By Izeth Hussain –
Izeth Hussain
I have come to share the view of the Sinhalese hard-liners that the Tamil ethnic problem cannot be solved through devolution. I now share their view that going beyond 13 A in its presently truncated form – that is by giving police and land powers – will only aggravate the ethnic problem, not solve it. There are two major reasons for this. One is that Tamil racism is worse, very much worse, than Sinhalese racism. That means that giving more devolution will only whet the Tamil appetite for more and more devolution until Eelam is established, or there is a confederal arrangement that amounts to a de facto Eelam. The second reason why I have come to share the view of the Sinhalese hard-liners is the new geopolitical configuration in which India is in rivalry with China.
I must make a couple of clarifications before proceeding further. I have stated only probabilities, not certainties in the above paragraph. Futurology is a hazardous exercise, and it usually proves to be mistaken, because of a human tendency to extrapolate the present into the future, to assume that present trends will continue without taking into account the possibility that a hitherto unregarded factor could secure unexpected outcomes. There was vast expertise in the West on communism and the Soviet system, but only two foresaw the dramatic collapse of that system between 1989 and 1991 – Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Emmanuel Todd. So, I won’t discount the possibility that good sense will prevail on both sides of the ethnic fence, that both will be able to check their racists, and mutual accommodativeness will lead to a final definitive solution of the ethnic problem on the basis of devolution. But I find that most improbable for the reasons given in the first paragraph.
The second clarification I want to make is that the improbability of a solution on the basis of devolution does not preclude the possibility of a solution on some other basis. I have in mind a solution on the basis of a fully functioning democracy as in the West. We have shown ourselves in the past capable of operating such a democracy and we seem to be approaching it again. Our Tamils in the West are not clamoring for devolution and are quite happy without it under a fully democratic dispensation. Why not here? The answer is that the Tamils regard themselves as not just another minority but a national minority, with their homeland and a right at least to internal self-determination: therefore a definitive solution can only be on the basis of devolution. I have shown in an earlier article that the so-called right to internal self-determination is nonsensical. However, the important point is that if a solution on the basis of devolution is too difficult or simply not feasible for the two reasons given in the first paragraph, we have no realistic alternative to trying out a democratic solution.
I will now go into the two reasons why a definitive solution on the basis of devolution seems to be extremely improbable, beginning with the India factor. It would not be exaggerated to say that the ethnic problem we have on our hands is in reality an Indian problem, not a Sri Lankan one. If India did not exist, if there were no Tamils in Tamil Nadu, we would not be having a Tamil ethnic problem, not one that commands so much international attention. The Tamils would simply be treated as a conquered minority, suffering consequences that could be mild or very terrible. That would not bother the international community overmuch because it consists of nation states that privilege ethnic majorities at the expense of ethnic minorities. The prevailing consensus in the international community therefore is that ethnic minorities must know their place and keep it, or be taught to keep it. So the travails of the SL Tamils would not figure in international consciousness, except to some extent if there were horrendous human rights violations.
It is Tamil Nadu of course that makes all the difference. Delhi cannot ignore the fall-out in Tamil Nadu of what happens to the Tamils in Sri Lanka. Her intervention on behalf of our Tamils is consequently not seen by the international community as interference but as legitimate in the pursuit of the Indian national interest. That is why the air drop was seen not as aggression but at the worst as a transgression of international law, and that is why there was no international disquiet over the Peace Accords and the coming of the IPKF troops – though our other neighbors were deeply disturbed by the possible negative consequences of what was going on. I share the international perception that India did not use the Tamil ethnic problem to try to bully or dominate us. I believe that India committed a monumental blunder in stopping the Vadamarachchi operation in the naïve expectation that a political solution for the ethic problem could be found without much difficult. But there was no malign intent behind that blunder.
Until recently India’s behavior in relation to the Tamil ethnic problem has been guided by a fundamental principle that has applied to Indo-Sri Lanka relations since 1948 even though it may not have been stated explicitly in written form: Sri Lanka by itself can pose no threat to India but it can do so if it gets together with some other foreign power against India. After 1977 Sri Lanka was perceived by India as getting too close to the US in a manner that posed a threat – a serious threat – to the legitimate interests of India. That may have been a misperception but all the same it was a perception on the Indian side. That perception has to be understood in the context of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, with India seen as supporting it and the US opposing it. But Soviet expansionism was contained and reversed, Indo-US relations became cordial, and India which had been fomenting the ethnic problem wanted to solve it. That was the background for India getting together with the US over the Peace Accords. I hold that India had no imperialist objectives of a hegemonistic order towards Sri Lanka at all. The alleged Vice-regal posturing of High Commissioner Dixit was of no significance whatever.
But in recent times the fundamentals determining our relations with India in connection with the Tamil ethnic problem have changed completely because of the new geopolitical configuration of Sino-Indian rivalry in South Asia and the Indian Ocean. The factors of geography cannot be changed. The US can increase or lessen its presence in this region without jeopardizing its vital interests, but China cannot do that because of its vital commercial and other interests. It should therefore have an interest in securing a permanent presence in Sri Lanka. We have now to take into account the fact that Sino-Indian relations will have its ups and downs, and that they can become dangerously troubled. It has to be expected therefore that India would want – in pursuit of what it sees as its vital and entirely legitimate interests – a dominant or predominant position in Sri Lanka. If that entails too many difficulties, it could want at least an arrangement in which a solid segment of Sri Lanka – a North East inhabited mainly by Tamils – will be permanently on its side. A federal or even confederal solution of the ethnic problem would be best for that purpose. Was that the significance of the fact that during Prime Minister Modi’s visit he unexpectedly vaunted the attractions of federalism? Anyway, it seems to me that attempting a solution on the basis of further devolution could be hazardous. It would be prudent to go for a solution based on a fully functioning democracy.
To be continued..
jim softy / March 26, 2016
Mr. Izeth Huissein:
Come into your Senses.
All Tamils, Muslims and christians are using various strategies to overcome Sinhala buddhists and establish their kingddom in Sinhale.
That is when Tamils in the world are 100 million, christians and m,uslims are almost Two billion each.
they all want to over power about 15 million sinhala buddhists.
Just understand thereality.
What ever you all preach, the reality is that.
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Dankottuwa Manike / March 26, 2016
Izeth Hussain must be eating only Sultanas.
When will he write something about Muslim Terrorism.
They are terrorising the Tamils in the North now by selling Ganja and narcotics.
When Tigers were active they were given guns buy the state to terrorise the Tamil civilians. They have grabbed extensive lands of the Tamils in the East.
Muslims won’t change. Their religion is hate based.
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Amarasiri / March 30, 2016
Izeth Hussain
RE: Tamil Racism & 13 A
Hindus and Jews are the Most Racist.
Then the Muslims of the Middle East.
The West is the least Racist. Why? Christianity? Less Tribalism? More Education?
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/189837/muslim-countries-are-most-racist-world-daniel-greenfield
See how the Islamophonbes Twist the Data to pur forward their Anti Muslim Agenda.
MUSLIM COUNTRIES ARE THE MOST RACIST IN THE WORLD
While most Western countries surveyed are not racist, most Muslim countries surveyed are very racist.
May 19, 2013 Daniel Greenfield
The unsurprising reality is the exact opposite. Asian and Middle Eastern countries are among the most racist.
The top TWO racist countries are
1. India 85% Hindus, 13% Muslims
2. Israel, 70% Jews, 30% Muslims and Christians
When you do an international survey that asks whether you wouldn’t want someone of another race as a neighbor, decades of liberal programming assume that Western countries will summon up their evil white privilege, while Eastern and Middle Eastern countries will cheerfully welcome in the stranger.
The unsurprising reality is the exact opposite. Asian and Middle Eastern countries are among the most racist.
Of the four most racist countries, two, Bangladesh and Jordan are Muslim, and one, India, has a very large Muslim population. Furthermore, while most Western countries, are blue, meaning that they are not racist, most Muslim countries surveyed fall into the red category, meaning that they are very racist.
These include Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Bangladesh, Iran, Turkey, Algeria, Morocco, Mali and Malaysia. The only Western country on that list is France.
Meanwhile the most tolerant countries in the world include United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, Britain, Sweden, Norway, Latvia, Australia, New Zealand.
What do they have in common? Not a single one of them is Muslim.
Figures like these have serious implications for a multicultural society being constructed with Muslim immigration. It is rather clear that importing large numbers of Muslim immigrants does not lead to tolerance. It leads to intolerance. Tellingly, France, the only Western country on the racist list, has been subjected to large scale Muslim settlement leading to conflict and violence.
Tags: Racism, Muslim immigration, Muslim Racism
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Ken Robert / March 30, 2016
Amarasiri aka mad hatter
I read your source article. That did not implicitly say Hindus are the most racist.
This is an observational study indicating the people’s apparent tolerance to foreigners.
For example Indians may have been explicit about their suspicions of having a foreigner or it may also indicate they felt vulnerable having too many foreigners.
Please save us from your diatribes by writing after some deep thinking.
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Amarasiri / March 31, 2016
Ken Robert
“Amarasiri aka mad hatter “?
Or is it Ken Robert aka ignorant color blind sucker? who cannot read maps? Did you go to the same school Daham Sirisena went to?
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/189837/muslim-countries-are-most-racist-world-daniel-greenfield
Look at the Map.
1. India, with 85% Hindus and Israel with 70% Jews is painted Red, Bloody Red, the two most Racist countries.
2. Pakistan, next to India, is light blue, just like Mexico.
3. Saudi Arabia is light red, still lighter than India and Israel.
If you use common sense, should be able to figure out that the root cause is the Theology of the Hindus, Castism and Racism, and of the Jews Racism, for the above data.
Read what H LD Mahindapala is saying about Vellahala Castism and Racism and what Izeth Hussin is saying about Tamils being more racist than Sinhala Buddhists?
What you see is the Effect. The cause is the Theology of Hinduism and Judaism.
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Dr.Rajasingham Narendran / April 1, 2016
Amarasiri,
I do not think the question asked in the survey you refer, was appropriate to define the so-called attitudes of countries or peoples.
The question in essence was,’ Would you want someone of another race as your neighbor?’.
Put this question against the genesis of 1915 (?) Sinhala-Muslim roots that started in Kandy. The Muslims protested against Buddhists going in procession along a street they live in high concentration. They considered it an intrusion in to their way of life.
The Hindus and Buddhists practice their religious festivals as large, group based public events-with much music, noise, pomp and pageantry. They are also more gregarious in terms of the men mingling with females on public occasions. Whereas the Muslims do not celebrate their religious occasions in the manner and have different norms when it comes to their females. They would also sacrifice livestock during their religious occasions in their homes. The Hindus and Buddhist]s would not generally do this.
It is a clash of cultures or constraints that groups have to impose on themselves to avoid physical clash, that leads to people not desiring people of a different religion or culture in their neighborhood. This covers a wide range of issues such as dress norms, the food habits ( eg. Beef eating) that leads to clash of cultures and the consolidation of the instinct to avoid clashes.
Language too is an issue. One group will not like to live in a neighborhood where another language group predominates, because they cannot communicate with each other or fear a repeat of a communal riot as in the past.
These are not acts of so-called of racism. They are nechanisms to avoid possible conflicts and confrontations.
Further, in countries where there is excellent policing, objective enforcement of law and rules against being a public nuisance, such situations will not arise and whoever is your neighbor or in your neighborhood would not matter. We make many personal choices beyond so-called racial considerations, while selecting the areas we live. Class or economic factors are probably important to some. I would not like to live near a slum area, though I have nothing against the people who live there.
Further, people find comfort living amongst their own kind in especially potentially hostile environments. New immigrants seek housing in areas where their kind predominates, leading to ghetto formation. With the passage of time, they get the confidence in some countries, to spread out.
The question in this survey was wrong and out of context in terms of the cultural milieu and security that prevail in countries like India and Sri Lanka.
This survey and the conclusions drawn are scientifically invalid.
Dr.RN
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ken robert / April 2, 2016
Dr R N
your eloquence in writing, patience in replying multiple commentators and more importantly your purpose in re-conciliating different ethnic groups in Srilanka are laudable.
your comments are worth their weight in gold as much the trash we had to endure reading CT.
I think the concept of diversity is quite interesting. I quote
“Diversity not only involves how people perceive themselves, but how they perceive others. Those perceptions affect their interactions”
I believe this is the malaise affecting our brethren confusing the concepts of race, nationalism, global politics. I like to re-emphasise that genetically there is no separate race as Srilankan Muslims as another commentator eruditely mentioned. We are all same brothers with different viewpoints.
I want end this discussion by quoting a verse from holy Quran
The believers are but brothers, so make reconciliation between your brothers and fear Allah that you may receive mercy.
Surat Al-Hujurat 49:10
sall Allahu ‘alayhi wa sallam to Amarasiri and Izeth Hussein
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Amarasiri / April 3, 2016
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran
“The question in this survey was wrong and out of context in terms of the cultural milieu and security that prevail in countries like India and Sri Lanka. ”
“This survey and the conclusions drawn are scientifically invalid. Dr.RN”
Thank you Dr. RN, for a very very sensible answer. Amarasiri’s point was the Twisted logic by Daniel Ginsburg, Islamophobe and Neocons, even twisting a bad survey to advance his Islamophobic viewpoint, conveniently bypassing bloody red India and Israel, ignoring Blue Pakistan, to give credibility to their Islamophobic viewpoint.
“Identify the enemy. Devise ways to defeat him” Says David Horowitz, another neocon Islamophobe. Have you heard about WMD and the lies?
( Amarasiri does not think that Ken Roberts or Backlash has the common sense and intelligence you have to sort through these deceptions by Neocons.)
Yes, agree, with your comment except the 1915 Gampola incident, of a Perahera going in front of a Mosque with noise issue. There are many Idiots among the Muslims. They were there then, and they are there now as well, just like among the Sinhala and Tamils. The best data is the average GMAT scores Wahhabi Graduates compared to the Rest of the world graduates, plotter against their native IQ’s. The Wahhabi Saudis were at the bottom. Not true for Sunnis and Shias.
Quick Post: L&V’s National IQ’s predict GMAT scores across 173 nations
http://humanvarieties.org/2014/02/02/quick-post-lvs-national-iqs-predicts-gmat-scores-across-173-nations/
That study, GMAT, was quite statistically valid.
“This survey and the conclusions drawn are scientifically invalid. Dr.RN”
Amarasiri is in agreement here. However, you seem to have missed the two points, based to the survey data, Daniel Ginsburg was interpreting. He twisted a flawed survey still further, and being Idslamophobic put tried to say that Islam and Racism go Hand in Hsand.
Who is this Daniel Ginsburg? A Neocon Islampphobic. See Below. Looks like most missed this point Amrasiri was trying to make.
Hello Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler. You have seen it before.
DANIEL GREENFIELD
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/author/daniel-greenfield
DAVID HOROWITZ
http://www.frontpagemag.com/author/david-horowitz
Horowitz is founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (formerly the Center for the Study of Popular Culture) and author of many books and pamphlets published over the last twenty years. Among them: Hating Whitey; Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left; The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America; and The End of Time.
The Neocons and Islamophobes. -Who we are
http://www.davidhorowitzfreedomcenter.org/school-for-political-warfare/
Identify the enemy
Devise ways to defeat him
The David Horowitz Freedom Center is unique among conservative think tanks whose emphasis is on public policy and institutional reform in that it sees its role as that of a battle tank, geared to fight a war that many still don’t recognize. For 27 years, since its founding in 1988, the Center has been warning that the political left has declared war on America and its constitutional system, and is willing to collaborate with America’s enemies abroad and criminals at home to bring America down. For most of those years the Center was a voice crying in the wilderness with few willing to recognize the threat from the enemy within, a fifth column force that was steadily expanding its influence within the Democratic Party. With the election of a lifetime radical to the White House in 2008, the perceptions of conservatives began to change. But the Center remains unique as an organization dedicated to the war and to developing strategies to win it.
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Izeth Hussain / April 1, 2016
Amarasiri -very interesting.India and Israel could well be the most racist because of Hinduism and Judaism. An interesting fact is that Muslims in India have been heavily influenced by the Hindu caste system – a fact that was deplored by the great Iqbal, and also noted by Louis Dumont in his Homo Hierarchicus. So the whole of India is blood red on that map.
I want to enunciate casteist racism as a special category. I certainly believe that Hinduism has a lot to do with the extreme Tamil racist nastiness directed against me.They find it unbearable that an effing filthy utter absolute bloody bastard of a damned Soni can have a reputation as a writer, intellectual, political analyst, and – as attested by Leelananda the other day – diplomat. – IH
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Amarasiri / April 1, 2016
Ken Robert
Or is it Ken Robert aka ignorant color blind sucker? who cannot read maps? Did you go to the same school Daham Sirisena went to?
