{"id":127706,"date":"2014-07-11T15:27:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T09:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=127706"},"modified":"2014-07-22T14:14:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T08:44:07","slug":"muslim-ministers-deny-and-condemn-sri-lankan-islamic-terrorism-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/muslim-ministers-deny-and-condemn-sri-lankan-islamic-terrorism-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Ministers Deny And Condemn &#8216;Sri Lankan Islamic Terrorism&#8217; Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grave concerns have been raised over the promotion of unfounded claims concerning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Islamic+terrorist&amp;x=9&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Islamic terrorist<\/span><\/a> groups operating on Sri Lankan soil, by five Muslim Ministers through a joint statement issued last night.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_123961\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/M.H.M.-Fowzie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123961\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-123961\" alt=\"AHM Fowzie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/M.H.M.-Fowzie-300x237.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/M.H.M.-Fowzie-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/M.H.M.-Fowzie.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AHM Fowzie<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The statement that has been signed by five government Ministers including Rauff Hakeem, A. H. M. Fowzie, Rishad Bathiudeen, Basheer Segu Dawood and A L M Athaullah, it has been pointed out that the promotion of such baseless claims is like \u2018rubbing salt to a wound\u2019 in the wake of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Aluthgama&amp;x=10&amp;y=8\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">recent anti-Muslim clashes<\/span><\/a> from which the Muslim community is systematically recovering presently.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministers who have denied and condemned such claims have stated that they are actions of groups with vested interests that wish to see a reemergence of terrorism in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>They had also stated that it is unfair for the recent arrest of an individual in India under charges of espionage, to be attributed to claims of Islamic extremism raising its head in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe deeply deplore that the recent arrest in India under espionage charges should lend itself to such spurious claims by sections of media and groups,\u201d they have asserted adding that it has led to the further stereotyping of Muslims that operates with a clear mind set of condoning or supporting violence by racist groups.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore the statement has called upon the national authorities of Sri Lanka to uphold the rule of law without allowing the Muslim community to be demonized as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of emerging Islamic extremist groups <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-under-al-qaeda-threat-muslims-condemn-ceylon-todays-inflammatory-marketing-technique\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">have been publicized<\/span><\/a> recently by several local media outlets in Sri Lanka including the Ceylon Today which was reported by Colombo Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Joint-Statement-Muslim-Ministers.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":123961,"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-127706","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Muslim Ministers Deny And Condemn &#039;Sri Lankan Islamic Terrorism&#039; 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