{"id":211418,"date":"2020-06-26T12:01:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T06:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=211418"},"modified":"2020-07-01T16:04:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T10:34:23","slug":"gnanasara-thero-once-again-inciting-sinhalese-against-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gnanasara-thero-once-again-inciting-sinhalese-against-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Gnanasara Thero Once Again Inciting Sinhalese Against Muslims \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>By <a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Latheef+Farook\">Latheef Farook<\/a> &#8211;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_157436\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Latheef-Farook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157436\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-157436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Latheef-Farook-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Latheef-Farook-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Latheef-Farook-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-157436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Latheef Farook<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Malicious campaign pushing discriminated and frustrated Muslims to wall<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Few weeks ago Ven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Galagoda+Atte+Gnanasara\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Galagoda Atte Gnanasara<\/span><\/a> Thero, known for inciting Sinhalese and unleashing violence against Muslims, said he would dissolve his organisation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Bodu+Bala+Sena\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Bodu Bala Sena<\/span><\/a> as it has achieved its target of setting up a Sinhala Buddhist government without minority support.<\/p>\n<p>Following the election of the present government to power on 15 November 2019, he was rather quiet. Now that the parliamentary election is forthcoming, he has started his campaign once again pitting the Sinhalese against Muslims.There were reports that during the presidential elections in November 2019 Buddhist monks and temples were used to demonize Muslims to win Sinhala votes assuring security.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this campaign to win Sinhala votes, he attempted to brand as extremist, several main stream Muslim Organisations and institutions numbering a colossal 42 including the prestigious Jaamia Naleemia Academy at Beruwala, the radiating centre of scholarly knowledge! A case of the \u2018black pot\u2019 calling the \u2018silver kettle\u2019, Black! This comes at a time when the island\u2019s Muslim community remains deeply wounded following a decade of unchecked anti-Muslim propaganda and violence.<\/p>\n<p>It is common knowledge that during the ethnic war Muslims also suffered only because they refused to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>support the LTTE can for the division of the country. The entire Muslim population in the North and North East were kicked out within hours by the LTTE .Their belongings were looted and they ended up in refugee camps only with Rs 150. In the East, Muslims were massacred in mosques, their lands grabbed and livelihood deprived by the LTTE.<\/p>\n<p>Once the war ended in May 2009, Muslims resumed their normal life.<\/p>\n<p>However their hopes were shattered when there began a wave of well-planned violent attacks. This campaign, began with the destruction of a 400 year old Muslim shrine in Anuradhapura, followed by attacks on Dambulla and other mosques. There were attacks on Muslim owned businesses, allegations that doctors were trying to sterilize women in government hospitals, pressurising Muslim children to kneel down and worship teachers, demonstrations carrying photos of pigs with Allah\u2019s name on it, arson attacks on Muslim owned textile and other outlets and shops, and a sinister campaign against Muslim women covering faces and wearing hijab. Attackers were widely known to be supported by Norwegian indoctrinated anti-Muslim monks and their side kicks.<\/p>\n<p>In many public meetings monks openly incited Sinhalese against Muslims and asked Sinhalese to boycott Muslim businesses. In Kurunegala, those who purchased from Muslims shops were attacked with rotten eggs. Of course these were the ugly works of a few extremists turned violent extremists.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s indifference and the indulgence of the police from taking offenders to task, drove terror into Muslims who spent sleepless nights.<\/p>\n<p>The situation was so precarious that Ven.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Galkande+Dhammananda&amp;x=7&amp;y=3\">Galkande Dhammananda<\/a> Thero,\u00a0a lecturer at Kelaniya University told that; \u201cpolitical and social problems need to be solved amicably through dialogue which as monks we have repeatedly failed from time of the independence. Now we are again on the eve of another round of violence. I fear any time a \u2018black July\u2019 will repeat and this time it is against Muslims\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>These hooligans are suspected to have been trained by Israel\u2019s intelligence agent Mossad and funded by Israel through Norway and their mission in New Delhi as part of its on-going global agenda against Islam and Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Time and again I wrote about the dangers of opening up the country to Israel and India\u2019s RSS fascists. Most Sri Lankan are not aware that Israel is a cruel entity planted by British and French imperial powers in the Middle-East and later joined by the US and former Soviet Union. The tribal aims of the RSS and its deceptive front Bharathiya Janatha Party are to persecute the Muslim population in India and turn India into a Hindu raj.<\/p>\n<p>Israel and RSS operate together to destabilize the region. When Sri Lanka opened the doors to these forces the two, as expected are working to split the unity of the Sinhalese and Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Muslims expected their parliamentarians to raise their problem. They refused fearing it would jeopardize their positions and perks. It was TNA parliamentarians R Sampanthan and Sumanthiran raised the agony the Muslim community.