Ken Robert, are you a Vellahala Tamil? Now Amarasiri understands. Read below.
Somebody, a Tamil, a was saying that the IQ distribution of Tamils is bimodal.
Now I understand. You belong to the lower mode.
The Story Of A Tamil Man’s Confession
The Story Of Two Graphs Drawn By A Tamil Man
https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/the-story-of-two-graphs-drawn-by-a-tamil-man/
“Now, the bell curve has famously been used to show how intelligence is distributed among a population. Some have used this to argue that there is such a natural distribution of the stuff and that if you were born at the lower end of it, there is nothing much you can do to redeem yourself. “It is all in the genes,” goes that particular theory, from which its proponents jump to the conclusion that certain ethnic groups are so well represented at the lower end of the spectrum that there is no point in investing any resources in their communities. These theorists are oblivious to the fact that the instruments to measure this inherited substance are designed in such a way as to put the instrument-maker at the advantageous end of the scale.”
“This annoys Thevaram immensely. Angrily, with beer froth dribbling on his unshaven chin, he would retort as follows:”
“You have to know the context, machan (buddy).
Let me explain.
“Unlike in the bell curve, which has only one “bump,” this one has two, an upper bump and a lower bump, with not much in the middle. If we take an average of the stuff of which we have drawn this graph, we will find there is nothing to represent that average in the middle. As such, unlike the average price of Jaffna onions, average intelligence may be a meaningless thing to talk about.”
Get it? Ken Robert?
If not, let me tell you a story.
A picture is worth a thousand words. Ken Robert is closer to the origin.
https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/the-story-of-two-graphs-drawn-by-a-tamil-man/onioniqdistributions/
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Ken Robert / April 1, 2016
Amarasiri
I raised the flaws in your comment . Reread my comment and argue logically if you can!
Do not expect me stoop to your tangent and rather confusing comments.
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Amarasiri / April 2, 2016
Ken Robert
This is what the Islamophobe Daniel Greenfield said, twisting the Data:
The unsuspecting with low IQs will fall for it.
“While most Western countries surveyed are not racist, most Muslim countries surveyed are very racist. May 19, 2013 Daniel Greenfield”
“Of the four most racist countries, two, Bangladesh and Jordan are Muslim, and one, India, has a very large Muslim population. Furthermore, while most Western countries, are blue, meaning that they are not racist, most Muslim countries surveyed fall into the red category, meaning that they are very racist.”
So suckers like Ken Robert, Dr.Rajasingham Narendran , and others who cannot read between the lines fall for the Characters like Daniel Greenfield. Who us this Guy?
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/author/daniel-greenfield
So, Daniel Greenfield, does not see that India is bloody red in Racism is due to 85% of the Population being Hindus. He does not see that Pakistan, former, India Before Partition, is light blue like Mexico and 99% Muslim.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/189837/muslim-countries-are-most-racist-world-daniel-greenfield
He also does not see Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Central Asian countries, that comprise majority Muslims countries are, less racist than India, Israel and Saudi Arabia.
No mention of the Racism of Israel, with 70% Jews.
So, he must be a Jew., to ignore the Racism of Israel.
The Vellahals must be Hindus, to ignore the racism of Hindus in India.
Ken Robert, you must give your argument, to “Koinde Bandapu Chinunta’, those Chinese who have their hair tied in a knot, if you can find them.
You should be able to find onions and onion prices in Jaffna, along with many Vellahalas.
https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/the-story-of-two-graphs-drawn-by-a-tamil-man/onioniqdistributions/
Are there more suckers among the Tamils in the Land of Native Veddah Aethho?
We all know about Sinhala Modayas, amd Muslim, Wahhabies, and their GMATscaorews from Wahhabi Saudi Arabia,
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Amarasiri / April 2, 2016
Ken Robert
“I raised the flaws in your comment . Reread my comment and argue logically if you can!”
You were being fooled by Islamophobes, even in light of evidence, ignoring India and Israel, because it did not fit with their flawed ideology.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/189837/muslim-countries-are-most-racist-world-daniel-greenfield
See How the Great Game was played by the British to take over the Ottoman lands and Colonize the Arabs. The Arabs were suckers. Ken, are you a sucker for Daniel-Greenfield?
Does the Sun go around the Earth, or is it the Earth that moves and rotates?
http://www.frontpagemag.com/author/daniel-greenfield
http://www.davidhorowitzfreedomcenter.org/school-for-political-warfare/
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262368/integration-not-answer-muslim-terrorism-daniel-greenfield
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Backlash / April 2, 2016
You usually pontificate in tempered, scholarly and polite language – taking the high pedestal. If then how come your outburst “Or is it Ken Robert aka ignorant color blind sucker?…” Looks like your thin veneer hiding a quintessential Muslim fundamentalist going under an assumed Sinhala Buddhist name, is going awry. You remember the old Tamil proverb bathing a crow in the waters of seven rivers is not going to make the crow white.
Backlash
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ken robert / April 2, 2016
Amarasiri will not engage with question asked by Dr R N and myself. He will cite some links, digress from the topic or try to show himself as a saviour of the world.
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Amarasiri / April 3, 2016
ken robert
“Amarasiri will not engage with question asked by Dr R N and myself. “
Just read the Comment to Dr RN by Amarasiri. Dr RN is a fellow with common sense who can think, think and read maps in different colors, unlike the Islamophobic Neocon Daniel Ginsburg.
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take_that / March 26, 2016
This career gangster with a global problem that has stretched to Europe is after a small minority of people in the northern province of a small island.
Fundamentalist Pirates who infiltrated the island under trade/labour talking from their hat. We hear this crap from Turkey too.
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Ajith / March 26, 2016
“I have in mind a solution on the basis of a fully functioning democracy as in the West.”
Even a 10% of a democracy as in the west is impossible in the Sri Lanka. Islamic Fundamentalism and Buddhist Fundamentalism are two major threats to the world.
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soma / March 26, 2016
It is definitely a threat to Tamil racism.
Soma
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Burning Issue / March 26, 2016
soma,
“It is definitely a threat to Tamil racism.”
The Tamil racism is inextricably linked to the Sinhala Buddhist racism! You can prevaricate but the blatant aggression of the majority towards the Tamils has been startling indeed. The majority simply used democracy as cover in relegating the Tamils as second-class citizens. They did this through fabricating the history and manipulating the governance and judiciary. Any community that is subjected to such treatments would react the way the Tamils do! It is not a rocket science.
IH is comfortable in attacking the Tamils because he knows that when the Sinhala and Tamils reconcile and form a common identity, the Muslims will stand out. This will cause sever problems for their security with the current status quo! He will prefer keeping the Tamils and Sinhala at loggerheads!
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Fathima Fukushima / March 27, 2016
Not true. Tamil racism is found in Tamil Nadu too where there are no Singhalas.
How do you explain that?
Muslims in South Asia have never resorted to terrorism. Only Tamils.
What is the only terrorist group banned in 2 south Asian countries? Tamil Tigers!
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Fukushima / March 27, 2016
“Muslims in South Asia have never resorted to terrorism. Only Tamils.”
You are stone deaf to the suicide bombing by Muslims of Pakistan. You got more than a burka covering your ears- you are brain dead to reason.
Pakistan is stolen land from Hindu/Buddhist.
Are you a member of ISIS??
7/7 in 2005 London was carried out by Bengali Muslims and planned at Paris. The establishment has supressed it as much as Tunisia planning.
With peace in 1947 the Muslims of Palestine started terror and President Nasser supported Arafat.
Yours is not a race/ethnic but an ideology of killing raping humans a very outdated crusade.
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / March 28, 2016
There is news today that Christians in Lahore celebrating Easter in a park had been targetted by Muslim terrorists killing several and injuring many. Is Pakistan not a part of South Asia. Even in Bangladesh Muslim terrorists have targetted Hindus who are the rightful owners and also native Chakma Buddhists. There are several Muslim terrorist groups banned in India and Pakistan. In Pakistan and Bangladesh there is systamatic ethnic cleansing of non-muslims aided and abetted by their governments.
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Renmark / March 26, 2016
You must have been blind to miss “violent Tamil extremism” from the mix!
Bloody idiot.
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paul / March 26, 2016
And violent Tamil casteism. Totally ignored by all commentators East and West.
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Bodin / March 27, 2016
Democracy in the West? USA?
Govt by the rich, for the rich, and of the rich.
The Forbes magazine tells you have less thaan 100 people own 95% of the wealth
and control the capital.
At one time they used slavery. Today 50% of the able bodied black young men
are inprison for what would be regarded as minor crimes if committed by a white.
They are made to work in the orisons, at 23 cts an hour. A lot of that produce
goes to cosco, MacDonalds, and other multinationals.
Slavery in the modern age is called democracy.
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Native Vedda / March 27, 2016
Bodin
“Slavery in the modern age is called democracy.”
Being tied to a person or a party that promises free rice from moon is slavery. Making life better for the little man/woman is democracy.
War criminals don’t make good democrats whilst those who vote for crooks, …. don’t either.
Lets forget American democracy.
Lets talk about democracy in this little island. How about people voting for a war criminals, crooks, drug smugglers, saffronistas, … Why do the people vote for the smart ass patriots, do they want to enslave themselves or they like to be enslaved by smart ass patriots?
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take_that / March 27, 2016
“”They are made to work in the orisons, at 23 cts an hour. A lot of that produce goes to cosco, MacDonalds, and other multinationals. “”
Those jobs are for prisoners for life. That is enough for the subsidised goodies they can purchase within. In the USA and Holland the Salvation Army handles these projects for fitters and they are accountable.
this is better than keep them under an exercise regime for life.
There are many who have left on completion of time and found employment in blue chip companies. Remember it is very hard for ex convicts to get anything even rent a room when they are released. So the work is a preparation- a bit of cash takes them a long way. Remember USA has robots and don’t need these men to do the repetitive jobs. So its helping in the rehabilitation. Whereas at SL Tamils are jailed for life because they are Tamils and not given any form of work but left to die.
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SJ / March 26, 2016
My appeal to every SENSIBLE reader:
Read this by all means.
But resist the temptation to respond.
The best way to treat undesirable things is to ignore them.
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Dr.Rajasingham Narendran / March 26, 2016
SJ,
Such nonsense, capable of making a bad situation horrid, should be confronted by all sensible people. Those who write or speak such, should fear condemnation. They cannot have the writ to forment trouble, in a delicate moment in time, pregnant with possibilities to heal a festering and gaping wound in this country.
Please comment in your hundreds and if possibly in your thousands-a record for CT- condemning what Izeth Hussain is propounding. Condemn not the person but the substance of what he says.
Let us stand up against bigotry in this country.
Dr.RN
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Izeth Hussain / March 26, 2016
Dr Rajasingham Narendran _ I was about to respond to your earlier reply of around 8 am as I thought you were interested in serious dialogue. But here you refer to “such nonsense”. Insult and abuse can have no place in serious dialogue. – IH
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shankar / March 26, 2016
izzeth
you reply to him. show him it is not nonsense.Give the good doctor the works. humiliate him by putting out your arguments. make him crawl like a worm. show the whole world who you are.
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SJ / March 26, 2016
IH likes the limelight and thrives on controversy. One just provides ammunition to him by taking him seriously. What he cannot take is being ignored. (I would have prescribed the same re HDLM.)
Admittedly, one cannot educate any who has not learned that by now.
Certainly there will be much toxic heat and no light at the end of the process.
I am not sure if shankar’s (March 26, 2016 at 6:16 pm) remarks are tongue-in-cheek. If so, that is the kind of ridicule that the arrogantly obnoxious deserve— but not many Tamil intellectuals seem to be endowed with a good sense of humor.
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Izeth Hussain / April 1, 2016
SJ – you say I like the limelight. What’s your basis for saying that? I write articles and I respond to attacks. I never initiate attacks. So what’s your basis? You have none. You are just spitting forth your racist venom. You say that I should not be taken seriously. Leelananda did. How do you feel about that? /// I am responding to the likes of you only to bring out the fact that Tamil racism is much worse than that of the Sinhalese. – IH
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Native Vedda / April 2, 2016
Izeth Hussain
“SJ – you say I like the limelight. What’s your basis for saying that?”
Haven’t you heard of Tabloid Journalism and Gutter Press. Sensationalism does bring in the readers but not the truth.
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Dr.Rajasingham Narendran / March 26, 2016
Izeth Hussein,
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I had no alternative but to call a spade a bloody spade, in view of the thesis you have put forward and its implications. Although I hold no personal animus, I have no reason to apologise. I am also a much aggrieved Tamil and one who has consistently stood for reconciliation and building new bridges. However, I will not mutely accept the Tamils being once again pushed into an abyss/ inferno through advocacy and characterizations that are way off the mark.
The ideals of a fair and just democracy were buried a long time back and to advocate it be resurrected now is a pipe dream. Only devolution within a United Sri Lanka has the chance of making democracy meaningful, fair and just in this country.
Thanks for your response.
Dr.RN
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / March 27, 2016
Dear Dr. Narendran,
About 30 years ago a Muslim friend of mine told me that Muslims will never allow any agreement between Sinhalese and Tamils to take place for two reasons:
1. If Sinhalese and Tamils attain peace, then their target will be on the Muslims. If the Sinhala Tamil conflict goes on they will not think about harming Muslims.
2. Muslims gained by all the discriminatory laws and practices at the expense of Tamils and if a peaceful solution is reached,then that privileged position will be lost.
Now Izeth is trying to disrupt any solution to be reached, even after Vasudeva Nanayakkara has openly stated that they are not against devolving Police or Land powers to the provinces.
I had correctly assessd him from the very begining as a demented racist, trying to please Sinhalese by attacking Tamils, on which you seem to be now in agreement.
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Fathima Fukushima / March 27, 2016
You are not going anywhere calling a sensible man a racist.
1. Why 150,000 displaced Muslims not resettled in Jaffna?
2. Why Tamils want to replace the Muslim Chief Minister of EPC?
3. Why can’t Tamil recognize Muslims are a distinct ethnic group of SL?
4. Tamil Tigers are the only terror group banned in more than 1 country in South Asia.
Do I need to say more?
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Paul / March 27, 2016
150000 displaced Muslims! There were only around 60000 Muslims in the north. So where did the other 90000 come from? From the nasty Muslim politician from Mannar’s cap or from your Hijab?
Tamils to replace Muslim chief minister! The Tamils are the the real indigenous population of the east and largest ethnic group in the east and the TNA won the most amount of votes. Until large scale ethnic cleansing of Tamils and illegal Sinhalese Sinhalese colonisation started to take place from 60 years ago. The Tamils were the outright majority in the east. The immigrant Indian Tamil Muslims only arrived a few centuries ago from the western and central parts of the island fleeing Portuguese and Sinhalese persecution begging for refuge from the indigenous Tamil Hindus. It is the Muslims who with the help of the illegal Sinhalese setters are trying to steal what rightfully belongs to the Tamils. You came as beggars and refugees to the east and are now trying to steal Tamil Hindu land to create a Salafist Islamic haven in the east. Just like in many parts of Europe. Come begging for refuge and then multiply like rats and within a few generations want to take over the land from the very same people who took pity on you and gave you refuge. We will not allow this to take place in the east. Just look at your Photo speaks volumes. I do not have to elaborate. Dressed up like some Wahhabi/Salafist fundamentalist from the Arabian Gulf and not like a traditional Tamil Muslim.
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Siva Sankaran Sarma / March 29, 2016
Cool story, bro :D
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faycal / March 27, 2016
Fathima Fukushima
`If this is not racism, nothing is.`
Muslim is an ideology developed on faith not a distinct ethnic/race.
Faith is to religion: The unquestioned acceptance of information that is either unverified or that may actually be in conflict with factual evidence. religion is the incubator of wars.
Why do Muslims take refuge in infidel land and rape civilians at will??
Why don’t Muslims go to Muslim land? your motives are clear kill the rest of world- crusade.
How was your Isil training??
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / March 28, 2016
1. The responsibility to settle displaced people lies on the government. Just as much as there are displaced Muslims there are ten times more displaced Tamils not only in Srilanka but also in India and other countries. Since the government seems to be not concerned about resettlement, the correct position is for the civil society members from all communities to come together and impress upon the government to formulate law to enable displaced people to be settled in the lands where they were forced out. The problem is that people are only talking about Sinhalese and Muslims forced out by LTTE from Northern province and are silent about Tamils forced out by Sinhalese in north and by Sinhalese and Muslims in east. While lands vacated by Muslims in the north are still remaining vacant, the lands vacated by Tamils in east are occupied by Muslims and in north are occupied by Sinhalese. Will the Sinhalese and Muslims agree to vacate those lands to allow Tamils to be resettled, is the million dollar question.
