{"id":224272,"date":"2021-12-12T18:27:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T12:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=224272"},"modified":"2021-12-17T09:15:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T03:45:16","slug":"sellout-muslim-mps-helpless-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sellout-muslim-mps-helpless-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Sellout Muslim MPs & Helpless Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Latheef Farook<\/a> –<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Latheef Farook<\/p><\/div>\n

Muslims of all walks of life now begin to realize that they should stop voting for parties like the\u00a0Muslim Congress\u00a0while calling for overhauling the\u00a0All Ceylon Jamiathul Ulema, ACJU, to guide the community without compromising Islam.<\/p>\n

They\u00a0emphasize the need to join hands with Rev Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith to ensure\u00a0the Easter Sunday massacre masterminds\u00a0are brought to justice so that Muslim community\u2019s innocence too could be proved.<\/p>\n

Many believe\u00a0that the masterminds behind the Easter Sunday carnage also aimed at pitting Muslims against Christians and get them to\u00a0kill each other. Such a disaster was averted due to the timely interference of Cardinal Malcom Ranjith who said this was the work of handful of Muslim individuals and nothing to do with the Muslim community.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka, a shining example during the country\u2019s\u00a0independence in 1948 for the entire Third World for political and economic stability and communal harmony,\u00a0is\u00a0today one of the most mismanaged and corrupted countries on the verge of political collapse and economic bankruptcy. Racist politics since independence in 1948\u00a0was fully responsible for the current tragic plight.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the ethnic war, Muslims were fully behind the government. They also expected the government to learn lesson from the war, bring communities together and march forward for the common good of all. However learning no lesson,\u00a0racist politics turned against minority\u00a0Muslims\u00a0while opening the country to forces such as\u00a0India\u2019s BJP\u00a0and Israel -sworn enemies of Islam and Muslims.<\/p>\n

These forces care a damn for Sri Lanka in implementing their evil agendas.<\/p>\n

Persecution of Muslims\u00a0culminated in the violent attacks on Aluthgama, Dharga Town and Beruwala where Muslim properties and\u00a0even\u00a0mosques were burnt. In one of the most despicable acts they burnt copies of Holy Quran\u00a0and even urinated on them.\u00a0None was brought to justice so far.<\/p>\n

Persecution of Muslims continued under Maithri-Ranil government too with greater intensity and climaxed in the Easter Sunday massacre. Muslim community had nothing to do with it though demonized and subjected to violent attacks as planned.<\/p>\n

Demonization of Islam and Muslims and violence against them continued.<\/p>\n

This campaign\u00a0brought to power Sinhala Buddhist government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa by 6.9 million votes in August 2019.Since then the new government had introduced numerous measures\u00a0detrimental to Muslims.<\/p>\n

In the midst the government appointed a Muslim lawyer\u00a0Ali Sabry, as\u00a0minister of justice who\u00a0introduced the 20 Amendment to the constitution dismantling democracy and paving the way for Sinhala Buddhist dictatorship. The amendment was passed with the support of several\u00a0Muslim parliamentarians.\u00a0 The common view among the public was that they had\u00a0betrayed the voters who had elected them by voting for the 20 Amendment.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0government\u00a0used Justice Minister Ali Sabry to present the 20th<\/sup> Amendment and help create a Sinhala Buddhist dictatorship.<\/p>\n

In the midst comes reports of a special function inside the Dehiwela Mosque to commemorate Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa\u2019s birth anniversary which was addressed by Justice Minister Ali Sabry.<\/p>\n

Many Muslims were shocked, as mosques were not meant for political purposes. They pointed out that one has the\u00a0right to support any politician they like. However using Mosques, Allah\u2019s House, for political purpose\u00a0with banners triggered heated discussion in the electronic media with many condemning the All Ceylon Jamithul\u00a0Ulema and its controversial\u00a0leadership for allowing this.<\/p>\n

In a special video message Moulavi As Shaikh Imthiaz Yoosuf explained that Mosques should not be used for political activities associated with corruption, crime and injustice.<\/p>\n

It was a political gathering with banners inside the mosque. If Minister Ali Sabry who addressed\u00a0the gathering lived in the same planet where we live he should have known what happened to Muslims\u00a0in the country since the end of the ethnic war in May 2009.<\/p>\n

This was not the first time\u00a0as controversial Muslim businessmen and equally controversial ACJU chief organized a function marking\u00a0Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2019s first anniversary of\u00a0presidency at Colpetty Mosque.<\/p>\n

Recently\u00a0many Sinhalese pointed out in video interviews that they do not know anything about Islam. A Buddhist monk who participated in\u00a0what was described as flag hoisting ceremony at Daftar Jailani, Balangoda, stated what happens there is completely against Islamic teachings.<\/p>\n

Isn\u2019t this the work of ACJU which remains a oneman show for more than 22 years, committed blunder after blunder and failed to reach out to Sinhalese with the message of Islam.<\/p>\n

Such changes are essentials as powerful global Islamphobic forces which invade and destroy Muslim countries and slaughter millions of innocent Muslim while driving millions into refugee camps are here with their own evil agendas.\u00a0\u00a0It appears they have already done the damage to pit Sinhalese against Muslims using the racist media.<\/p>\n

However every passing day increasing number of Sinhalese, including enlightened monks, begin to realize the damage done to Muslims\u00a0and insist on the need to rectify this.<\/p>\n

Under such circumstance\u00a0Muslim community can\u2019t afford the luxury of entrusting their destiny to corrupted politicians and so called religious leaders.<\/p>\n

Muslim parliamentarians in the major parties such as Mujibur Rahman, Imthiaz Bakeer Markar, Kabir Hashim, S.M. Marikkar and Imran Mahroof are doing\u00a0a better job as members of national parties. It is time for Muslims to join them and leave the half a dozen Muslim congresses where there is no Islam and lost the confidence of the community.<\/p>\n

It is also time that the sleeping civil society wake up\u00a0and play a significant role in putting the house in order while joining\u00a0Sinhalese who consider this country belongs to Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslim and all others.<\/p>\n

Muslims in the island \u00a0 were here more than 1200 years and made their significant contributions in many fields under Sinhalese kings who were not racists. They have their own history though racist politics which entered the island after independence for power try to deny their existence<\/p>\n

In fact what racist elements failed to understand is that if not for the sufferings and sacrifices of the Muslim community Sri Lankan today would not have been one country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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