{"id":178821,"date":"2017-06-18T10:19:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T04:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=178821"},"modified":"2017-06-22T17:57:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T12:27:44","slug":"mr-president-its-a-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/mr-president-its-a-b-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr President, It’s A B C !"},"content":{"rendered":"

By George Anton De Livera<\/a> –<\/b><\/p>\n

Mr President, please do get a brief from your hundreds of experts and advisors hanging around you (at a colossal cost to the tax payer) before you open your mouth. When you speak, you should speak responsibly and as a Head of State. This is applicable whether you address a global or local audience.<\/span><\/p>\n

Your statement that the Christians are lying about the 168 attacks on them this year shows your lack of understanding of the different religious persecutions that are a cancer in the country that you preside over. When dumb asses without their O\/L qualifications are elected to our Legislature, you can certainly be excused for your lack of knowledge of other religions, but there is no excuse when you do not consult your army of advisors.<\/span><\/p>\n

A respected lawyer with over 15 years of experience in handling hate crimes against his community and Muslims, Lakshan Dias<\/a> spoke out in the Derena TV programme ‘Aluth Parlimentuwa’ that there had been 168 cases of violence and threats to the Evangelical Christians by Buddhist extremists. He failed to mention that the Evangelical Christians had over 550 incidents during the last two years of the Rajapaksa regime. He also knew of the five hundred odd incidents against the Muslims during the Rajapaksa era and more than hundred during the Yahapalanaya rule. <\/span><\/p>\n

The President who hereto has not heard of the Christian community asks the head of the Catholic Church whether this claim made by a Christian activist in a TV show is authentic, little realising that the Catholic Church is accused of collusion with Buddhist extremists in perpetrating violence against the Christian Churches. There is no doubt that the Catholic Church provides unsanctioned support to Buddhist extremists to attack the evangelical Christians. And what do you expect from a suspected perpetrator, Cardinal Malcom Ranjith? A complaint to the Bishops conference is in order. (He shall be, by the way, answerable for his actions, words and intentions, when he meets his Lord! )<\/span><\/p>\n

Clip from Aluth Parlimentuwa – Derena TV:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n