2. The rightful owners of eastern province are the Tamilised descendents of veddhas and not Muslims, Sinhalese or even other Tamils like Mukkuwas. Tamils were the majority in the eastern province as evidenced by the successive census carried out since 1821, until the settlement of sinhalese from 1931. Even the Muslims were settled there 500 years ago by King Senerath to give protection from persecution by Portugese. Now the ethnic balance has been distorted partly by colonisation of Sinhalesde and partly by ethnic cleansing of Tamils by Sinhalese and Muslims. In Bosnia all the lands ethnically cleansed of Muslims by Serbs were handed over to Muslims, and in similar way, resettle Tamils in their original places after evicting the Muslim and Sinhala usurpers of lands of Tamils and hold the election. Look at what is happpening, Muslims who came as refugees 500 years ago wanting to drive Tamils out. Muslims are crying foul about Jews driving arabs out of Palastine, but they are doing the same in Srilanka to Tamils. Why are you blaming Tamils of trying to replace Muslim chief minister, when Muslims lobbied Mahinda Rajapakse to replace Tamil chief minister with a Muslim few years ago. If the Muslims in eastern province behave in a manner to uphold justice, then there will not be any opposition to a Muslim chief Minister. At present there are allegations that the Muslim administration is favouring Muslims regarding employment and development.
3. In two recent surveys of DNA from Muslims, it has been found that their core genetic material resembles those of Sinhalese and Tamils. Therefore logically, Muslims are either Sinhala or Tamil converts to Islam and not a separate ethnic group. If the Muslims want to be labelled a separate ethnic group, so it be, but they cannot claim any land belonging to Tamils as their homeland, or stand between any solution based on justice to grant Tamils their traditional homeland and political power. It is unfortunate that Muslims in Srilanka are confused as to their identity, trying to establish an Arab connection, and be a laughing stock.
4. LTTE as a fighting force is finished and no point in bringing them here. However LTTE as a political force is existing. LTTE were not banned for their political conviction or armed struggle but for their conduct of killing non-combatants and dissidents. If LTTE had fought a clean war, they would not have fallen into trouble. LTTE is very active in UK, and you know what happened to Mahinda Rajapakse in 2010 due to LTTE agitation. Only ban that affected LTTE was that of Indian one after they foolishly killed Rajiv Gandhi, which Tamils never mandated to them. However, if the present government fails to solve the Tamil problem in a fair manner, I will not be surprised that LTTE ban may be lifted.
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Kumar / March 27, 2016
The Sinhalese and SL Tamils are like husband and wife, today they fight but tomorrow they may get together and the day they get together, people like Izeth Hussain will have no place to run.
The problem with the SL Muslims is they flip their hat wherever they can make some profit. Both Sinhalese and Tamils know that well. That is why they formed the BBS.The reason why the LTTE evacuated them out of Jaffna was because they were taking bribe from the Sinhala army to spy for them. In SL, we can trust the Sinhalese to a certain extend but not the Muslims who are famously (historically) known as thoppi thruppi (hat flippers). They flip their hats in the direction that suits them.
They have a secret agenda, a 3 point plan. First, take over the country’s business and trade into their hands (economy), second, breed like rabbits to increase their population with the hope of becoming the majority of the country in the future, and thirdly, get themselves educated. Already they have succeeded to a certain extent.
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Izeth Hussain / March 29, 2016
Dr Gnana Sankaralingam – To the reader – this is the famous Dr Gna from London side, a very gnasty racist. For several weeks he kept on attacking every article of mine, not just some of them because of supposed errors of fact or judgment, but every one of them.There has been no Sinhalese equivalent to that. Invariably his first paragraphs were full of expletives like fool, idiot,numbskull, imbecile. The CT archives will show that there has been no case of a Sinhalese attacking me in that way, sustained over several weeks.After his explosion of mad dog rage in his first paragraphs, he would ask me to engage in serious discussion “in a civilized manner”.I have good reason to believe that Tamil Islamophobic racists must be among the very worst in the world.
When I address the readers, I nave particularly in mind the Tamils most of whom are not racist. That is something that I have explicitly declared many time in my retorts to the Tamil lunatic fringe racists.It is up to them to check the Tamil mad dog racists. – IH
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Burning Issue / March 29, 2016
IH,
Please do not treat people as children!
“The CT archives will show that there has been no case of a Sinhalese attacking me in that way, sustained over several weeks.”
Of course you organise and present your articles carefully to show the Tamils as racists and the Sinhala in better light! This is your objective and hence there is no surprise the Sinhala do not attack you! You are a dangerous individual!
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Izeth Hussain / April 1, 2016
Burning Issue – what on earth are you talking about? Tamils have been attacking me irrespective of my subject, whether it be Tamils or not.For example my recent articles on Kishanie Jayasinghe had nothing to do with Tamils. But even they provoked a Tamil Islamophobic outburst against me. – IH
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Izmeth / March 29, 2016
Can’t you see even The Donald gets attacked for things he did not say. He did say lets shut the door on the Muslims and Mexicans alike then find out what is happening.
The establishment is feeling the heat not the Donald or his supporters.
But you more bent towards ISIS and that is taking toll.
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Amarasiri / March 29, 2016
Izeth Hussain
“Dr Gnana Sankaralingam – To the reader – this is the famous Dr Gna from London side, a very gnasty racist. For several weeks he kept on attacking every article of mine, not just some of them because of supposed errors of fact or judgment, but every one of them.”
“I have good reason to believe that Tamil Islamophobic racists must be among the very worst in the world.”
Just using simple common sense, to figure out if Dr Gnana Sankaralingam is a paid agent of the Norwegians, Israelis, the Christian Fundamentalist west, as well? Using common sense and reading between the lines.
Dr Gnana Sankaralingam is certainly Not a paid agent of the Iblis, Satan following Saudi Wahhabies.
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / March 30, 2016
Dear Izeth,
Your statement that I am a racist is factually incorrect. I have always advocated justice and equality to everybody and that any thing in this world must be based on merit. I have been elected as President to three top associations in UK with overwhelming Sinhala majority, in one of which I defeated a Sinhalese despite a racist campaign mounted against me. Even now I am fighting for justice in one of the associations where a Muslim friend of mine had been unfairly treated, when his Muslim friends through fear of Sinhalese are keeping quiet. By your unwarranted attacks on Tamils with no logical basis, you have fallen into this mess of self labelling yourself as an anti-Tamil racist. A Tamil friend of mine who knows you told me that you were a mad man even those days you with your cock-eyed theories and skewed ideas.
It is quite eveident to any intelligent person that you have a hidden agenda, either as an agent of Pakistan or on your own free will to derail any settlement between Tamils and Sinhalese. You are woefully silent on the atrocities committed by Sinhalese and Muslims on Tamils, while going to town on atrocities by LTTE. On what basis are you saying that Tamils are worst racists than Sinhalese, and how many Tamils whom you claim to address, accept this view. If you sit down and count, more murder and ethnic cleansing have been committed by Sinhalese than Tamils. Muslims have committed less murder than Tamils, but they have committed more ethnic cleansing than Tamils. Did Tamils ever tried to force Tamil language on Sinhalese. Did Tamils ever tried to get more places in Education and in Employment other than based on merit.
There are several places of worship demolished by Buddhists and Muslims, while not a single has been destoyed by Tamils. When the truth is this, why are you continuing to attack Tamils as more racists than Sinhalese or Muslims, other than you being a liar. Please stop your diatribe on Tamils and express the truth.
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Backlash / March 31, 2016
Dr. Sankaralingam
Do you agree Izeth Hussain Nana may have missed his periodical psychiatric medication. His reaction here is far more irrational even by his own pugnacious standards of behaviour. Otherwise, why is he fighting with just about everybody.
Backlash
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Sinhala_Man / April 3, 2016
Izeth,
This was Dr Gnana Sankaralingam’s response to my article:
Thus spoke the two year Thomian, AKA “Sinhala Man”. Before you could attack me, I wish to state that I am a fourteen year Royalist.
At this moment it has got one green “Thumbs Up” and 18 Red “Thumbs Down”.
https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/belief-in-the-worth-of-teachers-at-s-thomas-colleges/comment-page-1/#comments
Don’t take the guy seriously.
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Backlash / March 31, 2016
Muslims remained good, peaceful and decent after their troubles with the Sinhalese in 1915. In the post-1950s Muslims in the North-East worked as diligently as the Tamil MPs when State-sponsored discrimination was let loose on the Tamil-speaking peoples. It was the precociously ambitious Ashraff, in the 1980s, who was mislead by the Pakistanis to serve the latters’ hidden agenda of encircling their mortal enemies – India. Ashraff fell to the trap and was bribed by Pakistan, Libya, Iraq and the Saudi Wahabis. It was he who planted this idea of a Separate Muslim Province in the soil of the Tamil Nation. Collaborating with extreme Sinhalese, the Sinhala State and through deliberate unnatural population increases within a brief period of a quarter century Muslims have stolen Tamil land and have thrown out tens of thousands of Tamil families from their lands in the EP using violence. Naturally, the Sinhala State helped them in that philosophy of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. Today’s Tamils stand to lose. But tomorrow may be different.
Many Sinhalese in the leadership positions have begun to understand in inflaming Sinhala-Tamil hatred the Muslims have been the ultimate winners in the past half century. Hacks like Izeth Hussein are used to keep this anti-Tamil agenda alive. Hussein, lying being second nature to him, will deny this till Kingdom come. But it looks like the foul-mouthed ex-diplomat is now caught with his pants down judging by so many Tamil writers
pouring scorn on him.
All signs are soon the Sinhalese, lead by the Maha Sangha, will come to a settlement with the Tamils in restoring the historical
reality of the Island prior to 1815. The chicanery of the Muslims for land grabbing and now the audacious demand of Title Deeds will soon stop. They must please realise they came here in large numbers from Tamilnadu only after the Dutch – and later the British. They have now cunningly changed course for their new cry is “if the Sinhalese allow the North-East to the Tamils then we must have a South Eastern Muslim Province”?????? Will the Sinhalsese fall for this?
Incidentally, last week it was reported in a Muslim-inspired Survey by some young academics through ICES, the report concludes there is no evidence of Jihadist activity here. This report cannot be worth the paper it is written in. Are they not aware of gun-fights among Muslim mullahs in Kattanudy? The attack on a young Muslim academic whom the jihadist saw had to flee the country with her daughter. These are only just two instances that came to light. There are dozens more unreported. By all accounts Muslim Jihadism is alive and well in Sri Lanka.
Backlash
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Izeth Hussain / April 1, 2016
Backlash – this Backie boy seems to be in a class apart for hysterical hatred and mad dog rage. He is suffering. Poor fellow.He says I am foul mouthed. But I have never used foul language. No use pointing that out to him because facts don’t matter to him at all.But facts do matter Backie boy. This is what Leelananda wrote, “Having been a regular reader of CT,I and undoubtedly many others have noticed that both Sinhalese and Tamil readers obviously unable to bear the utmost quality of IZ’s writings have either subtly or more directly resorted to this deplorable racist line”. – IH
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Uthungan / March 27, 2016
Can any one seriously point to a Muslim country on this globe which is democratic and secular and treats non Muslims equally or as humans?
So why waste time with the likes of IH and the drivel he writes?
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Amarasiri / March 29, 2016
Uthungan
“Can any one seriously point to a Muslim country on this globe which is democratic and secular and treats non Muslims equally or as humans? “
Very interesting Question. Why?
The key is separation of State and Mosque-Ulama.
1. Turkey
2. Malaysia
3. Indonesia
Others?
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Backlash / March 31, 2016
Dear Amarasiri
I am afraid Turkey, Malaysia and Indonesia are not democratic States in the accepted sense in the treatment of its minorities.
Turkey’s Erdogan is an established Islamic Fundamentalist crank who pretends to be tolerant to Turkish minorities to keep alive his life goal of getting Turkey into the EU – denied for decades. His attitude towards the Kurds (Muslims themselves) can fill volumes of HR and War Crimes violations. Malaysia is so fundamentalist it has become a joke in the eyes of the world
for claiming the word “Allah” cannot be used by other religions. In Indonesia Christians are progressively pressurised to give up their religion and embrace Islam. Remember under the Dutch there were millions of Batavian Christians – also forming the elite.
Despite the efforts of apologists globally, Islam remains an intolerant religion sworn to physically destroy other religions in the world calling them “infidels” and “haram” Finally, the world is fighting back with Islamists on the run everywhere – except in those countries where they are the majority where tolerant people are held captive or are hopelessly illiterate.
Backlash
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Izeth Hussain / March 27, 2016
Dr Rajasingham Narendran – re your reply of March 26. I always adjust my language to the kind of language used against me. You say that you had no alternative to calling a spade a “bloody spade”.I have no alternative to calling you not just a fool but a bloody fool. – IH
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Dankottuwa Manike / March 28, 2016
Hi Izeth
Spade is a spade- you call it bloody or not.
Your racist comments gets on to my nerves.
In Dankokttuva once there were lots of Tamils. They were good neighbours. We Sinhalese chased them away. The Tamils are not asking for their return.
Tamils chased the Muslims from Nallur in the olden days and recently Tigers kicked them out wholesome.
There are good Muslims but unfortunately all of them are unreliable because they have their own way that is not compatible to the other communities.
Muslims must bloody change soon not later. They are thieving from the Sinhalese and Tamils.
I hope they realise their precarious behavior.
Izeth is a typical example.
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Fathima Fukushima / March 27, 2016
When did your memory start to fail about horrendous Tamil crimes against Muslims in SL?
What happened to Muslims in Jaffna? Still not resettled.
Now you are after the Muslim Chief Minister in EPC. If this is not racism, nothing is.
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faycal / March 27, 2016
Muslim pirates!
Try Pakistan resettlement care fund funded by USA.
You and your followers would love living at Pakistan the sharia law land.
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Prasad / March 29, 2016
Even Prabhakaran apologized to the Muslims and explained why he had to take that drastic measure. The backstabbing, anti-Tamil Muslims like Izeth Hussein was the reason for that expulsion. Izeth Hussein is a Sinhala minion who has been badmouthing the Tamils to please the Sinhalese for ages in this forum.
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Amarasiri / March 29, 2016
Prasad
“Even Prabhakaran apologized to the Muslims and explained why he had to take that drastic measure”
The damage was already done!
Apology from Velupillai Prabakara, the culprit and criminal, a war crime, means very little.
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Burt / March 26, 2016
“I have come to share the view of the Sinhalese hard-liners”
This does not surprise the Sinhalese or the Tamils. Muslims have always had a tendency to support the oppressor if they think they can gain an advantage and when fair minded men and women fight hard for justice and if here is sign that justice will be done then Muslims join in asking for fair share if not more.
Now do you understand why decent Sinhalese and Tamils kept out of it when BBS went after Muslims.
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Fathima Fukushima / March 27, 2016
Resettle displaced Muslims in Jaffna first. Then talk.
It was not Singhala people that robbed their land.
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Izeth Hussain / March 27, 2016
Fathima Fukushima – thanks for the above and other replies. Bravo for speaking out. – IH
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Fathima Fukushima / March 27, 2016
Mr Hussein,
Muslims are the most peaceful community in this country without a doubt.
Singhala youth took up arms against the state in 1971 and 1989 which caused a large number of deaths. Tamil youth took up arms against the state from 1983 to 2009 causing a massive number of deaths. In comparison, what have Muslims done? Nothing.
Many attempts were made to provoke Muslims in 1915, 1990 and 2014 by various groups. I’m very proud that my community was not aroused unlike others.
We Muslims never did insurgencies, wars, riots, terror attacks, civil wars, unreasonable strikes, etc. I challenge anyone to respectfully challenge these facts if they can.
Some people need to be reminded of these basic facts. Please don’t take our excellent and sensible conduct to be a weakness. Muslims avoided violent means because we are strong and deep, not easily provoked and not shallow unlike some others.
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Rajash / March 28, 2016
Rathika and Izeth
Eat your words. Muslim terrorist in Pakistan kill Christians.
Sorry I said eat your words I am sure you both must be drinking the blood of the victims
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Amarasiri / March 28, 2016
Rajash
“Muslim terrorist in Pakistan kill Christians.”
This is where you get things mixed up.
1. They are not Muslim Terrorists. Thet are Wahhabi Salafi Terrorists, who follow Satan Iblis.
No Shia Muslim, Sufi Muslim or Ahmedia Muslim will do that. These are all done by the Satan Iblis Following Wahhabies and their clones, aided , abetted and funded by Wahhabi Saudi Arabia, where the Iblis, Satan originated, as per the Hadith of Najd.
ISIS, wants to call themselves, Islamic. If fact they are Iblisic.
