The SGI Works for World Peace and Justice: REALLY?

I posted this text as a comment to another post. But it deserves to be a post in its own right. So here it is.

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SGI's notion of World Peace - for me - is intellectual bankruptcy, like their view of Buddhism is spiritual bankruptcy. There is a lot of real injustice happening around the world. In the North American continent and in Africa and other parts of the world, for instance, tribal people are constantly being evicted out of their ancestral lands for big corporations to setup mining companies and Gas pipelines (e.g. Canada). The SGI does nothing to protect the Human Rights of these people.

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In Central America, activists are killed as they voice their arguments against environmental pollution caused by Northern American companies. The SGI does nothing to protect their right to life. In East London, according to some statistics few years ago, as many as 50% of children live in poverty. The SGI-UK does nothing to support their right to a happy childhood. In the UK, homelessness has increased, and as many as 800k people access food via charities because they can't afford a meal. The SGI-UK offers no strategic solution to food poverty, even though they might have some experts in the area of public policy as members, and have over £20m of cash reserves. Hate crime has increased in the UK in the last 12 months, and the SGI-UK has no power to change that. In my experience, the hatred against Muslims was actively voiced in some SGI-UK districts and no one challenged that.

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Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power: I have said it previously and will say it again. There are thousands of activists who march the streets of their cities against Nuclear Power Stations and against Nuclear Weapons. They are the people who bring the change, not the SGI with its exhibitions about how great Ikeda is. Some activists around the world have been arrested and imprisoned for protesting, nonviolently against nuclear weapons - The SGI did nothing about it (I knew one activist who was imprisoned). Lastly, if the SGI really knows everything about Nuclear Weapons, does the SGI know where did the Uranium for USA's atom bomb on Hiroshima came from? It was mined by the First Nations people of Canada - they were deceived - they were not told that the Uranium will be used for a bomb.

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Western Sahara is a country occupied by Morocco against international laws. Morocco carries out commercial activity in Western Sahara, which is against a certain Geneva convention. Yet, the King of Morocco wrote an article for the Toda Institute. The SGI didn't question the illegal occupation with the Moroccan king.

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And finally - tens of thousands of First Nations boys were snatched from their homes by the Canadian government, and put into English language schools against their will and against their culture. The SGI did nothing to fight for their human rights. The TRC (Truth and Reconcilliation Commision of Canada) did that. The list goes on.

So if you still think that SGI will bring about world peace, you are tasting the joys of the SGI BubbleGum.

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Post Scriptum: NATO is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of civillians in the middle east - in the name of collateral damage. Has SGI pursued NATO, using a "dialogue" to review their approach?