On 16 October, French teacher Samuel Paty was decapitated outside his secondary school in a Paris suburb while on his way home. The attacker, 18-year old Abdullakh Anzorov, a Russian-born refugee of Chechen descent, was allegedly enraged by the teacher’s sharing of Charlie Hebdo’s controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad with his class a week and a half before the attack. The…
Of late there have been quite a number of know-it-all ‘academics’ ‘political analysts’ dollar earning civil society coming forward promoting the displacement of Buddhism enshrined in Article 9 to be replaced with a ‘secular’ constitution in Sri Lanka. They love to quote extensively how West is secular. If readers were wiser they would look for…
When considering the concept of ‘brainwashing’ most people still think in terms of the methods used by the totalitarian communist societies of the last century. One of the best examples of those methods was provided by the Pitești prison in Romania which sought to re-educate (or murder) previous members of the Legion of St Michael…
