply
so you guys think orphans are a lesser beings? that’s why you let Christians take care of your kids and then blame them shamelessly out of your jealousy?
nobody – June 1, 2013
9:44 am
Reply
You can’t even spell “sense” correctly; yet you’re giving others advice on how to obtain it? What are you, a 3 wheeler driver?
Lester – June 1, 2013
1:39 am
Reply
so what are you? someone who thinks all of einsteins theories are experimentally verified? Lets meet in the other article, huh? https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/cattle-slaughter-and-self-immolation/
nobody – June 1, 2013
9:46 am
at https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/working-women-should-be-sexually-molested/
Le compiler’s side note: it’s worthwile mentioning that a comment by nobody reads “Is that your way of expressing anger Lester? What, are a 12 year old kid?” on the same day morning at https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/cattle-slaughter-and-self-immolation/ at nobody – June 1, 2013 8:13 am
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that should have shed some light on Lester’s position towards orphans and threewheeler drivers as well :D
a complete version of the dialog between Lester and Nobody under the article Cattle Slaughter And Self-Immolation By Laksiri Fernando is compiled and is now available at http://pastebin.com/md8Qzymr it will shed some light on Lester’s familiarity with science itself.
NOW YOU MAY SIMPLY IGNORE THIS TROLL
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Goraka / June 3, 2013
If wine is good for your health, drink grape juice. It is far more beneficial.
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JimSofty / June 3, 2013
Lester is advertising for the Wine industry.
Instead, eat coloured fruits. fruits have similar chemicals. Even Tea has similar compounds.
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Lester / June 4, 2013
Lester is advertising for the Wine industry.
If only! Vineyards are quite scenic, I would not mind. As for wine being beneficial to the health, there is a lot of good research on it.
Red wine, in moderation, has long been thought of as heart healthy. The alcohol and certain substances in red wine called antioxidants may help prevent heart disease by increasing levels of “good” cholesterol and protecting against artery damage.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/red-wine/HB00089
Of course, this is not the only way to prevent heart disease. But for many busy people, it is probably easier than running 30 minutes a day, or lifting weights regularly.
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Heartfelt Lester / June 4, 2013
Fresh Tomato is a good anti oxidant.
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nobody / June 4, 2013
ah.. Lester with his science links :D but i wonder why Lester deliberately runs away from conversations that go into depths were he claims all of einstein has been experimentally verified or empirically supported :D
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nobody / June 4, 2013
*where he claims
in a different conversation Lester is reported to have claimed North Korea isn’t a member of UN :D
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Siri / June 3, 2013
According to Buddhistm- panathipatha weramani sikkapadam samadiyami – is what we pray – but how many of among the buddhists are killing animals and stealing today on broad light ? So what is the advice you as a big mouth and defender to give us buddhists that respect our muslim brothers in this regard ?
And what would you say about the MR and GR have been deceiving entire nation saying that they are buddhists, but trying to do the otherway around.. after all deceiving village buddhist masses – predominantly gullible masses incl. you to stay in power ? Latter is beyond killing and stealing.
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Naseef Rifai / June 3, 2013
who said smoking is not haram- you have learned about islam from wrong people. like all other things you got it wrong this as well.
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AYMAN / June 25, 2013
THIS ZAKY IS AN IDIOT OR IMPOSTOR.. HE HAS NO RIGHT TO USE THE “TITLE” SINCE HE IS NOT A REPRESENTATIVE OF MUSLIMS IN ANY SENSE.
POKE ALL YOUR BULLSHIT UP YOUR ARSE.WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR NONSENSE.
YOU APPEAR TO BE WORKING TO SOMEONE;’S AGENDA.
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM AN EASTERNER,
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modeya / June 3, 2013
LESTER- are you from colombo 7
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Ceylonese / June 3, 2013
modeya – Dumps of Mattakuliya
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Jamal / June 4, 2013
Lester CANNOT be from Colombo7. The garbage collectors remove all garbage in time, regularly and without fail. You will hardly see a fly in Co. 7. If you want to locate Lester contact the PEST CONTROL people, they know where there is a preponderance of flies!
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Lester / June 4, 2013
The garbage collectors remove all garbage in time,
Youtube has many videos of Quran being put in *interesting* places.
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Jamal / June 4, 2013
An IDIOT who condones a religious book put in “interesting places” cannot be on the ranks of an intellectual. He can only be in associated with sewer rats because he exudes the foulest of odors!
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Lester / June 5, 2013
Well, if you want to know the interesting place, I will only say that it has a lot of water! :)
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AYMAN / June 25, 2013
YOU BASTARD, PL. REFRAIN FROM EVER REFRAINING TO THE QURAN IN THIS MANNER. YOU NEVER GET A MUSLIM DENIGRATING OTHER HOLY BOOKS.YOU ARE A WORM IN THE CESS PIT OF YOUR SHIT. NW WE KNOW WHERE YOUR HOME IS.
