{"id":118758,"date":"2021-09-30T17:18:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T00:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=118758"},"modified":"2021-09-30T17:18:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T00:18:05","slug":"does-terror-ideology-stem-from-hate-verses-in-scripts-gnanasara-thero-minister-sarath-weerasekera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/30\/does-terror-ideology-stem-from-hate-verses-in-scripts-gnanasara-thero-minister-sarath-weerasekera\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Terror ideology stem from hate verses in scripts \u2013 Gnanasara Thero & Minister Sarath Weerasekera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shenali D Waduge<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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What is the reason for 99% of terrorists resorting to suicide\nterrorism & other forms of terror? What differentiates these terrorists\nfrom others is that they quote their holy verses before committing the crime.\nHow connected is this to the overall fear by non-Muslims regarding these\nverses? If the duty of intel & security authorities is to ensure another\n21\/4 does not repeat & to ensure the country is safe & secure for all\ncitizens, not just one community, why is it that their efforts end up being\ndiverted by well-funded campaigns citing \u2018islamophobia\u2019! Their duty cannot be\ndiluted simply because some NGO figures or others in high positions claim\nanything against their community is offensive. Most of these reactions are for\ntheir own personal\/political gains & have nothing to do with concern for\ntheir community. When 99% of global attacks are related to terrorism based on\nreligious superiority and by 4 main groups of which ISIS wants to create a\nCaliphate in Sri Lanka and when the Easter Sunday suicide bombers claim to be\npart of the ISIS, why should Muslims feel offended when someone says that a\nterrorist attack may happen in the future. Is it not because Tamil leaders and\nTamils pooh-poohed LTTE that LTTE was allowed to grow & become lethal? Therefore,\ncitizens cannot ignore that the Easter Sunday attack took Sri Lanka by\nsurprise, though local intel were aware of pocket groups aligned to the\nideology & had been monitoring them. Verbal statements is nowhere near as\ndeadly as an attack that took place on 21\/4. It was no isolated attack\nmotivated by an isolated objective. Therefore, no one should take offence when\nanyone publicly says that the threat of future attacks persists \u2013 isn\u2019t this\nwhy 32 countries of the world continue to ban LTTE even after its demise in May\n2009? So long as the ideology is\nthe source of the terrorism \u2013 the State & its citizens have every right to\nbe alert.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When\nall of the Islamic\/Islamist terrorists commit mass murder in the name of their\nreligion, which included the Sri Lankan student-turned refugee who stabbed 5\npersons in New Zealand \u2013 there is certainly cause for concern. Why are those\nwho got offended by the Admiral\u2019s or the thero\u2019s interviews\/statements not\noffended more by these suicide bombers committing mass murder in the name of\ntheir religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many\ndenounced the crime after it was committed but until it was committed, no one\nknew he was going to. However, in the case of the 21\/4 suicide bombers, there\nwas a nexus planning to execute the crime \u2013 this nexus was much larger than the\n9 suicide bombers who think they went to heaven!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\nis the very reason that the Sri Lankan authorities cannot and should not let\ntheir guard down simply because there appears to be a campaign to divert the\nattention under a feigned projection of targeting ALL Muslims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us remind all that quite a number of the said community was\naware of large numbers of swords being hidden in various places across the\nisland. How many reported this? There were foreign preachers in remote parts of\nthe island, how many reported these? The arrests made soon after 21\/4 revealed\nthat the majority of them were in the intel monitoring list and if we recall\nsome of these special units were disbanded after 2015 crippling their\noperations. The person who reported the Mawanella Buddha statue disfiguring,\nwas eventually shot by Zaharan\u2019s group and today remains injured for life. https:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/breaking_news\/Informant-of-Easter-Sunday-suspects-rewarded\/108-218514<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Islamic scholar Usthaz Rasheed Hajjul Akbar (uncle of those\nwho defamed the Buddha statue on Mawanella) was detained by CID in August\n2019, Latheef Farook was quick to write in his defence Demonised, battered and\nostracised Muslim community of Sri Lanka is deeply disturbed at the detention\nof respected Islamic scholar\u201d. The National Shoora Council, All Ceylon YMMA\nconference, All Ceylon Union of Muslim League Youth Front, Muslim Council of\nSri Lanka, Muslim Media forum and All Ceylon Jamiathul Ulema even petitioned\nfor his release. He was arrested in March 2021 under PTA \u2013 https:\/\/www.newsfirst.lk\/2021\/03\/13\/ex-leader-of-jamaat-e-islami-arrested-under-pta\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore,\nthe onus is on the Muslim community to be alert to the preachers that preach to\nthem, the mosques that preach radicalism, the foreign preachers that arrive\netc. Have such reports been made since 21\/4 to the security agencies as the\nnexus that plotted to commit 21\/4 is still at large \u2013 Muslims must help locate\nthe locals involved in this mass murder, whatever powerful positions they hold\nand powerful people should not use their clout to prevent investigations or\narrest citing islamophobia\u201d \u2013 we do not wish to see a bloodbath similar to\n21\/4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planning\nto kill close to 300 innocent people is nothing that can be forgotten or\nforgiven. What often happens is that political\/economical & social\npressures are exerted to delay or divert the punishment of the perpetrators as\nwe have seen regarding the campaign around the arrested lawyer linked to 21\/4\nwhose charity was accepting funds from an internationally banned entity. Given\nthe international clout of these entities & personages linked to them, can\nwe expect true justice? While the same parties will be quoting all the law\nbooks when they claim to be \u2018discriminated\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore,\ninstead of nit-picking on statements and carrying wrong placards \u2013 everyone is\nduty-bound to ensure no innocent live is compromised in the name of religion or\ncontroversial religious texts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alternatively,\nit is good to tabulate the verses being quoted by terrorists and either issue a\nglobal clarification or have them removed altogether if it can prevent\nradicalization & extremisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With\nISIS claiming to make Sri Lanka a Caliphate & knowing the Western-brains\nthat manipulate ISIS, Muslims must understand the dangers lurking which\nrequires them to ensure that their youth do not get roped into radicalism. The\nissue at hand is the fact that suicide in the name of religion is regarded as a\nnoble act & not something to abhor and this factor must be looked into by\nthe Muslim community. Our goal is to prevent another generation of brainwashed\nyouth who become mere pawns in a bigger game that seeks to only kill &\ndestroy & destabilize nations. We must now understand the bigger picture.\nPoliticians of this community must not commit the same mistake that the\npoliticians linked to LTTE did \u2013 a camouflage to gain votes & enjoy\nparliamentary privileges and political panache!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shenali D Waduge What is the reason for 99% of terrorists resorting to suicide terrorism & other forms of terror? What differentiates these terrorists from others is that they quote their holy verses before committing the crime. How connected is this to the overall fear by non-Muslims regarding these verses? If the duty of intel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenali-waduge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118758","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=118758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}