{"id":53270,"date":"2016-03-27T21:37:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T03:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=53270"},"modified":"2016-03-26T12:18:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T19:18:11","slug":"tamils-are-the-worst-racists-ever-says-a-sri-lankan-muslim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/03\/27\/tamils-are-the-worst-racists-ever-says-a-sri-lankan-muslim\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamils are the worst racists ever says a Sri Lankan Muslim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shenali D Waduge<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

I have come to share the view of the Sinhalese hard-liners that the Tamil ethnic problem cannot be solved through devolution\u2026..I now share their view that going beyond 13A \u2026.by giving police and land powers will only aggravate the ethnic problem not solve it\u201d<\/em><\/strong> so says Izeth Hussain who has for years been writing about Sinhala racism. Why would Izeth Hussain who represents the views of the Muslim polity in Sri Lanka now change his former opinion? His conclusion comes after realizing that \u2018Tamil racism is worse than Sinhalese racism\u201d<\/em><\/strong> and realizing the extent of the threat India poses for the people of presently sovereign\u201d Sri Lanka. Finally, Izeth Hussein is bringing out the confederal notion that ITAK the main constituent party of the TNA is hiding in its constitution which Hussein realizes is more or less a stepping stone to Eelam which really means the annexation of Sri Lanka to India.<\/p>\n

The Island of 25th<\/sup> March 2016 publishes Mr. Hussain\u2019s article : http:\/\/www.island.lk\/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=142638<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

That Izeth Hussain has come to his senses realizing the present trend of things is welcome especially if the Muslims begin to realize that every time the West gets involved the Muslims end up cannon fodder unfortunately using their own men to kill each other. Middle East is in flames and innocent civilians and children are perishing but the world and its media will only mourn the Belgium victims. Millions of Muslims are either displaced, being driven to different nations for cheap labor on the pretext of humanitarian acceptance.<\/p>\n

What Izeth Hussain and all others need to first establish is whether we had an ethnic problem or in reality it was a terrorist problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If Sri Lanka had only an ethnic problem why would 32 nations ban LTTE as a terrorist organization? This question never gets answered. <\/strong><\/p>\n

We cannot accept the much hyped notion of an ethnic problem primarily because there is nothing to showcase that legally, constitutionally and legislatively the minorities are denied what legally, constitutionally and legislatively is given to or enjoyed only by Sinhalese. <\/strong>There is no public or private example anyone can produce to showcase that Sinhalese are a privileged ethnic group or privileges are made available to ONLY Sinhalese and denied to Tamils and Muslims.<\/p>\n

Of course, we must add that it was with the toil of the Sinhalese that the nation was built, architecture, ancient ruins, artefacts, reservoirs, tanks etc are all evidence of the civilization that was built by the Sinhalese. There is nothing to outmatch what the Sinhalese have done throughout the island nation. This historical fact cannot be denied, unacknowledged or stolen from the Sinhalese just because a set of Western worshipping liberals find it unpalatable to give credit where credit is due.<\/p>\n

Mr. Hussain would agree that Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims were all victims of terror. Sinhalese & Muslims have been omitted from being treated as victims by the international community & the UN, even the Sri Lankan Governments including the former. None of the grievances of the Sinhalese\/Muslim IDPs have been looked into even when the East was liberated far before the North. The entire emphasis and global attention is only on Tamil IDPs when we seriously have to question how many of these IDPs are really Sri Lankan Tamils and not those from Tamil Nadu. LTTE did say 33% of its cadres were from Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n

Mr. Hussein would also agree that racist tendencies only arise when wrong actions, inactions and delayed actions take place. The Sinhalese have always reacted to actions when the other party does not desire to live in one country, under one national flag, singing one national anthem in the language of the majority as happens all over the world, in one unifying language that binds people and with one vision to protect one\u2019s nations and defend it from foreign incursions and intrusions. History is witness that it has always been the Sinhalese to defend the nation against foreign invaders, the minorities had been deployed as sepoy army fighting on the side of the invaders. This was so during the 1818 and 1848 rebellions against the British.<\/p>\n

Returning to Mr. Hussain\u2019s article, he goes on to say \u2018Tamils regard themselves as not just another minority but a national minority, with their homeland and a right at least to internal self-determination\u201d. <\/em><\/strong>Mr. Hussain says the notion is \u2018nonsensical\u2019.<\/p>\n

It is definitely ridiculous for the Tamils have no real claim with sufficient evidence to showcase they are indigenous to Sri Lanka to claim a homeland and self-determination. Sinhalese must now come out with the evidence to showcase that they were very much living throughout the island far before any Tamils migrated from Tamil Nadu. The Tamil language is not indigenous to Sri Lanka, it originates in Tamil Nadu. The Tamil culture, the Tamil customs, and even the Tamil race are not indigenous to Sri Lanka but finds origins in Tamil Nadu.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nowhere in the world do you find an ethnic group called the Sinhalese, a language called the Sinhalese that developed in the island, cultures and traditions that are all indigenous. The Tamils find all roots returning to Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n

Nowhere in the world do you find 2 homelands because the moment Tamils are given self-determination the Tamil Nadu Tamils will demand the same because they have been demanding it far before the Tamils in Sri Lanka started the replica of that song. In knowing that the aim of the Tamils is self-determination Colombo would be insane to agree to any devolution that constitutes a confederal or federation set up because it only means the government is foolishly setting up what the Tamil politicos have been planning all along.<\/p>\n