<\/p>\n<p>In the midst, presidential election was called for 5 December 2015. Presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena promising to ensure Muslims\u2019 safety, most Muslims voted for him. However dashing all hopes anti-Muslim violence continued under Maithri Ranil government with senseless attacks on Muslims in Gintota followed by Digana, Akurana and Amparai.<\/p>\n<p>These attacks climaxed in the Easter Sunday massacre involving a few Muslim lunatics carefully screened and selected, funded by the plotters to put blame on the entire Muslim community, demonize and unleash violence against them. Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith has blamed foreign hands behind the Easter Sunday attacks executed\u00a0 by a handful of radicalized Muslim youths.<\/p>\n<p>Muslim community has nothing to do with this carnage. The authorities were informed of the bombings by several Muslim organizations and individuals providing names of the individuals involved. It was the then government that failed to act. Muslims paid the price. Innocent Muslims are continuing to be harassed and some persecuted.<\/p>\n<p>Not only hospital security but even shops and super markets forced Muslim women to remove face covers and traditional shawls besides other atrocities. Security forces entered Mosques with their boots on marching in with snifer dogs.<\/p>\n<p>If we are to go by\u00a0 Professor Rajan Hoole\u2019s book \u201cSri Lanka\u2019s Easter Tragedy-WHEN THE DEEP STATE GETS OUT OF ITS DEPTH\u201d the ultimate target is to demonize and deprive Muslims of their rights and turn them into a state of stateless people as the government did\u00a0 in 1948 to estate workers of Indian origin in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>And now comes the multi-faceted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=anti-Muslim\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">anti-Muslim campaign<\/span><\/a> using Gnanasara Thero to demonize and terrorize Muslims.\u00a0Recently he described Naleemiya Institute as preaching extremism and described great respected Islamic scholar Yousuf Qarlawi as preaching hatred.<\/p>\n<p>These allegations were deliberate distortions aimed at poisoning Sinhalese minds. A statement issued by the Egyptian diplomatic mission in Colombo also described Yousef Qarlawi as a heat preacher and Islamic Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Zionist language spoken by the diplomatic mission of the regime in Egypt in Colombo, a regime which was installed in power, after toppling the first ever democratically elected government of President Muhammed Morsi .President Morsi\u2019s government was forcibly crushed and toppled by the present Egyptian dictator. He was detained in solitary confinement under miserable conditions in prison where the peoples\u2019 president died while the military might was used all throughout to subjugate the heroic people of Egypt who threw out earlier on Hosni Mubarak, another in the long line of Egyptian dictators, surviving on the US-Israeli military axis.<\/p>\n<p>One should not forget the Israelis openly admitted that they got their shameless Saudi, Abu Dhabi and Kuwaiti stooges to spend eleven billion dollars to create artificial shortages of food and fuel to justify a military coup, killing thousands of innocent Morsi\u2019s supporters, some inside mosques, to topple Morsi\u2019s democratic government.<\/p>\n<p>Thus one cannot expect any good word for Qarlawi or Hassanul Banna\u2019s Muslim Brotherhood from plotters and killers and their diplomatic missions.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the current wave of anti-Muslim campaign to win Sinhala votes is certainly not in the interest of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The island\u2019s Muslim community, was described by former Chief Justice Sarah N Silva as the most peaceful of the three communities. Reiterating this former Chief of Staff, Admiral R. Wijeguneratne\u00a0 said\u00a0 during the meeting of Cabinet of ministers to discuss the arson attacks on the Muslim community in Teldeniya, Kandy and \u00a0Ampara by organised gang of Sinhalese extremists that the Muslims did not deserve to be treated in such a manner that\u201d we are \u201calive today because of brave Muslim officers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Corrupt Muslim politicians and sell out self-declared religious leaders do not represent the Muslim community. Sandwiched between these two forces and the ongoing anti-Muslim campaign Muslim community remains helpless and voiceless.<\/p>\n<p>They are very angry at racist politics and their media associating violence with Islam and Muslims. The refusal to allow Muslim corona victims a decent burial, despatching a high powered task force to Pottuvil where Muslims lands were forcefully surveyed in the presence of the armed forces have caused deep concern among Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Thus marginalising a community as a whole is not a healthy sign for the future of a nation which is multi-racial, multi religious, multi lingual and multi-cultural. Country is in deep economic trouble. Ethnic and racist politics will convert the country into a fools\u2019 paradise!<\/p>\n<p>It is also worthy to note that fighting against injustice and insults is an obligation on all Muslims. Under such circumstance continuing malicious campaign demonising them is certainly not going to serve the country.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all the death, destruction and sufferings during the past few decades due to racist politics, average Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims and all others wanted to live in peace and harmony as did for centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka was a shining example for political and economic stability, communal harmony and peace during the time of independence in 1948. Unfortunately racist politics turned the island today into one of the most mismanaged countries facing political instability, collapsing economy and communities divided to the detriment of all.<\/p>\n<p>The irony is this happens at a time when the corona virus which has devastated the world is also playing havoc with downturn in economy, people losing jobs, salary cuts and many such issues which have all the ingredients to devastate the deeply debt ridden country.<\/p>\n<p>Isn\u2019t it time to resist this re-introduced anti-Muslim campaign?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":130996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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