{"id":90569,"date":"2019-06-19T19:05:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T02:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90569"},"modified":"2019-06-19T19:05:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T02:05:56","slug":"how-did-traditional-muslims-of-sri-lanka-become-influenced-to-adopt-a-new-cultural-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/19\/how-did-traditional-muslims-of-sri-lanka-become-influenced-to-adopt-a-new-cultural-ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"How did traditional Muslims of Sri Lanka become influenced to adopt a new cultural ideology?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/T8R8UIvZ84GzgzTd_Ceylon-Moor-family-of-Colombo-C.1906.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/T8R8UIvZ84GzgzTd_Ceylon-Moor-family-of-Colombo-C.1906.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/T8R8UIvZ84GzgzTd_Ceylon-Moor-family-of-Colombo-C.1906-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"718\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ryvu0r5pVDA45pG5_Colombo-Moor-family.-Mohideen-Maimoon-Umma-of-Hulftsdorp.-Courtesy-Ilyas-Haniffa-718x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ryvu0r5pVDA45pG5_Colombo-Moor-family.-Mohideen-Maimoon-Umma-of-Hulftsdorp.-Courtesy-Ilyas-Haniffa-718x1024.jpg 718w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ryvu0r5pVDA45pG5_Colombo-Moor-family.-Mohideen-Maimoon-Umma-of-Hulftsdorp.-Courtesy-Ilyas-Haniffa-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ryvu0r5pVDA45pG5_Colombo-Moor-family.-Mohideen-Maimoon-Umma-of-Hulftsdorp.-Courtesy-Ilyas-Haniffa-768x1096.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ryvu0r5pVDA45pG5_Colombo-Moor-family.-Mohideen-Maimoon-Umma-of-Hulftsdorp.-Courtesy-Ilyas-Haniffa.jpg 862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the Easter Sunday suicide bombings and the discoveries of islandwide weapons and arrests, the people of Sri Lanka after recovering from the initial shock began looking for answers. They began asking what is Islam, why did rich &amp; educated Muslims want to kill, how did a primarily business oriented community become radicalized &amp; extremists. They began to also identify areas that were common factors disuniting the communities because of the privileged and inequality of status given. Sri Lanka was only now witnessing the spill-over effect of changes that had been subtly executed among Sri Lankan Muslims since 1980s that roped in a traditional Muslim community interested in trade &amp; business to be associated with religious extremism bordering violence. The world\u2019s Muslim population is 1.8billion, if 1% of that were just radicals &amp; not terrorists that would make 18million radicals globally &amp; highlights the importance of crushing the ideology that spreads radicalism bordering terror. Studies show that 10% of world Muslims fall into religious extremist category.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is Islam &#8211; Wahhabism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Islam\nis the religion of Muslims founded by Prophet Mohammed (570-632AD) (7<sup>th<\/sup>\ncentury) followed by 1.8billion Muslims who account for 24% of world\npopulation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunni\u2019s\ncomprise 87% global Muslims while Shias comprise 10% of global Muslims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Global\nSunni population is estimated to be 1.5billion <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Global\nShia population is estimated to be 200m <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunni\nMuslims are influenced by Saudi while Shias are influenced by Iran. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saudi\n&amp; Iran are the 2 key countries promoting Islam globally. While Iran has a\nlong history, Saudi kingdom was created by the British in September 1932 and\nwas to function as West\u2019s ally in the Middle East while also being custodian of\nIslam\u2019s holiest shrine in Mecca &amp; Medina. Saudi oil was found in 1938 by US\ncompany ARAMCO which Saudi bought over in 1988. Revenue from oil fueled the\nspread of Islam globally &amp; has turned the world up-side down &amp; made\nMiddle East into a battle zone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohammad\nibn Abd-al-Wahhab is the founder of Wahhabism in the 18<sup>th<\/sup> century\nand is the doctrine followed by Saudi. There is difference of opinion in\nWahhabi Muslims and Sunni Muslims but Wahhabism essentially denotes war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Understanding the Geopolitical\nlandscape<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Rivalry between\nSaudi &amp; Iran for power in West Asia &amp; for Islamic expansionism<\/li><li>West\/Zionists\nusing rivalry to devise masterplan to divide Muslims via Wahhabi Islam &amp;\nsects for proxy wars&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/li><li>Geopolitical\ntussle between US-West-Saudi &amp; allies against Syria-Iran-Russia &amp;\nallies &amp; its impact on other countries.<\/li><li>West-created\nIslamic militants revolting against master after realizing West was playing\ndouble games (each time a group revolted a new group was created &amp; exported\nto destabilize countries drawing new Muslim recruits)<\/li><li>ISIS\/ISIL \u2013 new\ncaliphate declared by leader Baghdadi in June 2014 covering even South Asia\n&amp; Sri Lanka. