{"id":46513,"date":"2015-08-03T23:02:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T05:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=46513"},"modified":"2015-08-03T14:27:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T21:27:38","slug":"sri-lanka-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/08\/03\/sri-lanka-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Charles.S.Perera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The Moors came to Sri Lanka as traders.\u00a0 When the Portuguese merchant vessels adventured into Indian Ocean\u00a0 the Moors were chased away. These vagrant traders chased by the Portuguese sought the protection of Sinhala Kings who settled them in a village in the East allowing them to\u00a0 marry Sinhala women. They have no ethnic \u00a0identity , therefore they identify them from their religion as Muslims.<\/p>\n

Having descended from seafaring\u00a0 traders, they have no great cultural background, they have lost their original linguistic connection and burrowed the language of the Tamils. Living in villages married to Sinhala women the Muslims were a peaceful people engaged in small trade and barter with the villagers.<\/p>\n

As the original Moors the ancestors of the present day Sri Lanka Muslims were protected by the King and lived in areas allocated to them amoung the Sinhala villages the Muslims have a greater reason to be grateful to the Sinhala and build a more amicable fraternal relationship with them. But they followed the Tamils\u00a0 and acquired the Tamil way of existence with a desire to be different. They were traders and built with the other communities a business relationship.<\/p>\n

The Muslim having had no cultural leanings, and\u00a0 being small in number paid more attention\u00a0 in procreation of the kind. They became builders of mosques, living according to the Koran. They lived and lives with fear of their God, who according to Quran is every where watching what they do. Their God says in Quran that when there are two of them there is the third, when there are three of them there is a forth:<\/p>\n

And He is with you wherever you are. (57.4) There is no private conversation of three except that He is the fourth of them, nor are there five\u00a0 but that He is the sixth of them- and no less than that and no more except that He is with them wherever they are. (58.7) http:\/\/www.as-salaf.com\/article.php?aid=83&lang=en<\/a>]<\/p>\n

That means that the Muslims cannot take an independent logical decision on any thing, being constantly in fear of God.<\/p>\n

Their God is cruel and therefore\u00a0 cruelty has come to them from their religion, according to which they pray to Allah five times a day. They are generous, kind and compassionate only to the Muslims, the others are called the infidel and the God tells them to do away with infidels.<\/p>\n

The Quran contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with non believers for the sake of Islamic rule. Some are quite graphic, with commands to chop off heads and fingers\u00a0 and kill infidels wherever they may be hiding. Muslims who do not join the fight\u00a0 are called\u00a0 hypocrites\u201d and warned that Allah will send them to hell if they do not join the slaughter.\u201d http:\/\/www.thereligionofpeace.com\/quran\/023-violence.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

But the early Sri Lanka Muslims were not fanatics .\u00a0 They did not put religion before every thing.\u00a0 But it is later on that they burrowed fanatism from Muslim Arabs-Jihadists and Wahabists. Now have even changed the dress of\u00a0 Muslim women according to Saudi Arabians.<\/p>\n

However, the Muslim Community\u00a0 began to prosper and there was even a Muslim Marcan Makara mentioned as having participated in the independent struggle apart from T.B.Jayah who was a Malay. The Sri Lanka Muslims remained a backward community until 1956.\u00a0 It was not the UNP but the SLF\u00a8P of S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike that emancipated the Sri Lanka Muslims bringing them into the\u00a0 political mainstream.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>The Muslims of those days were not influenced by any foreign\u00a0 Muslim fundamentalism or Whabism.\u00a0 One did not hear the Muslims speak about Sharia Law or Halal.\u00a0 They were simple living in harmony with the\u00a0 people of the neighbouring villages\u00a0 and towns.<\/p>\n

The Muslim community in Sri Lanka prior to the formation of the people\u2019s government of Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike in 1956 was more or less a community of serfdom depending entirely on the handouts from the rich traders, landowners in the agricultural areas, rich families in the fishing areas or from the owners of large herds of animal husbandry. An ordinary Muslim was voiceless and they had to dutifully oblige the master if they were to stay on their vocation and sustain their families. Due to these pathetic slavish status Muslims were forced to support and vote for the UNP of the elites, as dictated by their masters at times of election.\u201d SWRD and Muslims A.A.M.Nizam. http:\/\/archives.dailynews.lk\/2009\/12\/31\/fea01.asp<\/a><\/p>\n

It was SWRD Bandaranaike\u2019s SLFP Government that gave a significant Ministerial Post to a Muslim C.A.S.Marikkar, and made a Muslim H.S.Ismail the Speaker of the Parliament.\u00a0 The UNP had given an insignificant post of the Labour Minister \u00a0under UNP Governments.<\/p>\n

