The United Nations Human Rights Committee said France’s niqab ban violates the human rights of Muslim women and risks “confining them to their homes.”
Women in France can be fined up to 150 euros for wearing the niqab, a full-face veil with an opening for the eyes, under a law that came into effect in 2011.
The committee said two women fined for wearing the full-face Islamic veils should be compensated and it called on France to review its controversial 2010 law banning the garment.
“The French law disproportionately harmed the petitioners’ right to manifest their religious beliefs,” the committee said in a statement, adding that France had not adequately explained the need for the ban.
“The Committee was not persuaded by France’s claim that a ban on face covering was necessary and proportionate from a security standpoint or for attaining the goal of ‘living together’ in society,” they said.
They added that the ban, “rather than protecting fully veiled women, could have the opposite effect of confining them to their homes, impeding their access to public services and marginalizing them.”
Ayathuray Rajasingam / October 24, 2018
I think France is correct in banning the wearing of Niqab. Today bombing is common – whether in market places, railway stations, air ports, etc. If someone throws a bomb while wearing a niqab and run away, is there any way to catch the culprit? What is more surprising, while throwing the bomb or placing a exploding device at a place where people gathers, and escapes to a no-go-zone how will the law enforcing authorities apprehend the criminals.
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Mohamed / October 25, 2018
Ayathuray Rajasingam:
Not just today, bombing was common for Sri Lanka even 2 decades back. What is not common is today or 2 decades back is throwing a bomb and run away.
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The terrorists we had never used a face-cover to kill innocent children, women and men or to kill MPs, ministers, presidents to other country’s presidents. Once an evil mind decided and supported to kill the innocents and not-so-innocents without differentiating, they will do it in-front of 100’s of cameras too. Terrorists we had, terrorized the country to create an “egalitarian society” by killing mostly the innocents in public places, buses, trains, markets etc.
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Shrikharan / October 25, 2018
Mohamed
Covering the face is very scary and we should know whom we are speaking to. That is the right of other people.
There is certainly a conflict of interests. It may be a muslim cultural right to wear a face cover, but is also other non muslim people’s right to know the identity of whom they are talking to or interacting with.
In that case why cannot we go to a bank or jewelry shop with a helmet?
Muslim can have their face covered in their own homes but when they are outside in the public area people should know to identify you by the face. Face is the most important part of the body for identity.
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Raja Senanayake / October 25, 2018
I agree. Let the Muslim women be in their homes interacting only with other Muslim women similarly covered. If they interact with others in society particularly non-Muslims I think the latter non Muslims must decide for themselves whether to interact with them or not. This is not a recent practice. and non-Muslim women have interacted with them with covered faces in the past and perhaps should do so in the future as well.I see no new issue, Let security requirements apply where they have to apply,
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Rationalist / October 27, 2018
I think that the Niqab was invented by Male Imams to keep the Muslim Male Dominant.
The solution would be to ask Allah to allow the Appointment of Female Imams.
Do Male Muslims feel so insecure that they have to keep their Women Covered up to protect them from other Males?
In this Day and Age, Women should be given the Right, to choose what they want to Wear!
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Ralli Ameen / October 26, 2018
Shrikharan, you will never speak with a women covered or not if you don’t know their identity. If you speak to even a non-Muslim woman without knowing them you will be ridiculed.
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rbh / October 25, 2018
Ayathuray Rajasingam:
What is more surprising, while throwing the bomb or placing a exploding device at a place You are commenting Old techniques
They assigned a top bomb-maker to arm unmanned drones,TERRORISTS will weaponise drones to launch a terrifying new type of attack you must work on that not Niqab Ban Of Muslim Women
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Pidiris Appu / October 26, 2018
I think these women should be forced to express their thoughts. Like frogs in a well would no thave seen much, these timid women are mentally abused by having introduced the kind of face covers to them. If women should wear them why not men in such groups ? Why women to be treated that way ? I believe that the men of these women are highly dominat and treat their women as they would get on with animals.
It is high time these women to come out of their capsules and speak out.
Even if they belong to a group of muslims, they should also have own feelings.
Every woman would want to well dressed and enjoy their freedom. Specially women are such they want to show their beauty. That should be the reason them to use that much of MAKEUP in daily life.
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Native Vedda / October 25, 2018
Ayathuray Rajasingam
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“Today bombing is common – whether in market places, railway stations, air ports, etc.”
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Were the suicide bombers of the LTTE wearing Niqab when they bomb the hell out of their victims?
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Please stop being a childish racist.
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Go find other valid reasons as to why Niqab shouldn’t be worn.
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Dave / October 31, 2018
Native Vadda, Opposing to a fascist oppressive religion practice is not racism. It is about Humanism.
Islamic nations force non Muslim women to wear niqab. For example Christians Buddhists Hindus of Iran or Pakistan. These are pre Islamic indigenous people.
They are forced to wear Niqab or subject to brutal punishment.
How racist is that? How Fascist? How Islamist is that? Most fascist racist bunch in the word are using racism to defend their religious Fanaticism.
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Ralli Ameen / November 1, 2018
Dave the donkey, tell in which Muslim country brutal punishment given if women does not wear Niqab. Even in Mecca, Saudi Arabia majority of women (over 90%) go about without Niqab. Have you gone to any Muslim countries? If so show proof where their government gave brutal punishment for not wearing Niqab or even Hijab.
