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By Latheef Farook

Hundreds of articles have been written in all three languages during the past few months analysing from every possible angle the United States sponsored United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution against Sri Lanka on alleged human rights violations during the final days of the government’s war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam-LTTE.

However there was hardly an article dealing with the role played by Muslim countries in supporting Sri

Lanka. Most of these countries are actually American allies. This happened last year too when the resolution calling on Sri Lanka to investigate alleged human rights violations was passed by 24 votes to 15 with 8 abstentions.

by Dr Sulaiman Rifai, Naleemi (London)

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Patriotism, allegiance and loyalty of Srilankan Muslims to Mother Lanka: Part: 1. - by Dr Rifai Naleemi. UK

It is imperative to examine and gauge the true nature of Muslims’ patriotism to mother lanka. Particularly, this is a timely needed subject in the context of prevailing current debates about Muslim people in Srilanka. Muslim population in Srilanka according to the recent census constitutes 9. 2%. Do they really have loyalty and allegiance to this land? Do they love this land as the majority people of the land do? Or do they have loyalty to another land in the world map? Do they belong to Saudi or Pakistan or do they belong to somewhere else.

A strange mystery   has been created in the mind of some people that minority people do not belong to this Island. It has been debated by some people in utter an arrogant to say that this country belongs only to the majority people alone.

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භික්ෂූන්ට මහේස්ත්‍රාත් බුදු මග පෙන්නයි

2013 අපේ‍්‍රල් මස 02 12:45:25 | බිමල් ශ්‍යාමන් ජයසිංහ

බුද්ධ ප්‍රත්‍රයන් බුදුන් දෙසූ ධර්මය අනුව සමාජ  ආරවුල් ඇති නොකර සමාජය එකමුතු කරමින් මහජනතාවට හෝ නරක කියා දිය යුතු යැයි නුගේගොඩ මහේස්ත්‍රාත් අජිත් එම් මාසිංහ මහතා පැෂන් බග් නඩුවේ සැකකරුවන් නිදහස් කරමින් කියා සිටියේය.

බුද්ධ පුත්‍රයන් හැමවිටම බුදුන් අනුදැන වදාළ මග යායුතු බව ද මහේස්ත්‍රාත් ප්‍රකාශ කළේය.

කොරළවැල්ල පුරාණ රජමහා විහාරයේ දම් පහළ රාහුල, ගල්කිස්ස තෙලවල සිරි විජය ධර්මායතනයේ දම්පහල ඥානරතන, කොරලවැල්ල පුරාණ රජ මහා විහාරයේ අනුරාධපුර පාලිත, පැපිලියානේ ටී එච් එම් ප්‍රේමකුමාර, පැපිලියානේ සජිත් ලක්මාල් (සන්නිවේදන ආයතන හිමිකරු) දිවුලපිටියේ පී කේ චන්ද්‍රසිරි (ව්‍යාපාරික), ප්‍රභාත් ජයෂාන්ත, දිවුලපිටියේ ඊ ටී චම්පික, කොහුවල ලලිත් ධර්මප්‍රිය, බොරලැස්ගමුවේ රනිල් ප්‍රනාන්දු (ත්‍රීරෝද රියදුරු), ප්‍රසන්න විමල් ද සිල්වා (පංසලක සේවක), මේනක ප්‍රියදර්ශන, ප්‍රදීප් සුරංග, ඉන්දික ධර්මප්‍රිය, චමිල හර්ෂන, ඒ එම් ගයාන් හා 16 හැවිරිදි පාසල් සිසුවෙක් උසාවියට ඉදිරිපත් කළ සැකකරුවෝය.

http://www.lankadeepa.lk/index.php/top_story/106262

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Pepiliyana attack: Parties agree to amicable settlement

TUESDAY, 02 APRIL 2013 13:05

Those involved in the March 24 incident at Pepiliyana, in which two business establishments including the Fashion Bug were attacked, had agreed to mitigate the matter today.

Nugegoda Magistrate Ajith P Masinghe released the 17 suspects including three persons in robes with a stern warning.

http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/27584-pepiliyana-attack-parties-agree-to-amicable-settlement.html

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හිමි තෙනමක් බාර වෙති

2013 අපේ‍්‍රල් මස 01 19:56:57 | බිමල් ශ්‍යාමන් ජයසිංහ

පැපිලියාන ෆැෂන්බග් ආයතනයට පසුගිය බ්‍රහස්පතින්දා ගල්මුල් ප්‍රහාරයක් එල්ල කළැයි සැකපිට කටුබැද්දේ හිමිවරුන් තුන් නමක් බාර වූ බව පොලීසිය කියයි.

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3 monks implicated in mob attack surrender

MONDAY, 01 APRIL 2013 21:06

Three Buddhist monks who had been implicated in the mob attack on a clothing outlet in Pepiliyana recently had surrendered to the Mirihana Police Station this evening, the police spokesman said

Police Spokesman SP Buddhika Siriwardane said that the suspected monks would be produced before the Gangodawila Magistrate tomorrow.

The warehouse of the ‘Fashion Bug’ clothing outlet was damaged in the attack that took place on Thursday (28) night.

http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/27560-3-monks-implicated-in-mob-attack-surrender.html

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By Izeth Hussain

Suddenly, and quite unexpectedly, the term "racism" has come into vogue. I myself have been using it for years, in preference to the term "ethnic" in connection with our famous ethnic problem. But otherwise it has been normally used in Sri Lanka only to allege "Tamil racism", the assumption behind which is that the Sinhalese of course have never been racist towards the Tamils, or towards anyone else for that matter. But now, in connection with the anti-Muslim hate campaign and the halal problem, - which involve Buddhist monks and a political party that is part of the Government - many including no less than the President have used the term "racism". There is therefore recognition among the Sinhalese power elite that there could be racists within their own ranks. I see this as a step or even a great leap forward, the beginnings of a possible sea-change, holding out promise for the future.

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The Muslim Council of Sri Lanka (MCSL) expresses its deep concern and strongly condemns the unwarranted attacks against the Muslim Business establishments and threatening the security and business interests of the Muslim community by some extremist groups.

Further, these extremist elements have gone to the extent of misquoting and misinterpreting our holy Quran.  They are also inciting violence against the Muslim community through blatant lies.

The Muslims of Sri Lanka have stood shoulder to shoulder with the Sinhala community against all threats from internal and external forces in upholding the sovereignty of Sri Lanka,

As such, we call upon the Government and the Secretary Defense to take immediate action against all groups perpetrating extremism and violence without prejudice and to ensure the maintenance of law and order.

N M Ameen
President
Muslim Council of Sri Lanka

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Several people have been injured in Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, when Buddhist monks led hundreds in an assault on a Muslim-owned clothing warehouse.

Buddhist monks were filmed throwing stones at the storage centre of popular garment chain Fashion Bug in a suburb of the capital on Thursday night.

Police told AFP news agency that forces had been deployed to guard the area.

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March 29, 2013

Leader of Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) and Minister of Justice, Rauff Hakeem, has requested President Mahinda Rajapakse to convene a cabinet meeting to discuss the rising religious unrest and civil disturbance in the country.

Minister Hakeem has also contacted all the Muslim parliamentarians including Senior Minister M H M Fowzie (who is currently out of the country) and Ministers Rishard Bathiutheen and A L M Athaullah for the meeting, with this regard.