It is just as well that a Muslim member of society is briefing the public about why devolution is unsavoury in the climax of things. He is quite correct to identify the Indian factor. He is spot on when he says it would not be exaggerated to say that the ethnic problem we have on our hands is in reality an Indian problem, not a Sri Lankan one\u2019.<\/em><\/strong> Our problem becomes a problem because of the Tamil Nadu factor. Quite correct. Every time Tamil Nadu sneezes, Sri Lankan Tamils gets the cold and the Sri Lankan Government gets the injection. That\u2019s how Tamils end up on the international media arena. The 76million Tamils in Tamil Nadu is the reason and not because 2.2million Tamils claim to be suffering. Remove 76milion Tamils from the equation the world would not even look at the Sri Lankan Tamils even if LTTE were bombing them to pieces. As Mr. Hussain points out the West totally ignored when India violated our sovereignty, flew over our airspace, dropped parippu, and arm-twisted the signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord in 1987 and even went to the extent of changing the constitution and bringing in the 13th<\/sup> amendment and not a hum came from the West. Funnily enough JR had changed the country\u2019s entire foreign policy and shifted it to pro-West but not a single white nation came to JR\u2019s assistance. Nephew Ranil must surely read the writings on the wall when ironically enough 30 years close to the anniversary of the Indo-Lanka Accord the Indians are now pushing for the ECTA which is a virtual Indian invasion of Sri Lanka, a rail and road link and a new constitution all of which Ranil is now totally clueless about how to control. He is likely to make far more detrimental blunders to the nation than what the uncle made allowing the arrival of the IPKF which Premadasa sent packing back three years after they arrived.<\/p>\n

The West was never interested in giving liberty to Iraq, they just wanted to get rid of Saddam and take over Iraq. The West wasn\u2019t interested in liberating Libyans from Gaddafi, they killed him so they could control the Middle East. Afghanistan and all other countries that the West uses R2P\/military interventions have absolutely nothing to do with saving the people. They just manufacture a problem, use propaganda to get public backing and then remove the obstacles and take over the country. Minorities and their rights or rather lack of rights have become an excellent tool to achieve that objective.<\/p>\n

Contrary to what Mr. Hussain says about India committing a monumental blunder in stopping the Vaddamarachchi operation thinking a political solution can be found to the ethnic problem, the fact remains India is well aware there is no ethnic problem. India is also aware that Prabakaran was India\u2019s creation so were all other Tamil militant groups. They were very much in control of Prabakaran in 1987 though that scenario changed after LTTE was hijacked by the West\/Church for their own agenda. India-created LTTE was only in its 5th<\/sup>\/6th<\/sup> year of terror. India was not willing to put into water all the training and money gone into destabalizing Sri Lanka via militancy. That meant allowing the Sri Lankan Army to catch their hero was out of the question. That was how Prabakaran was whisked away to safety. The script changed towards 2009 because India by then wanted LTTE out of the way as they had used the time LTTE prevailed to ensure enough Indians legally and illegally had penetrated into the local polity and all that India had to do was to twist Sri Lanka\u2019s government further politically and economically which it succeeded to do with the former government riding on the \u2018our concern is for Tamil\u2019 mantra.<\/p>\n

The notion that Sri Lanka\u2019s friends will pose a threat if they are not India\u2019s friends is something that has been flogged enough. It becomes baffling to understand this logic when India\u2019s closeness to the West makes any to wonder whether India is ignorantly walking into the same balkanization doctrine used to break up the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. India\u2019s angst with China cannot be that much a threat that India would side with the very enemy that wishes to not only destroy China but India as well. If India reads how far the Church has penetrated into rural India, India would soon realize rather than later that China is not the real enemy of Indias. India in foolishly siding with the West to clip China and China-friendly nations is ignorantly making India vulnerable to the West\u2019s future plans.<\/p>\n

What India proposes to balance the status quo is to ride the West\u2019s \u2018Looking Asia\u2019 agenda which picking up pieces to expand Indian hegemony as well. Securing at least north Sri Lanka for the present through a new constitution and then getting appeasing Sri Lankan governments to agree to ventures like ECTA, road and rail link to India, open access to Indians in Sri Lanka, building of homes by Indians for Indians\u201d are all a subtle means of casually taking over the entire country. The TNA have got whiff of their glim future and are now opposing the construction of the 65,000 homes by Indians. The MY3-Ranil government are yet to wake up to the reality of what the future will be like unless they are promised new homes overseas.<\/p>\n

It is also noteworthy that Mr. Hussain has brought up the confederal name because a court case has challenged ITAK to confirm if their constitution is federal or confederal. There is a safety net in a federal set up in so far as the centre has power to annual a province and take it back, a confederal set up on the other hand does not afford that opportunity which is why the TNA and separatist promoters are using the words \u2018united Sri Lanka\u2019 there is no legal definition to \u2018united\u2019 Sri Lanka unlike \u2018unitary\u2019 and confederal set ups can always choose to separate and this is what India is promoting using ITAK\/TNA so that they can always be one up against the Sri Lankan government and tip the scales in India\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n

This article by Mr. Hussain is to be continued so while the 2nd<\/sup> part is awaited hope the Muslims and Tamils who wish to live peacefully in the country they call Sri Lanka think seriously about the scenarios unfolding.<\/p>\n

Shenali D Waduge<\/strong><\/p>\n