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Dave / November 2, 2018
Ralli the Islamic apologist Hijab is mandatory in many sharia Islamic countries.
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Ralli Ameen / November 3, 2018
Dave the neophyte, I am not telling about Hijab but Niqab. Even Hijab, only two or three countries made it Mandatory.
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Dave / October 31, 2018
There are many. I will show you a one good reason.
Muslims must blend into the local French customs and values if they want to live in Europe. Do they expect French to adjust themselves to match Islamic culture? If Muslims do not like European culture then they should not come to Europe at the first place.
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K.Anaga / October 25, 2018
Dark Tinted glasses are band for the car windows but NIQAB is allowed in Srilanka. How do you identify whether the person is man or woman. If they don’t want to get out on to the roads that is their problem. When customers enter a bank or Jewelry shops they are asked to remove their caps and helmets. However, if you request for the removal of Niqab, you may be charged with attempted rape.
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Fathima / October 25, 2018
K.Anaga,
Easy one here, wearing a cap or a helmet inside a bank or jewelry doesn’t make any sense unless the customer forgets to remove it, or having malicious intention.
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Sarrij / October 26, 2018
F.
Warped logic?
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mohomad / October 27, 2018
Your mind is only warped Sarrij.
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David / October 31, 2018
Fathima It is illegal to wear Helmets inside a bank. But why not Hijab? Comparing a Cap to a Niqab? No special privilege must be given.
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rbh / October 25, 2018
Ayathuray Rajasingam
One who killed Rajiv Ghanthi had flowers on the hand she did not cove her face
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Ayathuray Rajasingam / October 25, 2018
rbh,
Whoever the terrorists, they are prepared to do anything. The latest is the terrorists hire a vehicle and plough it through innocent people. I cannot understand one thing. The Muslims have 52 Muslim countries some of which are richer than some Western countries. Yet they go to Western countries enjoy their life at the Tax payers’ money and resort to terrorist acts. So what is wrong with France if it takes some preventive measures to reinforce its security? Just imagine what happened to Charlie Hebdo, Paris shooting, truck ploughing at Nice, etc.
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Rbh / October 26, 2018
Rajasingam
Why did the tamils go to the western countries not go to india
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Ayathuray Rajasingam / October 26, 2018
India is still unable to solve the problem of ts people. See the plight of Rajasthan people some of whom are still doing the scavanger’s job. In Western countries Tamils are given opportunities as a result Tamils have become MPs, Councillors, Trustees in School Boards, Doctors, lawyers, engineers. Can a Tamil imagine all these in India. Remember Western countries give due respect human beings. They do not cut and chop people like barbarians. They even encourage for building temples and integrate with all communities. There is lot to mention. Briefly the Westerners are a cultured people.
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Ralli Ameen / October 29, 2018
rbh, that is because of the UN convention that anyone fleeing their country because of violence they face has to be given refuge in the country they enter. Except the countries who are not signatories to this convention others has to give. At the start of LTTE conflict no Sri lankan knew this. Anton Balasingham kindle the conflict to flare up so on the pretext danger to life he opened the way for all Tamil Kallathonis to take the boats to West. There are Muslim and non-Muslims working illegally in the rich Muslim countries but once they are caught straightaway deported, no refugee status. In Singapore before deporting they beat with canes as punishment.
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Spring Koha / October 26, 2018
Even today the muttawa’s in Saudi will smack women who show any flesh ie a couple of foreigners in the souk, wearing short-sleeved blouses, were given a smack and asked to cover up. Fair enough!
When in Rome, do as the Romans. If Muslim women don’t like the strictures in France (or anywhere else…) they are free to return to the more tolerant Middle East where they feel at home. See if the French will miss you.
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Native Vedda / October 27, 2018
Spring Koha
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“Even today the muttawa’s in Saudi will smack women who show any flesh ie a couple of foreigners in the souk, wearing short-sleeved blouses, were given a smack and asked to cover up. Fair enough!”
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Sorry, is it part of kinky sex routine?
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Amarasiri / October 26, 2018
The United Nations Human Rights Committee,
RE: Niqab Ban In France Violates Human Rights Of Muslim Women: UN Human Rights Committee.
Yes, this violates the rights of Muslim women to remain anonymous, outside the home, and be subject to molestation.
Similarly, the Sri Lanka Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act of 1951 (MMDA) violates the human and constitutional rights of Sri Lankan Muslim women, and it is a travesty of justice, imposed on the women by the Ulama, who have taken over Islam.
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Babansincho / October 26, 2018
First LET me to check it with the proper defination of Niquab.:
A veil worn by some Muslim women in public, covering all of the face apart from the eyes.
I am a srilanken buddhist living in Europe. I think not just in France but also in any countries in Europe would go for banning such wearings which could hide the identity of the people – can only lead to creat the unpredictable.
Why to hide your face that way, just because some religions would ask you to do so.
So long you would live in the countries of their origins, but expecting kind of freedom violating the rules and regulations of host countries is beyond all ethics and morals.
Like for example, if Hindu adherents would jump into the Rhine river in Germany and start bathing the manner, they were used to do it in Indian Gangas, the germans or any europeans would never agree with you.
The kind of habbits or rituals known to those migrants can NO means become acceptable by masses in Europe.
