{"id":170485,"date":"2016-11-16T12:54:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T07:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=170485"},"modified":"2016-11-16T13:00:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T07:30:24","slug":"police-arrests-thawheed-jamath-secretary-razick-after-gnanasaras-ultimatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/police-arrests-thawheed-jamath-secretary-razick-after-gnanasaras-ultimatum\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrests Thawheed Jamath Secretary Razick, After Gnanasara\u2019s Ultimatum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gnanasara-issues-one-day-ultimatum-warns-of-blood-bath-from-maligawatta-if-sltj-secretary-razick-not-arrested\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bodu Bala Sena\u2019s Galagoda Atte Gnanasara issued an ultimatum<\/span><\/a> to carry out a blood bath in the country, the police has arrested Abdul Razick, the Secretary of Sri Lanka Thawheed Jamath (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=SLTJ&amp;x=5&amp;y=7\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SLTJ<\/span><\/a>) group. He was arrested this morning by the Maligawatte Police.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_96504\" style=\"width: 321px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Muslim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96504\" class=\" wp-image-96504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Muslim.jpg\" alt=\"Razick\" width=\"311\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Muslim.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Muslim-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-96504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Razick<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to a statement from the Police Headquarters, Razick was arrested following a complaint lodged with regard to a statement made by him at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sltjs-mmda-protest-and-un-islamic-abusive-criticism\/\">a protest on November 3 in Maligawatte<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, Razick\u2019s arrest comes just hours after Gnanasara issued an ultimatum to the police giving them a day\u2019s time to arrest Razick, or else he and his supporters will launch a blood bath from Maligawatte onwards. Gnanasara said that he will give the authorities one day\u2019s time, and if Razick is not arrested, then there will be a blood bath. \u201cWe will wait till tomorrow, if this \u2018dog\u2019 is not arrested, we will launch an attack. About 100 to 200 of our boys will die,\u201d he said, amidst loud cheering.<\/p>\n<p>He made this statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/police-arrests-saviour-of-the-sinhalese-who-threatened-to-bomb-muslims\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">after the Fort Police arrested a man by the name of \u2018Dan Priyasad\u2019<\/span><\/a> who calls himself the \u2018Saviour of the Sinhalese\u2019 and has been threatening to bomb Muslims in Sri Lanka. During a recent protest opposite the Fort Railway Station, a group of protestors, including Priyasad declared that they were ready to even carry out suicide bombings to eliminate Muslims in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>Razick has also been campaigning against moves to reform the controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Muslim+Marriage+and+Divorce+Act&amp;x=6&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act<\/span><\/a> (MMDA), and has been trying to justify and promote child marriages in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":96504,"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-170485","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 - 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