Gajalakshmi Paramasivam
29
April 2019
High
Commissioner has no Burqa Fear???
At
the Farewell about which I had no knowledge until today – 29-04-2019 – Breakdown
in intelligence network?
Bali & Sri Lanka
It will soon be voting time in Sri Lanka and the Easter Sunday bombings
have to underpin our votes.
When something goes wrong we look for reasons ‘why’ at various levels.
The three common levels at which I group are (1) At the seen and the heard
level (2) At the level of intellectual discrimination using principles and laws
(3) Belief level. Our votes carry the-self governance value as per the respective
levels. The most powerful one is category (3).
These apply not only to electing government but everyday issues in which
we attend and/or participate. Right now the strongest for me is the Sri Lankan
bombing issue in which I vote as category (2) and underpinned by category (3) power.
To be valid, category (1) voter / citizen / employee needs to merely
report and not conclude. At seen and heard level – we confirm only what
happened. We may use that information at our private level for the self only
but not at common level. To the extent we derive benefits for our vote – we have
only reporting authority. The vote of one who derives more benefits than her/his
contribution, is of negative governance value. The net value of all votes
confirm the outer picture and hence majority rule. Category (1) voter who
concludes and advocates, pollutes the value of her/his own vote which
dilutes the total value of Category (1) voters.
The voter who uses intellectual discrimination using particular principle
/ law – adds deeper value to her/his vote and invokes the power of other
intellectuals who used and/or are using that principle /law. It is like an express
agreement between parties. This strengthens administration in the home area of
the voter.
The deepest voter is one who votes through belief. This does not require
an express vote and is exponential in value. Such a voter/participant/employee has the experience of governance with or without
any official position. That was Gandhi’s power. Category (1) voter who is loyal
to category (3) member – would enjoy the protection of self-governance.
The Head of Siva Senai in Sri Lanka
directed us to http://www.virakesari.lk/article/54888
- in which Mr Mohamed Muzamil states that the Burqa is not part of Muslim
culture. The following discussion ensued.
Gaja: What
authority do you have as a Hindu man to ‘tell’ a Muslim woman what to do? If it
is about security what did you do when Tamils were threatened by militants?
Follow the path of Dharma and not your desire to show power.
Mr Siva Sena: I know arguing with you will not take
the issue anywhere.
All Sri Lanka Ulama
Council initiated.
I was inundated with calls from a large populace of Hindus from
Hatton, Kalmuania, Mannar, Vavuniya, Mullaitivu and Jaffna asking me to second
the proposal.
Every peace loving
citizen including Muslims of Sri Lanka wants the burqa banned.
I am not alone. We
Hindus are demanding.
It is not about
gender. It is about the lives of Hindus in this beleaguered island.
I like to read your
mails. They are full of thought provoking contents.
Regards
To my
mind, Hindus talking about Burqa at a time when Christians and Muslims are hurting, confirmed selfish ‘me
too’ attitude. Given that majority Sri Lankan Hindus are Tamils, and the Tamil
community produced suicide bombers one of whom killed India’s former Prime
Minister Rajiv Gandhi also a Hindu, taken as a whole we do not have the moral
authority to recommend such changes to law applicable to Muslim women. Even if Muslims did it – that would be highly reactive and make the Muslim woman feel
that she was being blamed for the bombings. The timing needs to be independent
of emotion provoking tragedies. At this time, the side that we speak through
needs to be one who respects the law. The letter was addressed to the President
who seriously violated the law and therefore lost the common communication with
the law enforcement officers.
Talking
about Rajiv Gandhi – the mighty Indian intelligent system that claims credit for
intelligence sharing re the Easter Sunday failed to protect their own Rajiv
Gandhi. The power to carry out the act could have been based on the deep pain
of the individual or the excitement of combat.
The following report confirms that it was the latter:
[She holds the unhappy distinction of being the first-ever human bomb in
the country's history. In LTTE circles, Dhanu, 24, whose real name was
Kalaivathi, is held in some awe.
So much so that at a public function held in Jaffna last year,
Pirabhakaran honoured her father posthumously with a 'gold medal' for her role
in the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.
Dhanu, who studied till
middle school in Batticaloa, was inspired by the Tamil liberation movement at a
very young age. In fact, her father, A. Rajaratnam, who is described as
Pirabhakaran's mentor, played a crucial role in moulding the LTTE chiefs
thinking during the movement's formative years between 1972 and 1975.] – India today article ‘Rajiv Gandhi assassination: Dhanu,
the first-ever human bomb in Sri Lanka's history’
Dhanu did not wear a
burqa nor was the Churitha dress that she wore banned in India. As shown in the
picture above – the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Australia shows no fear of
Muslim clothing.
More important is our belief
which will surface in the appropriate form as the time and place of need. In my
article ‘Paying Respects to Suicide Bombers’ at https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6863031047273509081#allposts/postNum=7
, I highlighted as follows:
[We
are currently in political mode and hence the use of belief based pathway needs
to be divided. The President disconnected from the UNP intelligence and
intellectual governance in October which as per my belief was due to the
temptations of going back to the past where he was dependent on Mr Rajapaksa
who was showing Mr Sirisena the big picture. That big picture has a big piece
of hearsay value through China’s money brought in through Mr Rajapaksa who
seriously lacked investment in global governance but was indebted to the global
community whose name and facilities were used to defeat the Tamil Tigers. The
owner of Shangri La hotels – Mr Robert Kuok – a Chinese-Malaysian, failed to
show respect for Tamil pain when the Shangri la Luxury hotel was built in
Hambantota and later another in Colombo near the area where the Defence Headquarters were attacked by
suicide bombers. To the extent the suicide bombers were genuine and sacrificed
their lives – their ghosts would be invoked by those who lack belief in that
land. That land was Defence land for a long time and had the power to protect
Defence personnel who believed in that land and their work.
Relatively speaking, the Northern part of Sri Lanka – where due
respect has been paid to such suicide bombers and other combatants
has confirmed that it was cured itself of frivolous use of power. The pain that
the folks have been enduring – without taking revenge – has developed as a
protective structure. In Batticaloa – this does not happen largely due to
Karuna abandoning those whom he led in combat ]
Yesterday I learnt through our news that the site of Bali
Bombing is to be cleansed through Hindu rituals before becoming operational.
I felt that my message in relation to Sri Lanka has invoked
value in Bali after 17 years. This is because I felt / feel the pain of both
and pray at the Bali memorial in Coogee. Belief does not recognize place and
time borders. It takes our Energy to the needy who are ready to receive and
share. That is how I am sharing with Muslims who are now going through what we
Tamils went through during the ethnic war. Such sharing cures the problem at
National level.
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