This reminded me once we were taking our lunch – Manchester UK, there had been a street parade, which consisted of various nationalities. There I also saw women wore Niqabs. People though respected, some little ones kept questioning as to why they had been so covered.
Likewise, if european tourists would behave violating the culture down there, not many lankens would welcome it. That is the same in Europe. Besides, those who tend to migrate to other cultures should be ready to adjust themselves a bit.
Little children are scared of Niqub wearers. Not just kids but I would also go to mad if my colleagues would wear it while them being with us. These are just basics and we dont need to argue on them.
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Fathima / October 24, 2018
Ban here also. Being a Muslim, I really do not see if that is really required in SL. Some women don’t wear covering, some do cover a lot if they are a bit conservative minded regardless of what community they belong to – it should be decided by the girl, not a religion
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Richard Kaz / October 25, 2018
I agree, it should be decided by the girl/woman, not by religion or the state. The French are wrong!
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Richard / October 25, 2018
Fathima, you are quite right. Niqab was not worn in Sri Lanka and many other countries outside the middle-east 25-30 years ago; so why has this become such an issue for Muslims at large with an exception of a few like yourself? Is this part of Neo-muslim doctrine by the fundamentalist or extremists organization linked to Saudi Arabia? WHAT IF EVERYONE IN THE WORLD DECIDES GO AROUND WITH THEIR FACES COVERED, CITING SOME FAITH OR BELIEF; WILL THE UN SAY ITS OK?
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Ralli Ameen / October 26, 2018
Richard, without knowing the past don’t write like fool. Long, long before when this Niqab you see now worn by Muslim women, young girls never went out alone and when they go they always wear Burqa with a veil on top to cover the face. When they go in Rickshaws they request the rickshaw puller to cover the front. When they go in car they cover the side glasses with cloth. Very poor families had little choice of wearing Burqa because it was costly. Now the Hijab everyone can afford, beside they don’t need fashionable costly cloth inside. Just two Hijab they can use for years. Time has changed, most are educated and it is their wish to wear what they want. So don’t write nonsense.
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Richard / October 26, 2018
Ralli Ameen, don’t pull your gangster shit on me, just because you cannot debate a simple case in point decently. At the end of the day all of you suffer from the same notion its your way or the highway. This is why the world has turned against you cos, you don’t think others have an opinion that matters.
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Ralli Ameen / October 27, 2018
Richard, do you think you have an opinion that matters? You talk shit without any knowledge of past cultural history. Or do you talk sense, the article about “UN says Niqab ban in France violate human rights of Muslim women”. You are only writing gangster shit here linking everything to Saudi without knowing the past facts. It was Ayatullah Khomeini of Iran who made wearing Hijab and Niqab compulsory which took on like fire to other countries including Sri Lanka. Before that in Sri Lanka those who want to cover wore Burqa, Mukkatu, Shawl in Salwar Kamiz dress or end of saree. May be now you idiot understand.
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Babalathappu / October 27, 2018
I dont think that would ever come to lanken muslims even if few would start wearing it.
It is a kind of violation against female rights. Who on the earth with sanity would ever agree to cover all except eyes, if they would not have been forced to do so.
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Amarasiri / October 26, 2018
Fathima,
“– it should be decided by the girl, not a religion”
Not by the Ulama? The Ulama of Sri Lanka, ACJU claims that the MMDA is perfect per religion of Islam. 12-year old girls can be married off without consent, legally raped, and a host of other abuses including that they do not even sign their marriage certificate.
Women and girls are chattel too of men.
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Ralli Ameen / October 27, 2018
Amarasiri, explain what is legal rape, do you get such words in the Law Book? If not you are making yourself an idiot. Chattel is personal possession and if your wife/husband, children are not precious personal possession of your life what are they? Animals, or sorry even animals have that personal possession feelings otherwise they won’t come to attack you when you go near their young ones. In Islam women go with their family name instead of their husband’s name after marriage. Non-Muslim women carries (compulsory) her husband name after their name to show they are the possession of their husbands. Why don’t you preach this ‘chattel’ to Christians or other non-Muslims.
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Amarasiri / October 29, 2018
Ralli Ameen,
Muslim girls and women are chattel per MMDA. The bride does not sign the mattiage certificate, and the only witnesses are those who attest to the transfer of the bride by the chattel owner, Wali. Please produced a Sri Lankan Marriage certificate where the bride has signed. The goats do not sign either, when they are sold.
Legal Rape, when a girl below age 16 has intercourse with a man, married or not. MMDAallows for legal RAPE of girls as low as 12 years old.
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Ralli Ameen / October 29, 2018
Amarasiri
If legal rape is the girl below sixteen has intercourse with man then there are millions of them marrying and having sex all over the world and this is rape for you. Even if unmarried girls having sex with mutual consent is not rape and the states will not charge them as rape even if below the legal age stipulated by the state for marriage. Rape is forcefully having sex with a unwilling girl or stranger. Who told you girls do not sign the marriage registry book. This and two witnesses are compulsory. The girl’s father or guardian can sign on behalf the girl. Chapter 134, caption 23 of Muslim Marriage and Divorce act says girls who had not attained the age 12 will not be registered. Wife/Husband relationship is precious personal possession. If this is not true for you, you belongs to pig class. Do you know male pig after sex, it will force another male pig to have sex with the same female pig. This is one of the reason pork eating is forbidden. You can verify this. I don’t know why you hate MMDA although non-Muslims have nothing to do with it. May be these instruction taken from your western masters.