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paul / June 25, 2013
This is what an American says about thought or imaginary crimes like flushing any book down a toilet:
Anyone who wants to draw a cartoon, write a novel, or stage a Broadway play that denigrates Mormonism is free to do it. In the United States, this freedom is ostensibly guaranteed by the First Amendment—but that is not, in fact, what guarantees it. The freedom to poke fun at Mormonism is guaranteed by the fact that Mormons do not dispatch assassins to silence their critics or summon murderous hordes in response to satire.
At this moment in history, there is only one religion that systematically stifles free expression with credible threats of violence. The truth is, we have already lost our First Amendment rights with respect to Islam—and because they brand any observation of this fact a symptom of Islamophobia.
Carrying a sign that reads “Behead Those Who Insult the Prophet” may still count as an example of peaceful protest, but it is also an assurance that infidel blood would be shed if those holding the placard only had their way.
This grotesque promise is, of course, fulfilled in nearly every Muslim society. To make a film like Innocence of Muslims anywhere in the Middle East would be as sure a method of suicide for the maker.
Here is where the line must be drawn and defended without apology: We are free to burn the Qur’an or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it.
Imaginary crimes like blasphemy and apostasy should not be killing offenses.
Enlightened people in the Americas, Europe and other civilized countries can handle it. Others can not.
http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/response-to-controversy2
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Ceylonese / June 5, 2013
Only someone with a [Edited out] origin will find him/her self in
‘interesting’ places.
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nandana / June 3, 2013
FIRSTLY… BUDDHISM IS A PHILOSOPHY … IT HAS NO TEMPLATE … THE TRUTH IS FOUND BY ONESELF… AND ONESELF ONLY…
SECONDLY…BUDDHISM DOES NOT CONVERT LIKE CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM….
PEOPLE ARE WELCOME TO FOLLOW THE PHILOSOPHY OF BUDDHA WITH NO STRINGS ATTACHED…
THIRDLY… UNTIL AND UNLESS CHRISTIANS AND ISLAM STOP CONVERSION DRIVES THE ILL WILL AND DISSENT WILL ALWAYS REMAIN – IT IS SIMPLE LOGIC
SO DONT THINK U R SMART
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Goraka / June 3, 2013
If Buddhism is philosophy, why do Buddhist believe that when you die you are reborn. To reborn is a belief, therefore, Buddhism is a religion.
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JimSofty / June 4, 2013
Rebirth is a christian concept and not a buddhist concept.
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Templar / June 4, 2013
That is to say you maintain Buddhism as a reactionary force to suit your own dimension of thought.
If Buddhism has no template, it means it has no format, no indents, no kerning, no justifying elements etc., just but a unicode set.
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PEACELOVER.. / June 16, 2013
NANDANA.
WATCH THIS VIDEO AND GET KNOWLEDGE ……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPPBQEy2SA
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M.Sivananthan / June 3, 2013
Will the Muslims ask to follow islamic Sharia which tells “kill-Non Muslims”? Who are then non-Muslims or kaffirs to be killed?
Are the muslims ready to stop praying at the direction of Mecca and come to a Kovil or Vihara for prayers?
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Ceylonese / June 3, 2013
Stupidity at it’s height.
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Kamal / June 3, 2013
Completely agree with you Ceylonese. Sivanathan is the meaning of Stupidity !
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Maghribi / June 3, 2013
Kamal – Though stupidity has a right to exist, one wonders their state of mind that reasons false propaganda. The difference between genius and stupidity is; stupidity has no limits.
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Lanka liar / June 4, 2013
This Mokan attacked the Tamils and LTTE to please his masters Got a few dollars. Now he is attacking the Muslims. Will they pay him some cents. I doubt very much because they have sorted him out. Too much of stupidity – I hear he is getting treatment from a vet. Hope he will improve.
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M.Sivananthan / June 3, 2013
Idiot! I am talking about your islam and the quoatations from Quran.
Islam and Buddhism/hinduism have nothing in common.
You idiots cannot explain the “Kaffirs” in Quran to be killed.
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Takateeruva / June 4, 2013
Animal, do understand Christians, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists all are just homo sapiens except you apey homo junkie Visanathan. All the above kinds have the same size of dicks unless varying in proportions and dimensions. Albeit, it is understood that your wholesome proportion could may be assumed to be of the size of the gonzo of the above mentioned homo sapiens with a hoodwinked prepuce.
