7)
“Arson”
In
1997-1998, Nichiren Shoshu spent months enamored of the idea that the SGI
was inflaming its members to acts of violence whenever its publications
referred to Nichiren Shoshu in any negative light whatsoever. There was
a sudden proliferation of such messages on ARBN, it showed up on their
websites, priests said it to their followers.
And what a surprise! A man armed with a knife he didn’t use when attacked, coming to see a priest who wasn’t at the temple at that moment but was expecting a visitor, observed by the priest’s wife who happened to be watching a security monitor at that very moment, and subdued by a lay temple member who was the only one at the temple with the priest’s wife — this man poured gasoline in the vestibule of the temple and, tackled before he could light a match (and forgetting he had a knife with which he intended to do violence), immediately began saying that Gakkai publications made him do it!
Of course the man was a Gakkai member, and no one has ever denied there aren’t a few fruitcakes among the 10 million or so Gakkai members around the world. Or that none of them might be lured by the temple into helping the temple, even unwittingly.
More rebuttal of SG-eye: