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To: RaceBannon
I speak to Tamils every day. What you're talking about is a polyglot spirituality that borrows from all the neighboring religions. There is no such thing as a Tamil religion. Having asked hundreds of Tamils what their religion was (to fill out applications of their behalf), only one has said to me anything other than "Hindu" , "Christian", or "Muslim". (That one said he didn't have a name for what he believed.)

It is true that, on the Tamil side at least, the war in Sri Lanka is not a religious one, though Tamil Muslims are a separate community from the rest of the Tamils.

51 posted on 12/29/2003 10:26:28 PM PST by thoughtomator ("I will do whatever the Americans want because I saw what happened in Iraq, and I was afraid"-Qadafi)
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To: thoughtomator
"I speak to Tamils every day."

Do they ever speak back?

58 posted on 12/29/2003 10:46:46 PM PST by Happy2BMe (2004 - Who WILL the TERRORISTS vote for? - - Not George W. Bush, THAT'S for sure!)
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