{"id":88654,"date":"2019-05-12T23:09:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T05:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88654"},"modified":"2019-05-12T15:53:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T22:53:39","slug":"fighting-muslim-terrorism-far-more-complicated-than-fighting-tamil-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/12\/fighting-muslim-terrorism-far-more-complicated-than-fighting-tamil-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Muslim Terrorism Far More Complicated than Fighting Tamil Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Fighting Tamil terrorists and Muslim\nterrorists are two different things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. (During the war) Tamils were a\nnet economic burden to the nation. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 70% of Sri Lankan Tamils lived\nin the north and the east but a very small amount of tax was paid by them.\nTheir expenses were enormous. A massive number of taxpayer funded schools, a\nlarge number of Tamil university students (far more than 12.8% their ethnic\npercentage then), very high free medical cost, free fertilizer, free food, etc.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more the dead and emigrated, the\nlesser the recurring economic burden on the economy as tax payers were\nextremely few in the north. (Sorry, economic realities don’t play catch-up with\nmorality).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not the case with Muslims. They\nmake a net positive contribution to the economy and less tax money is drawn by\nthem for education, healthcare, higher education, etc.<\/strong> (for whatever\nreason)<\/strong>. Therefore inevitable disruption of Muslims’ economy in a conflict\nhas an adverse impact on the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. India (the main sponsor of\nTamils) doesn’t provide any economic benefit to Sri Lanka. <\/strong>In fact, India is a net economic drain on Sri Lanka. So if\nIndia imposed sanctions, etc. It would have benefited Sri Lanka! Even in India\nonly 6% of the population is Tamil. So whatever happened in Sri Lanka to Tamils\nmattered a little to India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, OIC countries are providing\nSri Lanka over $7 billion net gains. They are at the heart of this conflict and\nthey stand up for each other of the Muslim community. If Sri Lanka gets them\noff side, that is the end of the nation and the economy of the Sinhala\ncommunity. Almost 100% of these countries’ population is Muslim.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. The distribution is another\nfactor. Over 70% of Sri Lankan Tamils live\/d in the north and east. The north\nis\/was almost 100% Tamil only. The collapse of the northern economy didn’t\nimpact Sinhalese and Muslims. But Muslims are everywhere. The collapse of their\neconomy affects all.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Although Tamil terrorists\nmaintained links with other terrorist groups and nations, it was limited.\nMuslim terrorists are very tightly linked to at least 50 similar terrorist\ngroups around the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Muslims are far more integrated\nto the Sri Lankan society than Tamils economically and politically.<\/strong> No Tamil politician is voted by Sinhalese but plenty of\nMuslim politicians are voted into parliament by Sinhalese. e.g. Imitiyas,\nMarikkar, Cader, Fowzi, Aboosally, Hameed, MH Mohammad, Hasheem, Musammil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Muslim businessmen sponsor many\ncommunity events benefiting all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uprooting Muslim terrorists has\ncollateral damage and the impact seeps into the entire Lankan community.\nSelf-isolated Tamil community didn’t have any such impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For these reasons we must be extra\ncareful in handling this. We cannot exterminate Muslim terrorists as easily\n(and as least costly) as we exterminated Tamil terrorists.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it must be done. That’s why\na very clever strategy is needed that saves the economy and the nation both at\nthe same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dilrook Kannangara Fighting Tamil terrorists and Muslim terrorists are two different things. 1. (During the war) Tamils were a net economic burden to the nation. Over 70% of Sri Lankan Tamils lived in the north and the east but a very small amount of tax was paid by them. Their expenses were enormous. A massive […]<\/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-88654","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\/88654","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=88654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}