It is the Iblisic Sate of Iraq and Syria.
References:
Hadith of Najd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadith_of_Najd
al-azhar cleric about wahabis/salafis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAvWmZfGjTU
Where is Najd – HORN of SATAN?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRCJ9l_3Eqw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbHymIJWMfA
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Fukushima / March 29, 2016
“Resettle displaced Muslims in Jaffna first. Then talk.”
Pirate Fathima Fukushima take your jihadist and jump in the sea.
Bin larden your god is waiting to take you to heaven.
nothing to talk just keep reciting your satanic verses.
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shankar / March 26, 2016
“I have come to share the view of the Sinhalese hard-liners that the Tamil ethnic problem cannot be solved through devolution. I now share their view “
you always had that view,though now you pretend that it is very recent.You are a muslim racist.Your writings show your obsession with race topics.
you know very well that the sinhalese and tamis will be always hostile with each other if devolution is not given.Now who has benefited quietly the most while the sinhalese and tamils have been preoccupied with fighting with each other and having their hands full.who has taken over all the prime lands with the best infrastructure for their extended families and burgeoning future generations while these two fools have been fighting each other.If the banda chelva pact had gone through they would no have been fighting.
Now who will benefit in the future if the sinhalese and tamils continue their fight with their future generations?who will benefit the most if a potential sambanthan sirisena/ranil pact is sabotaged?Just like the banda /chelva pact was sabotaged by bhuddhist monks this time a potential future pact can be sabotaged by some other entity with vested interest,not the monks who have learned from their blunder.Sinhalese and tamils must be eternally vigilant.
sambanthan must drop the north east merger,because it gives the opportunity for muslims to ask for a muslim enclave with devolved powers.So he is opening the door for sabotage by the muslims of any future pact between the tamils and sinhalese who are fed up with fighting with each other and have belatedly realised what fools they were.Both parties will be amenable for a fair and balanced solution so that the sinhalese can concentrate on other potential threats to their land and the tamils can start to rebuild their shattered lives.However they must this time use their brains and not their brawn.
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Izeth Hussain / March 27, 2016
shankar – 1/ You say that I’ve always had the view that the Tamil ethnic problem cannot be solved through devolution, and that I am pretending to have come round to that view very recently.How do you know? What’s your evidence? 2/ You say that I am a Muslim racist. What’s your evidence for that? – IH
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charity / March 28, 2016
Izeth Hussain,
You have been to Lahore several times I suppose so.
. What type of people or people belonging to a faith makes diced meat of children in a park??
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Siva Sankaran Sarma / March 29, 2016
“What type of people or people belonging to a faith makes diced meat of children in a park??”
Well, We Thamizh don’t have any issues with it as proven by a 30 year track record :D
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charity / March 29, 2016
Guilty conscious pricks a mile. past reference pervert army.
Now its the husband and wife.
what a mess for kallu lansi No??
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Siva Sankaran Sarma / March 29, 2016
Cool story, bro :D
Now can we get an English translation? I don’t think We Thamizhglish will fly with the publishers :D
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charity / March 29, 2016
If a message posted is understood that is the main thing on these forums-and anyone who can merely highlight spelling mistakes and highlight grammatical errors needs to get a life.
but kalu perverts murders hugging mullas are finding it cool in ISIS cesspits.
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Siva Sankaran Sarma / March 30, 2016
Cool story, bro :D
So, any update on the English release? :D
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Ken Robert / March 31, 2016
Aiyo
Shiva saranakara himi is showing the sword. This is against sihala Buddhism appa!
How is your off licence job putha?
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shankar / March 28, 2016
izzeth
“How do you know?”
a perception i get from your writing.What you write is not sometimes what you really believe in.You also sometimes put something out in the ring to get the feed back?Am i right?this article was one like that.
“You say that I am a Muslim racist.What’s your evidence?”
again a perception only.racists also can be graded from 1 to 10,1 being the lowest racist and 10 being the highest.Some of the ISIS ringleaders are at 10.You may be a mild racist at about 2 or 3.
You do have a distaste for tamils and sinhalese,but more so for tamils.
I feel that is due to the racists among them and there are those that are over the number 5 in tamils as well as sinhalese.However you should try to not stereotype an entire community due to some racist among them and thus become also a racist yourself,albeit a mild one.
disliking,hating another race is racism.
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Izeth Hussain / March 29, 2016
Shankar – I wrote out a carefully considered reply to you last night but for some unfathomable reason it could not be transmitted to CT. I guess from your heavily ironic comment on how I should deal with Dr R Narendran that you are a Tamil racist, though of a very mild order. I have come to believe that it is futile for Muslims and Sinhalese to try to correct Tamil racists. That has to be done by the Tamils themselves, most of whom are not racists as I have reiterated many times in dealing with Tamil lunatic fringe racists. So I will not waste my time reformulating my reply of last night, – IH
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shankar / March 29, 2016
izzeth
“for some unfathomable reason it could not be transmitted to CT”
maybe there is an unseen hand in all this.In my original comment where i called you a muslim racist,the same happened to me. for some unfathomable reason after nearly finishing it disappeared while i was still typing,and i was wondering where the hell it had gone.This happened twice in fact and by the third time that i managed to send it to CT i had modified it to such an extent that it would have been unrecognisable from the first one that i was trying to type and send.This is not the first time it has happened to me over the years since i started commenting on the internet.most of the time it was when i press the submit button though this time it was not like that.i always change the text quite a lot everytime this happens and iam glad that i did so and the original comment never went through.
anyway you have had your revenge by calling me a mild tamil racist and now you can sleep with happy smile on your face.So we are quits.
Some tamil racists say i’am not a tamil and actually a sinhalese after reading some of my comments.Some times they say i am a muslim when i defend the muslims.One fellow asked why i’am using a beautiful ancient tamil name when i am not a tamil.All these amuse me and i do not reply.
“I guess from your heavily ironic comment on how I should deal with Dr R Narendran that you are a Tamil racist,”
i was hoping for a great debate between two intellectual giants,but you chickened out.The word nonsense is neither abusive nor insulting.’don’t talk nonsense’ is very common everyday parlance even between dear friends and family members,let alone two gentlemen on the internet.
“I have come to believe that it is futile for Muslims and Sinhalese to try to correct Tamil racists.”
every race has its racists.It may have some connection to mental illness which is very widespread but concealed by most patients.just like any other illness whether you can correct it depends on how far it has spread like a cancer in the body.that is why i graded racists from 1 to 10.once you pass the halfway mark it becomes difficult to to go back to 0.i’am reminded of macbeth,who on the instigation of his wife went on a killing spree.When he had got fed up of killing he said ‘i,am in blood,steeped in it so much,that returning would be more tedious than going over’.so the racist too when he comes to for example to 7 would prefer to go to 10 than to 0 because it is less tedious for him/her.
so izeth you indeed can correct racists depending on where they are on the scale of 1 to 10.Those over 5 cannot be corrected.
Thankfully you and i since we are mild racists can go back to 0.
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Izeth Hussain / April 1, 2016
Shankar – come come Shankar. You have descended to the level of the school debating society.The meanings of words depend on the context. In the present context “nonsense” is most certainly abusive and insulting. As for the “great debate”, there can be no serious debate between me and the Tamil racists. I am now responding to their attacks only to bring out the fact that Tamil racism is much worse than Sinhalese racism. – IH
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shankar / April 1, 2016
izzeth
i don’t know what context you are referring to.Please elaborate to us schoolchildren.You said that devolution is not necessary and DrRN said that was nonsense.Dr.RN is not a tamil racist and all the sinhalese on this blog will agree with me.In fact at one time he supported rajapakshe but got disillusioned after he kicked out the CJ.You can go ahead and debate with him provided he is agreeable to debate with a mild racist.
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Amarasiri / March 26, 2016
Izeth Hussain
RE:Tamil Racism & 13 A
1. “I have come to share the view of the Sinhalese hard-liners that the Tamil ethnic problem cannot be solved through devolution. “
2. “One is that Tamil racism is worse, very much worse, than Sinhalese racism. “
3. “The second reason why I have come to share the view of the Sinhalese hard-liners is the new geopolitical configuration in which India is in rivalry with China.”
4. “I must make a couple of clarifications before proceeding further. I have stated only probabilities, not certainties in the above paragraph. “
5. ” There was vast expertise in the West on communism and the Soviet system, but only two foresaw the dramatic collapse of that system between 1989 and 1991 – Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Emmanuel Todd.”
6. “So, I won’t discount the possibility that good sense will prevail on both sides of the ethnic fence, that both will be able to check their racists, and mutual accommodativeness will lead to a final definitive solution of the ethnic problem on the basis of devolution. But I find that most improbable for the reasons given in the first paragraph.”
7. “I believe that India committed a monumental blunder in stopping the Vadamarachchi operation in the naïve expectation that a political solution for the ethic problem could be found without much difficult. But there was no malign intent behind that blunder.”
8. “But in recent times the fundamentals determining our relations with India in connection with the Tamil ethnic problem have changed completely because of the new geopolitical configuration of Sino-Indian rivalry in South Asia and the Indian Ocean.”
9. “It would be prudent to go for a solution based on a fully functioning democracy.”
Thank you. Very goof analysis. Amarasiri identified 9 take homes, but in the end it is nest that Sri Lanka is based on fully functioning democracy, a nation of Sri Lanka, Secular State with the National Identity of Sri Lanka.
This should marginalize the racists from either side.
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SJ / March 26, 2016
“Thank you. Very goof analysis.”
Cannot be a typo.
Congratulations.
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Amarasiri / March 26, 2016
SJ
” “Thank you. Very goof analysis.” Cannot be a typo. Congratulations.”
Actually it was a typo, goof should have been good ,and nest should have been best.
When the dust settles,
but in the end it is best that Sri Lanka is based on fully functioning democracy, a nation of Sri Lanka, Secular State with the National Identity of Sri Lanka.
This should marginalize the racists from either side.
Will Izeth Hussein’s writing help in that direction?
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SJ / March 26, 2016
Amarasiri
Sorry.
I knew that it was a typo. (But it seemed the right assessment.)
Muckrakers do not help to solve problems but only to bring out the worst in all of us.
Look at the Anti-Muslim venom this has generated in those lacking the wisdom to tell between an individual and a community.
The best treatment to give any racist or rabble-rouser whipping up communal feelings is to ignore his/her views.
We should not relish poison because it suits our prejudices.
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ken robert / April 2, 2016
mmmm
Will our caped crusaders Isac husen and somarasiri understand this?
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Burning Issue / March 26, 2016
Amerasiri,
“One is that Tamil racism is worse, very much worse, than Sinhalese racism. ”
How do you know this? We can only determine when the Sinhala is subjected to the same majority aggression as the Tamils went/go through!
It appears that, the TNA is in agreement as to a way forward with the current regime. It is evident that both parties agree in principle as to how the Tamil question should be resolved. So what IH has written in totally untimely and unwarranted!
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Amarasiri / March 26, 2016
Burning Issue
Izeth Hussein wrote:
1. “One is that Tamil racism is worse, very much worse, than Sinhalese racism. ”
Burning Issue Commented:
2. “How do you know this? We can only determine when the Sinhala is subjected to the same majority aggression as the Tamils went/go through! “
This is an area that is very subjective, but has support.
The Muslims in the North and the East will be subjected to mostly Tamil Racism, simply because there are more Tamils. However, there are few Sinhala as well, in the North and East and their racism toward the Muslims is probably much less because the Sinhala traditionally view the Tamils as invaders and tried to take over Sri Lanka. During Dutugamunu, there were only Tamils, no Muslims. Even in the South, this is the case. Generally, there are cordial relations between the Muslims and the Sinhala people.
Furthermore, no Muslim wants Sri Lanka to be divided. All the Sinhala know that. The Tamils know that too. Maatu Mootal Veeran Velupillai Prabakaran knew that too, and so he ethnically cleansed the Muslims from the Northern Province.
Does this not tell you that
“One is that Tamil racism is worse, very much worse, than Sinhalese racism. ” ?
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Dr.Rajasingham Narendran / March 26, 2016
Amarasiri,
Visit Jaffna and interact with a cross section of the Tamils. Then report to us whether there is ubiquitous racism among the Tamils, in the sense that there is hatred directed at the Sinhalese or Muslims / a feeling of superiority over the ‘Others’. There is of course widespread fear that history will repeat. This fear has to be assuaged by what is perceived by all Tamils as a solution to the pains they have suffered in independent Sri Lanka. That solution is nothing less than meaningful devolution.
Of course I have doubts about our ability to manage wider and deeper devolution, given the performance of the NPC. The Tamil community yet has able, dynamic, honest, educated and visionary men and women. However, the TNA has not made the effort to introduce such persons into Tamil politics, in the required numbers. There is room for hope yet.
Dr.RN
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Amarasiri / March 27, 2016
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran,
The Ethnic Cleansing of Muslims from the Northern Province, and the marginalization of the Muslims by LTTE and the Tamils, claiming they are “Tamil Speaking People” before the LTTE Ethnic clensing has all exposed the farce by the Tamils towards the Muslims.
Of course there is Tamil Casteism to the lower caste Tamils, which is much worse than the racism towards the Muslims or the Sinhala.
What is quite appalling is the marginalization or the total indifference of the Northern Tamils towards the Estate Tamils. Looked like they considered them a different species. Is that Vellala Castism and Racism?
On the Other hand LSSP… in 1947 …
“The new government proceeded to disenfranchise the plantation workers of Indian descent, the Indian Tamils, using the Citizenship Act of 1948 and the Parliamentary Elections Amendment Act of 1949. These measures were intended primarily to undermine the Left electorally. Of these acts Dr. N. M. Perera said: ‘I thought racialism of this type died with Houston Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler. We cannot proceed as if we were God’s chosen race quite apart from the rest of the world; that we and we alone have the right to be citizens of this country.’(*)”
https://www.marxists.org/glossary/orgs/l/a.htm
How did the Sinhala UNP Ethnically cleanse the Upcountry Estate Tamils and at the same time reduce the voter base of the left parties?
Disenfranchise the Up Country Estate Tamils! That is Racism, Period. However, this is tangled with British colonialism and Western Imperialism. Remember the two world wars were about Western Colonialism and Imperialism.
The British and Western Imperialism is the root cause of the many ills in the world, and Christianity followed it, claiming that you are SINNERS and the only way to be saved is to be under Western Colonialism and Western “Jesus” the “Savior” (Jesus Christ as the redeemer of sin and saver of souls), and the Western Colonialists. Have you heard about Christian Slavery?
The Bandaranaike Family History is a classic example.
Portuguese Catholic, Dutch Protestant, Anglican Christian and Sinhalese Buddhists.
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike.
Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike
Even the Name “Bandaranaike” is a corrupted, Sinhalized form of Pandara-Nayakam.
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Dr.Rajasingham Narendran / March 27, 2016
Amarasiri,
Aren’t you confusing and confounding issues and in the process losing the common sense you usually display?
Yes, the LTTE was wrong in expelling the Muslims? Most Tamils thought it was wrong too. They were helpless to stop. The LTTE also rode rough shod over them.
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No one is preventing the Muslims of Jaffna returning. Many have returned and are prospering. Amongst them are many involved in the Kerala Ganja business. Others have not returned, because they have set roots elsewhere.
Casteism is a dying issue and will be soon dead, but the class issue will coming to the fore.
What have Christianity and Western Colonialism got to do with the problems, high and low caste and, the rich and the poor Tamils have faced since independence?
The Tamils may have had their own Kingdom or its successor State even today, if not for the colonial intervention! We also may have had the Kandyan and Kotte Kingdoms or their successor states yet if not for colonial intervention and been at each other’s throats, given our national propensity to destroy rather than create.
Do not join the gang that is once again trying to abort or thwart a ‘ COMMON SENSE’ solution to the yet festering ‘National Question’ in Sri Lanka. Do not become one of the ‘Low IQ’ Sri Lankans, you often highlight!
Dr.RN
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Amarasiri / March 28, 2016
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran
“Do not join the gang that is once again trying to abort or thwart a ‘ COMMON SENSE’ solution to the yet festering ‘National Question’ in Sri Lanka. Do not become one of the ‘Low IQ’ Sri Lankans, you often highlight!”
1. Amarasiri sees clearly the issues of Tamil Racism and the Sinhala Racism, which IH is trying to compare is seen very emotionally by both Tamils and Muslims. Both Tamils and most Muslims speak Tamil as their mother tongue, and it was Amarasiri’s experience and feeling that they considered Tamils to be co-linguists, and both studied Tamil at School. It is rather unfortunate that it took Maha Mootal Velupillai Prabakaran, to break and destroy this mutual respect for each other, by his ethnic clensing and killing of Muslims in the Mosques.
