{"id":40747,"date":"2015-01-10T09:49:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T15:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=40747"},"modified":"2015-01-10T02:36:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T09:36:55","slug":"we-welcome-you-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/01\/10\/we-welcome-you-mr-president\/","title":{"rendered":"We welcome you Mr. President!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai\/ Coordinator, Almuslimaath. \u00a0Dehiwela<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Almuslimaath, The Srilankan Association of Muslim women and Girls welcome you and wish you all the best Mr. President.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Needless to say, just like those who wished you to come to power, we are overwhelmed by your magnificent victory. We feel it is the victory of the voice of the oppressed people, especially the minority, even more pointedly the Muslims. The agony the Muslims had to face in the latter part of \u00a0last regime, specifically the Muslim women, needs no repetition. We openly expressed wish for a change and fervently prayed to Allah to bring about safety and peace, and we thank Allah, He did.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The whole nation has put in great hopes of your governance and we sincerely hope you will not fall prey to the vice all the earlier Presidents elects did- breaking the promises. We also wish you will be different from all previous Presidents in being the President of each and every citizen- whether they voted for you or not \u2013 for that is what good governance is all about.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We, like the rest of the country \u00a0are looking forward for an exciting new era with abated breath for clean, fresh \u00a0and peaceful \u00a0Srilanka.<\/p>\n<p>We wish you all the best and pray to Allah that He will guide you to be the best president of Srilanka ever.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sent by:<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai\/ Coordinator, Almuslimaath.<\/p>\n<p>Dehiwela<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai\/ Coordinator, Almuslimaath. \u00a0Dehiwela Almuslimaath, The Srilankan Association of Muslim women and Girls welcome you and wish you all the best Mr. President. Needless to say, just like those who wished you to come to power, we are overwhelmed by your magnificent victory. We feel it is the victory of the voice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40747","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=40747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}