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Jamal / June 4, 2013
You do not believe in Islam, do you? Hence you are an un-believer! In Arabic you are a KAKIR. Why on earth should you get offended for being called what you are. If I called you a Sakkilli IDIOT then I expect you to be offended and rightfully so, whether it is apt or not! During the wars that were fought it was the kafirs who tried to exterminate Islam. So do you expect the soldiers to preach Bana , offer flowers, and recite your Mantrams to the Kafirs? Did not your lord Shiva fight many a battle and egg his followers to kill the the enemy or did he offer flowers to the enemy? Please stop your congenital hate towards the Muslims and try to behave in a civilized manner. It is still not too late!!
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M.Sivananthan / June 4, 2013
I am not offended but you do! Fighting is different but your Quran ask to kill non-muslims and rob their wealth and women.
Lankan soldiers now pray at Hindu temples in Vanni!
So, you believe the Mohamed’s words and try to kill others! I am not believing Islam which is an un-civilized religion and it promotes crimes only!
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DODU / June 4, 2013
Buddha started to enjoy sex with girls at the age of 8. His father provided him this comfort to keep him focused in Thr Kingdom. Temple carvings are the evidence for Siddartha’s sex games!
He then prohibited sex to his felow monks! What he preached was a funny, selfish philosophy! Even though he copied it from Jainism he could not do it properly.
Buddha is the first person on this earth to tell, KILL KAFIRS-> NON-BELIEVERS! He said this in Nirvana Sutra. Siddartha was a play boy philosopher!
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NAK / June 6, 2013
You don’t have to display your ignorance. At age 8 he was not Buddha but only a prince. It is said that alittlebit of knowledge dangerous.How much ever you try you are not qualified to insult the Buddha and you only exhibit your own ignorance and inability to even lie properly.
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PEACELOVER.. / June 16, 2013
WATCH THIS VIDEO FOR MORE KNOWLEDGE >>>>>>>>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPPPBQEy2SA
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Jamal / June 4, 2013
@M.Sivanathan -According to your theory if Islam is an un-civilized religion then it should ideally suit you. Unfortunately for you it is a civilized Religion and we can understand an uncivilized barbarian’s hate towards it.
“Fighting is different “ you say, from what may I ask?
“Quran ask to kill non-muslims and rob their wealth and wome”
You must be quoting the Bhaghvad Gita.
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Roy / June 3, 2013
can’t understand,there are still loads of dumbos in Srilanka.
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Maghribi / June 3, 2013
Roy – Dumbos take up space all over the world.
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DODU / June 3, 2013
Moda Samy, You go to your Koil and Let them go to their mosque. Since you have asked this question, I will also ask you a question: Will you allow an stranger to come and sleep with you and your wife in your bedroom.
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arooz / June 3, 2013
@ DODU:
In America they do. It is a funthing and they call it a three-some.
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DODU / June 4, 2013
These Buddhists are doing it everywhere!
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Rajo / June 3, 2013
Sivanatham at it again go and eat cow dung as vibuthi
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DODU / June 4, 2013
He is a Buddhist. A kaffir for Muslims!
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Mohamed Marzook / June 3, 2013
When yours questions, as usual, not relevant to the article under discussions and are just intended to insinuate is it worth spending time on responding to you?
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lankan / June 6, 2013
you bloody idiot. when kaffir can kill muslims, why should not kill sivanthan kaffir first.
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lankan / June 6, 2013
CID questions DIG Vass Gunawardene .
being a buddhist he undertakes contract killing. now who is killer. it is buddhist & hindus are killers
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MNZ / June 3, 2013
The writer should have focused on the general dangers of alcohol and drugs, rather than try to use the article as an excuse to display his knowledge of Buddhism and Islam.
Religion or otherwise, both alcohol and drugs are a social problem world-wide affecting those who follow religions/philosophies and those who are atheists and agnostics!
It would have made more sense if the writer suggested that all religious and community leaders closed ranks and came under one banner to combat this scourge.
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kandyboy / June 3, 2013
@Lester who told u smoking is OK in Islam? Smoking is also haram as is alcohol.
There is no such thing as bigger sin, as the above commenter says slaughtering is a bigger sin than alcoholism. If so stop all animal slaughters including chickens and pigs.
