{"id":90535,"date":"2019-06-19T15:06:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T22:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90535"},"modified":"2019-06-19T15:06:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T22:06:21","slug":"informed-authorities-on-zahrans-call-to-kill-all-non-muslims-moulavi-sahlan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/19\/informed-authorities-on-zahrans-call-to-kill-all-non-muslims-moulavi-sahlan\/","title":{"rendered":"Informed authorities on Zahran\u2019s call to kill all non-Muslims &#8211; Moulavi Sahlan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Authorities were notified of Zahran Hashim\u2019s extremist teachings that called to kill every non-Muslim, says Moulavi Sahlan of Sufi Muslims\u2019 organization in Kattankudy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Testifying before the Special Parliament Select Committee yesterday (18), Moulavi Sahlan said, however, no authority had taken any action on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db8\u0dd4\u0dc3\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dd2\u0db8\u0dca \u0db1\u0ddc\u0dc0\u0db1 \u0d85\u0dba \u0db8\u0dbb\u0dcf \u0daf\u0dd0\u0db8\u0dd2\u0dba \u0dba\u0dd4\u0dad\u0dd4 \u0dba\u0dd0\u0dba\u0dd2 \u0dc3\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dca \u0db4\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dc3\u0dd2\u0daf\u0dca\u0db0\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dda \u0db4\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0dc1 \u0d9a\u0dbd\u0dcf - \u0db8\u0ddc\u0dc4\u0ddc\u0db8\u0daf\u0dd4 \u0dc3\u0dc4\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dcf\u0db1\u0dca \u0db8\u0dc0\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dc0\u0dd2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oqCaQFL3lbg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pointing out that his faction hails from traditional Muslims who follow Sufism, Moulavi Sahlan said Zahran Hashim had left their organization following the clashes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zahran had established the National Thowheed Jama\u2019ath organization in 2011 and later started issuing a magazine named \u2018Thowheed\u2019 on a monthly basis in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 2013 to 2014, nearly 11 complaints were filed against Zahran attacking the Sufi Muslims through this monthly magazine, Moulavi Sahlan further commented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Select Committee member MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka went on to ask whom Zahran worked for during the previous presidential election. To this, Moulavi Sahlan responded that Zahran worked against Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s election campaign.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to Parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran\u2019s question, Moulavi Sahlan stated that Shafi Salley, Shibly Farook, M.L.A.M. Hizbullah, A.L.M. Ruby, Abdul Rahman had signed agreements with Zahran Hashim. He added that this agreement was against Sufi Muslims. Back in 2016, Zahran spoke up against Catholic people and Christmas festival,\u201d Moulavi Sahlan continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During three meetings that Zahran had conducted from 2016 and 2017, he had spoken up against Sri Lanka as well, while stressing that non-Muslims should be killed, Moulavi Sahlan revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zahran had preached that hoisting the national flag was a threat to the Islamic State and that Sri Lanka should be overtaken by Muslims, Moulavi Sahlan stated testifying before the Parliament Select Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had submitted a letter on the matter to the Presidential Secretariat, the Office of the Prime Minister, then Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene as well as Minister Sagala Ratnayake. We even submitted videos in this regard. We also complained to former DIG Nalaka De Silva,\u201d Moulavi Sahlan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister\u2019s Office had responded that the letter would be directed to PM Ranil Wickremesinghe while the Attorney General\u2019s Department had responded that necessary measures would be taken, Moulavi Sahlan said. However, no action concerning the complaints had been taken by the authorities, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Authorities were notified of Zahran Hashim\u2019s extremist teachings that called to kill every non-Muslim, says Moulavi Sahlan of Sufi Muslims\u2019 organization in Kattankudy. Testifying before the Special Parliament Select Committee yesterday (18), Moulavi Sahlan said, however, no authority had taken any action on the matter. Pointing out that his faction hails from traditional [&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-90535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90535","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=90535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}