Herold Leelawardena Very strongly and fundamentally, Muslims believe that Allah had created everything we perceive, and there is no God other than Allah, and Quran has nothing but the word of Allah, and Muhammad is the last prophet that Allah had send. Consequently, every Muslim appreciates, rationalizes and follow Sunna which is the life style […]

Herold Leelawardena සෑම මුසල්මානුවෙක්ගේම මූලික තදබල විශ්වාසය වන්නේ අල්ලා මිස වෙනත් දෙවියෙක් නැති බවත්, අල්ලා දෙවියන් විසින් සියල්ල මවා අැති බවත්, කුරානයේ අැත්තේ අල්ලාගේ වචනය පමනක් බවත්  මොහම්මඩ් අල්ලා එවූ අන්තිම ගැලවුම්කාරයා හෙවත් නබී තුමා බවත්ය. එ් අනුව සෑම මුසල්මානුවෙක්ම ර්‍ණසුන්නාණීයනුවෙන් සදහන් කරන මොහම්මඩ්ගේ ඡීවන රටාව සාධාරණීකරනය කරයි, අගය කරයි, අනුගමනය කරයි’ මුසල්මානුවන්ගේ අැදහීම් සහ […]

Shenali D Waduge There are time-tested ways to embarrass a country. Rape, torture, kidnapping, genocide are just a handful and with mainstream media, roped in journalists, puppet UN officials, money-hungry NGOs forming a team to project ‘allegations’ & ‘stories’ without evidence or proof, a country is automatically declared guilty by default. Rape has been defined […]

Nalin de Silva What does Mangala Samaraweera, the man who held a Buddha Statue at Punchi Borella while he was a minister, by the neck, showing that he has no respect at all for Bududahama, Budunvahanse or Sinhala Buddhism want? Apparently he is omniscient. He knows exactly what happened at Nolimit, Panadura. He told the […]

Susantha Wijesinghe This is something that is very easy to make, and all concerned about eradication of Dengue, should start.  Also, “FLY PAPER ” too, do trap Mosquitos. It can be imported, or manufactured in Sri Lanka, by a business entrepreneur. He can be a millionaire overnight.  Government authorities should look into this suggestion very […]

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 […]