This was a giant step taken by the truly Sri Lankan Bandaranaike Government to emancipate the Muslim community and liberate them from the bondage to Mudalalis and open a new vista for Muslim children to pursue higher education. It was a well-known that there were many villages and towns at that time without a single Muslim graduate, without a single Muslim Doctor, Lawyer, Accountant or even a middle ranking Government servant.<\/strong> (SLFP Governments\u2019 contribution to Muslim education<\/strong><\/p>\n

A.A.M.Nizam)http:\/\/archives.dailynews.lk\/2001\/pix\/PrintPage.asp?REF=\/2010\/01\/02\/fea11.asp<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Then in 1977 Dr. Badiuddin Mohamud became the Minister of Education.\u00a0 He was a Muslim Nationalist , who damaged the earlier Muslim tradition of\u00a0 living together with the Sinhala in peace.\u00a0 Dr. Badiuddin Mohamud\u2019s nationalism was undoubtedly due to his association with Rajan Chelvanayagam, Chelliah Rajadurai, Nadarajah Moorthy- the \u00a0Tamil separatist. Dr. Badiuddin Mohammud started the Muslim girls\u2019 and boys\u2019 schools .<\/p>\n

However another Muslim writer S.M.M.Bazeer says ;<\/p>\n

Dr. Badiudeen never identified himself with the eccentric claims of Rasool or the other chanters and supporters of Kilakistan\u201d. He was extremely concerned about the educational development of the Muslims and believed in national harmony as a true Sri Lankan.\u00a0\u201d http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/2008\/04\/shape-of-muslim-nation-in-east.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Gradually the Muslims began to forget their beginnings, their protection\u00a0 by a Sinhala King and the birth of a Muslim\u00a0 Community with Sinhala women as their wives. This ingratitude was seen amoung the Sri Lanka Muslims in Madawala , who had also forgotten their past and the gratitude they owe to the Sinhala\u00a0 having forgotten that it was the majority Sinhala who had accepted them and given them their rights<\/p>\n

The Sri Lanka Muslims did not contribute in any way in patriotic activities.\u00a0 They stood on the fringe of events and profited from\u00a0 efforts and sacrifices of the Sinhala for their protection and even for their accumulation of wealth.\u00a0\u00a0 However there was an exception that we the Sinhala cannot forget though the Muslims failed to recognise that great heroism.<\/p>\n

It is about\u00a0 Late Lieutenant Colonel Fazly Lafir the man who made grate sacrifice, fighting the terrorists along side the Sinhala soldiers. The ambitious non patriotic Sri Lanka Muslim political nationalists\u00a0 lead by Rauf Hakeem never give a thought to him or speak of his bravery.<\/p>\n

Lieutenant Colonel Fazly Lafir, a 37-year-old veteran special operations soldier and one of the founding members of the Special Forces. Lafir and the first wave of SF landed under heavy fire on the exposed beach. The pilots of the SLAF\u2019s No 6 Helicopter Squadron brought their Mi-17 transports suicidally close to the Tiger positions, one landing his SF stick\u201d practically on top of a Tiger .50-in heavy machine-gun, so close that the Tiger crew couldn\u2019t bring their weapon to bear in time. Led by Fazly Lafir, who was by now in radio contact with 215 Brigade, the SF fought through the rest of the day and, after being reinforced by a second wave of SF at dusk, into the night to secure the beachhead, making repeated assaults on the Tiger positions that surrounded them, and losing thirty-six men killed and sixty wounded. Already shot several times, Lafir continued to lead his men until finally killed by shrapnel early on the 19th. At one point during the night, surrounded by battle and the continuous mortar fire of the Tigers, he was heard to say, This is the most beautiful night of my life.\u201d Lieutenant Colonel Fazly Lafir is the highest ranking member of the Armed Forces to receive the PWV.\u201d (http:\/\/blacklightarrow.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/28\/parama-wee<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lieutenant Commander \u00a0Colonel Fazly\u00a0 married a Sinhala woman accentuating his grateness keeping a promise he made to a dying Sinhala soldier he rescued in a previous daring exploit in the midst of terrorist shooting . The\u00a0 Muslims of Madawala\u00a0 had it is said demanded that he does not step into Madawala his birth placed as he had married a Sinhala woman.\u00a0 This \u00a0poses the question whether the Sri Lanka Muslims who put their religion first could ever be patriots of Sri Lanka ?<\/p>\n

No the Sri Lanka Muslims \u00a0are also a set of racist separatists.<\/p>\n

M.H.M.Ashroff an ultra Nationalist Muslim formed the SLMC declaring their main motive was to form a larger\u00a0 Provincial Council of the Muslims linking all the Muslims Towns and Villages to be administered from Ampara.\u00a0 He began by bulldozing the ancient Buddhist ruins in and around\u00a0 Digavapa, which is being repeated today in Vilpattu. Buy another fanatic Muslim Minister.<\/p>\n