(Before that stop man slaughtering)
In that logic, even plants are living beings, and its been proved recently from a study that plants have FEELINGS. So lets be a better Bhudist by abstainning killing plants…..the foot of animals (stop eating up animals food)
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DODU / June 4, 2013
FOR BUDDHA
CATTLE IS AN ANIMAL – WHICH IS THE ONLY LIVING ANIMAL ON THIS EARTH,
BO TREE IS A TREE – WHICH IS THE ONLY LIVING TREE ON THIS EARTH,
KILLING BOTH ARE EQUALLY SIN – SOMTIMES, MAY BE (MUST ASK BUDDHA), KILLING A BO TREE IS WORST SIN THEN KILLING A CATTLE,
ALL THE OTHERS ARE NON-LIVING THINGS,
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Matthias / June 3, 2013
The consumption of alcohol pre-dates both Buddhism and Islam by several millennia – its origins date back to Mesopotamia to the cradle of civilization. Alcohol in the form of beer has saved many Million lives in Europe before germ theory was known, because the production process happens to kill the germs in the water that cause cholera, dysentery, etc. Breweries were the first to research modern cooling technologies such as refrigeration and air conditioning. Low alcohol consumption (such as a glass of wine with dinner or lunch) lowers LDL cholesterol and can boost creativity.
So I am going to go with the advice of the Buddha on this one and informedly reject to follow this particular tennet of his. As far as I know, he has never asked of anyone to be a fanatic, and he most certainly would afford how my actions in life affect other superior consideration to whether I drink tea of wine with my dinner.
This is where Buddhism and Islam show they main points of divergence: Mindful contemplation in the former, blind submission in the latter. I am saddened to see such a hardline sermon from someone who is attempting to explain Buddhism.
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Haniff Mohammed / June 3, 2013
Dear Lester
who says smoking is okay in Islam? any thing harmful to human is Haram in Islam. few of Muslim consuming alcohol, many of Muslims smoking it’s not allowed in Islam. it’s totally Haram.
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champuke / June 3, 2013
Lester,
Now a days no one takes you serious , you and your family enjoy the red wine and avoid cardiovascullar deceases. You are genious in everything lester.May the creater of this world and every things in it may protect your heart. you will remember this in the day of judgement.
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champuke / June 3, 2013
Bowatte Indhare’s IRC activities exposed (Island’s Robed Criminal)
lankaenews.com/English/news.php?id=13697
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Jay / June 3, 2013
Very same way there are Muslims who strictly follow the Allah’s principles/doctrines and many do not. Behaviour of humans whether they are a Muslim, Buddhist or Christian varies.
There are many many divisions of Islam, predominantly Shia and Sunni. The wars in Middle eastern countries are as a result of such divisions. The writer is attempting to couple individual human behaviours with religion doctrines. This is completely wrong.
I think he is not aware of how the Arabs behave outside their territories, they behave like westerners when they holidaying in other countries.
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Kamal / June 3, 2013
How do you think Sri Lankans behave when they are out side Sri Lanka ? utter disgrace! Sri Lankan women become overnight call girls in any country they work (I am referring the bulk of them) I believe this due to freedom they experience when they go out of their home country so when arabs go out of their own domain they do the same.
Pls dont use your silly excuses to hide the actual problem.
What the writer says is the plain truth in respect to Sri Lanka. In our country we have a very big problem of alcoholism within the majority community Buddhist youth!
It is a menace to society.
When all of us accept there is a problem then we can try and find a solution, if we live in denial we will forever be the world highest alcohol consuming nation (Proportion to population) for many years to come.
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Matthias / June 3, 2013
Alcohol is not the problem. The problem lies in abusing alcohol, so you need to ask yourself, “What are the reasons that our young people engage in self-destructive behavior?” Once you fixed that, the availability of alcohol will be irrelevant.
There are many ropes around where I live. They are not the reason that people hang themselves. Stop looking for easy fixes that are not solutions!
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Lester / June 3, 2013
Sri Lankan women become overnight call girls in any country they work
That is only your Islamic imagination. We know how Arab men treat women. Not just Buddhist girls. Most of the women on “death row” in Saudi Arabia are Indonesian. See here:
“More migrant workers are executed in Saudi Arabia than in any other country. According to human rights groups, more than 45 Indonesian women are on death row.”
http://theworldoutline.com/2013/03/indonesia-vs-saudi-arabia-the-maid-issue/
So, keep making fun of Buddhist girls. The joke is on you.
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nobody / June 4, 2013
Although Lester’s google skills didn’t help him with his new apostle of science role, he certainly shows drastic improvements in the ordinary internet warrior’s territory :D apparent from his advancement from ‘2004 statistics of extracted for arab countries and posted in a blog’ to 2013/03 articles from an another news website. an improvement within a single day.
i have become so addicted to you Lester. Please come back to the conversation at https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/cattle-slaughter-and-self-immolation/ a lot of others are asking if you replied already :D
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nobody / June 4, 2013
correction: 2004 statistics of tobacco usage extracted for arab countries and posted in a blog
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Jay / June 4, 2013
It is pity that this guy has taken a wrongful attempt to safeguard Muslims.