Amarsiri is all for a COMMON SENSE SOLUTION, if the two communities can come to terms. The problem has been that the Tamils have traditionally marginalized the Muslims, and of course the low caste Tamils, as well as the up country Tamils.
There needs to be a clear distinction between LTTE and Tamil racists vs. non-LTTE and ordinary Tamils. Unfortunately, the Sri Lankan Tamils will be painted with the broad brush of LTTE atrocities including racism, because the Sri Lankan Tamils are considered part of the distribution. It is not considered a bimodal distribution with one- group being clearly racist and the other group being normal or non-racist.
Are the Tamils in the lower end of the distribution more racist? According to HLD Manindapala’s writings The Vellala are quite racist, especially towards the low caste Tamils. In the absence of a statistically valid poll, it is hard to say. The key is to put these behind and move on.
On the other hand, there is no such conflict or very little between the Up country Tamils and Muslims and they communicate with each other in Tamil. Of course it is not Jaffna Tamil. Of course there is the Sinhala community to buffer any such conflict.
You say:
“Do not become one of the ‘Low IQ’ Sri Lankans, you often highlight!””
Just because, a problem is pointed out, however bitter it is, it does not make the person pointing it out a low IQ Sri Lankan.
The problem must be identified to come up with the correct solution. For Sri Lanka, Mahawansaism and Sinhala “Buddhism”, have been correctly identified bu the Tamils, as the core problem, and the Sinhala have identified Tamil Separatism as the Core Problem. What Izeth Hussein is saying that Tamil Racism towards Muslims is also a Problem and that must be dealt with, for National Reconciliation as well.
Your claim is that there is no Tamil Racism towards the Muslims. That should be the goal. Don’t you think that by Izeth Hussein pointing out the “Tamil Racism”, the Tamils will be sensitized now to show Tamil Racism towards the Muslims?
Look at the US History and the racism towards the blacks. It was a continuing process.
One of the sayings of the Philosopher Bertrand Russel is “Identifying the Problem is 95% of the Solution”
Have you, Izeth Hussein or any other identified the problem correctly to come up with a potential solution?
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Dr.Rajasingham Narendran / March 28, 2016
Amarasiri,
Thanks. IHs message does not reflect your interpretation. He was comparing Tamils as an entity with the Sinhala hardliners- a fraction of the Sinhalese!
Further, the primary issue confronting the Tamils in particular and other communities in general, who live in concentrations elsewhere in Sri Lanka is to have the power to manage their affairs- neaningful devolution. Let us deal with that issue first. If the Muslims can be in terms of concentration of numbers be accommodated within this exercise, so be it. I do not advocate that the present provincial borders are sacrosanct. This advocacy does not imply partition or displacement of people from where they live now.
Let the Tamils deal with their internal issues and they are enormous in terms of post-war realities. These are much more significant than the caste issue many harp on. There yet thousands of Tamils who are displaced and their situation is no different from that of the Muslims driven out of the north by the LTTE . As a commentator has astutely pointed out, the places vacated by the Muslims are yet available for the Muslims to re-occupy, but those of the displaced Tamils are yet not!
I once again plead, permit the primary issue to be resolved, without complicating it by raising unconnected peripheral issues, as many do as a diversionary tactic.
Further, IHs response to several comments only vindicate my response.
I also remind IH and you of an issue relating to Guru Bawa ( a Sufi mystic) samadhi and ashram in Mankumpan, Jaffna, that was revered and patronized also by Hindu Tamils. It used to offer alms to the poor, including Hindus, once per week. In fact the day to day management of this ashram was in the hands of a Tamil devotee of Guru Bawa. The Samadhi is now closed to the Hindus due to the intervention of some Muslims from Colombo. I had appealed to IH to help resolve this problem some time back! Nothing has happened yet.
I am relating this incident to point out that there are many elements at work to create dissension and diversions in this country.
Dr.RN
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Amarasiri / March 28, 2016
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran
Thanks for your comments. IH has his own ideas and interpretations based on the information he has, and Amarasiri has his his own interpretation and idea based on his own data and interpretations. They may coincide, or they may not coincide. We come from different backgrounds. Amarasiri sees many ad hominem attacks on Izeth Hussein because he is a Muslim both from the Tamil Racists as well as the Sinhala Racists. They do not like the Truth to be told and exposed. Read The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine.
Where do they coincide?
1. The Ethnic Cleansing of Tamil Speaking Muslims from the Northern Province, whether for cooked up “Security” reasons or in order to steal their property, will be interpreted as Tamil Racism towards Muslims.
2. The Wahhabies and their Clones are Not Muslims, and they are at the root of “Islamic” Terrorism. Amarasiri calls them Iblisis, Satanis Devils. All you have to do is the dialog between IH, Amarasiri and the Wahhabi J. Deane.
“The Samadhi is now closed to the Hindus due to the intervention of some Muslims from Colombo. I had appealed to IH to help resolve this problem some time back! Nothing has happened yet.”
Explanation: Wahhabism and their Clones. This alone shoud be sufficient for you yo support Izeth Hussein. Unfortunately, most Tamils are against Izeth Hussein because he pointed out the Tamil Racism towards the Muslims, and the general marginalization of the Muslims by the Tamils.
The Wahhabies and their Clones are Not Muslims, and they are at the root of “Islamic” Terrorism. Amarasiri calls them Iblisis, Satanis Devils. All you have to do is the dialog between IH, Amarasiri and the Wahhabi J. Deane.
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Burning Issue / March 27, 2016
Amerasiri,
I do not normally read your elongated posts! You write bucketloads but carry little subtense. This time one of your bullet points caught my eye!
DR RN wrote to you the following:
“Aren’t you confusing and confounding issues and in the process losing the common sense you usually display?”
I will go further and say that your thought process is completely convoluted and you are totally confused. You do not know the meanings of the following: Racism, Nationalism and communal insecurity. Separatism is equal to extreme form of nationalism but not necessarily racism at its base! Separatism among the Tamils came into being as a result of gradual realisation that the Sinhala would not give anything to the Tamils. The TULF leaders who formulated and carried the Vaddukoddai resolution did not themselves believe that the separation was the answer. It was more like them following the Tamil Nadu leader Anna Thurai who asked for separation but settled for a grater power devolution. This was evident in the TULF behaviour subsequently and this was why LTTE assassinated them mercilessly!
Even among all the Tamil rebel groups, separation was not cast in stone but for VP. VP alone single-handedly steered the Tamil course towards separatist direction. I say this confidently because as soon as the LTTE was completely defeated, the TNA wasted no time in denouncing violence and separatism! They did this not out of fear but out of knowing that Tamil destiny lie with them formulating union with the Sinhala. This is the reality.
Historically, there never have been animosities between the Tamils and Muslims! Jaffna saw no communal tension throughout the history of Muslims’ presence! Let me give you the background leading VP to eject the Muslims from the North. During the mid 80s onwards, the LTTE was busy establishing themselves. They mercilessly executed all so-called traitors through internal intelligence. They summarily executed anyone suspected of grassing and in some cases the dead bodies were tied to lamb-posts sending clear messages that anyone is found to be grassing would end up like that.
However, they could not gather such intelligence among Muslims as it was insular and a closed community. Hence, only option VP had was to eject them from the North. It was inhumane and barbaric decision taken rather casually and off-the-cuff! Ethnic clenching or racism was not at its base! The Sinhala chauvinists milked this LTTE blunder handsomely and the irony is that the same lot justified the Aluthgama attacks on Muslims!
I would also urge you to eruditely analyse the voting patterns of the Tamils since 1948. One clue I will give you that SJAV lost his first election on federal platform to the UNP candidate, Nadesan! It was only after the Sinhala Only fiasco the Federal Concept had started take root!
IH has a different agenda and you fell for it head over heel! You deemed that the Tamils as more racists than the Sinhala on the basis that Tamils ask for separation! If that is the case, 43% of the Scottish people voted for separation; do you believe that those people are racists?
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Amarasiri / March 27, 2016
Burning Issue
“Aren’t you confusing and confounding issues and in the process losing the common sense you usually display?”
Read on.Yes, there are multiple issues at play here, intertwined, sometimes hard to sort out. However, one cannot dismiss out right the assertion by Izeth Hussein for whatever underlying reason, the Tamils are more racist than Sinhala, based on historical data.
“I would also urge you to eruditely analyse the voting patterns of the Tamils since 1948. One clue I will give you that SJAV lost his first election on federal platform to the UNP candidate, Nadesan! It was only after the Sinhala Only fiasco the Federal Concept had started take root! “
1. Thanks for the clarification on your take on “Tamil Racism”, and the LTTE control behind it. The fact remains that the Muslims were ethnically cleansed, and the Tamils, whether LTTE or not, were behind it. What you elude to may be one reason, and the other is to get the assets and properties belonging to them. It is hard to white-wash known historical facts.
2. Amarasiri was well aware of the UNP candidate winning in 1952, but in 1947, it was SJV Chelvanayagam who won, and SJV Chelvanayagam, since then. Looking back, had the British Left the Country with a Federal System, we could have avoided all the turmoil we had since 1948. We all know rest of the story.
Amarasiri is also aware of the reasons for disenfranchising the Upcountry Tamils.
3. “IH has a different agenda and you fell for it head over heel! You deemed that the Tamils as more racists than the Sinhala on the basis that.”
IH can have any agenda he has. However, if it is factual and it has support, Amarasiri will certainly agree with it. Whatever the reasons behind the Tamil racism, the Tamil Racism towards Muslims during LTTE was inspired and executed by LTTE for “security” reasons by Tamils.
There was a period in Sri Lanka, when All terrorists were Tamils, but not All Tamils were terrorists.
4. The Sinhala Racism towards Muslims during Mahinda Rajapaksa Regime, 2010-2015, was inspired and executed by Mahinda Rajapaksa and his fellow Sinhala Racists on the assumption that MaRa is an Anti-Muslim Racist, they will grab a bigger percentage of the Sinhala Buddhists Votes.
They ashamedly used Buddhism for this purpose.
Even though MaRa got about 55% of the Sinhala Buddhist votes, that was insufficient. We all need to thank the common opposition for a great job.
5. “I do not normally read your elongated posts! You write bucketloads but carry little subtense. This time one of your bullet points caught my eye! “
You do not have to. Amarasiri generally will provide support so that you can do more research on your own. Do you know why the orbit of Mercury does not follow Kepler’s Laws?
The biggest problem we all face is ignorance. Whether Amarasiri or anybody else write boatloads, many will believe in their myths. However, when there is support for a certain position, it is worth discussing about. Tamil Racism, is one such item, as well as Sinhala Racism. The rest of the world beyond the Shores of the Land of Native Veddah Aethho, do not care about it.
The biggest problem we all face is ignorance. About 26% of Americans, 34% of Europeans and about 50% of Sri Lankans believe that the Sun goes around the Earth. What percentage of Sri Lankan Tamils, Muslims and Sinhala believe that they are racists? That is the question we all are asking. IH claims that a higher percentage for Tamils compared to Sinhala, when racism is directed against the Muslims.
This is the time fix the past excesses and move on with a National Identity.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/02/14/277058739/1-in-4-americans-think-the-sun-goes-around-the-earth-survey-says
A quarter of Americans surveyed could not correctly answer that the Earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around, according to a report out Friday from the National Science Foundation.
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Burning Issue / March 28, 2016
Amerasiri,
Steady on Mr Amerasiri! I know that it is extremely cumbersome to debate with people who are devoid of common sense and at the same time expediently play ignorant! You appear to be one of them I am very sorry to say!
Just to remind you that we are discussing as to whether the Sinhala or Tamils are more racist than the other! The absurdity is that both are racists and that is not in question! IH has successfully and implicitly elevated the Muslims to a higher moral ground while you and I are busy figuring out as to which one of us is the bigger racist!
I said the below:
“You do not know the meanings of the following: Racism, Nationalism and communal insecurity. Separatism is equal to extreme form of nationalism but not necessarily racism at its base!”
You have no answer; this appears to be deliberate as you are confortable in labeling the Tamils as more racists than the Sinhala based so-called historical fact! What are the historical facts that you refer to?
You said:
“The fact remains that the Muslims were ethnically cleansed, and the Tamils, whether LTTE or not, were behind it. What you elude to may be one reason, and the other is to get the assets and properties belonging to them. It is hard to white-wash known historical facts.”
You are very liberally making it look and sound that whatever the LTTE did the Tamils should collectively take responsibility for! As with the Sinhala Buddhist chauvinists, you take maximum advantage of this dreadful incident that Tamils had no control of!
You further said:
“The Sinhala Racism towards Muslims during Mahinda Rajapaksa Regime, 2010-2015, was inspired and executed by Mahinda Rajapaksa and his fellow Sinhala Racists on the assumption that MaRa is an Anti-Muslim Racist, they will grab a bigger percentage of the Sinhala Buddhists Votes.”
Here you have isolated the Sinhala public from the Rajapaksa and his fellow Sinhala racists! How convenient Mr. Amerasiri! The Sinhala people elected MR and his government together with his cahoots mainly. Whereas, the LTTE was a rebel group and it used terror as means of exerting control over the Tamil people. You have no qualms of ignoring this fundamental reasoning and happy to deem the Tamils as more racists than the Sinhala predicated on this aspect! Brilliant Amerasiri you are one hell of an individual!
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ken robert / March 29, 2016
Dr RN, Burning issue
I feel you are wasting time by arguing with people with warped logic such as IH and Amarasiri.
There are sensible Muslim gentlemen comment on CT. I request them to come forward and take part in this discussion
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Native Vedda / March 29, 2016
ken robert
The following three papers may of interest to you:
The Elamite and Tamil Connection: By: Bipin Shah
Available on net.
Step aside, Gujaratis: Tamilians were India’s earliest recorded maritime traders
By South Asia expert John Guy
http://scroll.in/article/704603/
step-aside-gujaratis-tamilians
-were-indias-earliest-recorded
-maritime-traders
Tamil Merchant in Ancient Mesopotamia
Abstract
Recent analyses of ancient Mesopotamian mitochondrial genomes have suggested a genetic link between the Indian subcontinent and Mesopotamian civilization. There is no consensus on the origin of the ancient Mesopotamians. They may be descendants of migrants, who founded regional Mesopotamian groups like that of Terqa or they may be merchants who were involved in trans Mesopotamia trade. To identify the Indian source population showing linkage to the ancient
Mesopotamians, we screened a total of 15,751 mitochondrial DNAs (11,432 from the literature and 4,319 from this study)
representing all major populations of India. Our results although suggest that south India (Tamil Nadu) and northeast
India served as the source of the ancient Mesopotamian mtDNA gene pool, mtDNA of these ancient Mesopotamians probably
contributed by Tamil merchants who were involved in the Indo-Roman trade.
http://journals.plos.org/
plosone/article?id=10.1371/
journal.pone.0109331
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Amarasiri / March 29, 2016
ken robert
“I feel you are wasting time by arguing with people with warped logic such as IH and Amarasiri.”
This reminds me of what the Catholic Church had to say about Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler. Astronomers had the data, support, and the Church had the scriptures, the Joshua verses, and the Ancient Greeks, Aristotle and Ptolemy.
After burning Giardano Bruno and abusing Galileo, the Church finally admitted, Galileo was Right!
When will the Tamils admit, based on the recent historical data, vis-a-vis the Muslims, Izeth Hussein and Amarasii are correct in the statement that on a relative basis Tamil Racism is Worse than the Sinhala Racism?
If the facts are the same, getting different observers will not change the facts.
Yes, the Heliocentric model is still correct.
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Burning Issue / March 29, 2016
Ken,
I take your point and refrain from reacting!
It is astonishing that at this juncture when the Tamil and Sinhala leaderships are closer than ever to finding a solution, this destructive individual is trying to drive a wedge between the Sinhala and Tamils with cherry-picked and unpalatable and illogical arguments.
Amerasiri is confused and enjoys the notion that Sinhala are less racists than the Tamils! Muslims are saints and both the Sinhala and Tamils are racists but the Tamils are more racists. this is the message that IH is trying hard to amplify!
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Amarasiri / March 29, 2016
Burning issue and ken robert
“Amerasiri is confused and enjoys the notion that Sinhala are less racists than the Tamils! Muslims are saints and both the Sinhala and Tamils are racists but the Tamils are more racists. this is the message that IH is trying hard to amplify! “
Correction: “Muslims are saints”
Amarasiri did not say that. If Amarasiri said that, please cite.
What Amarasiri said was that the Wahhabis, Salafis and their Clones are followers of Iblis, Satan, Devil, by following the Satan infected Abdul Wahhab and Ibn Taymiah, and misleading the Muslims to be Wahhabi-Salafi devils so that they can kill Sufis Shia and Ahmedia Muslims.
