{"id":126559,"date":"2014-06-21T12:08:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T06:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=126559"},"modified":"2014-06-21T12:23:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T06:53:54","slug":"jhu-wants-govt-to-take-immediate-legal-action-against-muslim-hartal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/jhu-wants-govt-to-take-immediate-legal-action-against-muslim-hartal\/","title":{"rendered":"JHU Wants Govt To Take Immediate Legal Action Against Muslim Hartal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buddhist hardline group Jathika Hela Urumaya (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=JHU&amp;x=8&amp;y=8\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">JHU<\/span><\/a>) has called on the government to take legal action against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Hartal&amp;x=8&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hartal<\/span><\/a> campaigns carried out islandwide by Muslims in protest of the anti-Muslim violence that erupted in Southern Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Hartal1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-126389\" alt=\"Hartal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Hartal1.jpg\" width=\"470\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Hartal1.jpg 5184w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Hartal1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Hartal1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Hartal1-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a>JHU Media Spokesman Nishantha Sri Warnasinghe has released a media statement, calling for immediate action to be taken against the hartal campaigns and its organisers as they are clear threats to maintaining peace and harmony in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDouble standards are being clearly applied with concern to implementing the law for Sinhala Buddhists and Muslims. Following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Aluthgama&amp;x=9&amp;y=8\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Aluthgama<\/span><\/a> incident, subsequent rallies organized by Sinhala Buddhists in Mawanella, Badulla, Ruwanwella and Mahiyangana were cancelled by the law enforcement authorities claiming it was to prevent the violence from spreading further, but they have deliberately turned a blind eye on the hartal campaigns led by Muslim extremists,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>In his statement, Warnasinghe has gone on to question whether the Sharia law has trumped the state law in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuslim extremists who have inflicted harm upon the Sinhala Buddhists have managed to escape the law. This raises doubts on whether the state law no longer applies to these Muslim extremists,\u201d his statement read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":126389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>JHU Wants Govt To Take Immediate Legal Action Against Muslim Hartal  - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/jhu-wants-govt-to-take-immediate-legal-action-against-muslim-hartal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"JHU Wants Govt To Take Immediate Legal Action Against Muslim Hartal  - 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