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Spay / June 4, 2013
You should be mindful of your tailgage too, away from the prying vultures.
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DODU / June 4, 2013
It is a pity that a Buddhist is telling this!
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Lester / June 3, 2013
Some here are arguing that smoking is haram in Islam. If that is the case, why are so many Muslims doing it? See the statistics below:
Total adult smokers of tobacco, rated through percentage of total adult smokers:
1. Yemen 44.50%
2. Turkey 44.00%
3. Lebanon 40.50%
4. Jordan 29.00%
5. Israel 28.50%
6. Cyprus 23.10%
7. Iraq 22.50%
8. Qatar 18.80%
9. Kuwait 15.60%
10. Bahrain 14.60%
11. Oman 8.50%
As for approximate average number of cigarettes smoked per adult per year:
1. Kuwait 3,062
2. Turkey 2,394
3. Bahrain 2,179
4. Israel 2,162
5. Jordan 1,832
6. Iraq 1,430
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Maghribi / June 3, 2013
Kindly evaluate the message of Islam rather than the behaviour patterns of Muslims around the world.
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zakky mza / June 3, 2013
if u want to learn Islam don’t see Muslims. go through quran and life of Mohamed.
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zakky mza / June 3, 2013
i never say all Muslims are good.some Muslims countries and some muslims are bad.i agreed lester. we are talking about our mother land.
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MTR.Mohamed / June 3, 2013
“I never have been in Islam, if I saw only the majorities of nowadays muslims’ behaviors other than the Teachings of Al-Quran” – A convertor to Islam
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Love boat / June 4, 2013
Daydream! Islam is a boat for you to fun ride? You con convert again to whatever suits you.
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DODU / June 3, 2013
This fellow wants Mulims to live in the way he thinks. No one will say smoking is Haram in Islam? It is Makrooh.
Definition of Makrooh is if you take it you are not doing a haram but it is better you Aviod it. However, if something is proved to be harmful to the user or if it may cause harm to others then MUSLIMS must avoid it, this is Islam! Just because Arabs are smoking cigarettes you can’t say Islam promotes smoking!
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Rod Atkins / June 3, 2013
Ahahah, Lester, you have a English name while you are a Sinhala Govigama Boy, i am surprised how come that lester the English boy talking on behalf of Budhism? LOOK at Sri Lanka and its wrong doings before looking at other countries and its behaviors. You know how many Sinhala Prostitutes Roaming in Sri Lanka ? go to Gampaha Area, you can pick the best school girls and I think the highest area ever. Well useless talking to you.. bye bye
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Capitaan KuCool / June 3, 2013
@ Rod Atkins
Please dont come to Gampaha. It is our territory.
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Haddock / June 4, 2013
Yea, the nasty inferior territory of the humbug criminals.
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Lester / June 3, 2013
You know how many Sinhala Prostitutes Roaming in Sri Lanka ?
I would not know, since I do not look for them. But I see you have been looking hard. Anyway, most of the housemaids in the Middle East are from Islamic nations.
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disappointed / June 4, 2013
ask Lester to say here that LTTE were fascists, he wouldn’t be able to :) ask him to say that hinduism/shaivism is also mythology, according to his ‘vitamin D’ science as it is popular nowadays? he ain’t sinhalese. go to groundviews to see his real identity.
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Wijesinge / June 3, 2013
Lester you are so funny man.
You are producing nice statistics. with that stats you have come to conclusion Islam allows them to smoke.
Then Sri Lanka has become one of the Highest Liquor consuming country, now you can say Buddhism allows us to booze.
I know our Lord Buddha didn’t force to stop taking alcohol but he advise not to take alcohol and he further said problems taking place after taking Alcohol.
so Buddhism is not forcing but indirectly telling DON’T DRINK but we drink a lot. We are talking about stopping to kill bulls but we are not talking about Casinos, Massage centers etc
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Lester / June 3, 2013
Nothing wrong with alcohol. Germans drink much more than Sri Lankans, and Germany is leading Europe. Even the German women are drinking. They have a festival called “Oktoberfest” where you just drink and drink. Better to have a festival like this than Eid al-Adha, where poor animals get their throats cut.
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Goraka / June 3, 2013
Who said Islam prohibits smoking? It is discouraged because its harmful.
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HardNut / June 3, 2013
So what you trying to prove here you mutt?
What is the compasison? Muslim counries against the non Muslim countires? Then where is that list of those countries?
Everything you do is half bakedstuff.
Everytime you come out with half truth. Every article you connect to Muslims and Islam. Your only motive is to provoke
the Muslims. You are a coward like BBS and Bum-Champika’s JHU.
You are fooling the sinhala people.