Besides, the Wahhabis and their clones do not like Saints. They destroy structures built over Saints, calling them dead people, who can’t do anything. They have difficulty differentiating between Reverence and Worship.
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Amarasiri / March 29, 2016
Burning Issue
( Dr. Rajasingham Narendran , please note as well)
You Say:
1. “Steady on Mr Amarasiri! I know that it is extremely cumbersome to debate with people who are devoid of common sense and at the same time expediently play ignorant! You appear to be one of them I am very sorry to say!”
2. “‘Just to remind you that we are discussing as to whether the Sinhala or Tamils are more racist than the other! The absurdity is that both are racists and that is not in question! IH has successfully and implicitly elevated the Muslims to a higher moral ground while you and I are busy figuring out as to which one of us is the bigger racist! “
The argument Amarasiri picked up from Izeth Hussein’s writing on Tamil Racism and 13 A, is that,
“2. “One is that Tamil racism is worse, very much worse, than Sinhalese racism. ”
The main question, does Amarasiri agree with the above statement, and if so, is there support?
Yes, Amarasiri agrees, because there is support, data.( See References)
1. Attack on Muslim Villages and on Muslims praying in the Mosques.
2. Expulsion of Northern Muslims, despite the fact that they were Tamil speaking, from the North.
The arguments given by Tamil Apologists, and LTTE Apologists are:
a) They were a security threat. LTTE could not recruit Muslims to spy on Muslims like they were spying on other Tamils.
The reasons given by others for Tamil indifference towards the Northern Muslims are:
b) Tamil Racism reason for Ethnic Cleansing
c) Ethnic Cleansing is a War crime by LTTE Tamils
d) Killings, a war crime by LTTE Tamils, due to Tamil racism
f) Stealing of Property of the Muslims, due to racism, a war crime
d) Giving 24 hours notice, and allowing only Rs.100 per person, Tamil racism.
The above items, b) to d) clearly show Tamil Racism towards the Northern Muslims. There is still a question if the Sri Lankan Tamil Racism to the Muslims is restricted only to the Northern Muslims, or is it Island Wide?
However, on a relative basis, it is probably correct to say that, the Tamil Racism towards the Muslims is far greater than the Sinhala Racism. It does NOT mean that the Sinhala are not racists, just on a Relative basis.
“IH has successfully and implicitly elevated the Muslims to a higher moral ground while you and I are busy figuring out as to which one of us is the bigger racist! “”
Certainly, Amarasiri agrees with you that the Sinhala are bigger racists as far as the Tamils are concerned, due to history, and due to Tamil Nadu being close by. They are taught at School about Dutu Gamunu and Elara and brainwashed by Mahawansa. There is no dispute here. There is ample data since 1948, including the disenfranchising of the Up Country Tamils, in support of this.
Our dispute is not about the above issue, where there is no disagreement. Any Tamil racism towards the Sinhala may be interpreted as a reaction to the Sinhala Racism. Amarasiri calls it the Racism of the Paras in the Land of Native Veddah Aethho.
The dispute between Burning Issue and Dr.Rajasingham Narendran on one hand and Amarasiri on the other, have is that you do not agree that Tamils are any more Racist than Sinhala vis-a-vis Muslims. Amrasiri respectfully disagree, and say, based on data and support, that the Tamils are more discriminatory and more racist towards the Muslim than the Sinhala. However, it does not mean that All Tamils are racists.It is a question of relative degree.
References:
1. Forgotten People – The Evicted and Displaced North Muslims of Sri Lanka (English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JV60McNQ9o
Published on Jun 1, 2013
The Evicted and Displaced North Muslims of Sri Lanka. The expulsion of the Muslims and other nations from the Northern province was an act of ethnic cleansing carried out by the Tamil militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) organization in October 1990. In order to achieve their goal of creating a mono ethnic Tamil state in the North Sri Lanka, the LTTE forcibly expelled the 72,000 strong Muslim population from the Northern Province.
2. War Crimes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime
War crimes are defined in the statute that established the International Criminal Court, which includes:
Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, such as:
Willful killing, or causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health
Torture or inhumane treatment
Unlawful wanton destruction or appropriation of property
Forcing a prisoner of war to serve in the forces of a hostile power
Depriving a prisoner of war of a fair trial
Unlawful deportation, confinement or transfer
Taking hostages
The following acts as part of an international conflict:
Civilians killed in the shelling of east Ukraine’s Luhansk. According to the HRW report, “The use of indiscriminate rockets in populated areas violates international humanitarian law, or the laws of war, and may amount to war crimes.”
Directing attacks against civilians
Directing attacks against humanitarian workers or UN peacekeepers
Killing a surrendered combatant
Misusing a flag of truce
Settlement of occupied territory
Deportation of inhabitants of occupied territory
Using poison weapons
Using civilians as shields
Using child soldiers
Firing upon a Combat Medic with clear insignia.
The following acts as part of a non-international conflict:
Murder, cruel or degrading treatment and torture
Directing attacks against civilians, humanitarian workers or UN peacekeepers
Taking hostages
Summary execution
Pillage
Rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution or forced pregnancy
However the court only has jurisdiction over these crimes where they are “part of a plan or policy or as part of a large-scale commission of such crimes”.
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Amarasiri / March 29, 2016
Burning Issue
( Also Dr. Narendran)
The write up an Amarasiri concluded:
. “It would be prudent to go for a solution based on a fully functioning democracy.”
“Thank you. Very good analysis. Amarasiri identified 9 take homes, but in the end it is best that Sri Lanka is based on fully functioning democracy, a nation of Sri Lanka, Secular State with the National Identity of Sri Lanka. This should marginalize the racists from either side.”
A short Summary Sri Lankan Muslims Muslim Historical and Cultural Studies Institute.
The Muslims generally had harmonious relation with the Sinhala People, as well as the Tamil People, until LTTE and a minority of Tamil racists spoiled it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG7bcObM0-8&ebc=ANyPxKogUMfPhL8Nr3vn9mgAcFYoPKvwpWLHMEhXtjGcjDLR2N_JW7cqgLApyMfMaz9QdSj1xAnQ6jcRYa2SfK_jot4T8UDCTA
Muslims ethnically cleansed by Tamil Hindu Extremists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QHnHZXgtow
Uploaded on May 14, 2010
Children of a Lesser God. Muslims from northern Sri Lanka where given 24 hours to leave their homes and belongings when they were ethnically cleansed from Jaffna by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Many of them are still living as refugees
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Amarasiri / March 29, 2016
Burning Issue and Dr. Rajendran,
Doing some quick research, it appears that the LTTE and Tamil Racists have largely succeeded in Ethnically Cleansing the Northern Muslims, and only a small faction wants to go back, as there is nothing there for them to get back to.
However, the displaced need to be resettled, and move on, irrespective of whether Tamil Racism is worse than Sinhala Racism or not towards the Muslims.
Jaffna Muslims
Uploaded on Oct 31, 2009
Jaffna Muslims Re-settlement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h8HcC2HGYw
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Dr.Rajasingham Narendran / March 29, 2016
Amarasiri,
Are you comparing IH and yourself to Coperenicus, Galileo et.al, and the Tamils who contest your skewed opinions to a backward and ignorant Catholic Church ( of that time) that persecuted them? I am beginning to wonder what is happening to your much touted common sense. Sad.
Dr.RN
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sach / March 29, 2016
LOL,
Tamils are a tribal lot. They are racist and will go to any level to justify their racism. For tamils everything is tamil tamil tamil….
For sinhalese it is not the same ..the ethnic consciousness among Sinhala is very less…so how can they be racist?
Just have a look at the tamils and Sinhalese who have gone abroad..the tamils create ethnic ghettos…sinhalese simply get absorbed to the host culture and become a part of it…after a generation they dont even speak sinhala….
That is because their ethnic consiousness is less…and u are saying you are equally racist as sinhalas..lol
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Dr.Rajasingham Narendran / March 30, 2016
Sach,
Who are the biggest tribe of all, in whose name much crime has been committed on all the people in this country, including them. Where we are today, is largely because of these crimes.
Wake up!
Dr.RN
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Dr.Rajasingham Narendran / March 30, 2016
Amarasiri,
The ISLIS that is terrorizing the world today and much of the Middle-East, are undoubtedly Muslims of a very virulent kind. However, they are Muslims yet. Does the latter fact, condemn all the Muslims from among whom they come as terrorists?
I was robbed last year by a Muslim I had employed, in Jaffna. He endeared himself to my family by his work and beviour. I took a few days for me to become aware of the robbery. He with his wife and child had diassapeared in the meantime. I reported to the Police that he and his family were missing and when the Police asked me whether he had robbed us, I said no. Later, the Police found out that he had a record and was a seasoned robber.
Would I be justified in labeling all Muslims thieves and confidence tricksters?
What is your logic? Should a whole community, that to a much battered one, be condemned and labeled/branded for the sins/crimes/ actions of a few? Should such characterizations be the basis of national policy?
Please do not justify what is without doubt wrong and learn to sieve facts from the fiction you read. I am sure, your recent comments have alienated the readers, who had much regard for you.
Dr.RN
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Izeth Hussain / March 29, 2016
Burning Issue – How do I know that Tamil racism is very much worse than Sinhalese racism? Obviously your prejudice is so great that it has prevented your understanding the first part of my article. My focus there was on the significance of the new geopolitical configuration in this region.I will address the question of Tamil racism in the second part- IH
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Burning Issue / March 29, 2016
IH,
You cannot address the communal racism objectively without applying the same yardstick. Do you understand this? You need to compare like-with-like and consider prevailing circumstances. Any community is capable of racism or even genocide; history stands as testament to this!
You liberally accuse people of prejudice because your arguments are riddled with full of holes. As I said before, you are endeavouring to drive a wedge between the Sinhala and Tamils. Your endeavours have added momentum since the BBS came on the scene! You know that when the Sinhala and Tamils reconcile, the Muslims’ incompatibility to the Sri Lanka societies will be laid bare! This coupled with arabanisation of the Sri Lankan Muslims will cause enamours reft between the Sinhala and Muslims. You are a dangerous individual. Instead of bashing the Tamils, you should focus on educating the Muslims to uphold their Sri Lankan heritage and culture!
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Amarasiri / March 26, 2016
Izeth Hussain
RE:Tamil Racism & 13 A
Typo Corrections. Sorry.
“Thank you. Very goof analysis. Amarasiri identified 9 take homes, but in the end it is nest that Sri Lanka is based on fully functioning democracy, a nation of Sri Lanka, Secular State with the National Identity of Sri Lanka.”
CORRECTED: goof should be good. F is next to d on my key board.
nest should be best. N is next to b on my keyboard.
When typos are made, please look for the letters next to the incorrect letter.
So, the comment should read:
“Thank you. Very GOOD analysis. Amarasiri identified 9 take homes, but in the end it is BEST that Sri Lanka is based on a fully functioning democracy, a nation of Sri Lanka, Secular State with the National Identity of Sri Lanka.”
We are human. We make errors. Even Gods make errors, and create Satans, Iblis, Devils, Maras and others.
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Uthungan / March 28, 2016
Amarasiri
With reference to your first para why share the views of Sinhalese hard liners that devolution will not solve the ethnic problem, without giving devolution a try, to see why it is not possible, learn the lesson, and then go for a solution based on a fully functioning democracy which would be an ideal solution.
That should marginalise racists on all sides.
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Amarasiri / March 29, 2016
Uthungan
“, to see why it is not possible, learn the lesson, and then go for a solution based on a fully functioning democracy which would be an ideal solution. That should marginalise racists on all sides.”
We have been there before. There was devolution when LTTE controlled the North and the East from 1990 to 2009. Of course there was war. Tamils did not want to live under LTTE rule. We all know the rest of the Story.
The best solution is democracy and let the racists form both sides should from the sideline, just like the MaRa and his cronies are doing now.
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Izeth Hussain / March 29, 2016
Amarasiri – thanks very much for the above and all your other replies that have done much to introduce serious dialogue into CT columns. Let me make some clarifications. 1/ the first part of my article has focused on the significance for the ethnic problem of the new geopolitical configuration in our region. The next part will focus on Tamil racism, more particularly on why it is much worse than Sinhalese racism. In the meanwhile I must emphasize one point. The view that Tamil anti-Muslim racism is much worse than that of the Sinhalese is not an eccentric view of mine. It is shared literally by every Muslim with whom I have discussed the matter. It is a case not of consensus but of unanimity. 2/ I do not believe that the majority of the Tamils are racist, as I have reiterated many times. That I believe is true also of the majority of the Sinhalese and the Muslims. I would therefore advocate a new approach to the ethnic problem in which top priority is given to moderates in each group bringing under control their own racists. Otherwise, I believe, there will never be a solution to the ethnic problem worth speaking about. 3/ I must emphasize that there is nothing in what I advocate that is inimical to legitimate Tamil interests.I believe that partly because of extreme Tamil racism devolution is most unlikely to lead to a solution. That is most likely through a fully functioning democracy as in the West.That has to include anti racism legislation that will be fully implemented as in the West. That would mean that Tamil Islamophobes who have been committing their anti-Muslim babooneries in CT columns will all be firmly clapped in jail.I look forward to that prospect with relish. – IH
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Burning Issue / March 29, 2016
IH,
If you are against power devolution you put forward rational as to why. You do not need to show as to which community is more racist. There are different aspects at play shaping up each community and its behaviour. It is not a rocket science.
Power devolution is working well in the UK and it is a m
ature democracy. The Muslims must fit in along with both Sinhala and Tamils. Please read T Sabaretnam’s accounts of events; he chronicled every incident graphically including the Muslim attacks on Tamils and land grabs! Sri Lankan government promoted all atrocities committed by the ltte but did little on the broadcas of Muslim atrocities on Tamils.
I know you will play ignorant to all these; this is why the Tamils attack you and not because you are a Muslim. I reintegrate that you are hell bent on dividing Sinhala and Tamil while projecting the Muslims as friends if the Sinhala. You are insidious and dangerous!
I do not wiah for it but it is a matter of time when the Sinhala turn on the Muslims and when the time comes I do not need to show you because you will know it!
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watcher / March 26, 2016
As it is, politicos abuse police authority for their own gain and as such, central independent police should be created.
Land and police powers should not mix with ethnicity and should be centrally managed.
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Barathan / March 26, 2016
What an appetizer does is to whet the appetite. What Izeth Hussein rules is that so much only and never can you reach for dinner. Anything does for Tamils say two of the same racist mental frame.
Dayan and Hussain have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
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tamil / March 26, 2016
You can’t talk about economy, development. Talking only tamil racism and sinhal-lee……….. because the foreign countries balance your balance sheet.
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Stungun / March 30, 2016
if he is challenged in an Australian county court for this racial hatred he would undoubtedly stop or he would loose his gratuitous Australian pension (not that he worked his way in Australia for it) He is a mercenary. He has not lost anything at SL and if has he has lost it to Sinhalese Buddhist.
It’s happened to many UK, NZ, Aus.
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Paul / March 26, 2016
Utter rubbish from a Tamil hating Malay Muslim extremist, who is apologist for Wahhabi/Salafist extremism. This man is the Islamic version of the Tamil hating part Sinhalese/part Malay Mahindapala. Both ironically have now made Australia their home.
The Island is not the sole possession of the Sinhalese and they never exclusively owned the island. Large parts of the island from ancient times has been Tamil and is still Tamil. Continuously occupied and ruled by them until European colonisation. The Sinhalese hardly had a peep into these lands until 1948. On the contrary during most of their history the Sinhalese have been ruled by Tamils and Tamil dynasties. Many of the so called Sinhalese aristocrats and upper castes have a Tamil origin. There was an ancient Eelam Tamil nation that was the majority in the island until 1833 when the British decided to merge the ancient Eelam Tamil nation with the Sinhalese lands in the south of the island for their own convenience and form a new colony called Ceylon( which it self is derived from the ancient Tamil word for the island Eelam) This is how the Eelam Tamil who were the majority in their own lands and nation became a minority in the island and the Sinhalese who were confined to the southern central and western parts of the island and never had a peep in the north east of the north west coast became a majority in the whole island, thanks to the British. This does not make them the sole owners of the island, as historically they had only owned the southern parts of the island and not the north or east. Just because England and Scotland was joined into one kingdom in the 16TH century does not make the English majority the sole owners of Britain and a claim to Scotland or Wales
Unlike the indigenous Eelam Tamils hailing from the North and East who have a very ancient history in the island. This man belongs to Sri Lankan Malay community that was only imported into the island by the Dutch either as slaves or as soldiers. To him and to other immigrant communities from Indian like the Sri Lankan Muslims and Indian origin Tamils, the utter drivel that he posts may to some extent stand, as they are basically recently arrived immigrant communities and cannot make any claim to any part of the island but this does not hold to the indigenous Eelam Tamils from the North East. They were a separate nation and have every right to their land in the north and east just like the Sinhalese have to the rest. The British had no right to have given their lands on a platter to this racist genocidal Sinhalese majority in 1948, without the consent of the Tamils, asking the opinion of the a few selfish Colombo centric Colombo 7 Tamils most of whom were only nominally Tamil will not hold. They should have divided the lands as they found them in 1815 or created a highly federal form of government with land and police rights as it is found in India for the island’s indigenous Tamils. They did neither and as a result we Eelam Tamils now find ourselves in this pathetic plight of on the verge of losing our ancient lands to Sinhalese extremists and immigrant Muslim opportunists both of the Malay and the pretend Arab/Moor converted low caste Indian Tamil variety. We also now have to listen to these stupid opinions of these jumped up Malay Muslim and other Muslim immigrants who were nobodies and largely living in the slums until a generation ago. They do not have any claim to the island and want to please he Sinhalese and deny the Tamils their just claims and rights too. As I have stated earlier these people can never be trusted.
