{"id":91865,"date":"2019-08-01T14:27:41","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T21:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91865"},"modified":"2019-08-01T14:27:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T21:27:41","slug":"muslim-parliamentarians-sold-community-for-positions-perks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/08\/01\/muslim-parliamentarians-sold-community-for-positions-perks\/","title":{"rendered":"MUSLIM PARLIAMENTARIANS SOLD COMMUNITY FOR POSITIONS &#038; PERKS."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>By Noor Nizam, Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP\/SLPP Stalwart and Convener \u2013 The Muslim Voice&#8221;, August 1st., 2019<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;A RESPONSE&#8221; TO\u00a0JOURNALIST LATEEF FAROOK.\u00a0<\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/muslim-parliamentarians-sold-muslim-community-for-positions-perks\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/muslim-parliamentarians-sold-muslim-community-for-positions-perks\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ONCE AGAIN &#8220;THE\nMUSLIM VOICE&#8221; WISHES TO THANK SENIOR JOURNALIST MR. LATEEF FAROOK TO\nEXPOSE THE DECEPTION OF OUR SO-CALLED MUSLIM POLITICIANS.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;Muslims\nin&nbsp;Sri Lanka do NOT have a voice &#8211; a POLITICAL VOICE for that purpose. The\nSLMC is dead. The ACMC is busy making money, the Muslim politicians stooging\nthe UNP are ONLY interested in their personal benefits. The ungrateful Muslim\npoliticians who benefited the most from Mahinda Rajapaksa, Basil Rajapaksa and\nGotabaya Rajapaksa are now stooging the Yahapalana government and enjoying\ntheir best with their kith and kin and henchaiyas, by selling the VOTE BANK of\nthe Muslims who have been deceived lock-stock-and-barrel. The Muslim Civil\nSociety and Muslim Media organizations in Sri Lanka and their leaders will\nstage dramas by releasing &#8220;press statements&#8221; because all of them have\nbeen well taken care by the Yahapalana government and the foreign interests who\nare giving them large amounts of funding to keep their mouth shut. Like what\nhappened in Aluthgama and Beruwela, Maharagama and Dambulla, they all will\nCOVER up the TRUTH and the Muslims will be told a &#8220;LONG STORY. The\nungrateful Muslim politicians who benefited the most from Mahinda Rajapaksa,\nBasil Rajapaksa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa are now stooging the Yahapalana\ngovernment and enjoying their best with their kith and kin and henchaiyas, by\nselling the VOTE BANK of the Muslims who have been deceived\nlock-stock-and-barrel. The Muslim Civil Society and Muslim Media organizations\n&nbsp;in Sri Lanka and their leaders HAVE stage dramas by releasing &#8220;press\nstatements&#8221; because all of them have DECEIVED THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY for\ntheir personal benefits.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;Like what\nhappened in Aluthgama and Beruwela, Maharagama and Dambulla, they HAVE ALL\nCOVERED UP THE TRUTH ON BEHALF OF THE YAHAPALANA GOVERNMENT TILL NOW. The\nMuslim Voice\u201d WARNED the Muslim Community of this in the run-up to the\nPresidential Elections and the General Elections of 2015. The above article in\nColombotelegraph.com has proved that THE MUSLIM VOICE\u201d was correct then and\nnow &nbsp;\u2013 Alhamdulillah. So now all the TRUTH has been COVERED up and the\nMuslims have been told a &#8220;LONG STORY throughout. WHY HAS NOT THIS\nunscrupulous UNDEMOCRATICALLY SELF ACCLAIMED SLMC LEADER, THE ACMC LEADER and\nthe NATIONAL CONGRESS LEADERS, MINISTER FAIZER MUSTHAPA, MINISTER KABIR HASHIM\nand MINISTER HALEEM NOT CALLED FOR A PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION OR A HIGH LEVEL\nINQUIRY BY THE YAHAPALAN GOVERNMENT ON THE ALUTHGAMA and BERUWELA\nVIOLENCES\/INCIDENCES UP TO NOW? WHY HAS NOT THE MCSL, THE YMMA CONFERENCE or\nYMMA MALIGAWATTE or the ALL CEYLON JAMIYATHUL ULEMA TOO HAVE CALLED FOR THIS\nPROBE. It is time up that a NEW POLITICAL FORCE that will be honest and sincere\nthat will produce &#8220;CLEAN&#8221; and diligent Muslim Politicians to stand up\nand defend the Muslim Community politically and otherwise, especially from\namong the YOUTH, has to emerge from within the Sri Lanka Muslim Community to\nface any new election in the coming future, Insha Allah.&nbsp; It is time up\nthat a NEW POLITICAL FORCE that will be honest and sincere that will produce\n&#8220;CLEAN&#8221; and diligent Muslim Politicians to stand up and defend the\nMuslim Community politically and otherwise, especially from among the YOUTH,\nhas to emerge from within the Sri Lanka Muslim Community to face any new\nelection in the coming future, Insha Allah.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Noor Nizam, Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP\/SLPP Stalwart and Convener \u2013 The Muslim Voice&#8221;, August 1st., 2019 &#8220;A RESPONSE&#8221; TO\u00a0JOURNALIST LATEEF FAROOK.\u00a0https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/muslim-parliamentarians-sold-muslim-community-for-positions-perks\/ ONCE AGAIN &#8220;THE MUSLIM VOICE&#8221; WISHES TO THANK SENIOR JOURNALIST MR. LATEEF FAROOK TO EXPOSE THE DECEPTION OF OUR SO-CALLED MUSLIM POLITICIANS. &nbsp;Muslims in&nbsp;Sri Lanka do NOT have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noor-nizam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91865","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=91865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}