The response of the urgent situation while the country had been dominating by the colonial French and the communist threat, in Southern Vietnam, Prophet Huỳnh Phú Sổ who founded the Hòa Hảo religion on July 4, 1939. It is not a Buddha cult, therefore Prophet respects Buddha that causes of the misunderstanding the Hòa Hảo is the religious Buddhist. Moreover, the altar of Hòa Hảo religion has no Buddha statue or portrait, indeed a brown cloth and yellow flag with three horizontally red striped (color brown symbolizes the humble people and yellow flag is the traditional Vietnamese flag that is also the South Vietnam’s flag). The Hòa Hảo religion also organized the militia (units were the company and battalion) and the Vietnam Democratic Socialist Party. Hòa Hảo religion has opposed strongly the communist, so Hồ Chí Minh ordered the local officials were Trần Văn Giàu and Bửu Vinh assassinated Huỳnh Phú Sổ on April 16, 1947. His body was cut off into many parts and buried at the different places because communist feared the Hòa Hảo adherent revenge. Prophet Huỳnh Phú Sổ left over many poems as Bible, there are two verses depict the relation between life and religion:
Đời Không đạo, đời vô liêm sĩ. (The life without religion that is unscrupulous)
Đạo không đời, đạo biết dạy ai. (The religion without life, teaching no one).
In the society, everyone has to comply the law, so the career or job have the rules, likely the religion has the canonical rein. Nevertheless, the religion relates the society as fish needs water. Certainly, the religion couldn’t stand above the law or stay outlaw, even in the practice, the religion must to accord to the morality and also respect the law. Moreover, in the democratic countries, the government and law respect the religion, but anything has the limit. The most religion has the foundation, the worship is free in their region, therefore the Muslim often worship at the public places as park, street, sometimes the numerous adherent gathers thousand, the traffic congested. The police, the government may eye on the illegal worship.
The common signification of religion advocates the goodness, stay away from the bad. Despite the religion has their own worship, but the monk, priest, cleric to be charged if they break the law.
There are some Catholic Priests broke the law, mostly the child sex abuse, although the impacts occurred a long time, the criminals couldn’t escape the law. In Australia, Cardinal George Pell being investigated by police, if he is guilty, it is a first cardinal charged. The Buddhist monks are not an exemption, in the US, Senior Venerable Thích Chánh Lạc who raped two teenagers then he paid $USD 4.8 million for victim’s compensation after dealing outside, if not he would be jailed. In Australia, a plaintiff’s lawyer Lê Đình Hồ was the Buddhist Venerable Thích Nguyên Trực (full name is Trần Trung Hòa). The lawsuit set against Nam Úc Tuần Báo (Weekly newspaper) after published an article” Celibate Monk asked ‘prostitute’ for sex – Nirvana is just $40” on April 17, 2009. Despite this news bases on The Daily Telegraph released on December 3, 2004. Therefore, the Venerable didn’t sue The Daily Telegraph but a Buddhist spiritual leader applied the legal action against a Vietnamese-language newspaper. Actually, the Buddhist monk has plenty money that contributed by the followers, so the newspaper declined because they had not enough money to appeal. If a client has plenty money and could rent an expert lawyer, so the wrongdoer could transform the guilty to clear. The lost case of Nam Úc Tuần Báo raises the doubt about the legal system in the democratic country as Australia. Why didn’t Bill Clinton sue the newspapers, television, radio in the US because they broadcast the news about Monica Lewinsky? Recently, why doesn’t Cardinal George Pell sue the media published the news about his sex abuse charges? The justice department and law society and the concerned lawyers may review the case above.
The lawyer could stand both sides are defendant and plaintiff, but the dishonest lawyer is keen to make a profit than protect the justice. The dishonest is like a robber with the paper knife.
The basic math 2+2 =4 could never have the other result, likely a normal people could recognize the wrong and right, black and white, good and bad. The religion distinguishes between the evil and angel and guiding the followers orient the righteousness. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be signed by every member, but the most communist countries as China, Vietnam…define differently the human rights signification. Because the UN has no power forcing all members to comply the common rule.
The Sharia law conflicts against the human life, certainly it doesn’t suit with the Human Rights definition of UN but the Muslim countries apply and impose into the society. Moreover, the Muslim live offshore want to spread the Sharia law into the adopted countries while the legal system opposes the polygamy, child bride, female genital mutilation, the Allah certified on food being argued. However, the Muslim population of the western countries pressures into the national politics, actually, the left party and the hungry ballot politicians want to elect, so they recruit the Muslim candidates or influencing the tendency in the crowded Muslim’s electoral units. Nowadays, UK has a first Muslim London mayor, some states have the senators, representative, councillors….the native people worry a day, the Sharia Law will impose into the society, the social valuation conflicts, the phenomenon appears the strange social pattern that adds more concern about the society has been threatening when some Muslim want to remove the Cross in churches, schools, abolish the Father Christmas. In Australia, after Miss Yassmin Abdel Magied attacked and insulted the Anzac, despite the nation react, but Foreign Minister Julie Bishop refuses to sack yassmin from the government advisory Board, instead, the foreign ministry defends the remaining advisor Yassmin that is the multiple culture reason. Nevertheless, the Burqa raises argument into the Australia parliament, although the strange costume could cause the difficulty for security field, some politicians support. Certainly, the politicians, left party knew the Sharia law conflicts with the human rights, gender discrimination, but they stand alongside with the Sharia followers because the Muslim voters could help them retain the seats or winning the election.