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nobody / June 4, 2013
Hi Lester,
Lester with numbers :D when are you returning to our conversation at https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/cattle-slaughter-and-self-immolation/? Give islam a break, lets talk about the new apostle of science there?
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nobody / June 4, 2013
a lot of fans are already gathering around to see more of Lester :D please come there, ok?
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Jamal / June 4, 2013
@Nobody, well Lester has met his Nemesis. Please extend your sympathy towards this coward. Apparently he has lost contact with his Zionist mentors. You call Lester a Mathematician! What nonsense he cannot even imagine a curve unfolding, unfurling or stretching to a straight line. He cannot comprehend that the curvature reduces as the radius increases.
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Linchpin / June 4, 2013
….. Or measure the acute angle of his half erected stick.
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Lester / June 5, 2013
Jamal is bitter because Allah made a two-dimensional circular flat Earth. Poor Jamal does not that this circle is not a sphere. In his frustration, he quotes some unonown scientists who have converted to Islam.
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Jamal / June 5, 2013
If you cannot understand simple 2D geometry how can your tumor ridden brain grasp 3D solid Geometry? Get some surgeon to cleanse your sewer soiled brain then we could continue. In the meanwhile why don’t you answer @nobodys questions if you are capable enough? Or is he too much to handle? You seem to have met your nemesis haven’t you?
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Lester / June 5, 2013
More examples of “science” from the Quran:
Forget about evolution. In the Quranic universe, man is created from clay :
We created man from sounding clay, from mud moulded into shape; – Qur’an 15:26
Qur’an says the sun is smaller than the earth and assumes the sun goes to a black muddy pool:
“Until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it set in a spring of murky water: Near it he found a People: We said: “O Zul-qarnain! (thou hast authority,) either to punish them, or to treat them with kindness.” – Qur’an 18:86
Quran says moon and the sun orbit the earth:
“By the Sun and his (glorious) splendour;
By the Moon as she follows him;” – Qur’an 91:1-2-1
Quran says stars fall to the Earth! In fact, they explode.
“The stars are small enough to drop on us.
And when the stars fall” – Qur’an 81:2
A cousin of Muhammed, and expert on Quran, Tafsir Ibn Abbas, thought there are 7 planets:
“Allah is He who created 7 heavens one above the other like a dome, and of the Earths, the like thereof, 7 planets but they are flat”
I can give many more examples while Jamal, in agony, jumps up and down on his two-dimensional planar floor that was created by Allah in only 6 days! :)
He it is Who created the heavens and earth in Six Days Quran – Quran 11:7
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Jamal / June 5, 2013
@Lester answer @nobody first if you can, then I will gauge if you can absorb my reply. Otherwise I will be casting pearls before a swine.
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AYMAN / June 4, 2013
LESTER,
BUDDHISM DOES NOT PERMIT, DRINKING GAMBLING AND LYING.
YOUR SINGHALA BUDDHIST GOVERNMENT SURVIVES ON LIQOUR AND TOBACCO TAXES
CASINOS AND SWEEPS.
ISLAM DOES NOT PERMIT DRINKING GAMBLING PROSTITUTION SMOKING ETC.,
BUT MUSLIMS DO INDULGE IN THESE SINS. WELL ITS NOT THE FAULT OF THE
RELIGION, BUT THOSE WHO CLAIM TO BE MUSLIMS AND INDULGE IN THESE VICES.
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Lester / June 4, 2013
Your brothers in the House of Saud do much worse than the Sinhalese Buddhist government. House of Saud travels abroad with suitcases full of hundreds of thousands of dollars. They enjoy foreign women, 5-star hotels, and the best nightclubs. House of Saud does not have to do any work to earn it’s money; they have foreigners to do everything. At leadt Rajapakse still runs the country. You see, the Sri Lankan Army is SRI LANKAN, not American. Same for Qutair, UAE, Kuwait, Turkey. These dumb Arabs are too busy enjoying the vices so that if there is a war, USA will do all the work.
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DODU / June 4, 2013
Let then enjoy in their own money. You beggars are sending your girls there for protitution and enjoying in their money.
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Lester / June 4, 2013
Every woman is a prostitute under Sharia Law. Even if they are not raped, their life is worth nothing. Look at Rizanna.
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Lester / June 4, 2013
By the way, who is begging. Only your Sunni Al Qaeda brothers in Syria are begging for kufir American weapons and money. Assad is sending these dogs running. I have seen videos of Qusair; your Sunni brothers are shouting “Allah Akbar” while running away faster than in Olympics.
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Jamal / June 5, 2013
By every law @leaster is a pimp! Pimping the cause of Zionists with ludicrously banal contributions; misquoting our holy books, and vilifying our Prophet. He cannot understand the nuances of Arabic word construction and foolishly rushes to give his version of what the meanings should be without the etymological and philological skills required. What a loud mouth IDIOT! What a blasphemous CHARLATAN! What a rabid rabble rouser! Really no one deserves the title SCUM more than Lester does!
