Former Diyawadana Nilame of Dalada Maligawa Niranjan Wijeratne and scores of others are criticizing the visit of Mr. Pillayan Chandrakanthan to Dalada Maligawa on the grounds that Mr. Pillayan participated in the LTTE attack on Maligawa. We fail to understand why these critics selectively forget the attack of JVP on the same sacred Maligawa. Tamil and all the right thinking people of this country are getting sick by this double standards practiced when dealing with terrorisms of Tamil and Sinhala kinds. We have hundreds of differences with EP chief minister and his party. We vehemently condemn all the attacks on all the religious places including those of JVP and LTTE on Dalada Maligawa. It is equally absurd to discuss on if a particular personality was personality involved in the attacks. The organizations those carried the attacks matter more than the personalities. Let the Mahanayakes decide if the former attackers need to tender apologies. - Sri Lanka Guardian
Mr. Mano Ganeshan for the first time I have seen a unbiased article from you and I must congratulate you on this.
Former Diyawadane Nilame should know Buddhism better than most of the lay buddhists but his biased discriminatory comments are against the teachings of the Buddha. Buddha has taught us to forgive and show love and kindness to your enemies also and he has done this by example.
In my view there was nothing wrong of this visit and even if Prabhakaran wants to visit the Maligawa we should be Buddhist enough to let him.
It is double standards and I believe it is motivated by politics rather than common sense or Buddhist values.
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