So before anything, this is an old post that I didn’t upload, this was supposed to go up a week before.
So this post may contain strong personal opinions, possible swearing and an author who
Before I begin anything I want to thank everyone for the feed back for my post on tolerance and misconceptions of the feminist views, I got some very good feedback, people told me that they felt quite the same and ended up in lengthy discussions about the many sides of feminist values, It is seriously like a six-sided dice, but I wont go into it today.
So 2 weeks ago, I had a serious deadline, its so serious that if I don’t meet it, I will end up the useless child for the rest of my life (refer JehanR's Golden child and useless child) and my mom, made me a flask of tea to keep me company while I typed and calculated and facebook-ed in the sidelines.
So I was looking forward to a nonsense post about me and all that, but then I got that itch, to write something. So many people are completely unawares of the undercurrents of BU115h1t, that has been flying around considering one certain incident in Grandpass, for those not in SL, let me give a brief intro, as I have stated before there are different factions here, both who have neatly pocketed themselves into ‘buddhist’ and ‘muslim’, zealots all of them, now the problem with zealots, is that they are ZEALOTS, they take everything too far, and way out of context. There are more incidents than I care to note, but this one incident that happened in the dark hours of Saturday, the 10th was what surprised me. No one would have expected such a horrid thing to happen, now that was the night I was pulling an all nighter, and through a message from a friend, I get to know that some bad shit is going down, now we knew that there was some bad blood here but no one expected a mosque to be attacked or a riot, and when I ended up trying to scour the online news articles, I found…rather it was what I didn’t find, there were about 2 articles, and it gave no indication of what was really happening or what was the current situation.
It was at this point I remembered I had some friends living in that area, one lived far away to still be aware of the clash but be safe from the whole situation, but the other was unfortunately caught in it, when I met my friend this week , I was shocked to see the injuries (while not fatal at all, were completely unwarranted .)
Now this coupled with the excessively rude posts and cyber bullying that these individuals hatch online, just makes this all silly, silly and rude. What's more is that they attack people based on hunches and a very skewed and illogical thinking. They basically attack anyone with an opinion. Personally, I think the whole thing is, (pardon my french) bullshit, Now I may be a bystander and maybe not 100% in the know, but I know what has happened was a complete rubbish bin.
So I won’t speak more about this, it has become utterly ridiculous , a media circus focusing on only one side of the heavily made up, powered and painted story while the other half of the cracked and broken up truth is conveniently swept under the rug.
Since this is actually something that happened a couple of weeks ago, I bet some of you had already forgotten what happened that day, such is the way of Lankans, we forget some, we remember some, but only to our convenience.
Till next post,
M
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