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Muslims of Sri Lanka<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri\nLanka\u2019s Muslims are descendants from Saudi who initially came to India\u2019s\nsouthern coast &amp; thereafter to Sri Lanka\u2019s coastal belt for trade &amp;\nlater allowed to settle down by the Sinhale kings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri\nLanka\u2019s Muslim make up 9.7% of total population out of which 98% of Sri Lanka\u2019s\nMuslims are Sunni while 1% of Sri Lankan Muslims are Shia and 1% are Bohras.\nSunni\u2019s are further divided as Moors &amp; Malays with Malays numbering around\n40,000 and descendants of Sunni\u2019s from Malaysia &amp; Indonesia. Malays are the\nmost moderate group of Muslims living in Sri Lanka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nglobal feud &amp; sectarian wars between Sunni\u2019s and Shia\u2019s naturally had an\ninfluence on Sri Lanka\u2019s Muslim community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While\nSaudi objective was to expand its global reach, the West was using Saudi to\nensure Muslims were divided &amp; within their control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ACJU &#8211; 1924<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nAll Ceylon Jamiyyathula Ulama created in 1924 to look into the interests of\nMuslims which originally had no external links &amp; restricted its activities\nto looking at the moon for Muslim festivals &amp; taking care of general Muslim\ninterests was selected as the tool to drive the new ideology among Muslims. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Traditional Muslims &amp; Sri Lankan\nCulture before 1980s<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nMuslim population lived as Sri Lankans, adopted Sinhala culture while following\nIslam. More importantly upto 1980s there were no madrassas, no Shariah law, no\nburka, no niqab, no organization dictating to Muslims to pray 5 times a day, no\nreligious preachers were going in &amp; out of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cultural changes after 1980s &amp; role\nof ACJU<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Saudi petro\nIslam influence spilled over to Sri Lanka by 1980s during a period that Tamil\nleaders declared Vaddukoddai Resolution in 1976.<\/li><li>Global players\nidentified Muslims &#8211; politicians, academics, media, public\/private sector,\nyouth etc to be roped in to drive their new religious dogma baiting Muslims to\naccept a new version of Islam ideology as part of global drive for Islamic\nexpansion..<\/li><li>Sri Lanka Muslim\nCongress created by M H M Ashraff in September 1981.<\/li><li>ACJU being the\nbody tasked to look into interests of Muslims it was only natural that majority\nof Muslims began to unquestioningly adopt to the new ideology.<\/li><li>Cultural\nchange\u201d in Muslims began with the introduction of \u2018Thablique Jamaath\u201d \u2013 introduction\nof niqab, establishing shariah law, madrassas, mosques, polygamy (marrying 7\nwomen), halal labeling, Islamic banking FMG resulting in more than 50% of\nMuslims adopting \u2018Thablique\u2019 ideology. Soon Sri Lanka\u2019s Muslims became divided\nusing Islam\u2019s own religious texts. New rules NOT inside Quran were being\npromoted to control Muslims and marginalized Muslims unwilling to accept them.\nMany Muslims who realized these new rules did not conform to that of the\nteachings of Mohammad Nabi were chided and ridiculed. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri\nLanka\u2019s security apparatus did not initially see the dangers as its\nconcentration was on LTTE and probably this period was selected to ground the\nnew Islamic ideology for this reason. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mid 1990s: Creation of ACTJ<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moulavi\nMubarak founded All Ceylon Thawfeek Jamaath (ACTJ) and a small segment of ACJU\nbecame members. They adopted a more extreme religious ideology aligning with\nthe verses of Quran relevant to the war period in Arabia. Around 4% of Sri\nLanka\u2019s Muslims follow ACTJ ideology (around 76,000 Muslims)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moulavi\nMubarak is presently the General Secretary of the All Ceylon Jamithul Ulama\n(ACJU) \u2013 the Muslim body representing Sunni Muslims in Sri Lanka. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Growth of Thowheed Jamaath <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thowheed\nJamaath then began dividing itself further into different sects based on\ndifferent interpretations of Quran\u2019s beliefs and practices all funded by\nforeign sources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However,\nall the while Saudi had its stronghold over ACJU which was tasked to bring\n200-300 preachers annually to Sri Lanka to preach Tabliq in mosques. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However,\nThowheed Jamaath wanted to bring preachers from Tamil Nadu which was objected\nto by ACJU &amp; Asad Salley \u2013 simply because of issues amongst their sects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>All Ceylon\nThowfeek Jamaath (ACTJ)<\/li><li>Sri Lanka\nThowfeek Jamaath (SLTJ)<\/li><li>Ceylon THowfeek\nJamaath (CTJ)<\/li><li>United Thowfeek\nJamaath (UTJ)<\/li><li>National\nThowfeek Jamaath (NTJ) formed in 2017 in Kattankudy by Zaharan became the first\ngroup to advance from religious extremism to violent religious extremism.