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Hamlet / October 29, 2018
Fathima:-
You say “– it should be decided by the Girl, not a Religion”.
Is this a Rule established by Muslim Males, because they Feel insecure in their Marriages?
Or because they feel Jealous at Other Men looking with Lust at their Wives, the way some Muslim men look at other Men’s Wives?
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Mohomad / November 3, 2018
Hamlet only sex manias and cad look with lust at women or other man’s wife. May be you are one and its your experience speaks.
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Avina / October 31, 2018
We must ban parents from telling their children what religion they must follow. After 18 they can decide it themselves.
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Sammy / October 24, 2018
These people migrate to other countries and want to impose their religious practices in contravention of local. What about the human rights of others, from a security standpoint? If they want to cover their faces in contravention of local laws then they should stay at home or in their own countries. They impose themselves on others and then cry “Islamophobia” when opposed.
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Fathima / October 25, 2018
Sammy,
Does any country that receives migrants say to leave the religion in your origins and come, while fully agreeing that local laws must be respected.
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Security standpoint? What is the crime rate that committed taking advantage of face-cover in any country that is allowed compared to say, Facebook something socially accepted, let alone alcohol. Again in the history, do you have any records that face-cover involved in a national security of a country – So calling it Islamophobia is the right word
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Lanka.. / October 25, 2018
You must know there is a difference between Niqab and Hijab…
There is no need that have Niqab…some radicals want to have Niqab..
But; if Hajab is allowed …that is no..
UN need some lessons on Islamic deress..
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Francois Truffaut / October 25, 2018
Great job. When Arabs migrate or flee to Europe they need to RESPECT local laws and local customs. Not try to impose “no-go zones” and “muslim ghettoes” or commit violence or force Sharia shit. Full face Niqab is ONLY a Wahabi Saudi fashion from the nation that butchered a dissident journalist. That was done by MBS and his cronies. So we do not want Saudi customs to be considered acceptable in our society. Do Saudis allow us to practice Christianity or to wear a cross openly or you Hindus and Sinhalese to have a statue? NO because that is Saudi law. Now Islamists here will engage in doublespeak about “human rights”. What a bunch of feces. You do not allow even a Buddhist book or a church or a temple in Saudi Arabia. Your ceylonese Mussalman women don’t even know why they wear black head to toe in that stifling humid weather; they do it because they fearfully obey their husbands who return from Saudi Arabia converted to extremist Wahabi intolerant views. The day Saudis allow freedom of worship to Christians, Hindus and Buddhists, you come back to my Country and visit me in Chartres, Loire Valley and I will toast a champagne or a bordeaux with you. Sri Lanka do not allow these fanatics to ruin your nation where most muslims are moderate.
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Siva Sankaran Sharma / October 25, 2018
The Muslims in Sri Lanka show two faces. One to the Sinhalese and another to the Tamils. They act moderate in the Sinhalese areas , because they are afraid of the Sinhalese and the repercussions they will have to face at the hands of the Sinhalese armed forces, police, racists and criminal elements if they behave to the contrary. They have had two bad recent experiences when they tried this. However the story is very different in the Tamil North and East , especially in the east where they arrived as refuges a few centuries ago. They are nasty arrogant, very intolerant and are forcibly trying to impose their Wahhabi fundamental Islamic extremism on the entire east. They do this as they can get away with this sort of behaviour , as there is no one to question them . The Tamil population has no one to defend them or speak out for them , locally or internationally. The TNA politicians are useless only feathering their own nests. The Sinhalese also deliberately encourage this type of behaviour and Wahhabi Islamic extremism in the Tamil areas, whilst keeping this in check in Sinhalese areas, as this suits their agenda and to deliberately create a wedge between the island’s Muslims , who in reality are not of Moor or Arab descent but of South Indian immigrant Tamil ethnicity.
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Amila W / October 25, 2018
Siva Sankaran Sharma:
Long time no see? Are you taking your drugs in time or ran out now? We have had enough fun, no need another clown to entertain us
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Siva Sankaran Sharma / October 26, 2018
We know that Muslims in the island peddle drugs and are you one of them and offering this to me?
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mohomad / October 26, 2018
This rotter SSS does not real news about drug peddlers. In Asia majority are Tamils, even few days back a drug peddler Pathmanathan was put to death.
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Ralli Ameen / October 26, 2018
Oh my god the SSSharma Australoid crow is back with his history book.
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Siva Sankaran Sharma / October 25, 2018
Contd: The Sinhalese establishment also encourages the island’s Muslims deliberately disown their actual Tamil ethnicity and claim some sort of imagined Arab origin , that only less than 1% of them partially have, this suits their divide and rule policy to make the island’s Tamils weak. A generation ago the Island’s Muslims were very Tamil in their culture in everyway , now they have discarded their 1000 year old very tolerant Tamil Sufi Islam , that they brought from their South Indian Islam and have now become some sort of pathetic clones of Wahhabi Gulf Arabs. Very soon they will discard Tamil as their mother tongue and in the name of Wahhabi Islam will adopt Arabic or Urdu as their mother tongue . A South Asian population pathetically trying behave and look like Arabs Even the Arabs have classified them as South Asian converts to Islam and not of Arab descent.
