{"id":75561,"date":"2018-03-11T15:39:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T22:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=75561"},"modified":"2018-03-11T15:39:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T22:39:14","slug":"if-muslim-wants-genuine-peace-and-harmony-with-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/03\/11\/if-muslim-wants-genuine-peace-and-harmony-with-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"If Muslim wants Genuine Peace and Harmony with Majority&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"subject\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Nimal Tissa Wijetunga<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>People talked about Sinhala Buddhist chauvinism must answer the following:<br \/>\nWe would like to bring to the attention the following actions\/activities of Muslims may have led to suspicion by the majority and shattering of Peace &amp; Harmony and those are,<\/div>\n<div>\n1) When Sri Lanka team involved in Cricket, Muslims of Sri Lanka supported Cricket teams from Muslim countries.<br \/>\n2) Hijab and covering by black colour is not the practise or custom of Muslims in Sri Lanka time immemorial and suddenly started doing so in order to show solidarity with Muslims in Arabian Penninsula or Arab World as the colour black is considered by the majority as the colour of the Ghost.<br \/>\n3) Killing cows, bulls, buffaloes for meat much to the dismay of the Majority.<br \/>\n4) Using loudspeakers to call for prayers, which is not required in the present circumstances.<br \/>\n5) Forming political parties on racial basis and voting on racial basis.<br \/>\n6) Destroying Buddhist Archeological sites in Sampoor, Kuragala, and other sites in North and East.<br \/>\n7) Destroying Wilpattu and other forest reserves for settlement.<br \/>\n8) Supporting extremist groups such as Taliban, ISIS etc.<br \/>\n9) Hate speeches by Muslim politicians.<br \/>\n10) Giving the impression in actions that Muslim minority is challenging the very fabrication of Sri Lanka as Sinhalese Buddhist country.<\/div>\n<div>\nWe are of the view that people talked about Majority opportunistically by not looking at the problems of the other side.<br \/>\nIf the Muslims really want genuine Peace and Harmony with the majority need to give very hard look for the above and stop those happening or practising anymore.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nimal Tissa Wijetunga People talked about Sinhala Buddhist chauvinism must answer the following: We would like to bring to the attention the following actions\/activities of Muslims may have led to suspicion by the majority and shattering of Peace &amp; Harmony and those are, 1) When Sri Lanka team involved in Cricket, Muslims of Sri Lanka [&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-75561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75561","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=75561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}