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Battle between Muslim groups to rule\nover Muslims using Islam as tool<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ncreation of splinter groups meant threats to the existence of each group \u2013\nSufi\u2019s who were by-products of Tabliq &amp; Tabliq Jamaath saw new groups as a\nthreat and began isolating the newer groups \u2013 each claiming them to be good\n&amp; the other bad resulting in these groups increasing their extremism. Thus,\nviolent Zaharan was created by their own system from 2016 onwards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Essentially\nwhat we can conclude is each of these groups have an extremist view.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To\nhighlight this pl listen to this video by Abdul Razick of Ceylon Thowheed\nJamaath denouncing statement by Asath Salley to the PSC claiming it to be lies\n&amp; trying to mislead the PSC. The video also refers to Muslim groups\nfighting to divide funds sent by foreign sources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-facebook wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-facebook\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RasminMiscOfficial\/videos\/415129445748233\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>June 2014: Al-Bagdhdadi leader of ISIS\nannounces global Caliphate &amp; requests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Muslims to come\nto Syria to establish caliphate<\/li><li>Muslims who\ncould not come to continue expansionist ideology in their own countries (Easter\nSunday was probably inspired by this)<\/li><li><strong>Muslims aligning with 1 &amp; 2 were the real Muslims\n<\/strong><\/li><li>Muslims to\ndestroy any country going against Islamic caliphate (US\/West)<\/li><li>Muslims to\ndestroy any countries supporting US\/West (ex India)<\/li><li>Muslims to\nattack neutral countries (ex Sri Lanka)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Note:\nbefore 2014 no Sri Lankan Muslim went to Syria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri\nLanka\u2019s intel had been monitoring Islamic ideology branching off and forming as\npolitical strategies and devised means to handle extremism since 2013. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\nthe new government was reeling in liberal dogma that followed a policy of\ndenial thinking that with LTTE over Sri Lanka was normal &amp; there was no\nroom for extremisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>January 2015: Rich &amp; educated Sri\nLankan Muslims embrace ideology<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For\nthe 1<sup>st<\/sup> time Sri Lankan Muslims became direct participants embracing\nISIL ideology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rich\n&amp; western educated Sri Lankan Muslims between 25-35years began joining. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S.\nNilam &amp; his family were first to leave Sri Lanka for Syria in the second\nweek of January 2015 (immediately after regime change in Sri Lanka) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As\nof December 2016, 41 Sri Lankan Muslims mostly family members had gone to\nSyria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>June 2015: Foreign intelligence inform\nof Sri Lankan Muslims fighting in Syria<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri\nLankan intelligence were quick to obtain details of the Sri Lankan Muslims who\nhad gone to Syria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>12 July 2015: Sri Lankan Muslim S Nilam\n(student of Trinity College) killed in Syria <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ndeath Nilam in Syria proved Sri Lanka\u2019s intel was right about extremisms\nspreading to Sri Lanka &amp; had set up monitoring mechanisms in 2014 though\nafter 2015 there was no political will to maintain them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>November 2015: ISIS magazine DABIQUE\nreleases photo of Nilam hailing him as a hero.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Late 2016: NTJ formed by Zaharan in\nKattankudy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zaharan\nwho was not a violent follower before 2015 splits from Sri Lanka Thowheed\nJamaath and forms National Thowheed Jamaath in Kattankudy with a small\nfollowing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What we can conclude in summary is that\n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>There was no\nISIL\/ISIS network existing in Sri Lanka before 2015 or Sri Lankan Muslims going\nto fight in Syria before 2015<\/li><li>Cultural changes\nintroduced by Thabliq Jamaath since 1980s across mosques influenced by Saudi\namong the Sri Lankan Muslim community resulted in Sri Lankan Muslims being\nslowly drawn to adopt a non-Sri Lankan culture aligning to a religious identity\n&amp; ideology based on different interpretations of the Quran by different\nMuslim religious groups formed primarily to reign over Sri Lankan Muslims using\nforeign funding coming to them from Middle East that was aligned to a global\ncampaign of political Islamic expansionism. <\/li><li>Traditional\nMuslims were being subject to cultural change &#8211; religious extremism &amp;\nlastly towards violent extremism which resulted in 21\/4.<\/li><li>Had authorities\nreceived political will to continue to monitor Islamic extremist groups they would\nhave been quick to pick up the departure of Zaharan to form NTJ which was the\nbeginning of religious extremism turning violent &amp; 21\/4 could have been\nprevented<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>What\nSri Lankan Government authorities need to do is to first identify the cultural\nchange that is not only dividing the Muslims but is antagonizing non-Muslims\nand it is an issue that non-Muslims globally share. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What are these\nextremisms&nbsp; <ul><li>Who are linked\nto these extremisms<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>What roles are\nperformed by to help advance these extremisms<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Who funds these\nextremisms <\/li><\/ul><ul><li>How far do they\nexert influence politically, socially, religiously across Sri Lanka<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>How many are\ninvolved in these extremisms \u2013 individuals\/organizations<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Where do they\noperate across Sri Lanka?<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Identifying\nthe extremisms<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Existence of\nShariah law<\/li><li>Burka &amp;\nNiqab<\/li><li>Polygamy\/child\nmarriage&nbsp; <\/li><li>Halal food\nlabeling&nbsp; <\/li><li>Islamic\nbanking&nbsp; <\/li><li>Mushrooming\nMadrassas\/Proliferation of mosques&nbsp; <\/li><li>Bringing\npreachers from Middle East<\/li><li>Sending selected\nyouth on Scholarships&nbsp; <\/li><li>Establishment of\nIslamic universities <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Banning\nis not the solution defeating the ideology is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who\nare responsible for allowing all these to enter and spread across Sri Lanka? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is\nit the Sri Lanka Thowheed Jamaath? No, all these are under control of the ACJU\nwhich is highly influenced by Saudi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So,\nwho is responsible for the new cultural change in Muslims? Is it the Sri Lanka\nThowheed Jamaath? No, from being Sri Lankan Muslims to encouraging them to\nembrace an Arabic culture it is the ACJU who must be made to answer &amp; held\naccountable. Thus, banning groups is not the solution, nor will it provide a\nsolution but to address who is promoting the new culture and pressurize them to\nanswer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nhyped up claim that Sri Lanka\u2019s export market demands halal labelling is simply\na sham because such a system did not exist earlier. Halal labelling introduced\nto Sri Lanka was by a company that came under ACJU. How much of money did they\ncollect from non-Muslims? How many Muslims in the business community funded\nACJU? Where did this money go to? Didn\u2019t this money given by non-Muslims go to\nover 1000 madrassas that were having youth indoctrinated by preachers sent by\nSaudi? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ACJU\ncontrols mosques \u2013 religious bodies, they issue scholarships, they bring in\npreachers and they are under direct control of Saudi. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another\ndistinguishable fact is that all these players &amp; associations are\ninterlinked and connected in some way or the other. All of them unite but are\nin a tussle for supremacy however the religious leadership is controlled by\nACJU while the political interests are peddled by Muslim politicians who are\neither in government \/ opposition or functioning separately. All of them are in\nsome way or the other interlinked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nblueprint followed by Saudi across countries is to expand its Sunni domination\nto create madrassas and draw children and youth, set up Sharia universities to\nwhich they can send preachers all with an objective to issue jihadi\ncertificates where some get placed in public institutes, sent as diplomats,\nfunctioning as lawyers and politicians who would use state apparatus to help\nfacilitate the overall programs. None of them work in the interest of the\nnation or are bothered about the nation except to help expand Sunni control\nover Sri Lanka incrementally creating the culture change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How\nmuch of this landscape Muslims know, can understand, do not wish to understand\nor are totally ignorant, is as important as non-Muslims realizing and\nidentifying the threat and drawing solutions to address the threat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If\neveryone can come to a common understanding and acceptance of the \u2018new cultural\nincursions\u2019 that have antagonized non-Muslims and are also dividing the\nMuslims, by removing these we can take an initial step but the more important\nstep is to clearly state what is the Sri Lankan identity and ensure that all\ncitizens are part of that Sri Lankan identity &amp; not following a foreign\nculture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thereafter,\nauthorities must lay out a national plan to break the \u2018ideology\u2019 and curb\nfollowers of the \u2018ideology\u2019 via short, mid-term and long term national security\nstrategies, political will &amp; with international cooperation of countries\nsuffering equal incursions &amp; extremisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The task of any government is to build a national policy &amp; program surrounding a Sri Lankan Cultural Identity eliminating new cultures that are foreign to Sri Lanka\u2019s history &amp; heritage and not even part of Islam as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shenali D Waduge<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Easter Sunday suicide bombings and the discoveries of islandwide weapons and arrests, the people of Sri Lanka after recovering from the initial shock began looking for answers. They began asking what is Islam, why did rich &amp; educated Muslims want to kill, how did a primarily business oriented community become radicalized &amp; extremists. 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