{"id":109858,"date":"2020-12-18T17:32:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T00:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109858"},"modified":"2020-12-18T17:32:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T00:32:38","slug":"minorities-should-stop-acting-like-parasites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/18\/minorities-should-stop-acting-like-parasites\/","title":{"rendered":"Minorities Should Stop Acting Like Parasites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Whenever the nation\nfaces a dire situation, the majority goes to the forefront to save the nation,\nput up with inconveniences and difficulties, willingly makes sacrifices and\nco-operates with the government in power. But the minorities always pull from\nthe foot with petty tribal thinking. Sri Lankan minorities, as a community,\nhave never made sacrifices for any national cause. Most times they behave as if\nthey are guests or parasites to make things even more difficult at dire\nsituations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sri Lanka currently\ntreads delicately over many teething issues. Whatever the political views are\nand whatever the ethnic tribe one belongs to, everybody must cooperate with the\ngovernment or at the very least not add any more problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Demand to Bury\nCOVID-19 Muslim Dead and Worse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sections of the\nMuslim community have demanded that the government allows the burial of\nCOVID-19 dead from the Muslim community. There is sufficient evidence to say\ndead bodies contaminate ground water for a certain period of time. Further, not\nmany experiments have been done yet to know for sure that burial of Coronavirus\nvictims does not contaminate ground water. Why take the risk? Muslims are not\nthe only people who prefer burial to cremation. Christians and Jews also have\nthe tradition to bury their dead. But they cooperate with the government policy\nwithout disrupting as they take a communal view of the matter, not a petty\nracist and tribal view. Why can\u2019t Muslims do same?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then it lends to\ninsanity. Sending Muslims corpses to Maldives is a very expensive and needless\nexercise. It borders insanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make matters\nworse, a section of Catholic priests staged a silent protest against the\ndecision to cremate all COVID-19 dead. They are fishing in troubled waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Demand to\nInvestigate War Crimes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A section of Tamils\nnotoriously detached from ground realities in the north are gearing up for the\nUNHRC sessions in March 2021 to bring in war crimes charges against Sri Lanka\nonce again. Is it the most opportune time to do so when the country is battling\nso many challenging issues that also mean life and death to Tamils like\nCOVID-19 and economic crises? They have cleverly timed their tribal display for\n2021 as they know that two pro-Sri Lanka giants, Dr Sarath Weerasekera and Dr\nChanna Jayasumana will not be going to Geneva this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COVID-19 crisis and\nits response clearly showed the futility of provincial councils and devolution.\nHad the PCs remained operational, the COVID-19 crisis would have been worse as\nthe central government would have been hands-tight in swiftly dealing with the\nsituation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Demand to\nIncrease Wages of Plantation Workers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As if the above two\nextortion demands are not enough the other minority has also started agitations\nto increase their already world\u2019s highest tea plantation workers\u2019 wages. If the\ngovernment gives into their demands the entire industry will collapse as\nplantation companies cannot afford it. A powerful minister from the Indian\nTamil community recently stated that a few dozen factories have closed down in\nNuwara Eliya district which has affected the economy of his tribe\u2019s people. Of\ncourse! Not only his tribe, all tribes in the island are under severe economic\nhardships. The solution is not robbing Peter to pay Paul. The solution is a\ncollective economic march forward and sacrifices in the interim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minorities Must Count\nTheir Blessings in Comparison<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of making\nextortionist demands just because they can, minorities must count their\nblessings. Muslims in Sri Lanka are far better off than their relatives in\nIndia in terms of economic, political, security and religious advantages. India\ndoes not even allow the production of bovine beef and certainly does not allow\nthe interference of Islamic Law with the Indian law. Tamils in Sri Lanka are\nfar better off then Tamils in India and Malaysia in terms of education,\nbusiness, economic prosperity, rights and privileges and the ability to\ninfluence national leaders. Indian Tamils are obviously way better off then\ntheir unfortunate counterparts in South India. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of\nappreciating the better life they all have in Sri Lanka, they have become\ngreedy to grab anything and everything only for their survival to hell with the\nrest. Tamils and Muslims must thank the Sinhala military for preventing Tamil\nEelam. Had Tamils succeeded in creating Tamil Eelam it would have been the\npoorest nation on earth with no education, no business (other than agriculture,\nfisheries, human trafficking and sex trade), no healthcare (Sri Lankan\ngovernment was the sole provider of healthcare even to Tamil terrorists) and no\nadministrative functions (Northern and Eastern Provincial Councils run on\nsubsidized funds from the others). Pushing the limits too much will result in\nSinhalese giving up saving minorities from their own minority cannibalistic\ngroups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dilrook Kannangara Whenever the nation faces a dire situation, the majority goes to the forefront to save the nation, put up with inconveniences and difficulties, willingly makes sacrifices and co-operates with the government in power. But the minorities always pull from the foot with petty tribal thinking. Sri Lankan minorities, as a community, have never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}