{"id":87876,"date":"2019-04-28T16:45:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T23:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87876"},"modified":"2019-04-28T16:45:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T23:45:05","slug":"it-is-mangala-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/28\/it-is-mangala-again\/","title":{"rendered":"It is Mangala Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Palitha Senanayake<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

\u2018<\/strong>Nothing in the world is more\ndangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity\u2019- <\/strong>Martin\nLuther King<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mangala Samaraweera continues to better his record as\nthe most treacherous person ever to assume a political office since\nindependence in Sri Lanka.  Holding a\npress conference on Friday the 27th<\/sup> April on the Easter attack, he\nmaintained that he is concerned about the loss of revenue in tourism and the\neffect the attack may have on the future arrivals. Then he went on to say that,\n\u2018However, as a result of this attack the Millennium Corporation in America has\npromised Sri Lanka US $ 500 million as aid for two development projects in the\ncountry\u201d. Nothing about 250+ lives lost of innocent people in this country!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This \u2018internationalized poodle\u2019 co-sponsored the\nAmerican resolution to take action on war crimes alleged to have been committed\nby the SL forces during the humanitarian operation that ended the 33-year\ninstability in Sri Lanka and brought a ray of hope to the people.  Then he could not find anybody more\nappropriate than Ms Samantha Power, the former UN Representative for the US,\nwho was instrumental in bringing those fabricated charges against the forces,\nto celebrate his 30 years in politics. \nThese actions imply that this ex-Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka is\nutterly ignorant of international affairs and also that his devotion to America\nhas blinded his senses. Thus, let me educate this \u2018American poodle\u2019 about the\nbackground of the Easter Sunday attack and the origin of armed Muslim\nextremism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saudi Arabia is a country that has offered so many\nprivileges to America because, it was American technology that brought them all\nthat oil wealth and also the underpopulated feudal state depended on America\nfor its defense. In early 1990\u2019s some oil-producing countries ( Iraq, Libya and\nVenezuela) wanted to do away with the US$ as the medium of international\ncurrency for oil due to economic and political reasons and Saudi Arabia\nstaunchly opposed this move resulting in the split of OPEC. The US $ in oil\nexports is so crucial for the US economy as the US $ was the biggest item of\nexports US had (next to arms) at the time. Thus, you could see today that none\nof those leaders ( Saddam, Gaddafi and Chavez)who wanted to replace the US $ in\noil transactions do not exist today as they have been eliminated by the US on\nsome guise or the other. Henceforth Saudi Arabia continued to be the strongest\nUS ally in world affairs ( next to Israel) and then in keeping with their\nreligious fanatism started to export Wahhabism ( a sect of Sunni Muslim) to the\nrest of the world. It exploited the issues US had with Iran (the primary Shia\nMuslim country in the world) and directly and indirectly manipulated US to\nattack all Shia countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saddam Hussien was a critique of Saudi Arabia and US\nfor lording over the world oil economy and advocated independence from US to\nobtain better terms for their oil. However, US used the Kuwait issue to invade\nIraq to get rid of Saddam Husein and finally ended up killing more than a\nmillion Iraqis. US aided and abetted all the extremist elements within the\ncountry, especially religious extremist who were not happy with Saddam\u2019s secular\nways. As a result religious extremism, spearheaded by a group called ISI (Islamic\nState for Iraq) raised its head. Every Muslim in this world is under the belief\nthat this whole world would one day become an Islamic State and many thought\nthat this was the beginning of that eventuality and therefore started\nsupporting it in various ways. Iraq, though a complex religious and ethnic mix,\nsurvived for centuries due to a strong center but today Iraq is very much a\nfragmented country unable to be cohesive as a singular nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Syria too is a Shia majority country with a Shia sect\ncalled \u2018Alaywiyyah\u2019 holding sway in its governance.  The Sunni Muslim rulers of Saudi Arabia wanted\nAzzad of Syria out of power and so was Israel. US sent its troops in the guise\nof an \u2018Arab Spring\u2019 to \u2018democratize\u2019 Syria and ended up bring about a colossal humanitarian\ncrisis where thousands of Syrian got killed and millions displaced.  Abubakar, the ISI leader, extended his\nactivities to the neighboring Syria with the help of US forces an renamed his\norganization as ISIS ( Islamic State for Iraq and Syria).  The war went on for years with the US\nsupporting the radicals against Azaad and in the process the radical extremism took\nroot in the region. Inspired by all this, the ISIS started to show their real\ncolors by recruiting world-wide and by launching a campaign to eliminate all\nnon-Muslims in those countries. Thus, America helped the rise of extremism in\nIraq and Syria. The fact is that both these states had a sizeable Christian and\nYazdi populations for centuries but after these exercises there were no\nChristians and Yazidis left in those countries; thanks to US intervention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is against this reality that Mangala is bragging\nabout the entry of US into Sri Lanka\u2019s problems. At present times in Sri Lanka,\nit is a folly to be wise because ignorance is bliss at the\nhighest level of country\u2019s governance.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Palitha Senanayake \u2018Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity\u2019- Martin Luther King Mangala Samaraweera continues to better his record as the most treacherous person ever to assume a political office since independence in Sri Lanka.  Holding a press conference on Friday the 27th April on the Easter attack, he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87876","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=87876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}