Nalin de Silva A Muslim friend asked me what the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) wants from the Muslims. He is a genuine Muslim whom I respect though I may not agree with him sometimes. Jehan Perera in his column on 24th June states The government appears to have woken up to the gravity of the […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 24 June 2014 Andrew Bennet Canada’s Ambassador for Religious Freedom  Foreign Affairs, Sussex Drive Ottawa, Ontario Dear Andrew: Your Statement on behalf of the Canadian government condemning the outbreak of communal violence against Muslims in Sri Lanka, is fair dinkum to a point. The […]

Patali Champika Ranawaka PCR Media • ශ්‍රි ලංකාව තුළ වපුරා ඇති අන්තවාදයේ බිජුවට විනාශකොට සමාජය තුළ සහෝදරත්වයේ හෘදයාංගම ගණුදෙනුවක් ඇති කර ගත යුතුව තිබේ. • ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ඉංග්‍රීසි ජනමාධ්‍ය, බහුජාතික සංවිධාන හා වාමාශික යැයි කියාගන්නා පිරිස් ලංකාව තුළ බෞද්ධ ත්‍රස්තවාදයක් පවතින්නේ යැයි ගෙන යන සාවද්‍ය මතයට අපි පිළිතුරු දිය යුතුව තිබේ. • මුස්ලිම් සමාජය තුළ […]

15 – 21 June 2014, Cannes, France Flagship festival, the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, has been recognizing the best in communications since 1954. It has grown to become the world’s biggest celebration of creativity in communications, with more than 35,000 entries from all over the world and more than 12,000 delegates from 94 […]

by Senaka Weeraratna Sino – India rapprochement will have significant ramifications not only in Asia but throughout the world in the coming years. It is reported that the Panchsheel commemorative events will be held in Beijing on June 28 and 29, 2014 in which Vice-President Hamid Ansari, Myanmar President U Thein Sein and Chinese President […]

by Gyan de Mel When the LTTE massacred the Muslims en masse where were all these Muslim orgs, NGOs and the rest who are pointing the finger at our monks? Was there one statement issued  exposing the injustice perpetrated on the Muslims? Was there a single statement issued for the consumption of Islamic countries? Were […]

Dr. Tilak Fernando David Shepherd is one of the worlds most respected and honoured wild life artists and conservationists. Since the 1960s, he has been exceptionally popular in limited edition print productions and posters of his own paintings. Born in Hendon, West London, he exhibited his latent talents in painting at the age of eight […]

Mahinda Gunasekera, Toronto, Canada On the initiative of a few leading members of Sri Lankan expats living in Toronto, a concerned group of over thirty members both as representatives of different community associations as well as in their individual capacities met on Thursday, the 18th of June, 2014 at 7.30 p.m. at the Toronto Mahavihara […]

Shenali D Waduge The Sri Lankan military has announced that they have received information that certain politicians are attempting to divulge names of intelligence units and pin blame on them for the Aluthgama debacle in an obvious effort to create distrust and bring further chaos. It smacks memory of Aturugiriya and reminds us of how […]

Chamikara Weerasinghe Courtesy The Daily News Following the failed attempts to fan the flames of communal violence to create mayhem elsewhere in the country by exploiting the recent incidents in Aluthgama and Beruwala, a certain Opposition politician who is angered by the efficiency of the state and military intelligence that thwarted the bid, is currently […]

Sri Lanka clinched their first ever Test series victory in England by winning the second and final Investec Test match by 100 runs at Headingly yesterday. Sri Lanka, which captured five English wickets for 57 runs on Day Four, dismissed England for 249 in the penultimate delivery of the last over of the day in […]

By Udeshi Amarasinghe. Courtesy Ministry of Defence and Urban Development – Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. This is something that everyone knows, Sri Lanka was engaged in a conflict with the Liberation of Tamil Tiger Eelam (LTTE)-considered as the most ruthless terrorist organisation in the world-for 30 long years. Yes, Sri Lanka achieved peace and freedom […]

Shenali D Waduge  In July of 2013, European Parliament identified the Wahhabi movement as the source of global terrorism and a threat to traditional and diverse Muslim cultures of the whole world. Wahhabi cult was a creation of the British. That should make Muslims happy that the EU Parliament has identified not all Muslims as terrorists but Wahhabis. The […]

Part of campaign is to drive a wedge between SL and Muslim countries Evidence of funding from foreign sources Addressing a group of Colombo based Ambassadors on the recent disturbances, External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris said that the events in its internal dimension was a direct attempt to alienate the Muslim community from the […]

Shenali D Waduge The Chairman Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka Re. Buddhism Bashing in Newspapers in Sri Lanka   I am writing to draw the attention of the Press Complaints Commission in the light of its own declared Code of Professional Practice for Sri Lankan media. A content analysis will reveal the derogatory nature of […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම මීට කලින් සටහන ලියන්නට පෙර, බොස්ටන් ලංකා ටී වී එකට රජිතා සේනාරත්න ඇමති සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් දුන් සාකච්චාව මම දුටුවෙමි. ඔහු ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවෙන්  කතා කල තවත් සාකච්චාවක් ජූනි 21ද් ආ මම දුටුවෙමි. සිංහලෙන් කල කතාවට වඩා වෙනසක් ඉංග්‍රීසි කතාවේ ඇත. එයට බළලා මල්ලෙන් එලියට පැන්නා වැනි කාරණා ඇතුලත් ය. 2009 දී ඔහුට බේරුවල සංවිධායක […]

Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka in Geneva  Sri Lanka has strongly rejected the inference that the presence of the military contributes to the insecurity of women and girls in the former conflict-affected areas. Exercising a ‘Right of Reply’ with regard to the statement made during the General Debate under Agenda Item 4 by Canada, claiming […]

Courtesy dailymail.co.uk The judge who sentenced former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to death has been captured and executed by ISIS militants, it is claimed. Raouf Abdul Rahman, who sentenced the dictator to death by hanging in 2006, was reportedly killed by rebels in retaliation for the execution of the 69-year-old. Jordanian MP Khalil Attieh wrote […]

Shenali D Waduge Does Free Speech connote to mean that the media can say what they like, against whom they dislike and as often as they like generating an influence over those they capture across their media channels? In Sri Lanka we have a situation where the biased and unbalanced nature of the media has […]

Sri Lanka news With headline news related Anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka, there was another incident reported by BBC, Aljazeera, Khaleejtime and many international news outlet about a moderate Buddhist monk who was highly critical of an extremist Buddhist group has been found beaten and unconscious near Colombo. The Sri Lanka police today said the […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම බුදු හාමුදුරුවන්ට චෝදනාවක් කරමින් බඩේ දර මිටියක් බැඳගෙන තමා ගැබ්බරව සිටී යයි කී කාන්තාව මීයෙක් නිසා අමාරුවේ වැටුනේය. කුරුණෑගල පැත්තේ පල්ලිය ඉදිරියෙන්-නිශ්ශබ්ද වෙනු කියා පාරේ ගසා තිබූ බෝඩ් එක ඒ පැත්තේ මුස්ලිම් ගුරෙක් විසින් ඩැමේජ් කරද්දී පොලිසියට අතටම අසුවිය. මීට සමාන දෙයක් වටරැක මොහමඩ් විජිත කරාවි යයි සිතාගත හැක්කේ කාටද?     වටරැක විජිත […]

LankaWeb Weekly Editorial, June 23rd.2014    The only information The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) could realistically have shared with the UN would be no more than cooked up anti Government propaganda and the usual innuendo laced exaggerations about Tamil distress steeped in bias as they profess to have shared information with the UN. It is very unlikely their […]

Sunny Sunil’s Column of Critical Analysis June 21st, 2014 This is indeed a very good question and one which could pose dire ramifications for Sri Lanka unless responded to effectively as the network of Global Muslims of the Fundamental variety comprising of those who harbour radical views and create mayhem towards their objectives which very definitely […]

Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka exposes US involvement in the latest Sinhala- Muslim clashes in Sri Lanka However the Int community portray him as an extremist when he speaks the truth. FRIDAY, 20 JUNE 2014 21:50 Similar to how the United States nurtured Taliban, which later targeted strategic locations in New York, […]

By  Charles.S.Perera It has been reported that a 31 year old Muslim PhD Student Nahid Almanea died of  16 stab wounds in Colchester, Essex, UK.  She was wearing a Muslim dress-an Abaya robe and a hijab scarf at the time.  Police has warned  the public not to go to isolated places  by themselves.  It is […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම            “තොපිටත් රජෙක් ඇත කුහුඹුවනේ…”         “වැටත් නියරත් ගොයම් කෑ නම් කාට කියමිද ඒ අමාරුව”     මීට පෙර බාර් ඇසෝසියේෂන් ලොක්කන් ගැන මා ලියූ කෙටි සටහනේ උපුල් ගොයියලා ගේ “නූගත්” කම හා උසාවියට බඩගෑම ගැන සඳහන් කළෙමි. ලංකා වෙබ් අඩවියට මේ ගැන ලියූ පාඨකයෙක් පෙන්වා දුන්නේ උපුල් ගොයියා ඇඩ්වාන්ස් ලෙවෙල් […]

Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. The Eelam War in Sri Lanka has caused numerous physical and mental health ailments among the survivors. The POWs suffered extreme conditions. During the armed conflict the LTTE (the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) captured a considerable number of servicemen from the Sri Lanka Army, Sri Lanka Navy and the Sri […]

Shenali D Waduge Let’s stop fooling ourselves. We have by our own mistakes fallen into traps that could have been easily averted. Now, Sri Lanka faces an ‘international’ investigation though how ‘international’ it is needs to be questioned when it is the same handful of mischief making countries behind R2P endeavors passing these Resolutions and […]

Herold Leelawardena. Wahhabi, Deobandi, and Mawdudist are only some extremist Islamic organisations that are active in Sri Lanka. Given the globalist (US) links to Wahhabism and remembering it is such Saudis backed Tawheeds that fought Gaddafi in Libya and Assad in Syria and fight Malaki’s Shia government as ISIS in Iraq now, are we to […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando–Courtesy Island June 20, 2014, 9:44 pm President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that proscription of extremist organisations isn’t a problem, but such action does not guarantee that there won’t be further religious strife. The President said so in response to leader of the All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) and Industry and Commerce Minister […]