{"id":118521,"date":"2014-01-17T15:07:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T09:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=118521"},"modified":"2014-01-27T21:00:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T15:30:15","slug":"muslim-council-confident-of-living-a-peaceful-life-under-rajapaksas-able-leadership-says-interest-free-loan-journo-ameen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/muslim-council-confident-of-living-a-peaceful-life-under-rajapaksas-able-leadership-says-interest-free-loan-journo-ameen\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Council Confident Of Living A Peaceful Life Under Rajapaksa&#8217;s Able Leadership Says Interest Free Loan Journo Ameen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<p>&#8220;All Sri Lankans, irrespective of their religious belief\u2019s have high hopes of living a peaceful life in our blessed country after over three decades of conflict. We are confident that under your Excellency\u2019s able leadership, this dream could certainly be a reality.&#8221; says the President of the\u00a0Muslim Council of Sri Lanka, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=N+M+Ameen&amp;x=9&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">N M Ameen<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_97196\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/N.M.-Ameen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97196\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97196 \" alt=\"N.M. Ameen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/N.M.-Ameen.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-97196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">N.M. Ameen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Referring to the recent attacks on religious places, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Muslim+Council&amp;x=12&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Muslim Council<\/span><\/a> president, Journalist and media activist NM Ameen, who also applied and was granted Rs. 1,200,000\/- of interest free government loan from a state bank to purchase car or van, where the interest will be paid by the Treasury using tax payer money says; &#8220;We thank you, your Excellency for your immediate attention and look forward to a complete halt to the threat to the minorities by these extremist groups.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We publish below the statement in full;<\/p>\n<p>16th January 2014<\/p>\n<p>His Excellency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=6&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mahinda Rajapakshe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President,<br \/>\nDemocratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat<br \/>\nGalle Face,<br \/>\nColombo 1<\/p>\n<p>Your Excellency,<\/p>\n<p>Re: Attacks on places of religious worship of minorities.<\/p>\n<p>We wish to draw your Excellency\u2019s kind attention to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=attacks+on+Churches&amp;x=11&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the mob attack<\/span><\/a> on Assemblies of God and the Calvary church in Hikkaduwa (Galle District) while the congregation was engaging in peaceful worship services on the 12th of January 2014. The unruly mob led by some Buddhist monks blatantly infringed on the peoples right to worship.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first incident of this nature and the police who were present could not prevent these elements from causing havoc at a place of religious worship. Certain Buddhist monks, publicly claiming to be the un-official police continue to intimidate the minorities. This has become a growing trend and has gone unchecked.<\/p>\n<p>The Muslim community too has faced many situations of violence, harassment and intimidation by extremist Buddhist groups. Up to now, the police have not made any arrests in any of these incidents.<\/p>\n<p>We kindly urge your Excellency to order the law enforcement agencies to rein-in these mobs that infringe on the peoples fundamental right to worship. Should there be any breach of law by any individual or groups, we kindly urge that due process is followed and necessary legal action is taken without letting individuals or religious groups to take the law in to their own hands.<\/p>\n<p>All Sri Lankans, irrespective of their religious belief\u2019s have high hopes of living a peaceful life in our blessed country after over three decades of conflict. We are confident that under your Excellency\u2019s able leadership, this dream could certainly be a reality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div title=\"Page 2\">\n<p>We thank you, your Excellency for your immediate attention and look forward to a complete halt to the threat to the minorities by these extremist groups.<\/p>\n<p>Yours truly,<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 2\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>N M Ameen<\/p>\n<p>President,<br \/>\nMuslim Council of Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<p>CC: Mr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gotabaya+Rajapaksa&amp;x=9&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Gotabhaya Rajapakshe<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nSecretary,<br \/>\nMinister of Defense and Urban Development Colombo 1<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":97196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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