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mohomad / October 27, 2018
S.S Sharma
Why it is killing you if Sri Lanka Muslims wants to show their Arab links. Is it because you cannot do that, the slaves of colonialist and Arabs now. If you belongs to a high class race you should have said Moors does not belongs to your race just like you said the Arabs did. Can you give a link to their declassification?
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Richard Kaz / October 25, 2018
Why should French Muslim women be prevented from wearing their clothing of choice like any other French woman because of the crimes of someone else??
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rbh / October 25, 2018
Francois Truffaut
The believe is that there is no muslim god Christians, god Hindus god and Buddhists god
ALLAH Means not muslim GOD the universal GOD even before Buddhistm the prayed for him
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old codger / October 25, 2018
Monseiur Truffaut,
What an original name!
“You do not allow even a Buddhist book or a church or a temple in Saudi Arabia. “
I am against niqabs in principle, BUT, just let me point out that all Muslims are not Saudis. There are churches and missionaries in Turkey for example. And you must have heard about Buddha tattoos in Sri Lanka. All Buddhists are not Sri Lankans either.
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Mohamed / October 25, 2018
Francois,
“the day Saudis allow freedom of worship to Christians, Hindus and Buddhists, you come back to my Country and visit me”
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Then why don’t you put it this way bro?
“when the day Saudis allow freedom of worship of…. we will sell them arms”
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“when the day Saudis allow freedom of worship of…. we will allow Saudi men to visit Loire Valley for prostitution”
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“when the day Saudis allow freedom of worship of…. we will go to Saudi for jobs and doing businesses”
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When the puppets, West and the US have the guts to say above to Saudis, that is when Saudi reform will start.
It is your ally, US that is protecting “MBS and his cronies” on journalist killing to save a huge arms order from Saudis – You talk bullshit here, when you guys have given up your own integrity for money bro.
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Native Vedda / October 25, 2018
Mohamed
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Actually the Saudis could start their reform by themselves without the West ordering them to do so.
It’s like the racist state of Sri Lanka could do many right things without being told by the west.
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Why would anyone else have to bring sanction on Saudi or Sri Lanka to do the right thing. Before we advise Saudi, the stupid Sri Lankies must start looking at themselves.
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You may not like Niqab, however every women has the right to wear what she wants to, including, niqab,hijab, Burka Bikini or Burkini, bikini, G string, …………………….
If men and women do not like those dresses, please cross the street turn your faces other side, walk as quickly as possible.
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Paul / October 25, 2018
Veddah please let us know the next time you are strolling down the Champs-Élysées in your loin cloth.
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Native Vedda / October 25, 2018
Paul
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“Veddah please let us know the next time you are strolling down the Champs-Élysées in your loin cloth.”
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Are you looking for evidence to bring sedition charges against me?
Please contact K Godage who has been deeply involved in framing a catch all sedition ACT which he believe will help solve separatist impulses. Then ask him to include strolling down the Champs-Élysées in loin cloth is a serious crime under his expected sedition ACT. .
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How are you?
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Fathima / October 25, 2018
Francois Truffaut,
“Sri Lanka do not allow these fanatics to ruin your nation where most muslims are moderate.”
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See who is talking..Ha..ha..ha.. please tell to the French, the world’s 3rd biggest arms exporter, including illegal arms exporting not to sell arms to Wahabis who kill innocent children in Yemen using the arms you supplied.
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You helped Wahabis kill the innocents with arms and taking part in coalition fighting, now it is your guilty conscience that invited Islamophobia at home
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You guys are white-skinned slaves to Saudis
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Ayathuray Rajasingam / October 26, 2018
Fathima,
Remember after the murder of Saudi reporter, it appears that Muslim Brotherhood is in shambles. Why should we blame France and other western countries. Now what is the position of Sri Lanka Muslims regarding the murder of Saudi reporter. Till now none of the Muslim politicians or Imams has raised a voice. Isn’t it a cowardly act?
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Fathima / October 27, 2018
Ayathuray Rajasingam,
Let’s clean the own backyard
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Ayathuray Rajasingam / October 25, 2018
Francois Truffaut
You can add this also. If they can butcher a dissident journalist, just imagine what will happen in a no-go-zone. Eventually we will get scared to take a meal from a Muslim restaurant. I think France is doing the correct job. First security of the Nation.
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Mohamed / October 26, 2018
Ayathuray Rajasingam:
You are absolutely right, first security of the nation – Our beloved leader Mahinda Rajapakse took that very serious and thanks to him and his brother, our children are safe and we can expect them and us returning back home safely.
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mohomad / October 26, 2018
Francois Truffaut, I think you are from France or Holland where they screw on the roadside, parks etc just covering with a blanket.
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JD / October 25, 2018
Every religion adopted the cultural practicesa of the country that the religion was practiced. So, all these niqabs, burkas are those of the Desert cultures. So, sunnis not only practice Wahabism, peoduce children to change the naturalized country’s religion and the culture, chenge the food practice, banking system and everything. Europe has a reaL BIG PROBLEM. So, the western human rights are desroying the west. Muslims are producing kids like Pigs, dogs or rats while westerners are addicted to the condom and to the pill and their birth rate is lower than 1%.
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old codger / October 25, 2018
Dumb Jimmy,
“So, all these niqabs, burkas are those of the Desert cultures. “
So then, raping little boys in temples must be Sri Lankan culture.