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Lester / June 5, 2013
Jamal is furious because, in 1967, his Sunni brothers made war on Israel and got their pukas kicked in SIX days. That means the illiterate camel jockeys hashish induced vision of a caliphate encompassing Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem will NEVER come true, no matter how many bombs Jamal straps to his nether regions, because the Jews have nuclear weapons and American support. In his frustration, Jamal has decided to give up his day job of chewing beetel and become a pimp!
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Jamal / June 5, 2013
The ravings of a mad man! Utterly disconnected line of thought! As I mentioned his banal reply exposes his sewer soaked Brain! He even has descended to repeat the words used by others to complement a tumor caused depleted vocabulary. SCUM!!
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Lester / June 5, 2013
After three Arab nations tried to completely destroy Israel, some losers here are crying about “Zionists.”
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Muliyawaikkal / June 5, 2013
The conduct of practitioners show the religion!
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Maghribi / June 3, 2013
Most Philosophies/Religions basic message is to prevent evil and do good.
On the Day when every soul will find itself confronted with all that it hath done of good and all that it hath done of evil (every soul) will long that there might be a mighty space of distance between it and that (evil). Allah biddeth you beware of Him. And Allah is Full of Pity for (His) bondmen. (The Noble Quran 3:30)
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Naseef Rifai / June 3, 2013
Lester. By now you should have learned at least 20% of Islam. keep doing research on Islam and Muslims. after sometime you will be convinced by it.or if not you will be responsible when you die. when the angel of death come to you at deathbed you would not have any excuse to say that you did not know true devine message. I m sure your reseaching will lead to accept islam. do not tell me I’m trying to convert you. I only worry for your enternal life.
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Xanadu / June 4, 2013
Oh Lester a harmless creature, what his theories are but a sarcasm sans hatred, it seems. Remember the tweaked CT motto “In Journalism truth is processed”.
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M.Sivananthan / June 3, 2013
Are there anything to follow in Islam? Womanizers and criminals will follow Islam. No Buddhist or Hindu.
Is this author try to tell Alcohol problem is a Buddhist/hindu problem? It is a “social” problem” of the colonial heritage and not sanctioned in Buddhism/Hinduism.
But Islam has nothing to offer except murders, robberies, womanizing, rape and Child molesting!
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disappointed / June 4, 2013
in another page you wrote against the women attire?
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DODU / June 4, 2013
Mora Siva, are there anything to follow in Buddhism? child abusers, drug dealers and Muderers will follow Buddhism!
In Sri Lanks, Alcohol is a Buddhist Problem! Buddha said to take alcohol, Buddhists are taking Liquor!
Buddha said not to kill animals, Buddhists are fighting against killing of Cattles!
Buddha saud to kill the non-believers – Kafirs, Buddhists first tried to finish Tamils ny killing them in 1956 and 1983, sin e it did not work out, they genocide Tamils!
Buddhism has all these to offer: killing, sexual abuse, genocide, prostitutes, gambling, casinos, …………. bribery and corruption. what mor you want? You have all these in Buddhism!
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Votre Dame / June 11, 2013
And pick the rest…. Cut-throats, Humbugs, Hoodwinks, Surfeiters, Hyenas, Pimps, Piranhas, Loan Sharks, Pawn swindlers, Kasippuwas, Arsonists, Lewdists, Uxorists, Wastethrifts, Bad hats, Bawdyhouse fix, Land grabbers etc. etc.
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lankan / June 6, 2013
Tamilians are number one killer. who kill Aranthalwa monks, who kill children in Anuradhapura. Who killed thousand of soldiers.
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K.A Sumanasekera / June 3, 2013
Philanthorper Solheim, who has converted to Buddhism is doing enough to teach even our Monks how to follow Buddhist concepts, with all expenses paid with Chritian Kroners.
You should really focus on your Degree and do something for your fellow inhabitants,to steer them clear of the disasters that we read and see with sorrow in fellow Muslim countries, with the only secular land left, Turkey also now in turmoil.
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Stover / June 4, 2013
Now Buddhism cooks the broth of Solheim.
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Anjali / June 3, 2013
First, Buddhism does not forbid anyone in doing anything. It only suggest the better way. Islam on the other hand forbids drinking, and scares people about a hell. So buddhists, in the end of the day, do what they want to do in their lives, while muslims, don’t get to do what they want to do in livies, as they are forbidden and feared about a suffering in hell that is never proven to be in existence. A religion should only show the way, and should not dictate people what do to.
besides, you have given the percentages of people out of the sample, which adds upto 100%. that does not give any basis to compare. We don’t know whether equal number of people from each ethnicity was considered. So first learn what to do, before quoting things from reports. If you really want to compare, find percentage of people from each ethnicity that drinks.
