{"id":88335,"date":"2019-05-07T12:53:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T19:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88335"},"modified":"2019-05-07T12:53:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T19:53:56","slug":"state-ministry-of-defence-refutes-receiving-documents-from-acju-on-extremist-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/07\/state-ministry-of-defence-refutes-receiving-documents-from-acju-on-extremist-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"State Ministry of Defence refutes receiving documents from  the President of All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama ACJU on extremist activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The State Ministry of Defence has addressed a letter to the President of All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU) As-Sheikh Rizwe Mufthi denying a statement made by him at the all-religious leaders\u2019 meeting held recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Secretary of the ministry N.K.G.K. Nammawatta says, the President of ACJU had stated that he had handed over all information and documents regarding the IS-affiliated Islamist extremist in Sri Lanka to State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The letter denies this claim, however, acknowledges the fact that As-Sheikh Rizwe Mufthi had met with the State Minister in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The State Ministry of Defence has urged As-Sheikh Rizwe Mufthi to rectify this misleading and misrepresentation of facts\u201d and emphasized that legal actions would be taken against him if he fails to comply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ACJU President As-Sheikh Rizwe Mufthi had made this statement at the all-religious leaders\u2019 meeting held under the patronage of President Maithripala Sirisena on April 26th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.postimg.cc\/13z6Kjqb\/59614191-302197750677967-2757863346177835008-n.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The State Ministry of Defence has addressed a letter to the President of All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU) As-Sheikh Rizwe Mufthi denying a statement made by him at the all-religious leaders\u2019 meeting held recently. The Secretary of the ministry N.K.G.K. Nammawatta says, the President of ACJU had stated that he had handed over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88335","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=88335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}