{"id":94318,"date":"2019-10-25T14:26:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T21:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=94318"},"modified":"2019-10-25T14:27:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T21:27:47","slug":"gota-phobia-part-vi-b-calls-to-arrest-hakeem-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/10\/25\/gota-phobia-part-vi-b-calls-to-arrest-hakeem-escalate\/","title":{"rendered":"GOTA PHOBIA \u2013 Part VI B (Calls to arrest Hakeem escalate)"},"content":{"rendered":"

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Sri Lanka\u2019s Muslim community was credited in the past with a plethora of trustworthy and patriotic politicians such as Sir Macan Markar, Sir RazikFareed.Dr. Y.B.Jayah, Dr., Badiuddin Mahmoud, C.A.S.Marikkar (Sinhala Marikkar) A.C.S.Haneed, M.H.Mohamed to name a few. They always remained sternly faithful to the motherland while serving their political parties. They were not parochial or sectarian but always broad-minded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the father of separatism Malaysian bornS.J.V.Chelvanayagam attempted to moot the idea of separatism\u00a0 in the State Council in 1931 saying that if Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) is to be granted Tamils should be given the right to self-rule in their homeland North and East as they are a superior race than Sinhalese, it was Sir Marcan Markar who vehemently opposed Chelvanayagam and told him that this country belongs to the Sinhalese and they have every right to rule this country and Muslims will be pleased to work with them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0Sir Razik Fareed too fought and argued with Chelvanayagam on many occasions when he attempted to refer to Muslims as a Tamil speaking community just to get a numerical advantage for Tamils at the expense of Muslims.\u00a0 He always sternly maintained that Muslims in Sri Lanka as a separate community with their own cultural and religious ethics entirely different from mythical beliefs and behaviors of Tamils. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was Dr. Badiuddeen Mahmoud who took the\ninitiative of appointing Daham Paasal teachers, teachers to teach Buddhism in\ngovernment schools and Pirivena schools and Mt. A.C.S.Hameed risked his life on\na peace mission to negotiate with tiger terrorists.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sinhala community too highly respected\nthe Muslims and they elected Muslims as their members of parliament defeating\ntheir own community candidates opposing the Muslim candidate.  Mr. Aboosally always got elected from a\nstrong Sinhala majority electorate. There were 95%Sinhala voters in the Borella\nelectorate but they always elected Mr. M.H.Mohamed as their MP except in 1970\nin which he lost narrowly to LSSP\u2019s Mrs. Kusala Abeywardene. He was one of the\nseveral Ministers of the UNP government who lost in t    his election and prominent among them was\nthe well-known Philip Gunawardene.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Muslim leaders in the past vehemently\nopposed the Tamil separatists but the  despicable\nand shameless Rauf Hakeem was the first Muslim politician who went tio\nKilinochchi and held discussions with the megalomaniac terrorist leader\nPrabhakaran, but political sources said that rather it was a listening session\nto Prabhakaran\u2019s dictates.  This  lewd fellow undertook this trip on the\ninstructions of Ranil Wickremasinghe despite all Muslims in the country hated\nthe KTTE maniac for his massacre of over 100 \nMuslims who were performing night prayers ar the Kattankudi Jumma\nmosque, killing and maiming several hundred Muslims in Polonnaruwa and other\nplaces in the Eastern province and and expulsion of Muslims from the Northern\nprovince.  We do not know actually what\nhappened but the LTTE released a photograph showing this fellow seated in a table\nopposite the maniac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsequent to the meeting Hakeem told the\nmedia he profusely praising the LTTE maniac that they signed mutual cooperation\nand unashamedly urged the Muslim youth in the Eastern province to emulate\nPrabhakaran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the first and the unpardonable\nbetrayal of the Muslim community by this vendor of the Muslim community.  Thereafter he not only pawned the community\nfor petty personal gains but also brought ignominy to the Muslim\ncommunity.  Knowing the possibility of\nblackmailing this fellow when the budget voting was due and to force him to\nvote for the budget  Mangala Samaraweera\nand Sripathy Suriaratchi brought his concubime Mary Cooray to the parliament\ngallery and threatened him that his relationship with Mary Cooray will be exposed\nif he failed to vote in favour the budget. \nHakeem was keeping this woman, the daughter of the former Moratuwa MP,\nin a house somewhere in Dehiwala and had promised her to provide her an\noverseas employment. When she realised that this man was cheating her to get\nsexual lusts fulfilled one early morning she came with a can of kerosene oil,\njumped over the wall of his residence in Kollupitiya and immolated herself\nkissing goodbye to this swindler. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now let us come to the contemporary\nissues. When questioned by media personnel Hakeem has said that he does not\nknow Zahran Hashim, the mastermind of the Easter Sunday terrorist attack and he\ncannot recollect meeting him ever. \nHowever,Hakeem has been found to have had a close and intimate\nfriendship or relationship with Zahran Hashim. He has held several meetings\nwith him during the course time since the 2015 elections.   Several\nvideo clips of Hakeem\u2019s discussions with this terrorist Zahran has become\navailable and they are in several social media sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People all over the country have become\nfurious seeing these video clips and demanded to arrest Hakeem and subject him\nto a thorough investigation. The funny thing was Hakeem was also a member of\nthe deceptive Parliamentary Select Committee which the government appoint to\nmislead the public to overcome its severe criticisms on its failure to prevent\nthe carnage despite having early warnings of its occurrence and taking action\nonly to prevent its Catholic Ministers and MPs from attending Church on that\nday.  The government did not even\nquestion minister Fernando\u2019s father who has told his son not to Church on that\nday as how he came to know about the impending terrorist attacks,  Now there is no use of it because the man is\nno more and he passed away last week,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Daily Mirror Editorial today (25th<\/sup>\nOctober, Friday) said that Hakeem is haunted by Zahran\u2019s past. It said that the\nParliamentary Select Committee (PSC) report which gives its final findings of\nthe Easter Sunday Bombings is viewed with raised eyebrows. This is \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Picture\n: courtesy Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

because the PSC consists of a member in Rauff Hakeem\nwho is at present bombarded with allegations that he had links with the\nextremist terror organisation which carried out the bombings.