“Muslims are producing kids like Pigs, dogs or rats”
What’s stopping you? Can’t get it up? There is something called Viagra, but you need a brain to use it.
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Fathima / October 26, 2018
JD,
“Muslims are producing kids like Pigs, dogs or rats” – Be happy that happens in Sri Lanka. Everytime they give a birth, there is a revenue center count goes up by one. Everytime you breed, there is a Cost Center count increase putting a burden on everyone in SL
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jim softy / October 26, 2018
JD,
Can you please stop insulting the pigs by comparing the procreation of Pigs to Muslims
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Ralli Ameen / October 27, 2018
Pig jim softy really got angry for comparing Muslims to his ability. A pig know better.
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jim softy / October 27, 2018
Pig knows better, but not Mulims and child bride lover Ralli
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Ralli Ameen / October 29, 2018
Oh really, that is why you are a pig
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DPJ / October 25, 2018
[edited out]This dress has created problems in many countries. It should be banned in Sri Lanka also. In the middle east these were worn in order cover themselves from sand storms when they were living like slaves.
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Eagle Eye / October 25, 2018
The United Nations Human Rights Committee can tell France but France will not listen. This is the hypocrisy of white people. They violate human rights and come to preach us. Demalu (Hindu and Muslim) are migrants to Sinhale. We should not allow them to do whatever they want. Unfortunately our spineless opportunistic politicians are trying to please them and accept their demands simply to come to power. This is the dark side of the election system we have. Must change. Should not allow the tail to wag the dog.
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Fathima / October 25, 2018
Eagle Eye:
Are you regularly getting paid to keep SL not move any forward? This must change too
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Diogenes / October 25, 2018
It should be banned in Sri Lanka, too! Muslims living in our country should think that they are Sri Lankan Muslims. If they want to live as Arab Muslims , they should go there. Muslim extremists are creating unnecessary trouble wherever they are!
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MuslimHubby / October 25, 2018
Diogenes,
Give them a break man, at least in dressing let them enjoy a better life than a typical Sri Lankan. Anyway, Sri Lankans have to go to Arab countries whether they are Muslims or non-Muslims to put food on the tables, not a choice.
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Real Revolutionist / October 25, 2018
Niqab violates women’s rights & Niqab ban violates Muslim men’s right.
Alas; UNHRC is in favor of men?
For Muslim men, women are just objects to be handled as they want.
So the UNHRC is the biggest culprit.
That’s the reality.
France is right; arrest all the men who don’t allow women to leave home without Niqab & rehabilitate or banish.
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MuslimHubby / October 25, 2018
Rear Revolutionist,
Muslim husbands dump a Niqab on his wife and leave her at home. You guys force your wives to wear a company uniform and dump them into crowded buses, trains and sexual abuses to make money – There is no basic respects for a woman here, forget about rights
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Real Revolutionist / October 25, 2018
Nobody forces wives into crowded buses /trains & ask to work.
It’s their will to do that. They enjoy their freedom. If they want to stay home they can do it easily & if what hubs give isn’t enough they can demand more.
If they work it’s mutually agreed thing so you Muslim guys need not shed crocodile tears for that.
If hubs are drug addicts because of Muslim drug sellers, their wives know how to rehabilitate them.
Keep the flattering words you use to your wife, for your self.
If there’s sexual abuse, our women have a right & strength to slap the abusers.
Non Muslims don’t frighten & threaten women.
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MuslimHubby / October 26, 2018
Oh…when it is in your favor, it becomes “their will to do”, but when Muslim women wear Hijab, husbands force it? LOL
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So all those women go to Arab countries and some women engaged as sex-workers in Colombo – are they all doing it on their own willingness, just because they feel bored at homes?
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rbh / October 25, 2018
Real Revolutionist
For Muslim men, women are just objects to be handled as they want
Why is that parents are deciding a 6 year boy to be monk when he is adult he is deprived of marital status . Does someone make the decision on behalf of the child that they will become a monk?
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Real Revolutionist / October 25, 2018
rbh
Parents don’t decide to ordain children as monks. Who told you this lie.
If a child was found interested only parents do it but there may be exceptional cases where a poor mother hand over a child to a temple to see the child is more comfortable & get education.
A Buddhist monk has a right to de-robe whenever he feels that that monk life is enough for him.
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PUK Jayantha / October 26, 2018
RR,
“If a child was found interested only parents do it but there may be exceptional cases where a poor mother hand over a child “
Can’t the poor mother even decide whether Loku Hamuduruwo rapes the child or not, even in exceptional cases?
I suppose all children who are interested in being President do so too.
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rbh / October 25, 2018
. Muslims are producing kids like Pigs, dogs or rats while westerners are addicted to the condom and to the pill and their birth rate is lower than 1%.
Prevention Marital status legalizing Same-sex marriage dont have even 1%
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hancho pancha / October 25, 2018
The French Culture is more human and superior to Islam Culture. The Muslims must be grateful to their host countries for letting them live totally free and happy. The Muslims butcher their own people in cold blood like what happened to Jamal Kashoggi under the very roof of his Embassy of his own country.
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mohomad / October 27, 2018
hancho pancha
How many people, the heads (even those belong to other countries) have the US, Israel and west butchered? You don’t know isn’t it, because you cannot keep count on them.
