Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 12: Ven.Athuraliye Rathana Thera, Jathika Hela Urumaya leader and a National List Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament, has brought out a document on a comprehensive plan to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) which is believed to have inspired or directed the suicide bombings in Sri Lanka […]

GAGANI WEERAKOON Courtesy Ceylon Today While noting that there are various regional and world powers trying to take advantage of the current situation, due to the strategic and geographical importance of Sri Lanka’s location, Army Commander Lt. General Mahesh Senanayake vouched that he will not agree to sign the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with […]

Trip Pisso Confession by EX-Muslim in Sri Lanka _____________________________________ ලෝකයේ ගොඩක් රටවල් වල තරුණ තරුණියන් මේ වන විට ඉස්ලාම් ආගමෙන් ඉවත් වන ප්‍රවණතාවක් දැකිය හැකිය. පහත දැක්වෙන්නේ ඉන් සමහරක් සංවිධාන වේ. Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB), Council of Ex-Muslims of Bangladesh, Ex-Muslims of North America, Council of Ex-Muslims of New Zealand, ExMuslim Support Network […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  Every day we read and hear about the way tourism has suffered and how not only airlines ,hotels ,and eating houses and even tuk tuk drivers are suffering . During one of the meeting hosted by EDB I mentioned about the problem we are facing to get insurance policies for industries .Industires […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 11 (Reuters/News18/newsin.asia): Sri Lankan Security Forces are looking for terror-leader Zahran’s successors. A madrassah teacher and a firebrand preacher of the Wahabi and Salafi brands of Islam in Kattankudi in Eastern Sri Lanka, Zahran Hashim had led the group of suicide bombers on April 21 and perished in the attack on […]

By Asiff Hussein/Daily Mirror Colombo, April 29: As recent events have shown, religious extremism is going to be the biggest challenge of our times. In every part of the world, extremists hijack religion to push their evil agendas, be it ISIS in the Middle East, Shiv Sena in India or the Bodu Bala Sena in […]

By Ameen Izzadeen/Daily Mirror Colombo, May 10: The Easter Sunday terror attacks have opened the Pandora’s Box of questions on various aspects of Islam, its teachings and commands, amid an avalanche of Islamophobia, hate speech, distrust and scorn. When the 9/11 terror attacks happened, a similar wave of Islamophobia swept the United States and the […]

lanka C news 2015 වසරේ සිට ඉස්ලාම් අන්තවාදය ආයුධ රැස් කිරීම් සිදු කරද්දී මුස්ලිම් දේශපාලඥයන්ට බියෙන් ආණ්ඩුව ඊට විරුද්ධ වූයේ නැති බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී පූජ්‍ය අතුරලියේ රතන හිමියෝ සඳහන් කරති. බුද්ධි අංශ විසින් මේ බව 2015 ට පෙර පටන් ම දන්වා තිබූ බව උන්වහන්සේ කොළඹදී පැවති උත්සව සභාවක් අමතමින් සඳහන් කළේය. 2016 ජනාධිපතිවරයා ඉදිරියේදීම බුද්ධි […]

ALI SUKHANVER Some people might be of opinion that the present government of Pakistan has yet not succeeded in coming up to the expectations of the people but facts and figures say that things would get better in the days to come. The Imran Khan government is neither inefficient nor incompetent; the actual problem seems […]

By Norman Plaihawadana Courtesy The Island All officials who received prior information about the Easter Sunday bombings but did not take any action to prevent them should be removed along with the country’s leadership, Archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith said at the Sunday mass at St. Lucia’s Cathedral, Kotahena, yesterday. This mass was held […]

Courtesy India Today Mohamed Aliyar, 60, is the founder of the Centre for Islamic Guidance, which boasts a mosque, a religious school and a library in Zahran’s hometown of Kattankudy, a Muslim-dominated city on Sri Lanka’s eastern shores. Sources said Aliyar’s hardline views were shaped by ultra-conservative Salafi-Wahhabi texts he picked up at the Centre […]

Courtesy Reuters COLOMBO (Reuters) – Several dozen people threw stones at mosques and Muslim-owned stores and a local man was beaten in the town of Chilaw on Sri Lanka’s west coast on Sunday in a dispute that started on Facebook, sources told Reuters. Three weeks ago in Sri Lanka Islamist bombers blew themselves up in […]

Courtesy  The South China Morning Post  Ultraconservative Salafi-Wahhabi Islam, which has its roots in the Middle Eastern kingdom, has been taking root among the South Asian island’s Muslims The flag of Saudi Arabia. Photo: APSri Lankan authorities have arrested a Saudi-educated scholar for what they claim are links with Zahran Hashim, the suspected ringleader of the Easter […]

