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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Thursday, November 30, 2017
Sri Lanka: Pampering racism — No lessons learnt
Why President Sirisena is silent on Gintota violence?
( November 29, 2017, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Why
President Maithripala Sirisena remains silent and indifferent towards
the well-coordinated attacks on Muslims in and around Gintota? The mobs
burnt Muslim owned houses, shops and looted valuables besides attacking
mosques? Putting things together Muslims in the area now begin to
suspect that these attacks by hired hooligans were planned and
coordinated with police, Special Task Force, STF and politicians.
According to reports face covered outsiders to hide their identities
were brought in from Boosa and Rathgama by buses and Lorries .Some
collaborators in the area showed them Muslim houses and shops. Muslims
claim that these attacks have nothing to do with Sinhala –Muslims
relations. Both communities now begin to realize they were victims of
racist politics to rob Muslims of their wealth and weaken their economy.
The people in the area point out that a UNP Muslim PC member Mohamed
kiyas confused everyone by attacking Sinhalese households to show that
Muslims also attacked Sinhalese houses. This is the reason why they
strongly suspect political hands behind these attacks.
Now the question is who were the politicians who were behind these attacks?
Who brought these hired thugs and why did a UNP Muslim PC member attack Sinhalese households?
Who brought these hired thugs and why did a UNP Muslim PC member attack Sinhalese households?
Following these attacks Muslims express their loss of faith in President
Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil wickremasinghe to ensure their
security and property.
When President Sirisena told in public meetings that he would rein in
racists, restore law and order and bring about communal harmony besides
eliminating corruption, beleaguered Muslims trusted and voted for him.
However it didn’t take long for them to realize that when it comes to
pampering racism and racist attacks on them, President Sirisena is not
different from Rajapaksa brothers who were responsible for the
sufferings of Aluthgama, Beruwala and Dharga Town Muslims. However
Muslims never thought that there would be another Aluthgama, Beruwala
and Dharga Town in Gintota under Maithri-Ranila team who took the whole
country for a ride with their false promises.
Judging from the performances of the government since elected to office
in January 2005, Muslims now begin to think of the need to protect
themselves and their properties. Attacking Muslim areas, destroying
their residential and commercial, industrial and movable properties have
become blood sports for both Rjapaksa and the Maithri-Ranil
governments.
The government’s policies remain hostile to Muslims here and abroad. For
example it is common knowledge that Sri Lanka is absorbed into
Washington, London and Tel Aviv responsible for invading, bombing and
destroying Muslim countries ,killing millions ,shattering ,societies and
driving millions of innocent people to refugees camps to languish in
appalling condition to turn these countries into wasteland.
India under the extremely anti-Muslim BJP, front for RSS fascists, have
joined the Washington-London-Tel Aviv axis into which Sri Lanka’s
pro-western government has been absorbed into
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe is known for his pro-western and
pro-Israeli policy. Muslims still remember how he told Muslim
parliamentarians who wanted to condemn the March 2003 US led European
invasion of Iraq “if you wanted to condemn you can leave the government
and do so”.
Continuing the Rajapaksa government policy of opening the doors for
Israel, sworn enemy of Islam and Muslims, this government has rolled red
carpet to Israelis, godfathers of terrorism in the Middle East and the
architect of the so called war on terrorism associating violence with
Islam, demonize Islam and Muslims to justify invading, raping and
ravaging Muslim countries to loot their wealth and destroy people Muslim
societies.
For example Israel is the only country which supplied and still
supplying weapons to Myanmar’s military junta facilitate ifs genocide on
Rohingya Muslims.Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
, soaked in Guajarati Muslims blood, paid an official visit to Myanmar while genocide of Muslims were underway.
, soaked in Guajarati Muslims blood, paid an official visit to Myanmar while genocide of Muslims were underway.
In appears in keeping with Washington-Tel Aviv-New Delhi anti-Muslim
nexus the Sri Lanka’s so called government of good governance also
failed to condemn the genocide of Rohingya Muslims. This is the island’s
foreign policy.
However hearts of President Sirisena and the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe melted at the shooting incident at Las Vegas. In his message of condolence to the victims of Las Vegas shooting President Maithripala Sirisena expressed his sympathies stating via Twitter: “Las Vegas shooting is a heinous act. My sympathies are with loved ones of the victims and the people of the US in this hour of grief”.
However hearts of President Sirisena and the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe melted at the shooting incident at Las Vegas. In his message of condolence to the victims of Las Vegas shooting President Maithripala Sirisena expressed his sympathies stating via Twitter: “Las Vegas shooting is a heinous act. My sympathies are with loved ones of the victims and the people of the US in this hour of grief”.
Similar message was sent by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe.
The question is where were their human kindness to more than 1.3 million
Rohingya Muslims, described as the most persecuted people in the world,
when they were tortured, killed, children thrown alive into burning
fire, raped and gang raped Muslim women by Myanmar’s military junta?
Both President Sirisena and Prime Minister Wickremasinghe have forgotten
that Muslim votes also played a crucial role in electing them to
power-especially UNP to power after losing more than two dozen
elections.
This is disaster. Israelis are also here and they have their own agenda which most politicians and even most in the mainstream media do not understand. Israel’s only agenda wherever they enter is to screen, pick up and finance mercenaries to demonize Islam and prepare the grounds to unleash violence against Muslims.
This is disaster. Israelis are also here and they have their own agenda which most politicians and even most in the mainstream media do not understand. Israel’s only agenda wherever they enter is to screen, pick up and finance mercenaries to demonize Islam and prepare the grounds to unleash violence against Muslims.
This is the reason why knowledgeable people in Sri Lanka fear that they
would do the same thing here in the island and pit racist elements
against the island’s Muslims.
One should not forget that killing Muslims only because they are Muslims
is the new world order since the collapse of former Soviet Union in
1979 and the US emerging as the sole super in the world.
This is the reason why Muslims fear that the Sri Lankan government’s
indifferent to anti-Muslim attacks may encourage racist elements here,
with close links to Myanmar’s saffron murderous thug Asin Wirathu and
his Ma Ba Tha organization, to commit same crime against the island’s
Muslims.
Judging from the growing hostility, many fear that Israelis would get
Sinhala racist mercenaries to do to Muslims what they did to Muslims
worldwide. The racist politics of both the United National Party and the
Sri Lanka Freedom virtually destroyed this country which was a role
model for developing world for political and economic stability.
Communal harmony.
This is the reason why almost seven decades after the independence, Sri
Lanka remains one of the most mismanaged countries in the world known
for corruption of epidemic proportion .Shameful state of affairs is such
that never a day passes without the media highlighting not only the
corruption of people in the Rajapaksa government but also of the present
government which came to power with the slogan of eliminating
corruption.
People who pinned their hope on Srisena-Ranil government are deeply
disappointed and are discussing the need for a third force to save the
country. The mood of the people in general is the feeling that time has
come for responsible elements in the Sinhala civil society to come
forward and free the community and the country from the racist politics
which have all the potentials to turn this country once again into a
killing field.
It is also time that the Muslim community free itself from corrupt
politicians and equally corrupt and controversial so called mullahs,
come out of their self-imposed isolation and join hands with responsible
elements in the majority community to reintegrate with the main stream.
Unless such precautionary measures are taken it is likely that powerful
global forces which demonize Islam and slaughter Muslims worldwide will
turn their attention to Muslims in South Asia turn this country into
another killing field. Ends