{"id":88705,"date":"2019-05-13T16:22:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T23:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=88705"},"modified":"2019-05-13T16:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T23:22:53","slug":"ban-batticaloa-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/13\/ban-batticaloa-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban Batticaloa University"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wimal Senanayake\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Listening to what the National University Teachers Association had\nto tell about the construction of the private Muslim University in Batticaloa\nwas like watching one of the convoluted conspiracy\nstories in a Bond’s film. A set of disguised masterful plans and\ndeceit with a huge sum of cash changing hands in the main characters are common\nin Bond films. An apparent small project that requested\npermission only for some innocuous courses for adults transforming later\nmultiple times with the name as well as the aim of the project into a vast\nuniversity that looks designed to cater to vast number of students\nincluding foreign students as well. The teachers enrolled so far are all\nforeign and it is no brainer to suspect it is going to be a regional hub\nfor fundamental extreme views that would harm not only our country but the\nwhole volatile region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government has so far kept mum on their action on\nthis project and anything but a taking over the entire project with the\nbuildings to facilitate the two universities already in the\nEast would lead to disastrous consequences in the future. President’s\nadmission it will be continued as a private university and Hakeem’s impromptu\nproposal to take it under his ministry are all diabolical plans to keep things\nto cool down to continue with its master plan later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact this has revealed why Hakeem has asked for the Higher\nEducation Ministry at the first place. Building this university has\nbeen a masterplan involving most of these corrupt Muslim ministers with\nsubtle connections with the extreme movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Credit to the Ex president Mrs Chandrika Kumaranatunga who\nimmediately called for a ban of the mushrooming madrassas in the country.\nAs usual this government has shown only apathy and inept handling of the\nsituation so far. Even the banning of face coverings is only\nunder emergency regulations not so far gazetted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are there more things than that meets the eye. It is not so long\nago high profile Minister Mustafa’s close relative was taken into custody on\nterrorist charges in Australia when working in a university.  It was\nrevealed later one of the suicide bombers went a university in Australia for\nhigher education. Though he was later cleared there looks a fishy connection\nhere somewhere. A lot of students go for university degrees in Australia &\nthe authorities should investigate this line of connection.Minister Mustafa of\ncourse has kept so far a dead silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only the foot soldiers are being rounded up and taken to custody\nwhile the master minds & MPs & Ministers alleged to have aided and\nabetted remain at large. The NGOs and civil right organizations who\nadvocated a national government concept and campaigned the voters to\nbring this disjointed weak government to power should take a fair share of\nthe blame for the chaos the country experiencing now. Another good\nexample why all the concepts and policies borrowed from the West would not suit\nus well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A main breeding ground for terrorist activities in future will be\nthe mushrooming settlements in Wilpattu being built with foreign funds under\nthe auspices of Minister Bathiudeen. The government should take immediate steps\nto remove all en masse and provide them with housing facilities in Muslim\nareas. This has to be done with utmost importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police spokesman keeps harping on the fact that Wellampitiya\npolice officers are being  investigated for the reasons that led to\nthe release the nine culprits. However  one wonders why not those\nnine are not rearrested immediately under the PTA? Finding fault of those\nofficers is secondary to this equation. Why was not such a crime place not put\nunder guard leaving things to be taken out by the culprits. Are not these items\nto be confiscated by the State. Who removed what should be investigated without\nbias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where are the NGOs ,civil right clan and university pundits\nwho were harping on the importance of a National government. What a mess ,a\ndisjointed & weak administration it has led us to. The 19th amendment has\nput paid to the strong control a President had over the country. It has to be\nrescinded as the first measure of a new government. No wonder the proposed\nCounter Terrorism bill will bring harm only to the country in future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wimal Senanayake\u00a0 Listening to what the National University Teachers Association had to tell about the construction of the private Muslim University in Batticaloa was like watching one of the convoluted conspiracy stories in a Bond’s film. A set of disguised masterful plans and deceit with a huge sum of cash changing hands in the main characters are common in Bond […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88705","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=88705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}