{"id":88238,"date":"2019-05-05T04:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T11:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88238"},"modified":"2019-05-05T04:42:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T11:42:59","slug":"with-national-elections-approaching-all-parties-salivating-at-muslim-votes-and-want-to-push-the-matter-under-the-carpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/05\/with-national-elections-approaching-all-parties-salivating-at-muslim-votes-and-want-to-push-the-matter-under-the-carpet\/","title":{"rendered":"With National Elections Approaching All Parties Salivating at Muslim Votes and Want to Push the Matter Under the Carpet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Another election and another betrayal.\nPresidential and parliamentary elections are just months away. All parties are\ngearing up to it. And that means venerating minorities and their leaders. UNP\nhas a captive minority vote base and it very keen to keep it that way. As a\nresult UNP will never allow a crackdown of Muslim terrorism. Although only a\nsmall percentage of Muslims are terrorists, there is wide sympathy for them\nwithin the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sirisena was heavily voted by\nMuslims. No less than 85% of Muslims voted for Sirisena in 2015. He is trying\nto salvage whatever he can from this base. His SLFP managed to win a few local\ngovernment bodies with the help of some Muslim politicians. Therefore, he is\nalso very unlikely to tackle the matter other than a few publicity stunts that\nwill eventually end up with releasing most suspects. He will make sure no\nMuslim MP (current and former) is arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SLPP only managed to win 5% of the\nMuslim vote in 2018 island-wide. A totally dismal performance. However, SLPP\nleaders are doing everything they can to win more. As a result they too will\nnot support a crackdown on Muslim terrorism. They will make contradictory\nstatements to win Muslim votes from one hand while retaining other votes on the\nother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JVP is also after Muslim votes. JVP\nonce produced the first Muslim female MP. JVP will be following a wait-and-see\napproach and an approach of pussyfooting the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muslim terrorists chose the perfect\ntime to launch their attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka is in trouble again thanks\nto politicians fighting over minority votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara Another election and another betrayal. Presidential and parliamentary elections are just months away. All parties are gearing up to it. And that means venerating minorities and their leaders. UNP has a captive minority vote base and it very keen to keep it that way. As a result UNP will never allow a crackdown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88238","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=88238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}