Not content with bludgeoning the Sinhala Buddhists and local Bhikkhus in our English newspapers, the "NGO hirelings" are roping in the foreign monks, too, to pep up their slander campaign. The latest is the assertion that Bhikkhu Nanamoli, the English monk, committed suicide because of his strong sexuality. If sex was his problem, he had only to disrobe and return to England, where the substantial fortune he had renounced was being preserved by his doting mother. Again, his stomach ailment was not due to the spicy almsfood offered by his adoring supporters, but a bowel disorder for which there was no cure. It was believed that he had attained to some stage of spiritual development, as a glance at his writings reveal. His diseased condition increased into permanent discomfort and ceaseless pain — a hindrance to his spiritual progress — and he opted to end it in his own way. The NGO employees can hold their verdict. As the Buddha teaches — we are our own judge and executioner — and we can leave it to Bhikkhu Nanamoli’s own refined life flux to sort that one out!

True to form, our English dailies and weekenders went to town over the Bollywood grenade attack. They screamed themselves hearse that it was the Sinhala Buddhists/Bhikkhus who had aimed the weapon. And although it was vividly shown in an independent TV channel how our brave policemen unleashed their full fury on the unarmed, helpless crowd (even those peacefully meditating some distance away were given a generous dose of tear gas) they shrieked that it was the "saffron-robed" that had sprung whooping into the fray to start battering our poor defenders of the law — who were all armed with tear gas, batons, hose pipes, rubber pellets, guns, etc.! That is not all. They declared that every single Sinhala Buddhist they spoke to, hung their heads in shame at their own despicable act and was begging for forgiveness from the minorities and the world at large. The normal reaction of any self-respecting person accused of a crime is to say, "Prove it!" The extent to which the Sinhalese have degenerated is shown by those who shamelessly appeared on TV to whine tearfully "we aimed the grenade at ourselves!" (One wonders — how much were they paid?) There did not appear a single protest against this tirade.

Although the NGO strategy seems to be to break up this nation and give parts to the terrorists, the normal reaction of the Sinhala Buddhist is to point out that no protest will ever be printed and dismiss it all with a contemptuous "Let the dogs yap!" But is it not now obvious that the Sinhalese should introduce a Pit Bull terrier, with bared fangs, at least occasionally into the scene, just so as to set the record straight?