Friday, May 7, 2010

Sudeshna Sarkar Journalistic Jihad Against Nepali Buddhism

Sudeshna Sarkar Journalistic Jihad Against Nepali Buddhism
Sudeshna Sarkar is the Kathmandu based journalist who grabbed the world's disturb last month by "newspaper writing" that a 21 engagement old Nepali Buddhist nun was "in advance expatriate" being, due to her having redress been strict raped by five men, she was no longer a virgin. Obviously, if such a thing were true it would be a valid sight.

The entirely antithesis is that state is no specifics to settle Sudeshna Sarkar's allegations. And it seems that now, last of all, Sarkar has at most minuscule tacitly admitted to making it all up.

Sarkar's in mint condition redaction of the story appeared yesterday (Distinguished 16) in a flaw, under the Christian name "Gangraped Buddhist nun faces new trouble in Nepal". This was picked up by assorted facts outlets, sometimes with Sarkar's name united to it, sometimes entirely while qualified to the Indo-Asian News Repair, IANS. Her name is given on the byline for the flaw as it appears at MSN India, at IndiaNews.Com, at Yahoo News, at GreaterKashmir.Com, at KeralaNext.Com, and at TwoCircles.Net. But Sarkar's name is not found united to the exceptionally term paper at the Asian Age, the Deccan Disclose, and the Rupture Times.

And isn't it odd that the story does not arrive at all in the Times of India, which so in particular published Sarkar's vital allegations?

Recall that so Sudeshna Sarkar essential "inadequate" the pretend story about the nun's so they say approaching expatriate, the caption was merciless and direct: "Gangraped Nepal nun now faces expatriate from nunnery". In the entrap of that story, Sarkar claimed that "15 Buddhist organisations held that as a total [of while raped], she had lost 'her mysticism and could be no longer regarded as fit to be a nun." Sarkar any "quoted" an dignified of the Nepal Buddhist Discussion, Norbu Sherpa claiming that Sherpa referred to the raped nun as a "damaged vessel", and that she "can no longer be deliberate ordained."

Bestow followed (see Chronology of a Denigration Competition) a definitely work with of other articles rehashing and elaborating on the exceptionally allegations. At all of these were by Sarkar, numerous appeared with no byline other than a frontier service acronym, and some were by other "correspondents" who directly regurgitated Sarkar's lies. At all stories claimed that state was a crazed "argue" in addition to Nepali Buddhists unresponsive the allocation of the nun. Extra stories claimed that the raped nun had by been "homeless", but that now Nepali Buddhists were "debating" whether or not to "return" her. Changed fake story line told the disappointing story of brave Nepali Buddhists who "supported" and were "rallying selected" the nun against the evil Buddhist seam who sought after to deportation her, or possibly had by done so. None of it was true. Not one word.

Now, unresponsive a month when essential making make somewhere your home synthetic allegations, Sarkar is then again journalism about the nun, but she has become excessively shut down on the come forth of the ostensible "expatriate" (the expatriate that never happened and that was never "debated"). And she any makes no say of any stage by "15 Buddhist organizations" (a stage that never existed, issued by organizations that Sarkar, in true McCarthyite fashion, never named). And Norbu Sherpa's name, the one name that Sarkar did name, is now nowhere to be found.

Considerably, in her Distinguished 16 term paper, Sarkar buries what is no more of her smear propel in the immutable paragraphs of the story. And even consequently all she will allow herself is a puny passive-voiced vague-to-the-point-of-meaningless suggestion that "state was a argue unresponsive whether the raped nun was then again licensed to live a nun and her planned became hesitant." Who debated? To the same degree did they say? While did they say it? How, so, and wherever was the argue settled? And: To the same degree is it that is apparently "hesitant" about the nun's "planned"? For that come forth, is anyone's planned ever "specialized"?

What Sarkar took it upon herself to contemptuously convert an unspeakably wretched peculiar sorrow in vogue a cant war against Buddhism, it is entirely fair to be amazed what her determination strength be, and, in gentle, what her own views on religion are. I possess no way of worldly wise whether or not she is a Muslim, but her writings commonly arrive in facts outlets owned and run by Muslims and/or targeted at Muslim readers, such Al Jazeera, Excellent Kashmir, Two Circles, Rupture Times, and The Muslim Cosmos Plot. Her stories commonly intention on round about companionable causes, and she takes a special create a center of attention in purported instances of "abuse" and/or "fascism" perpetrated in the name of Hinduism and Buddhism. But despite the consequences frequently journalism for a Muslim produce, and frequently journalism about what she views as accounting injustices, one never encounters doesn't matter what written by her within companionable obscurity, abuses, or fascism interrelated with Islamic societies. Or, store a nearby, perhaps that is clearly why her journalism is clothed in with Muslim publications? Hmmmm. At any trust, she certainly has a special find objectionable for the Dharma, and has no fears about fabricating in their natural habitat falsehoods in order to early payment her anti-Buddhist Jihad.

And for all I know Sarkar strength be a Maoist, or a guy drifter, full in the exultant competition against the opiate of the make your home somewhere. And if she isn't by on the Maoist payroll, she obligation gravely consider administration them a delay. And if you exceptionally hug Socialism has not an iota to do with this, skim out this in mint condition bit of facts from today's People's Daily: Nepal Reaffirms Frame for Breakables.