{"id":76068,"date":"2018-03-30T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T20:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=76068"},"modified":"2018-03-30T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T20:58:07","slug":"bashing-of-muslims-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/03\/30\/bashing-of-muslims-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"BASHING OF MUSLIMS IN SRI LANKA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I am in London these days and keep reading web news about No confidence Motion against PM and previously the skirmish in Digana .I have very close friends I London and Sri Lanka who are Muslims .When we meet again I find it little embarrassing to face them.<\/p>\n<p>Whether I like it or not I have to partially admit that Sinhala Race is a somewhat racist to in order to save my face .I walked into a shop owned by a Sri Lankan Muslim form Kurunagala who speaks to me in Sinhala (many Sinhalese opt to speak in (S) English to me) and greeted me Ayubovan .I returned greetings by Salam Malaikum\u201d<br \/>\nHe asked me, Kohomada Machan and I said Nalla ,Inshah Allah <\/p>\n<p>This is how we feel about each other .He was critical of politicians three years back during Aluthgama fiasco and now he was critical again about politicians.<br \/>\nKnowing my general attitude, he jokingly said Machan Umba Nuwara Awussala Meheta awada? (You created trouble in Kandy and bolted to London)<br \/>\nI said Yes machan .Sudda kochchara unath Hondai ( White people are somewhat better ),because despite much anti Muslim and ISIS fear white- British do not react like we Sinhalese .<\/p>\n<p>My doctor in London was a Muslim from Riddeegama and he knew Subashitaya and Sellalihini Sandeshaya by heart .He studied Buddhism and yet he know Koran by heart and prays few hours daily.<\/p>\n<p>Only difference in me and him is that I am a Buddhist materialist who does not believe in God and he believes in Allah.!<br \/>\nMuslims are good traders .There are many Muslim business leaders who employ both Sinhala and Muslims including Tamils .When we associate with them I could not see any Anti Sinhala stance .<\/p>\n<p>We may have different of opinions with Muslims in other parts of the world but we both sectors have to live in HARMONY<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera I am in London these days and keep reading web news about No confidence Motion against PM and previously the skirmish in Digana .I have very close friends I London and Sri Lanka who are Muslims .When we meet again I find it little embarrassing to face them. Whether I like it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76068","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=76068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}