{"id":88662,"date":"2019-05-12T23:11:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T05:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88662"},"modified":"2019-05-12T16:06:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T23:06:45","slug":"significant-issues-emerged-after-the-easter-sunday-terror-attack-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/12\/significant-issues-emerged-after-the-easter-sunday-terror-attack-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"SIGNIFICANT ISSUES EMERGED AFTER THE EASTER SUNDAY TERROR ATTACK IN SRI LANKA"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

The\nEaster Sunday terror attacks done by Islamic terrorists in Sri Lanka consider\nas a barbaric aggression by Islamic terrorists against a peaceful nation and no\nreligion in the world based on the concept of taweed (There is no God, but\nAllah himself) would not support for such a barbaric attack and many Islam\ndevotees condemn the attacks.  After this\nbarbaric attack, several significant issues emerged in Sri Lanka and they\nshould be publicly discussed and debated without political alignments. I would\nlike to present the issues point by point to consider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • After the barbaric\nIslamic attack, security forces in Sri Lanka checked Islamic Mosques and houses,\nand found many swords and offensive weapons, which are banned in Sri Lanka in\nterms of the Offensive Weapons Act. \nLegally it is very clear that no one can keep in hand such weapons and\nit is a criminal act if any person or an organization keep offensive weapons.\nThe law indicates that such offensive weapons could be displayed in a shop but\ncannot keep such weapons in hands. I saw a statement of Mr. A.M. Ameen, the\nleader of Sri Lanka Muslim Council that offensive weapons were kept in Muslim\nMosques and houses to safeguard girls. What was the legal provision he was\ntalking about?  The criminal law of Sri\nLanka clearly prohibits keeping offensive weapons for any reason and this law\nis effective in the country since independence. \nIn this environment, how the president of Sri Lanka considers this\noffense as a simple activity.   If any\nperson in Sri Lanka needs a weapon for personal security, he or she can get a\ngun after obtaining a legally valid permit from the government.<\/li>
  • Could Sri Lanka allow\nonly one religious group to violate the law of the country ignoring other\nreligious groups? The law of a country provides justice to all citizens and why\nthe government doesn’t consider giving justice to all citizens?  The law of Sri Lanka is applicable to all\ncommunities without except to any.<\/li>
  • Does Saudi Arabia or any\nother Muslim country allow to violate criminal law provisions in the name of\nreligion or Allah?  The answer to these\nquestions is no and why the Muslim community in Sri Lanka attempts to violate\nthe law, which is not allowed in any Muslim country? In this connect it is\nquite important that many Muslim people condemn the terror attacks and\nattempted to express that terror attacks were not authenticated by the Islam\nreligion in Sri Lanka.<\/li>
  • There are personal laws\nsuch as Muslim Law, Thesawalamai law, Buddhist Vihara and Property law and\nKandyan Law. These laws are allowed in Sri Lanka considering human rights and\nthe common law provisions in Sri Lanka clearly indicate that no personal laws\nin Sri Lanka can violate the rights of any citizen of the country.  However, it seems that legal provisions in\nrelation to Muslim Marriage and divorce in Sri Lanka contradict with the common\nlaw and why the government wants to keep such laws discriminating other\ncitizens of the country.  Many practices\nof Muslim law in Sri Lanka in relation to marriage and divorce are unacceptable\nto the international community and the government needs to change the Muslim\npersonal law consistent to common law practices.  <\/li>
  • Personal laws of Muslim\nand Thesavalamai use to discriminates women, children and lower caste people in\nSri Lanka. It is a violation of Human right convention of the United\nNations.  Why the Human Rights Commission\nof the United Nations in Geneva did not question or focus on this issue.  Is this international organization playing\npolitics in Sri Lanka than performing the role assigned by the United Nations?<\/li>
  • As Rt Rev Cardinal Malcolm\nRanjith publicly stated some politicians and individuals have unduly enriched\nin the country.  Did these people pay a\nfair share of tax to the government? In terms of the Land Reform Commission Act\nin 1972, a person can hold only 50 acres, but it is reported that certain\npersonnel hold more than 50 acres and how did such transactions legally\nregister.  Why is the government not\ninvestigating the issues and punish responsible persons?<\/li>
  • Did the unduly enriched\npeople engage in money laundering activities? Why the government is not engaging\nin the investigation?<\/li>
  • Education is a national\nactivity of Sri Lanka.  The primary and\nsecondary education in Sri Lanka is a government role or government supervised\nrole. How can deviate from such role allowing Madrasa and other higher education\ninstitutions disregarding law and regulation of the country? The  Curriculum in primary and secondary education\nmust be approved by the Department of Education and how private organizations\noffer different curriculum without government approval? <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    The\nnational reconciliation process began after 2015 was mythical acting against\nthe United Nations’ accepted universal human rights and advocates of the\nyahapalana regime didn\u2019t question about the dishonest process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    As\na religion Islam contains vital philosophical views such as sakaat (Muslims who\nhave money give 1\/40 to people, siyam (fasting during the Ramadan) and salaat\n(pray five times a day) etc. Any religion, which is peaceful has a right to\nexist and if Muslim devotees consider that non-believers should be killed, it\nis unacceptable philosophy and such a religion would not exist because it is\ndischarging criminal acts, which are subject to prosecution and punishment.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The Easter Sunday terror attacks done by Islamic terrorists in Sri Lanka consider as a barbaric aggression by Islamic terrorists against a peaceful nation and no religion in the world based on the concept of taweed (There is no God, but Allah himself) would not support for such a barbaric attack and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edward-theophilus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88662","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=88662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}