The vast majority of the present day Sinhalese are descended from indigenous and Indian Tamils who converted to Buddhism or Catholicism from ancient medieval as well as recent times. There was no Sinhalese language or Sinhalese people and until the 9TH century AD. The largest single contributor to the Sinhalese vocabulary is Tamil 40%. Take of the Tamil derived words from Sinhalese, there will be no Sinhalese. Just Pali or Sanskrit. The Sinhalese grammar syntax lexicon and alphabet is purely derived from Tamil not from Pali or Sanskrit. The ancient Indigenous dialect of the island was Elu this was a semi Tamil Dravidian dialect. Even old Sinhalese was very close to Tamil. This man is posting a lot of rubbish. Just because his immigrant Javanese community, living amongst the Sinhalese does not have any history and any claim to the island and has to rely on the largesse of the Sinhalese to survive does not mean the indigenous Eelam Tamils who have a far more ancient history and claim to large parts of the island and are the only people in the island who can challenge the Sinhalese in this regard have to do this
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Siva Sankaran Sarma / March 29, 2016
Cool story, bro :D Hopefully they’ll put together a new “We Thamizh fairy tales” category on Kindle so I can get to all these easily :D
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TheHorsesFoot / March 26, 2016
Sir, thank you for the interesting article.
The word Democracy, used in the present day context, brings to mind freedoms awarded to the people. However the word Democracy simply means the will of the majority, or majority rule.
Democracy does not necessarily comprise a rule of law, wherein perhaps the law may prevent the majority denying freedoms to the minority.
Sri Lanka has had majority rule at the expense of minorities such as the Muslims and Tamils, and these people have suffered.
Sir, I put to you that what you really mean is that we must not be a Democracy but rather a land in which the power exercised by the government is capped by laws.
In the American constitution the word Democracy is not used. I have read, though I cannot say for a fact, that the American founding fathers tried their utmost to prevent the new nation from becoming a Democracy – fearing the consequences.
Rather America was designed to become a Republic – a government limited in its power through law.
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Izeth Hussain / March 26, 2016
TheHorsesFoot – thanks for your courteous comment. Democracy is not just the will of the majority. That was clarified at the time of the American Revolution. A fully functioning democracy as understood and practiced in the West requires that certain principles be regarded as sacrosanct, as placed above the will of the majority – the rule of law,fair and equal treatment for all etc. – IH
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Garuda / March 26, 2016
Your description is like democracy is `enter the mosque` as in Bruce Lee movie??
It’s a long time since Greece and everything needs oiling especially intermixed cultures from invasions.
Isn’t the Donald the Trump right in saying lets shut the door and find out what’s wrong and build a wall both of which are possible?
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Sengodanm. M / March 26, 2016
Only the last para of this article makes some sense. The rest is almost nonsensical! I wonder how the author imagines of the possibility of arriving at a thorough democratic situation in the country as in the West anywhere in thr foreseeable future! How can it ever happen with the ever present sense of Sinhala Supremacy in the South?
More devolution to the North and East with or without merger is the ONLY way of preventing the North East becoming a separate entity or becoming a part of India. That is the reality!
Sengodanm. M
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Dr.Rajasingham Narendran / March 26, 2016
Mr.Izeth Hussain,
There is a fundamental flaw in the assumption on which you build your case.
The Sinhalese,Tamils and Muslims in this country as a whole- a large percentage of their respective populations- are not racists. There are decent folk with accomodative attitudes. You are taking the noise and deeds of a tiny majority amongst them as an indication of the attitude of the majority. Your sampling has taken the views of one fringe in the normal curve as the norm ( the average) of the population segments.
Much crime has been committed by these fringe elements in the name of the vast majority of decent people. All Tamils are not Tigers, as was made out to be at one time. Similarly all Tamils are not separatists and hence racists as is being made out now. The Tamil Diaspora is also not a monolithic entity and does not advocate what the Tamils here feel or think. What the extreme in this grouping voice is also not those of the Tamil Diaspora as a whole. Most Tamils are also not Sinhala or Muslim haters, though they feel they have been treated unjustly in this country. They only want to be treated as equals in this country. Similarly, there is no Sinhala-Buddhist monolithic entity that is out to decimate or overwhelm the minorities in this country. All Buddhists monks are also not rampaging cads. All Muslims are also not Jihadists. We should learn to see the whole in matters of state, without being lost in the aberrant details and taking that as the norm.
It is wrong to justify what we did wrong in the past, forgetting the bitter and costly harvest, with untenable and unjust arguments. Cliches cultivated and popolarized by extremist fridges and an irresponsible and rampaging media should not be the basis of what should be done. What is right and hence logical should be done without hesitation, boldly, without magnifying wrong assumptions to do wrong.
There should be extensive devolution in this country and every province and every community should benefit from it. The land belongs to the people and they live as communities and collection of communities in all parts of the island. It does not belong to the polticians at the center or the periphery to do as they want. It is the land of the people held in trust by the State. This land is not the State’s to do what it wants in pursuit of a pernicious and parochial agenda, as has been done hitherto. Let there be laws that govern State lands to prevent mischief done in the past by the center being repeated by those wielding power at the peiphery. The fear that the periphery would do the same as the center in the past and present,is the hidden reason for disputing land powers to the periphery!
Police powers should be also devolved to the periphery, even to the level of cities, towns and universities as in North America. Just because the police has been hitherto used as the hand maiden of the politicians and the government at the center cannot justify the fear that the periphery would do the same. Create the rules and laws that would prevent crass misuse of the police by the center and periphery, instead.
The rule o just laws should be made to prevail in this country. Justice must not only be done, but it must also be perceived as just. Justice must be blind prejudice, partisanship and political agenda.
The people as citizens and as communities of citizens, diverse though they be, should have the right in this century to manage their affairs to a very large extent. This country has to view itself as a collection of human beings, who are equal citizens and not as Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims etc., and their religious identities. Group rights have to be inevitably respected, because groups are a collection of equal citizens.
It is time persons with your background say what is right and ensure what is right is done, without getting influenced by cliches and mired in the mess it inevitably creates.
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran
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Dr.Rajasingham Narendran / March 26, 2016
A correction:
The third sentence in the second para should read , Please—-noiced and deeds of a tiny minority—.’
Dr.RN
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ravivararo / March 28, 2016
well said sir.
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Plato. / March 26, 2016
Izeth Hussain talks about Sinhala racism and Tamil racism; But not a word about Muslim racism!
Srilanka is also one of the many countries to be targeted by the ISIS,according to US Intelligence!
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punchinilame / March 26, 2016
This news-let may waken IH as being in Australia makes him immune?
ISIS – Decision Magazine BGEA – Jany.2016
“We have never faced a terrorist group like ISIS before. Sebastian Gorka, an expert on ISIS, works closely with the U.S. Army Special Operations Command and the intelligence community. He proposes that ISIS is far more dangerous than Al Qaeda.Among his findings are the fact that ISIS is the richest group of its type in human history, with enough cash to level about 1,600 terrorist acts equivalent to 9/11. He describes their ability to recruit as mind-boggling; they have recruited 19,000 foreign fighters in the last nine months. They do this largely through social media, radicalizing people online who have no digital footprint. These people are not necessarily being monitored by authorities. They do not have to be authorized by ISIS or anyone else. They get radicalized and they act. There are links to training videos that show them how to create acts of terrorism. They use encrypted technologies that hinder the ability of authorities to intercept and analyze information. This was not even possible until the last 10 years.
All of this is done with the objective of producing a global caliphate, or Islamic government”
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Spring Koha / March 26, 2016
As if we have no worries in these days of interminable pestilential heat, up pops another ‘view’ of 13A.
I just took a sip of my cool lime with thambili juice, and invoked….
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
and the old witch said:
Cool it with a baboon’s blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
Hey presto, it worked. I feel so much better now.
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Garuda / March 26, 2016
Overall climate can be cooled with the known bridging language that carries one anywhere as before.
Just yesterday a beautiful nation Belgium was being exposed of the 2 language policy at the secret police that led to the debacle. Of course its to do with the influx of French speaking immigrants unlike Lanka. Do Muslims plan to add Arabic having experienced taking over the English Streams??
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sinhalese buddhist / March 26, 2016
Izeth
Is there an analogy to be made between the Indo-Sino-SL triangle and the US-USSR-Cuba triangle? If so what do you think about CUba getting cozier with the US?
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anotherbuddist / March 26, 2016
There is no solution to the ‘ethnic problem’. The Tamil ‘diaspora’just like their racist and fascist movement=LTTE did not want a solution. They just want to keep being ‘refugees’ and victims for the benefits gained in the West / from Western governments. So they will never want any ‘solution’.
As stated in another article on CT (by Prof. S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole), schools closing in Jaffna and the population has decreased / left for greener pastures. Only India / Tamil Nadu will want a separate state or any other system that will enable them to populate the north and east, and more with their exploding populous!! And that will create further flow of Tamils out of Sri Lanka / Sri Lankan Tamil does not want to be under India / Tamil Nadu!!
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Native Vedda / March 26, 2016
anotherbuddist
“The Tamil ‘diaspora’just like their racist and fascist movement=LTTE did not want a solution”
What was the solution (assuming there was one) on the table which was rejected by the people who speak Tamil and live in this island?
“Only India / Tamil Nadu will want a separate state or any other system that will enable them to populate the north and east,”
In fact the South Indian (to lesser extent the North Indians) never stopped populating this island. Most of them over a long period of time had converted themselves into Sinhala/Buddhism and their descendants now speak Sinhala.
What is new?
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cholan / March 26, 2016
It seems Izzath nana want more Aluthgama LESSONS to change his mind.
Look what these Qu `ran readers have done in Brusseles…but LTTE never touch a foreign tourists here or attack any foreign land HE HE HE who are terrorists??
Cheers
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paul / March 26, 2016
‘but LTTE never touch a foreign tourists here’
They did, but they never made that mistake again
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Iron-Bars-Cage-Penelope-Tremayne/dp/0434791164
‘or attack any foreign land’
Have you heard of one Rajiv Gandhi?
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Garuda / March 26, 2016
Paul making a mountain out of ant hill??
This is the case of indiscriminate killing of civilians that he is highlighting. It is accepted in the west as much as the fbi report for all its boasting.
RG?? the Hindian interfered in a deadly way and lost his life in their motherland- so its is not foreign but they behaved like terrorist.
Presently India is Lanka’s sole pawn broker to swap billions of US dollars for the excess SL Rupees MR1 has printed- how long more before the final melt down of economy??
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cholan / March 26, 2016
Have you heard about Paris massacre by Qu ran chanting fools?
Have you heard about recent Brussels massacre by Qu ran chanting jokers ?
LTTE never touched a foreign tourists even when they attacked Katunayaka airport at this time Sinhala security forces ran like headless chickens ..not a single passenger was hurt .
But Muslims fanatics simply massacre ..there no place for Islam in this modern society.
Cheers
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cholan / March 26, 2016
Atleast there are 70 million Tamils in stone throw away distance to support SL Tamils….
But when Thoppies were attacked by BBS not a dog bark …outside ..
Where was the guardian of pure Islam Saudies ???
Muslims outside Sri Lanka know very well the so called Moors here are all converted Tamil Hindus….
This is why Arab treat SL muslims as shits..why more even local Borah or Memon Muslims never allow these thoppies inside their gates.
Cheers
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Rajash / March 26, 2016
Izeth
You say that If there was no India there won’t be any Tamils.
If there was no India there won’t be any Sinhalese or Muslims either.
You also say Tamil Nadu internationalised the Sri Lankan Tamil issue.
That is also nonsense.
It was the Tamil Tigers who made the word “Tamil” international and known to far flung corners of the world. For a long time they were admired all over the world. Even the Tamil Nadu Tamils admitted that Sri Lankan Tamils made awareness of the Tamil culture internationally. Tamil Nadu Tamils were happy to be inward looking and watch Tamil movie and worship MGR and Sivaji and Amma and all the marvellous Hindu Temples and practice and protect the Tamil culture inwardly.
It was the 1983 riots that made the plight of the Sri Lankan Tamils an international issue.
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anotherbuddist / March 26, 2016
Rajash,
You give LTTE or ‘Tamil Tigers’ too much credit. They made Tamil internationally ‘famous’ for terrorism and the invention of the suicide bomber!
If Tamils are ‘loved’ by the so called ‘International’ community it is because they are terrorist / cause instability in the region. ‘International’ community also loves the ISIS / ‘Islamic Terrorist’. This ‘love’ or recognition is fleeting and actually a ‘love/ hate’ relationship. You Tamils will be dumped as soon as your ‘use by date’ is up for causing terror and instability in the region just as ISIS will be!!! So bask in the glory for now!!!
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Rajash / March 26, 2016
Anotherbuddhist…..Tamil Tigers were admired internationally as the only liberation movement with land, naval and air capabilities and ingenuity.
The Sri Lankan govt set up a Tamil Tiger Museum and tourism for the Sinhalease in the south to admire the LTTE ingenuity. Then they realised that this is embarrassing and closed down the war tourism
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anotherbuddhist / March 26, 2016
Rajesh
Still living the fantasy! What did the LTTE do for the Tamil people? Nothing. You said it your self, only achievements are military = terrorism. And that is what the West admired them for / doing their dirty work and killing. LTTE never built any schools or hospitals. They never built a ‘nation’ / community, only fear. And took Tamil people’s wealth and children for their military excesses!
Get real- the museums were built to show their stupidity and single minded Pol Pot tinman Prabakaran’s double life of extravaganza!
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Pablo / March 26, 2016
“Get real- the museums were built to show their stupidity and single minded Pol Pot tinman Prabakaran’s double life of extravaganza! “
Without fire there cannot be smoke.
The west too has long established `terrorist` fighting for traditional land- eg ETA
Sinhala Buddhist aren’t saints as much as the Spanish and French.
I personally don’t like saints.
There never was zero casualty and much more like white flag which is in pictures.- so much of the cannibalism.
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Native Vedda / March 27, 2016
another Sinhala/Buddhist
“Still living the fantasy!”
Aren’t you?
“LTTE never built any schools or hospitals.”
You may be right. Whatever was already there the Sri Lankan armed forces bombed and destroyed.
“And took Tamil people’s wealth and children for their military excesses!”
And you love it.
” Get real- the museums were built to show their stupidity and single minded Pol Pot tinman Prabakaran’s double life of extravaganza!”
Again you may be right.
The Sinhala/Buddhists and their state could only produce an enemy who could be equated tin pot dictator Pol Pot, and failed to create an opponent the likes of Mahathma Ganthi, Martin Luther King, Mandela leave alone a Buddha.
Seriously do you consider Rohana, Somawansa, …… were angels?
If you remain another Sinhala/Buddhist there is no chance for acieving peace in the forseable future.
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Pablo / March 26, 2016
he spelled out the truth- black july onwards.
truth hurts the Sinhala Buddhist??
IC?? The establishment is different from majority western view.
The Christianity and Islam come from the same region same stone so its evident for love hate as in their crusades.
Show me one nation without secret police and politician and I will move there. every nation exploits but its the west that still gives best prices so others worldwide have a better quality life including China and Russia.
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Old Codger / March 26, 2016
Anotherbuddist,
Please consult your history book. The Japanese had suicide bombers in 1944, and the Palestinians in 1982.
You are giving the LTTE too much credit.
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Paul / March 26, 2016
The Eelam Tamils asking for their just rights and federalism for their own lands is not racism as this man incorrectly tries to portray but is their due and just right that should have been given to them long ago. They are trying to protect what is theirs from further Sinhalese and Muslim encroachment. Denying them this right and trying to steal their land under various pretexts is only racism, as all Sinhalese governments from independence have done and this includes the current.