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clean slate / October 25, 2018
How can niqab be said to be a right? The opposite is true. It is really a tether to which muslim women are tied. In the 50s and 60s muslim women walked on the streets with a purdah. The full length black gown and black mask is a post-saudi migrant worker phenomenon. If moslem women want rights let them first get out of the black garb. If they fight for it they are fighting only for their enslavement.
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clean slate / October 25, 2018
It’s comical to see in high flyer schoolgirls’ exam results of int’l schools muslim girls appearing with only their eyes seen. Poor things I am sure all of them would like to be featured with their full faces just like other children appearing there. One distinct advantage the printer has is he need not be too meticulous about the names matching the photographs. The schòolgirls themselves will not know the difference.
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Goviya / October 25, 2018
clean slate:
I saw a depiction of a Muslim schoolgirl who had obtained very good results in the examination displayed on a banner outside a local school. She was wearing a mask and even her eyes were not visible behind the two slits. The school could simply have published only her name without putting that silly image that defies logic on the banner. Doing this sort of thing only invites ridicule!
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jim softy / October 25, 2018
How can Burqua/Niquab violate human rights? According to Islam women do not have same level of human rights as men. Islamic terrorists could be hiding behind burqua
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MuslimHubby / October 25, 2018
MUSLIMS:
Having see this comment thread, I am quite happy that Muslims have taken the right decision historically – that is to be with and support Sinhalese.
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No wonder from where the 24-hour ultimatum mindset of Prabakaran came from. No matter what differences Muslims and Sinhalese might have, we will continue to be with them. Tamils are very jealous of Muslims (of course there are exceptions and gem of people) for doing good not leaving the country when we faced challenges.
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Siva Sankaran Sharma / October 26, 2018
Yes please do and the Sinhalese as a reward will use you against the Tamils and then bash you up more and more just like in Amparai, Kandy and Aluthgamma. . So you admit that your backstabbing turncoat low caste Dravidian immigrants from South India , have been with the Sinhalese against your fellow non MuslimTamils from independence for petty gains and positions and helped them in their genocide and war crimes. This means what the LTTE did in chasing you out of the north was justified , as you were spying for the Sinhalese and fermenting trouble in the north , just like the atrocities committed by the Muslim home guards against the Tamils in the east. Idiotic person the Sinhalese have been deliberately creating a wedge between you and your fellow non Muslim Tamils for their advantage and using you Muslims against the Tamils but have no intention of rewarding you with anything. May throw a few scraps here and there like you do for a dog as a reward, nothing more. In fact they hate you more than the Tamils, however much you bootlick them. May be you are a Muslim opportunist who really does not care but want to bootlick the Sinhalese and get your petty rewards.
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MuslimHubby / October 26, 2018
Bootlicking in own country is better than creating a war environment, then killing your own innocents and others just for landing illegally and getting asylum in the west to bootlick the whites there and make money?
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You live in Australia, can you honestly say that you would have still got to live there had there not been a war? Shame on you man!
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Siva Sankaran Sharma / October 26, 2018
Lots of Sri Lankan Muslims land in places like Australia and Canada and claim asylum stating that they are ethnic Tamil Muslims fleeing Sinhalese persecution . Some may be your close relatives. Tamil when it suits you and Tamil haters other times. Typical mentality of a converted low caste. So what if I now live in Australia. I can live anywhere I want and that is none of your business. No one is stopping you from migrating . Sour Grapes? I came under the skilled migration category and not as a refugee. I applied and migrated to Australia from another country where I was working. It is not that easy to get refugee status in Australia or most western countries , They check your background your story and now even your ethnic origin and now even your spoken Tamil dialect , as they are now aware that many Sinhalese, Sri Lankan Muslims and others were falesely claiming asylum stating they were Tamils. The war forced us to leave due to the activities of Sinhalese racists and Muslim opportunists like you . There is nothing for me to be ashamed . It is you and the Sinhalese racists who should be ashamed forcing us to leave our homeland where our ancestors have lived and ruled our land for thousands of years. People fleeing persecution like the Syrians and Rohingya do not have to be ashamed , it is the people who are persecuting them who have to be ashamed . Proves what thoroughly mixed up person you are . Morally bankrupt not knowing what is right or wrong. Jealous that the Tamil diaspora are largely well off and fuming. Go and get a life idiotic person. For all I know you may be Sinhalese deliberately posting under to Muslim ID to create mischief between the Tamils and Muslims. Sinhalese are well known for this. Posting lies and propaganda under various identities.
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mohomad / October 27, 2018
No Sri Lankan Moors went there as refugees. May be few taken by your human smugglers for money. Most were who sold all their possession and legally settled down there or those who went on students visa and settled down there. But oh my god all you Tamils go illegal way, even now go in Kallathoni boats to Australia.
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Ralli Ameen / October 27, 2018
Here the Australoid crow cawing; caw, caw, caw…………..
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Aravinda / October 31, 2018
That is good Hubby. there are some racist extremist groups among Sinhalese and Muslims and Tamils trying to divide us. But we Must forgive them and move forward. After all We are all blood relatives. Many Muslims mothers were Sinhalese women. Lankan Tamils are also by blood much more related to Sinhalese than to Indian Tamils. I always feel Muslims treat and respect Sinhalese much better than Sinhalese do to Sinhalese. I think wearing a Niqab make a women safe and respectful. But it must be forceful. We all three communities must stick together. Not just one or two.
