{"id":109929,"date":"2020-12-20T16:59:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T23:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109929"},"modified":"2020-12-20T16:59:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T23:59:31","slug":"muslims-will-not-start-war-and-suffer-over-100000-muslim-deaths-and-198000-muslim-war-widows-over-cremation-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/20\/muslims-will-not-start-war-and-suffer-over-100000-muslim-deaths-and-198000-muslim-war-widows-over-cremation-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslims Will Not Start War and Suffer Over 100,000 Muslim Deaths and 198,000 Muslim War Widows Over Cremation Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Compared to Sinhala\nJVP and Tamil LTTE caused death tolls, Muslims have been the most peaceful\ncommunity. I was both amused and appalled when a powerful Muslim MP said Muslim\nyouth will take up weapons if they are not allowed burial of COVID-19 dead. TNA\nas expected echoed this very same sentiment which is also hilarious. TNA is\nmore aware than anyone else that when Tamil youth took up weapons it killed\nover 100,000 Tamils and caused 89,000 Tamil war widows. Is the TNA acting like\nthe fox that lost its tail and wanted other foxes to lose theirs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most Muslims\nunderstand the impact of unknowns surrounding the burial of COVID-19 dead. They\ntherefore cooperate with the government. Only a fraction of Muslims (most had\nnothing good to say ever about Sri Lanka or the Sinhalese) keep demanding the\nburial of Muslim COVID-19 dead. No matter what the government does, they will\nkeep hurling their racist stones at the government and the Sinhalese. In fact,\nif the government caves in, that will make them bolder to make worse extortion\ndemands. Also, the mere fact that they make this demand suggests it must be bad\nfor Sri Lanka. They do not have a history of doing any good or wishing any good\nfor Sri Lanka so this too must be bad by definition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is most\ninteresting is not even the small (10% within the Muslim community) Wahabi\nsects have demanded the burial of COVID-19 Muslim dead! They claim to follow\nIslam to the letter. This clearly shows the demand to bury COVID-19 dead is\nsimple fantasy and a political football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Muslim\ncommunity is certainly not interested in war. A war like the LTTE war would\nkill over 100,000 Muslims (and they will not be buried) and make somewhere\nbetween 89,000 and 365,000 (assumed the highest number of wives of 4) Muslim\nwar widows (on average 198,000). No one wants this. Therefore, the fear\nmongering by the Muslim MP that Muslim youth will take up weapons over the\nburial issue is just nonsense. The government must not cave in and expose its\nweakness. Treat everyone equally and do not assume undue risks over a deadly\npandemic that still has many unknowns. What works for Arabian deserts do not\nwork for Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara Compared to Sinhala JVP and Tamil LTTE caused death tolls, Muslims have been the most peaceful community. I was both amused and appalled when a powerful Muslim MP said Muslim youth will take up weapons if they are not allowed burial of COVID-19 dead. TNA as expected echoed this very same sentiment which [&hellip;]<\/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-109929","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\/109929","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=109929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}