The author does not like this, as what he dreams, is an Islamic homeland carved out from the Tamil east with the help of the Sinhalese. A federal Tamil North East will put an end to this dream. so in desperation is siding with the very same Sinhalese hardliners now targeting the Muslims down south. However this man does not care as these very same Sinhalese hardliners may target the Muslims down south and do not want them to become powerful in the Sinhalese south but will side with the same Muslim Salafist fanatics in the Tamil north and east and help them to steal and encroach further on Tamil lands, as the Sinhalese hatred and fear for the island’s Tamils is ancient and very deep seated compared to their hatred and scorn for the Muslims.
Trying to equate the ancient indigenous Eelam Tamil nation with his microscopic recently arrived, immigrant Sri Lankan Malay community numbering only a few thousand and other immigrant communities like the Sri Lankan Muslims and Indian origin Tamils is a joke. It is like equating the status of the ancient Scottish and the Welsh in Britain with immigrant Indian/Pakistani and West Indian communities and stating they should not ask for federal status for Scotland and Wales.
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sinhala friend / March 26, 2016
It is not something new in the history of Srilanka since independent from British. If there is a small opportunity to resolve the problem , there would be many Badiudeen Mohamed, he was the educational minister during standardisations. They always benefit. They do fishing well once the water is troubled. They would not let the peace to prevail in Srilanka.
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Freddy / March 26, 2016
The Tamils have been conquered thanks to Rajapakshas. Their Tamil racism will further damage them. Sri Lanka will be a One Nation for all to live in , without boundaries . period.
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Paul / March 26, 2016
The Rajapakse’s never conquered the Tamils it was the west Russia India China Pakistan and many other nations that helped the rag tag racist Sinhalese army that so far could not do anything to win the war. They all did this for their own selfish agenda. The Rajapakse’s only committed genocide and war crimes on the Tamils and Sinhalese racist Freddies like you, largely descended from low caste Indian Tamil immigrant slaves, who were imported into the island by the Portuguese and Dutch danced with joy. Sri Lanka is not one nation as the island had two nations from ancient times and will never be one, as your idea of one nation is a Sinhalese only nation and the Tamils will never accepted this. Your racist Sinhalese Buddhist mindset can be seen from the words you posted” Tamils have been conquered thanks to Rajapakse” proves what you and most of the Sinhalese think. No idea of treating the Tamils as fellow countrymen or equals. Tamils don’t belong and now they have been conquered and now the land will be one nation a Sinhalese Buddhist nation and this Salafist Muslim apologist living the good life in Australia is pandering to the Sinhalese hardliners and racists thinking a few more crumbs will fall into their immigrant Muslim ( both Malay and fake Arab low caste immigrant Indian Tamil convert) community’s plate from their Sinhalese master’s table for dutifully wagging their tale,licking their master’s bum and barking and biting at the Tamils. As I stated before these Muslims can never be trusted. They fish in troubled waters and will never want peace in the island as it will not benefit them. They are the only community that thrived during the 30 year war and on the marginalisation of the island’s Tamil population. Whenever there is a chance of genuine peace in the island, they came like party poopers to spoil it by making all sorts of unreasonable demands for their Indian immigrant refugee community, at the expense of the Tamils. Tamils have to fight loose lives land and wealth, whilst they quietly sat only sidelines overtly and covertly supporting the Sinhalese racists and immensely benefitting at the expense of the Tamils and when the international community the UN and India want to do something for the Tamils, come running demanding everything at the expense of the Tamils. Strange most of them live amongst the Sinhalese but all their demands for their community is the Tamil areas.
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Dr,Rajasingham Narendran / March 26, 2016
Freddy,
Conquered is a big word. Did the SL armed forces fight the LTTE or the Tamils? If the former is true, SL has much to answer at the UNHCR. Yes, the LTTE was defeated, but the Tamils were not conquered though left battered. How can a people be conquered in their own country? The Tamil sense of belonging to this land has in no sense diminished as a result of what transpired. Did the SL armed forces conquer the areas under JVP control or defeat the JVP? Are the Sinhalese in the regained areas a conquered people?
Dr.RN
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Mallaiyuran / March 26, 2016
Like the Pied Piper in Hemline, wherever Izeth go and blow his racist pipe, the first ones to flock are his feathers’ colored birds, Jim softy, Soma…. His thread all are only about one subject, The Muslim Phobia, Tamil Racism, Sinhala Racism…. It may not on him, but on his birth time’s planets’ position, so no cure visible even in the distant horizon. Like the drunkard’s huts smells with vomits, his thread pollutes the CT with foul racism.
The other case is he never gets it right. Some people like Dayan, convolute the facts. As Izeth lack of facts and it is scarce in his corner, he doesn’t do that. Whatever he gets is upside down.
Here he goes once again : If India did not exist, if there were no Tamils in Tamil Nadu, we would not be having a Tamil ethnic problem, What kind of a statement is this?
First thing is, if there were no India, then No Vijeya, No Arabian Trade, No Muslim Invasion, No Izeth in Lanka. No Racist threads in CT. The problem is solved that simple. Then I cannot under why he is struggling to touch his nose rounding his hand around the head while his nose is right in the front of his face. It is not the fault of Izeth, it is the Saturn who stood in the difficult corner when he was born, makes him pain though all these confusing theories for him.
India wanted Ceylon as a part of it when Nehru was there. Indira Gandhi gave a free ice cream, the Katchatheevu to Sirimavo and tried have stopped the Kanangara’s Free rice pact and BIMICH’s attraction to China. It did not work. She gave arms to rebels. Regan thought India was about split Ceylon like it did in Bangladesh. The American anger turned towards Tamils. Rajiv changed the target. Instead of splitting Ceylon he went back to Nehru’s object of annexing it to India.
That time America was far away to Lankawe and India had an aggressive interference in Ceylon. Because America was not able to do anything against India, Clinton just banned LTTE to show the anger on Mrs. Gandhi. Chandrika followed a balanced approach toward china and India. Old King found out the gold mine of China from the Chandrika’s left over of the Nuraicholai. Because of this now India is isolated. Now Modi can do nothing in Lankawe. So he is trying off hand techniques. One example is He trying to suppress Colombo port’s China’s management by freely opening the Indian ports against Lanka. This is what America was doing in 1970s and 1980s. But America’s situation is changed. America saved the War Criminals’ by removing their names from OISL report in UNHRC. This is America’s Katchatheevu. This is how it is keeping the New King in Power. Otherwise by now, INTERPOL will be searching for the New King. America is deciding whether the Old King can continue on the power by launching a coup or not. US troops were so close to land in Lanka. All what Izeth gets is upside down. That time India tried the 13A. America, until 2014, when Robert Blake sponsored Old King- TNA negotiations failed, opposed to 13A.
All Tamil Diasporas in the Western countries which are not just in true democracies, but in Federated administration too. United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Federal Germany, Swiss, Belgium, Australia….. and of cause India too, all are with Federal Central Government plus a decentralized state governments. Diaspora has the firsthand experience of the state governments harmoniously working with the central governments. These Federal systems are working only because the majority is supporting the true democracy. In Lankawe it true democracy does not work. There free rice, arrack and Biriyani only work. Further Lankawe started as unitary and true democracy. It is from where we started. So landing the spaceship back at the same sport is no way any progress. That is why diaspora do not want Unitary or Federal system. They want only separate country.
If the planet Saturn did not exist and the planets are not orbiting around the sun and earth, Izeth might have managed not to be racist and would have get the facts of the things in the straightway rather than upside down.
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jansee / March 26, 2016
Izeth:
“One is that Tamil racism is worse, very much worse, than Sinhalese racism.”
I had a good laugh. This flawless barometer you have had invented that impeccably pigeon-holes degrees of racism is laudable save that the grip of racism had plagued this island nation like forever.
Just one doubt though – the differing intensity that you have sort of dreamed up has the lesser racist Sinhalese still grabbing land. With land and police powers, the Tamils will go crazy in demanding ultimately for Eelam, so you say. I would think that that sort of argument is merely symbolic. You point out that the Indian/Tamilnadu factor (read proxitmity) had given the opportunity and tendency to the Tamils to up their ante alluding that that minus this the Tamils may have not have such a distinct advantage.
You had also argued that at present what would be considered a new order of the world, the Indian concern into what has been normally off-limits to the exertion of influence, particularly the Chinese in the Indian ocean, had sufficiently alerted the Indians. Even if the Sinhalese are going to bed with the Chinese, the Indians will still have the Tamils and their “homeland” as the trump card to beat SL into shape. Perhaps that was why your uncle MR paid a hefty price and today is barking at every moving thing that passes or bypasses him.
With such profound knowledge and argument I am quite puzzled at the shrinking of your brain to what are mere trivialities. As you have pointed out, there are already external factors that dwarf the points you have grabbed to what can easily be seen as your racist rant to paint others as racists and dwell on matters that will never be the contributory, or major contributory factors if in the event it comes to the “dirty word” you are so allergic to.
As much as you wish to pass off as a serious analyst, you ought to know that India may sneeze when SL Tamils get raped or murdered by the Sinhalese but if SL does any act that trespasses India’s national interest, my dear fellow, it will be all hell. Lucky for SL, Mangala, Ranil and Mythiri did not seek your advice and instead made a beeline to the Indian capital immediately after coming to office. They know why and what price Mahinda paid. Do you honestly believe that India did not know the massacre that happened during the last days of the war? Mahinda and Gotabaya were happy enough to express that it was India’s war and who were the adversaries – the Tamils. It had even supported a resolution in favour of SL and the Tamils had felt aghast. When the UNHRC resolved to conduct an impartial inquiry, the Indians abstained on that vote. The Indians didn’t even raise a whimper when the court decided on North East issue. The whole of Tamilnadu was “burning” on and during the war but the then Indian govt made no secret on whose side it was. the reality is, all the Tamils can hope far, insofar as the Indian factor is concerned is for the SL state to make a terrible mistake affecting their national interest, and then for the Tamils to ride on it.
I have one doubt though. Why is the UN insisting on devolution, as part of the reconciliation efforts? Let us see whether you are that smart!
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Agnos / March 26, 2016
Mr. Hussain,
“One is that Tamil racism is worse, very much worse, than Sinhalese racism.”
“The second reason why I have come to share the view of the Sinhalese hard-liners is the new geopolitical configuration in which India is in rivalry with China.”
I know you told me in these forums that you were more of an anarchist than a statist. But your statements like the above continue to show your distinct anti-Tamil bias, and a propensity to stoke the Sinhala-Tamil and Tamil-Muslim conflicts in the name of “objective” commentary.
When you make such starkly irresponsible statements, many people will respond in kind, and when that happens, you go around telling everyone that Tamils are racists and have ‘mad dog rage’ and that is because ‘even though I am Muslim, I write well.’ The fact is that the people whom you accuse as showing mad dog rage acknowledge that you write well– H.L.D. Mahinadapala and S.L. Gunasekara also wrote well–, and they wouldn’t have cared about your Muslim identity if not for the way you provoke them with your distinct bias. It is a vicious circle created by yourself. I stopped commenting on your articles several months back, but just wanted to make this point.
Anyway, I have some other news for you and the readers.
Two decades after the Bosnian genocide, Radovan Karadzic, the butcher of Bosnia, has just been sentenced to 40 years in prison for Bosnian war crimes. He is already in his 70’s and will die in prison. Will Sri Lanka’s war criminals face the same fate? Will it take just as long to see justice?
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ramona therese fernando / March 26, 2016
Well, well, well,….….this is quite a change from IZH’s 2014 views!!! :
https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/geneva-again/
“We must now focus on trying to make a success of 13A. Our first priority should be this: to try to convince the Government that it would be foolish, and even dangerous, to go on and on playing the fool over 13A.”
We commentators must have given him erudition him along the way. All he has to do now, is to admit in an article that Danno Budunge is a 100% Sinhala Buddhist hymn with pure Lankan melody. This will truly legitimize what he says in this article. (and no sneakily attempting to play race cards and other ad hominem cards to fudge out on going the next bold step!!!)
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Ambedkar from heaven / March 26, 2016
Izeth Hussain,
Did you get your own ideas before start writing this analysis or Gnanasara, Weerawansa and you met some where in Aluthgama or Beruwela and jointly generated these ideas and developed them ?
You have set the scene for Mar’s forthcoming rally at Beruwela.
What a Humpty Dumpy you are ? Don’t worry if you fall down King MaRa’s men will put you back together again.
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Moderate man / March 26, 2016
I am sure there are lot of good Tamils, but you also find down right[Edited out]cast racists like Paul who has this in-built mad dog rage, and here IH is talking about some of them.
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Izeth Hussain / March 27, 2016
Moderate Man – you refer to “caste racists”. We are thinking alike. For some time I have had the idea of introducing the category of caste racism into the field of race theory. I believe that the main reason why the Tamils are much more racist than the Sinhalese is that they are much more conscious of caste. I have had that idea for quite some time. It was strengthened by my recently reading some despicable anti-Muslim diatribes by Paul. – IH
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amal perera / March 27, 2016
“”I believe that the main reason why the Tamils are much more racist than the Sinhalese is that they are much more conscious of caste.””
Why do desperate muslim men and their families rape their European host?? Why do they bomb civilians their host country which offers all the social services that you don’t have.
its your stupid faith in a out dated religion that invites killing of animals and humans alike??
Lets have Donald to decide the fate of Muslims after investigation by next January.
He would stop you producing at will with polygamy.
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sach / March 29, 2016
Oh…a tamil amal perera enter the scene…
From now on, our tamil brethren in CT will have sinhala names…
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amal perera / March 30, 2016
such/sachet/holdall the mutt,
I don’t think like you `the plagiarist` to be a tamil or sinhalese.
Soverignity days are numbered so you better care about it and learn hindi.
the CEO of Chinese Investment bank is a Gujarati. Director of Goldman sac’s is a Marwadie.
MR2 has to swap the excess SLR but even that is running out- GDP$60b every year the country is pawning more and more because it cant borrow.
keep smiling soilder- jaldi jkarro.
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amal perera / March 27, 2016
MM
Caste, class exist throughout this world inclusive of the muslim world. The exposure is dependant on the level of poverty.
When the first Zoroastrian refugees from Iran (cyrus the great known for human rights)arrived at Surat they claimed that they had no caste but a priest they followed- it was a lie known even today because it is practiced. education, money so the Muslim’s of Lanka Baddurdin nicked it by unfair means.
Remember opportunity is utopia and that is the problem not caste.
So Premadasa said- did you know which place which family you would be born. Did he bring religion which is an emotion to defend it no because its fate.
So in the west there are Christian values of charity for all irrespective of caste class race unlike islam which gives only their brothers and sisters in faith.
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Old Codger / March 29, 2016
Amal perera,
You say”When the first Zoroastrian refugees from Iran (cyrus the great known for human rights)arrived at Surat they claimed that they had no caste but a priest they followed-“
In the time of Cyrus the Great, neither Islam nor Christianity existed.
The Zoroastrian (Parsee) refugees were Iranian but NOT Muslims. They were running away from the Muslims.
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Ken Robert / March 29, 2016
Arab Muslims who chased zoroastrians annihilated that race in persia. Then came the turk Muslims who massacred the unarmed Hindus in somnath in India.
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Native Vedda / March 29, 2016
Ken Robert
Please see above Native Vedda (March 29, 2016 at 2:24 am) for some reference materials.
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ken robert / March 30, 2016
native
thank you for the above articles
ken
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SJ / March 29, 2016
Iran was Muslim but not Arab.
The Turks are none other than descendants of Jenghis Khan, a good Buddhist whose marauders conquered West Asia and part of Europe. That his grandson Kublai converted to Islam was incidental.
“Hindus” were not quite unarmed. They were weakened by internal squabbles.
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amal perera / March 29, 2016
“annihilated that race “
Its a faith of sun worshipers that Islamist drove away.
Turks were always invading because it was fertile ground.
Its the Turk leader married Mongolian leader and fashioned as Mughals invaded India from the north at the same time of Portuguese invasion from south. They promoted Sharia Law Commerce which is still in practice in the north.
Zoroastrians are not innocent but concealed much till their skin started peeling trying to imitate the Europeans who favoured them over the locals because they worked like free masons. The law of India just changed to stop them dying.
We know the priest who came to the Hindu king of Gujarat with sugar and milk. Cyrus was mentioned because I am not writing a thesis on a collage. Today 75% of TATA income come off Range Rover manufacture at China 50/50 courtesy Gordon Brown priest son who donated £3billion of tax payers money. Today TATA is making all UK steel industry staff redundant- that is mercantile. while the Chinese are yet to manufacture the MG and TATA cannot manufacture vehicles en-mass for Europe because of Nepotism.
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