February 22, 2013
http://www.thesundaily.my/news/617105
Build Bridges, not bake them
by R. Nadeswaran
EXTREMISM in any form religious, political, cultural or even literary has its pitfalls. The one-upmanship, the brinkmanship as good as the rhetoric that come with it have been most of the time viewed as comic relief by right-thinking people.
But when eremite zealots as good as domestic bigots stick upon the ravel provoking typical folk in to supporting their slight as good as overt ideology as good as thoughts, the majority has to mount up as good as unequivocally have their in front of known.
Religiously-inspired actors (including politicians) supplement oil to the fire. Religion is intricately scored equally up with questions of temperament as good as worth systems. In instances where eremite identities have been in jeopardy or where dispute parties belong to opposite worth systems, it will be harder to resolve than simple interest-based conflicts.
However, when such threats have been merely perceived as good as have been creations of one's 
imagination, multitude has the purpose as good as contingency have the accordant bid to dismiss such notions even if they have to incur the wrath of the minority.
As most as right-thinking Malaysians stepped up as good as cursed the call to bake Bibles, the identical mount contingency be taken against eremite bigots who launched the boycott of halal-slaughtered beef as good as demanded that shops clear their stocks of halal f! ood by A pril.
Fortunately, no one in their right frame of mind would think the latter happened in the sanctified country, but in Sri Lanka, thousands of people led by hundreds of monks of the Bodu Bala Sena, or Buddhist Force, staged the rally upon Sunday demanding the government sequence Islamic authorities to stop arising halal certification.
What is the justification for such the call? If madness as good as stupidity have been not the factors, afterwards it could be psychosis or lunacy that led Buddhist monk Kirama Wimala Jothi to say: "More than 90% of the population is Buddhists, Hindus as good as Christian as good as therefore there is no justification to force them to eat halal products." Utter bunkum!
The actuality that values form the basis of each sacrament as good as that some of these values have evolved in to law can as good as will never be challenged. Religious leaders have been supposed to introduce these values as good as spread the summary to their flock.
Religious leaders, past as good as benefaction have been in the forefront of solving conflicts instead of compelling them. In South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu (pic with Nelson Mandela)played the prominent purpose as authority of the Truth as good as Reconciliation Commission. According to Owen Frazer, of the Center for Security Studies in Zurich, the commission was inspired by Christian notions of forgiveness as good as settlement as good as the approach gained widespread acceptance because of the superiority of Christian ideology across the whole of South African society.
The purposes of alternative eremite leaders have been good documented in international journals. Kenyan assent romantic Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, tragically killed in the car collision two years ago, was the well-known as good as succ! essful g o-between as good as dispute fortitude expert. She categorically concurred the purpose of her Muslim conviction as the motivator of her efforts as good as in her work she consciously combined Islamic values as good as approaches to dispute fortitude with traditional as good as alternative approaches.
In Cambodia, the Buddhist Monk Maha Ghosananda (left), important for his annual assent marches was the pass figure in the post-communist era who helped to revitalise Cambodian Buddhism (which the Khmer Rouge had finished their best to eradicate) as good as reconstruct the republic state.
Why afterwards have the leaders unexpected seen as abdicating their purposes as good as fanning the fire? Are they doing it for mercenary gain or for domestic expediency? Are they saying it from their hearts or for 5 minutes of fame?
In each partial of the world, you have seen their purposes in the opposite light. From banning girls from going to propagandize in Pakistan to compelling women to adorn the burkha in France, you have heard of them all.
Religious leaders have been supposed to be office building bridges not blazing them.
Therefore, as those who have been brought up upon the value-system, you have the right as good as contingency mount up to extremism of any form, failing which; you will be subjected to usurpation fanatical, obsessive as good as fixated views. Accepted values will break up as good as multitude will be subjected to mob-rule.
R. Nadeswaran continues to hold that all countries should welcome the call by the Dalai Lama for the global ethical formula that would be profitable to! everyon e, together with people who do not follow any particular religion. Comments: citizen-nades@thesundaily.com
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