\nThe reason for Hakeem coming under fire, it said, is a video that went viral\nshowing the minister in the company of hate preacher Zaharan Hashim who masterminded\nthe series of bomb attacks which claimed the lives of 258 people. Hakeem\nsquashes public opinion that he had close dealings with the late Hashim; the\nminister defending his presence in the company of this suicide bomber and\nremarking that it was natural for a lawmaker to mingle with members of the\npublic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video and some photographs confirming the meeting\nbetween the two has stirred a hornet\u2019s nest in the run up to the presidential\nelections. Hakeem is said to be backing presidential hopeful Sajith Premadasa.\nIn this context it is important that Hakeem clears himself of these allegations\nbefore the Presidential Elections, which are around the corner.
\nThe editorial states that when one studies the fresh development associated\nwith Hakeem it must be first viewed from a national interest perspective and\nnot from a political angle. The PSC has in the report blamed the State\nIntelligence Services for failing to prevent the disaster, stating that prior\nwarnings were ignored.
\nBut secondarily Hakeem\u2019s credibility is now at stake unless he clears himself\nof the allegations levelled against him. This video and pictures suffice for\nthe opposition to start agitating. UPFA MP Dinesh Gunawardena has taken the\nmatter up in parliament and called for a debate regarding the PSC report.\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nThe PSC also comprises a controversial figure in Minister Ravi Karunanayake. If\ncitizens in this country want all members of the PSC to be clean as snow then\nthere are question marks associated with Karunanayake being in the committee.\nWe can remember how Karunanayake, the present Minister of Power, Energy and\nBusiness Development, being forced to resign as Foreign Minister following the\nallegations levelled against him. This was regarding a controversial Penthouse\nissue with which his name was associated. The latest regarding Karunanayake is\nthat he has been ordered by the Colombo Court to appear before the Criminal\nInvestigations Department (CID) to provide a full statement over the alleged false\nevidence given before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Central\nBank Bond Scam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nThe editorial further states that this is a nation where even the present Prime\nMinister was summoned before the PSC to give evidence regarding the Easter Sunday\nbombings. For the record, the PSC report on the Easter Sunday bombings issue\nhas also named President Maithripala Sirisena and Premier Wickremesinghe among\nothers who failed to discharge their duties to some extent. In this sense one\nsees a breakdown of a chain that takes responsibility from top to bottom in\nthis present government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minister Rauff Hakeem yesterday rejected allegations\nthat he had connections with the terrorists involved in the Easter Sunday\nattack as reported in media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said it was a mud-sling campaign launched by\npolitical opponents ahead of the presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a politically motivated conspiracy to tarnish\nmy image and to take political advantage ahead of the presidential election. I\nhave been in parliament as an MP for 25 years and had represented various\ncommittees in parliament. There has been no allegation against me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another report published in the same nrespaper\nyesterday (24th<\/sup> October)Hakeem said he had acted impartially in the\nactivities of the PSC on the Easter Sunday attack and had never influenced any\ncommittee member or a witness who testified before the committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has accused that the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna was\nbehind this mud-slinging campaign and was trying to provoke Buddhist and Islamic\npeople against him to obtain votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has said the SLPP Batticaloa District Muslim\nDivision Organiser M.S.M. Ziyad,  was\nbehind these false accusations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clarifying the photos being shared on media  which shows Hakeem with a terrorist of the\nEaster Sunday attack in a hospital, he has said he only bumped into him when he\nvisited another patient in the hospital. Questions have been asked how was it\npossible for him to meet this man when his visit to the hospital was to see a\nwoman patient in a women\u2019s ward. He has said that it was unfair to level\nallegations only against him and said the terrorists involved in the April 21\nattack had not been identified as terrorists in 2015 and added that it was\nnormal for politicians to meet with different people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the Island editorial of 23th October has\nrequested for a fresh probe on the Easter carnage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Joint Opposition has refused to accept the PSC report\non the grounds that Minister Rauff Hakeem, one of its members, has held\ndiscussions with Zahran and hence the PSC lacked credibility. One may not\naccuse Hakeem of promoting terrorism or having links to terrorists, but before\njoining the PSC, he should have revealed that he had met Zahran and held\npolitical discussions with the latter. The joint opposition has also stated\nthat the JVP should not have been represented on the PSC, at all, because the\nfather of two NTJ bombers was one of its National List nominees, at the last\ngeneral election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, the Chairman of an organization called New\nPeople\u2019s Service organization, Mawa Mahajana Seva Sanvidanaya, Rishan Mahroof\nhas said that Rauf Has held discussions with the terrorist leader Zahran Hashim\nand he has video clips related to these discussions, and has called for\nHakeem\u2019s arrest immediately and question him thoroughly.  Addressing a media conference he has said he\nhas further proof related to Hakeem\u2019s links with the terrorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Sri Lanka\u2019s Muslim community was credited in the past with a plethora of trustworthy and patriotic politicians such as Sir Macan Markar, Sir RazikFareed.Dr. Y.B.Jayah, Dr., Badiuddin Mahmoud, C.A.S.Marikkar (Sinhala Marikkar) A.C.S.Haneed, M.H.Mohamed to name a few. They always remained sternly faithful to the motherland while serving their political parties. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aamnizam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94318","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=94318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}