{"id":90109,"date":"2019-06-09T16:11:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T23:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90109"},"modified":"2019-06-09T16:19:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T23:19:54","slug":"we-should-not-judge-all-the-muslims-on-the-basis-of-saharans-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/09\/we-should-not-judge-all-the-muslims-on-the-basis-of-saharans-action\/","title":{"rendered":"We should not judge all the Muslims on the basis of Saharans action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

I have been in association with\nLibyans .Iraqis Syreans .Egyprians ,Azerbijanies .Kazaks .Maldivians,Thadjiks\nand also Indian Muslims during  by\ncarrier .I have never noticed any of them blindly advocating what Saharan was\npreaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though Rohana Wijeweera was\nadvocating violence ,and being a Buddhist he should not have done what he did.\nHis henchmen killed one of my friend who is a brother of and existing lady\njudge ,in cold blood for acting against their orders ,He was shot with an AK 47\n( built in the same country he had  his\neducation ) and worked in Pullalam cement .That does not mean that all JVP\ncadres were cold blooded murderers .I knew Stallworth\u2019s like Susil and Viraj\n,But they were ordinary harmless people . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly Saharan  could have been an exception  and we should not treat all the Muslims in\nthe same yard stick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My good friend who was my GP in\nLondon educated in Russia was born on Rideegama in Kuruneagala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He studied in Sinahals and leaned\nBuddhism .He can recite many Sinhala verses from Subhasitaya and Salalihini\nSandehshaya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He tells me that Chief  prelate of Malwatu Chapter was in his class in\nKurunegala and they both studied Buddhism together in their humble child hood .\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have known him for many many years\nand I have never noticed any ill will or hatred in him against any other\nreligion .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He prays several times during the day\nand recites Quran by heart. ( Anyone who can recite by heart  Quran in Arabic  are called Hafeez.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The point I am making is that we\nshould not attack Muslims and discriminate them. .We should live together .In\nindia government monitors actions of radical muslims but they treat all of them\nas Indians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JVP .TNA ,UNP and all other\nopposition members should call upon Mahason Balkaya ,Ravana Balakaya ,Sinhale\u2019\nBalakaya and what not ,and organize a peace march starting from Puttalam and  walk all over the country and declare that we\nSinhlase Buddhist and Catholics join hands with  Muslims and promise to live in Harmony .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Sarath Obysekera <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sarath Obeysekera I have been in association with Libyans .Iraqis Syreans .Egyprians ,Azerbijanies .Kazaks .Maldivians,Thadjiks and also Indian Muslims during  by carrier .I have never noticed any of them blindly advocating what Saharan was preaching. Even though Rohana Wijeweera was advocating violence ,and being a Buddhist he should not have done what he did. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90109","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=90109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}