{"id":90623,"date":"2019-06-22T00:04:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T06:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90623"},"modified":"2019-06-21T09:06:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T16:06:39","slug":"the-deception-of-sri-lanka-muslim-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/22\/the-deception-of-sri-lanka-muslim-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"The deception of Sri Lanka Muslim Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Minority leaders have\nwell-articulated explanations for everything wrong pointed at them and they may\nwell weave a response gullible to many, however this instance we like to\npresent the cunning and deceit of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress taking their\nwebsite as an example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Two screenshots reveal the deception <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 19<sup>th<\/sup> May 2019 the SLMC website\ngave a list of 7 objectives of which the last was <strong>to preserve &amp; promote Shariah Laws and for Muslims to adopt the\nentire code of Shariah laws in both private &amp; community life. <\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This screen shot was doing the rounds via email and obviously it would\nhave been sent to those in the SLMC who would have thought coming colours is no\ngood and decided to camouflage that objective by removing it. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thus, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>On 19<sup>th<\/sup>\nJune 2019 exactly a month later, SLMC website has removed item g) that gave as\none of its 7 objectives to preserve &amp; foster Shariah laws. <\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Is this not trying to pull wool\nover our eyes, attempting to fool all of us? Isn\u2019t this the same as the\nVaddukoddai Resolution where the Tamil translation clearly states separate\nstate and blame the translator for giving another meaning in English! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\nCan people blame the Sinhalese for distrusting the minorities who claim they\nare discriminated but are carrying fire under water?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If questioned, we can well guess the answer. <\/strong>Does Islam permit SLMC\nto lie? Lying is allowed if it is to \u2018smooth over differences\u2019 or \u2018gain the\nupper-hand over an enemy\u2019 so we can well guess what the likely responses may\nbe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Taqiyya) Lying to non-believers\nis permitted to advance the cause of Islam &nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, we are very disappointed.\nFor a political party that is supposed to represent the Muslims, deceiving us\nlike this is just not done. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>19<sup>th<\/sup> May 2019 to preserve and promote SHARIAH LAWS and to encourage members of the party and others to adopt the ENTIRE CODE OF SHARIAH LAWS in their PRIVATE &amp; COMMUNITY LIFE.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shenali D Waduge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-21-at-9.16.09-PM-1024x767.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90624\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Screen-Shot-2019-06-21-at-9.16.18-PM-1024x771.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90625\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minority leaders have well-articulated explanations for everything wrong pointed at them and they may well weave a response gullible to many, however this instance we like to present the cunning and deceit of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress taking their website as an example. Two screenshots reveal the deception On 19th May 2019 the SLMC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenali-waduge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90623","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\/1498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}