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A Buddhist – whether monastic or lay – is a true revolutionary committed to uprooting the basis of deluded society in the mind, body and environment. This pragmatic Buddhist approach parallels the Scientific Socialism of Marxist-Engelism and Marxist-Leninism – and Buddhists are advised to study these teachings in all their manifestations (including Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong) as an important step in transforming the modern world for the better.
Even though religion is often used to justify FGM, neither Islam nor Christianity demand it of their followers. Fadumo believes it is important for religious leaders to clearly speak out against the practice to change tradition in their communities. “Whether it’s Islam or Christianity, we use all religions to tell people, ‘Your God will be angry with you, if you circumcise his children,’” she says.
I was recently reading the social media page of a pro-Palestinian blogger (I believe posting from India). He stated that China supports Palestine but then displayed his ignorance by asserting that China is hypocritical due to its occupation of Tibet! As a supporter of Palestine myself, this comment demonstrated to me the bourgeois mind-set of this individual, and his unreliable interpretation of political events from the proletariat perspective.
The People’s Republic of China supports the Palestinian cause – and views the Israeli State as ‘racist’ and ‘Imperialistic’.
The view from within China is that the European Wushu Federation mentioned in this article is manifesting Eurocentric racism (i.e. Islamophobia) – reminiscent of the racism inflicted upon the Chinese people during the European, colonial era. The Young woman is his article is the victim of Eurocentric racism and a true hero of the correct ‘spirit’ of Chinese martial arts. This situation in many ways demonstrates the existence of implicit and explicit European racism within Chinese martial arts in the West, which misrepresents and denigrates the art.
It is irrelevant whether I agree or disagree with this or that teaching – the point is that we do not have to fight one another simply for thinking differently. Criminals are terrorists – Muslims are not terrorists. What Buddhism and Marxism has taught me is that it is important for human evolution to be ‘open’ to other people’s ideas and beliefs.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 