Hakeem is the worst of Sri Lanka Muslims. He is determined to have a separate Muslim State by hook or by crook as\u00a0 the saying goes.\u00a0 He entered into\u00a0 a MoU even with Prabhakaran himself.\u00a0 Having failed he joined\u00a0 Mahinda Rajapakse\u2019s Government.\u00a0 And now thinking that finally the time has come \u00a0for him to form his autonomous Muslim Provincial State in the east has joined with Ranil Wickramasinghe with an MoU to have the East for him to form a Muslim Provincial Council under a Federal system.<\/p>\n

Hakim is the most distrustful. He acts with no rhyme or reason according to the way his fez cap changes . He is not gentlemen he was with President Chandrika Kumaratunga, left her with no real reason allowing the break down of her government resulting in Ranil Wickramasinghe coming to power to\u00a0 become her Prime Minister, costing Sri lanka the greatest disaster with\u00a0 his trust on the whited signing\u00a0 the CFA prepared by Solheim \u00a0with Prabhakaran. He almost sold out Sri lanka to the terrorists. Fortunately there was Mahinda Rajapakse \u00a0to put things right.<\/p>\n

Hakeem is said \u00a0to have entered into an election pact earlier with Ranil Wickramasinghe during his Presidential election in 1905, that the Muslims should be given autonomy in the East and boasted that an autonomous region for Muslims would have been established if Ranil had come to power.<\/p>\n

Is not that what the Sri Lanka Muslims are claiming today ?<\/p>\n

In the meantime\u00a0 it was recently reported that, Responding to the TNA\u2019 call for the merger of the North and the East \u2013 based on Tamil leaders\u2019 persistent call for a federal system of governance within a unified North-Eastern Province \u2013 Hasan Ali said the Eastern Muslims will continue to agitate for the creation of a separate unit of devolution consisting of all non-contiguous geographical areas where Muslims are settled, modelled on India\u2019s Pondicherry Union Territory.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Please Read:The Shape Of The ” Muslim Nation” In The East- A Reminiscence (Part 1) by. S.M.M.Bazeer<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/2008\/04\/shape-of-muslim-nation-in-east.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sri Lanka Muslims should not forget that Ranil Wickramasinghe the Leader of the UNP\u00a0 the man who comes from the f\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 amily of \u00a0Thambi Mudiyanse\u201d, a forefather of former President late Mr. J.R.Jayawardene, the traitor who handed \u00a0over Sri Wickrema Rajasinghe, the king of Kande Udarata,\u00a0 last kingdom to the British. \u00a0It is with this Wickramasinghe\u00a0 that Rauf Hakeem is now planning to establish an autonomous Muslim Province in the East.\u00a0 Ranil Wickramasinghe \u00a0is responsible for the death of a\u00a0 good number Muslim patriots who served in the Military Intelligence service who baffled Prabhakaran with their exceptional intelligence gathering.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0It is apparent that one of the matters of the secret agreement Mr. Rail Wickremasinghe had with tiger organization before the General Election was to expose this special Army unit and destroy it. Accordingly, after Mr. Ranil Wickremasinghe came to power he employed a treacherous police officer and several others to fulfil the promise he had given to tiger terrorists. It is none other than this great betrayal of Athurugiriya. http:\/\/sftruth2010.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/arrest-ranil-wickramasinghe.html<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sri Lanka Muslims have successfully carried their objective of procreation, increasing their population considerably.\u00a0 This has necessitated\u00a0 new<\/p>\n

Muslim settlements and the Muslim Minister Rishad Bathiutheen following the foot steps of \u00a0Ashrof who bulldozed Buddhist ruins in Digavapi,\u00a0 has allowed Sri Lanka Muslims to deforest reservations in Sri Lanka such as Vilpattu National Park for Muslim settlements.<\/p>\n

Sinhala voters at the next parliamentary elections on the 18 August should take into account that we have not only a possibility of having a separate Autonomous\u00a0 Tamil Province in the North , but also another Automomous\u00a0\u00a0 Muslim Province in the East and the Sri Lanka the country of the Sinhala will be reduced to a very small land \u00a0hemmed between a Muslim land in the East and a Tamil \u00a0land in the North.<\/p>\n

Sinhala the question is are we allowing this\u00a0 to happen by voting for the UNP and allow Ranil the divider of the Nation to come into power ?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>What we have before us is not a question of which Party we are going to vote into power at the Parliamentary election of the 18th Ausgust, but whether we let our\u00a0 Sri Lanka exist as it had been for the last\u00a0 thousands of years before the Tamils and Muslims started claiming parts of it as theirs ?<\/p>\n

Put Ranil Wickramasinghe into power and say goodbye to a unitary Sri Lanka or put Mahinda Rajapakse into power and say long live Sri Lanka our unitary state our motherland be blessed for ever ?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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