{"id":120894,"date":"2021-12-04T17:03:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T00:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120894"},"modified":"2021-12-04T17:03:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T00:03:03","slug":"press-statement-by-the-muslim-civil-society-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/12\/04\/press-statement-by-the-muslim-civil-society-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Statement by the Muslim Civil Society Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Muslim Civil Society Alliance<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Muslim Civil Society Alliance (<strong>ACJU, MCSL, NSC,\nYMMA<\/strong>) is shocked and condemns the cold blooded murder of fellow Sri Lankan brother Mr Priyantha Diyawadana by a rabid mob, accusing him of\nblasphemy. He was a Sri Lankan expat worker and General Manager of a factory of\nthe industrial engineering company Rajco Industries in Sialkot, Punjab,\nPakistan. This is an extremely shameful and barbaric crime and should not be\ntolerated. Extra judicial vigilantism cannot be condoned at any cost by anyone, no\nmatter which religion, ethnicity or nationality they belong to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Muslim Civil Society Alliance (MCSA) condemns this horrific\nkilling, and appreciates the swift action by the Prime Minister of Pakistan,\nHon. Imran Khan and his administration in ordering the arrest of the\nperpetrators of this crime. We understand&nbsp;\nthat over 75 have been already arrested and an investigation report has\nbeen called for within 48 hours. We sincerely hope that Pakistan will set an example to the world that extremist vigilantes will face tough\njudicial action. We call upon Prime Minister Imran Khan to bring the\nperpetrators of this heinous crime to justice, and to compensate the family\nadequately for their loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We extend our deepest condolences to the family of brother Priyantha. May he attain the supreme bliss of Nirvana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hilmy Ahamed Vice President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim Civil Society Alliance The Muslim Civil Society Alliance (ACJU, MCSL, NSC, YMMA) is shocked and condemns the cold blooded murder of fellow Sri Lankan brother Mr Priyantha Diyawadana by a rabid mob, accusing him of blasphemy. He was a Sri Lankan expat worker and General Manager of a factory of the industrial engineering company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120894","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=120894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}