{"id":188084,"date":"2018-03-02T04:52:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T23:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=188084"},"modified":"2018-03-05T04:35:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T23:05:13","slug":"wanda-pethi-my-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wanda-pethi-my-foot\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wanda Pethi\u2019\u00a0My Foot! \u00a0 \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0<\/span>Mass L. Usuf<\/a> –<\/b><\/p>\n

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Mass Usuf<\/p><\/div>\n

How many of the Sinhalese people can be fooled?\u00a0 <\/span>I have to deliberately mention Sinhalese because the fictional \u2018victims\u2019 are the Sinhalese people. \u2018Victims\u2019 of what? The \u2018victims\u2019 of \u2018wanda pethi\u2019.\u00a0<\/span>Victimised by whom?\u00a0<\/span>By the Muslims who are targeting the Sinhalese by mixing \u2018Wanda Pethi\u2019 (tablets to make a woman barren) in the food that they eat.\u00a0<\/span>The alleged objective is to reduce the Sinhala population while increasing the Muslim population so that Sharia law can be introduced in Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n

Foolishness sometimes comes out of innocence and that can be understood.\u00a0<\/span>However, foolishness arising from gullibility conditioned by prejudice is unpardonable.\u00a0<\/span>Especially, when such tomfoolery paradoxically, are from the educated lot.<\/span><\/p>\n

New Discovery<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Eureka! It seems that the Muslim Hotels and Muslim Garment outlets in Sri Lanka have discovered what the advanced medical scientists of the developed world has not; That is, a tablet by which a woman can be made barren.\u00a0<\/span>Many Sinhalese people including many monks have fallen hook, line and sinker to these absurd lies.\u00a0<\/span>In Ampara<\/a>, on 27<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> February, a Muslim hotel was attacked by a Sinhalese mob over the allegation that they were mixing these tablets with food served to the Sinhalese customers. The customers in this instance were men and the food served obviously would have been consumed by them.\u00a0<\/span>One wonders how could the women become barren through this. Sounds illogical and unscientific.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reportedly at least five people were wounded and several shops and a mosque damaged.\u00a0<\/span>A video clip where the cashier admits<\/a> that he had mixed the tablets has gone viral.\u00a0<\/span>The fact is that the video recording had been done under coercion and the cashier who is not fluent in his Sinhala does not even know what \u2018wanda pethi\u2019 is.\u00a0<\/span>In a later recorded clip the Cashier explained what had happened.\u00a0<\/span>He said that he had nodded his head in admission that the hotel used to mix chick peas flour to thicken the gravy. It was after he was told by his friends at the Police Station that the issue is about mixing some tablets in food which causes infertility that he realised what all this was about. <\/span><\/p>\n