{"id":75051,"date":"2013-02-25T11:33:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T11:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=75051"},"modified":"2013-02-28T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T13:43:32","slug":"pilgrims-regress-on-the-usefulness-of-racism-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/pilgrims-regress-on-the-usefulness-of-racism-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilgrim\u2019s Regress: On The \u2018Usefulness\u2019 Of Racism In Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Anupama+Ranawana&amp;x=10&amp;y=3\">Anupama Ranawana<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_75052\" style=\"width: 143px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/pilgrims-regress-on-the-usefulness-of-racism-in-sri-lanka\/attachment\/75052\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75052\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75052\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-75052\" title=\"&lt;Digimax D53&gt;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Anupama-Ranawana-133x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-75052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anupama Ranawana<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Purely for the sake of amusement, I encourage you to follow the Twitter account of the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Bodu+Bala+Sena&amp;x=9&amp;y=6\">Bodu Bala Sena<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(BBS).\u00a0 Claiming to be the revival of \u2018real Buddhism\u2019, the BBS will ask you to \u2018rise up\u2019\u00a0against the issuing of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Halal&amp;x=6&amp;y=6\">Halal<\/a><\/span> Certificates, and inform you that they are enlightening Buddhists of the threats from the \u2018dark forces\u2019 of the minority. And just when you think you have them pegged as insufferably extremist, they will retweet a quote from the Dalai Lama espousing the need to have tolerance and love for all beings.\u00a0 It\u2019s a masterclass in farce, and one wishes they were so easily dismissible.\u00a0 It is when their rhetoric becomes racist that you will perhaps need to block the BBS. Case in point- just a couple of days ago they responded to a Tweeter by calling him a \u2018thambiya\u2019- a terribly crude way of referring to a Muslim person. \u00a0Whether Muslim or not, it was difficult not to be appalled.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-platform.org.uk\/2013\/02\/25\/pilgrim%E2%80%99s-regress-on-the-%E2%80%98usefulness%E2%80%99-of-racism-in-sri-lanka\/\">The Platform<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":75052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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