T.K.G. Kapila Courtesy The Daily Mirror A 47-year-old moulavi was arrested by the CID at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) on charges of using social media platform to air extremist views. The suspect, a resident of Vavuniya, was arrested yesterday morning at the BIA on his arrival from Mecca after performing Hajj. It was reported […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Three weeks have passed since the Easter Sunday massacres. Normalcy is slowly returning. However, there is a perceptible sense of uncertainty, bewilderment, and bitterness amongst people. Muslims are complaining of being estranged by others. When the entire economy took a catastrophic hit, it is hard to determine if the […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today The Colombo Crimes Division, in a joint search operation conducted with the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) at the Colombo office of a leading US-owned multinational software company, outsourcing services to global companies, have apprehended five of its employees on suspected connection to Islamist extremism and the Easter Sunday combined bomb attacks. According […]

METHMALIE DISSANAYAKE  Courtesy Ceylon Today An investigation has been launched to determine as to how the son of Eastern Province Governor M.L.A.M. Hizbullah secured shares worth Rs 500 million in the controversial ‘Batticaloa Campus’ aka ‘Sharia University,’ State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardena yesterday (9) told Parliament. This educational institute had been given to Sri […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Leader of the Opposition Mahinda Rajapaksa stated that the government should provide a guarantee regarding the security of the country especially in a background where the schools will be starting again from tomorrow (13). Stating that the past government commenced the missions in search of extremists, he claimed that the current situation […]

Courtesy Adaderana Police curfew has been imposed within Kuliyapitiya, Bingiriya and Dummalasuriya Police division with immediate effect, stated the Police Media Spokesperson. The curfew has been imposed to diffuse a tense situation in the relevant area, the Police said. Accordingly, the police curfew will in effect until 6 am tomorrow (13). Meanwhile, police curfew is […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The attitude of Yahapalana government to the bomb blast threat raises many questions. Yahapalana had known that something was going on, but had not taken action. President Sirisena was asked whether the Government was aware that there were local Muslims with ISIS links, prior to the attacks. The President said that there was […]

 Dr. Daya Hewapathirane WORLD’S FIRST BUDDHIST UNIVERSITY DEMOLISHED BY MUSLIMS. NALANDA: lIustrious International Buddhist University from 5th century CE to 12 century CE.   At the end of 12th century, Muslim invaders demolished the university, burnt down its priceless library, and mercilessly massacred its scholars including Buddhist monks In the 6th century BCE, Buddhism was well […]

Laksiri Warnakula Our sacred landscape of religious and ethnic harmony The recent tragic event on the ‘Easter Sunday’ saw a cataclysmic outpouring of anger, condemnation and criticism, expressed mainly in newspapers and other social media sites. While few resorted to a more subdued response and a somewhat in-depth analysis, the majority’s anger and anguish was/is […]

Ira de Silva Mayor John ToryCity Hall100 Queen StreetToronto, OntarioM5H 2N2 Dear Sir: I refer to your proclamation Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day, May 18th, 2019. I am curious as to why you have chosen this date, May 18th for remembering “Tamil Genocide”. For Sri Lankans the day reminds them that it was on May 19th, […]

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By Anbarasan Ethirajan Courtesy BBC News, Sri Lanka For many Sri Lankans, it was a horrific shock to learn that local Muslims could have been behind the suicide attacks that killed more than 250 people last month. How could a small group have planned such a devastating wave of bombings undetected? The clues were there in mid-January, when Sri Lankan police stumbled upon 100kg […]

Geeta Mohan Courtesy  India Today Sri Lankan army chief Senanayake said that India, China, United States, Israel, Australia and the United Arab Emirates were looking to provide high-grade military technology, including communication and surveillance equipment, to deal with future threats. We have requested India for intelligence cooperation: Sri Lanka’s army commander Mahesh Senanayake | Photo […]

Courtesy  Financial Tribune Iran traded 256,551 tons of non-oil commodities worth $141 million with Sri Lanka in the last fiscal year (ended March 20, 2019) to register a 53.58% growth in tonnage and 8.22% decline in value compared with the year before, latest data released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration show. Iran’s […]

Walid M. Sadi Courtesy The Jordan Times Sri Lanka has taken several additional security measures in the aftermath of the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels that killed 258 people and injured nearly 500 others. Among these new measures is forbidding the wearing of the Niqab face veil by women. The authorities in the […]

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