Buddhist leaders claim missionaries desecrate Buddha images in conversion rites

Evidence

To add to the list of anti-conversion tactics mentioned—after a period of expert brainwashing, an image of the Buddha is dashed on the floor, and the erstwhile Buddhist children and … adults are made to spit or do worse on the shattered pieces, while chanting, “See, he cannot save himself.” — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 261

Categorization

• QUESTION: This reads like an allegation circulating within the nationalist discourse rather than a documented occurrence — worth verifying whether it is fact or manufactured myth, which bears directly on the reader’s manufactured-enemy question.
• XREF: connects to: Nationalist propaganda depicts Christian conversion as ritual desecration of the Buddha.; Religious leaders stoked fears of mass conversion to justify anti-Christian violence — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 243

Broader Connections

• Religious leaders stoked fears of mass conversion to justify anti-Christian violence #exemplifies (0.80) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 243
• Nationalist propaganda depicts Christian conversion as ritual desecration of the Buddha. #expands (0.78)