The hegemonic Christian Culture

| by Nalin de Silva

( January 30, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Obama for his involvement with al Qaeda. As many people in Sri Lanka as well as in Australia probably have not seen it I quote from the media release of the Ctizens Electoral Council of Australia issued on 15th January 2013. "The revelations that continue to emerge from the clearing smoke of the 11 September, 2012 terrorist attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya add to a mounting pile of evidence that President Barack Obama and his British and French cohorts armed and supported the very al-Qaeda-linked terrorists who killed US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other diplomatic personnel in that attack.

Mr. Annesley de Silva writing to the editor on 25th January 2013 says he read with amusement what I wrote to the Midweek Review on 23rd January on ‘Defending the Constitution’. He may be amused writing from Australia when we poor Sinhala Buddhists refer to the multiculturalism practised in the US, but we who have suffered for more than five hundred years under western Christian modernity have no alternative but to reveal the hypocrisy of western Christian culture. The Anglo Saxon variety of the Judaic Christian culture is the dominant culture not only in the US, Australia and other such countries but also in the rest of the world, and the so-called intellectuals of this particular culture who are responsible for creating knowledge have come out with concepts such as multiculturalism in order to mislead the people, especially those who have had an imitating western Christian education. The education given in schools and universities is nothing but a western Christian education whether it is in Astronomy or Zoology. All that I wanted to demonstrate in my article was that that the western countries practice multiculturalism in a weak sense while they want us to have multiculturalism in the strong sense, and that Obama’s speech at the inauguration is rhetoric and hypocrisy as usual.

I have been using the concepts of multiculturalism in a weak sense and in a strong sense for years but the pundits and Brahmins refuse to have even a discussion of the concepts. Almost All countries in the world are multicultural in the sense that there are two or more cultures practised. However these cultures are not treated equally in the western world, as some variety of the Judaic Christian culture is the dominant culture in all of these countries. Obama at the inauguration showed what the dominant culture of the US is by ignoring all the cultures other than the dominant culture. This is multiculturalism in the weak sense where one culture is the dominant culture without any semblance of equality as regards to the cultures. Multiculturalism in the strong sense on the other hand demands equality of all the cultures practiced in a country, thus in a world dominated by western Christian culture making that culture effectively the predominant culture. Very often the significant culture in a country is denied its due place. The so-called western intellectuals would come out with theories and even postgraduate students from the western countries are given a recognition very much beyond their capabilities and are allowed to contribute regularly to national newspapers. How many of our students who go to western countries for postgraduate studies are given the opportunity to contribute to the national newspapers in those countries. All the western countries are Christian in culture but the moment we say that the significant culture in this country is Sinhala Buddhist almost all the so-called intellectuals including some Sinhalas would object to it on the grounds that all cultures are equal, and that the country is secular.

Obama’s speech on equality of women and the rest is nothing but rhetoric and there is a political party though small in Australia that has come out with a statement suggesting impeachment of

Obama for his involvement with al Qaeda. As many people in Sri Lanka as well as in Australia probably have not seen it I quote from the media release of the Ctizens Electoral Council of Australia issued on 15th January 2013. "The revelations that continue to emerge from the clearing smoke of the 11 September, 2012 terrorist attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya add to a mounting pile of evidence that President Barack Obama and his British and French cohorts armed and supported the very al-Qaeda-linked terrorists who killed US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other diplomatic personnel in that attack. Obama’s clandestine alliance with the al-Qaeda terrorist network is grounds for the US Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings against him."

Imagine Mahinda Rajapaksa getting involved in actions similar to that by Obama and his friends. Obama in his speech used the phrase "We the people" that is found in the American Constitution as if the people are taken into consideration. The French Revolution as well as the American revolution were part of the of the defeat of the Medieval European Catholic culture with the triumph of western Christian culture and people mentioned by Obama or in Les Miserables by Victor Hugo have no meaning then as well as at present. In Sri Lanka some people are waiting for the people to rise, but the failure of the Academic and Hulftsdorp springs has demonstrated that the Brahmins have no leader and hence no future, in spite of the support by the Christian west.