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Rbh / October 26, 2018
Rajasingam
Why did the tamils go to the western countries not go to india
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Siva Sankaran Sharma / October 26, 2018
Tamils can go anywhere they want. Why just to India? Why don’t you go , after all it is the Sinhalese and Sri Lankan Muslims who migrated from Tamil Nadu and not the Sri Lankan Tamils. Only the poorest Tamils landed in India and even amongst them the more adventurous and cleverer ones moved to the west, as they knew what will happen to them in these Indian refugee camps. Look at the plight of the 100000 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees languishing in the Indian refugee camps and the current situation of 1million Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora who moved to west. The former treated as outsiders, illtreated , discriminated, poverty stricken and not allowed meaningful work other than manual labour with no hope for them or their children. The latter thriving prosperous , their children highly educated professionals , owning their homes . Only a small percentage of them failed in their new homeland. Whereas in India only a very small percentage of them were allowed to thrive. this too because they married into the local Indian population and have now lost their identity. Happy. Why do most Sinhalese and Sri Lankan Muslims run to the west ? Instead of to mother India/Tamil Nadu or Muslim lands? Can you answer me this question? Tamils left because of discrimination persecution , why do Sinhalese racists and backstabbing low life .pretend Arab converted low caste immigrant Indian Tamil Muslims in the island , now calling themselves Sri Lankan Muslims , want to migrate to the west badly?
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Paul / October 26, 2018
RSS, If you seek asylum you go to the nearest safe country i.e. India
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MuslimHubby / October 26, 2018
Siva Sankaran Sharma,
LTTE and forces both prosecuted you, the Tamils. I would say that army attacked you physically, but LTTE did physically as well as morally and removed all the freedom you had within their control led areas – yet you guys when landed in the west, supported and funded the LTTE, on what basis? Because you share the same race?
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When your origins traces back to Tamil Nadu who supported, trained, stood and still stand supporting Tiger ideology going against Delhi, why would they discriminate their own kith and kin, that is you? Are they afraid that you guys will try to reemphasize casteism that they are doing everything possible to come out of that mindset?
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Babalathappu / October 26, 2018
SSS@
You may be very right with some thoughts about some false accusations
being made by tamils/muslims specially when they apply for asyulum in those countries. We as then students, happened to work with german and swiss court authorities in order them to be clear the issues. There, I got this information.
There had been tamils and muslims that had stammered own stories but depicting the hindu worshiping displays by which their devotion is shown to onlookers by piercing their skin with hooks and spikes in Hindu festival. So for the europeans, these sound as truths. However, later they become aware the lies being added by them. These lankens have not proper reasons to claim asylum in anywhere. So long their processes go on, they are entitled to rely on state funds. But these people are real parasites. Germans and swiss believe today the numbers of real asylum seekers came from SL or the like countries are much less than they believed before (30% or much less). This information is refered to mid 90ties.
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Ralli Ameen / October 27, 2018
Discard all what this Australoid crow SSSharma writes. He has his own crow history book , all are nonsense of his imaginary writings. He is a kallathoni who went to west on the pretext of refugee a brainchild of Balasingham to open the doors of green pastures to these coolies.
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Amarasiri / October 29, 2018
Because they came from India, their Para-Homeland. Same for Para-/Sinhala as well.
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Rbh / October 26, 2018
Siva
No muslim or Sinhalese killed rajiv ghandhi
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MuslimHubby / October 26, 2018
Source: CNN
Irish singer Sinead O’Connor has announced she has converted to Islam and said she has changed her name to Shuhada’ Davitt.
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The 51-year-old has been posting selfies of herself wearing hijabs on Twitter in recent days, as well as a video in which she sang the Azan, or call to prayer.
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She tweeted on October 19: “This is to announce that I am proud to have become a Muslim. This is the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian’s journey. All scripture study leads to Islam. Which makes all other scriptures redundant.”
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Avina / October 31, 2018
These are bad times.During bad times bad things become mainstream. Drugs, pornography, terrorism, violence, racism, war, homosexuality, Islam……..
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Spring Koha / October 26, 2018
Never mind the niqab, I saw Sheikh Mahktoum at a race meeting in the UK in full top hat and tails. He looked a pukkah sight but I was not sure whether he was in fancy dress. Similarly, many years ago, I saw Upali Wijewardena at a race meeting at Ascot in full Arya Sinhala. Now that was definitely fancy dress. The thing is that neither of them looked sinister, and in fact both owned winning horses.
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Shukri Ibrahim / October 27, 2018
If you want to ban niqab ban? christina sister wearing head cover,Hindus keeping pottu in their forehead, Buddhist monk wearing sarees and sheiks wearing turban etc..should be banned.Then its called equal law for all or you have to eradicate all religious identity from this world.
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David / October 31, 2018
Why HRCouncil is silence about Hundreds of millions women’s human rights being violated by Islamic Niqab mandatory laws? Good majority of Human right council controlled by Sharia Arab states. This is an insult to human rights. HRCouncil protects Facism.
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A vinathan / October 31, 2018
I remember as a youth we watched from European media ten thousands of Iranian women protesting in Iran after Iranian revolution against regime’s Niqab rule. This was nearly 40 years ago. I felt so sympathetic for those poor women. They were dressed like ordinary white western women back then.
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