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zakky mza / June 3, 2013
these are not total percentages.these are individual percentages to each ethnic groups.read carefully sister.
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disappointed / June 3, 2013
Anjali if Buddhism was so, then why there is so much fuss about forcing people to what BBS goons want to see? shouldn’t this comment be wrote at BBS website?
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Amrapali / June 4, 2013
And exclude Angeli as she is strictly a teetotaler. She always keep in calculate her cups of teas.
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NAK / June 3, 2013
Lord Buddha preached the consequenes of consumption of intoxicants and 1100 years later Prophet Mohmmad banned it. Great!
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NAK / June 3, 2013
We are talking about the first precept of Lord Buddha’s teachings, you talk about the last.
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Wijesinge / June 3, 2013
Lester you are so funny man.
You are producing nice statistics. with that stats you have come to conclusion Islam allows them to smoke.
Then Sri Lanka has become one of the Highest Liquor consuming country, now you can say Buddhism allows us to booze.
I know our Lord Buddha didn’t force to stop taking alcohol but he advise not to take alcohol and he further said problems taking place after taking Alcohol.
so Buddhism is not forcing but indirectly telling DON’T DRINK but we drink a lot. We are talking about stopping to kill bulls but we are not talking about Casinos, Massage centers etc
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disappointed / June 4, 2013
A lot of people, including good friends of mine, mistake Lester for a Buddhist. In fact he is a hindu who has given up on religion because of the social treatments he received from some of the upper class elite who corrupted the religious teachings into creating untouchables; and hides behind a fake name and comments with sinhala buddhist chauvinist tone to help the haters snowball on verbally assaulting muslims and to sling more mud on buddhism in the end – two mangos in a single stone, as they say. his familiarity with buddhist teachings (except for those found on the internet), his silent support on LTTE activities, his borrowed ideas from indian hate-preacher websites and his pro-israeli rants are evidential. it’s sad that a lot of people still have to go through lester’s rants on CT and groundviews to learn his covert tactic. his is a shame for his people.
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disappointed / June 4, 2013
ask Lester to say here that LTTE were fascists, he wouldn’t be able to :) ask him to say that hinduism/shaivism is also mythology, according to his ‘vitamin D’ science as it is popular nowadays?
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Real Dodu / June 3, 2013
Guys there is some thing called a culture thing in every country. It is not a fixed thing, It starts by fluke then by luck it becomes a fashion then after couple of decades it becomes culture.
There is no guarantee any culture seen today will remain for ever, things changes but it goes in to history books at least.
In the few decades of bygone ear Sri Lanka has created culture of drinking Kasippu. So if you dont take swig of Kasippu then you care not a real Sri Lankan.
when you are in Rome be like a Roman. Now are you ready to be a true blue Sri Lankan ?
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Lester / June 3, 2013
Religious rules are often artificial, they cannot account for every set of circumstances. Alcohol is a stimulant that loosens the senses. When people go for relaxation, they try to loosen the senses. This is normal human behaviour. As long as it is done in moderation, there is no harm.
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PEACELOVER.. / June 16, 2013
L(u)ester ..
BEFORE YOU WRITE HERE , GET RID OF INTOXICATION . WHEN YOU WRITE HERE muddled with alcoholic liquor IT COMES JABBERING ONLY…….WE CANT HEAR THAT ALWAYS…..
Generally, an intoxicated person like you , is incapable of acting as an ordinary,SO THAT cannot differentiate between you WIFE , SISTES AND MOM….. IF SO , THINK WHAT WILL YOU DO TO THEM WHEN YOU GO HOME HAVING ” ARAK OR KASIPPU ??
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Lester / June 16, 2013
Drinking alcohol is better than slitting an animal’s throat.
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American Mama / June 3, 2013
Much ado about nothing. Armchair pundits splitting hairs about things they KNOW NOTHING about.
All religion is SPECULATION pure and simple.
Relax and watch a science fiction movie. At least U will learn something useful :)
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Friction / June 4, 2013
Did you say fiction?
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Naseef Rifai / June 3, 2013
What you have on offer : dirty caste system and mud worship. look at rate of alchlo lism in your community and others
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Muliyawaikkal / June 3, 2013
There is a beautiful image and a verse in the religion of peace website.
It has an image of a man cleaning a spiteful graffiti on a UK air force building.
“As the pattern emerges across Europe, the real problem becomes harder to whitewash.”
How true not just across Europe but also in SL.
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