{"id":79533,"date":"2013-03-29T10:15:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T10:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=79533"},"modified":"2013-04-06T11:18:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T11:18:30","slug":"video-evidence-bbs-encourages-violence-against-muslim-owned-fashion-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/video-evidence-bbs-encourages-violence-against-muslim-owned-fashion-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Evidence BBS Encourages Violence Against Muslim Owned Fashion Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks before large angry mobs attacked the warehouse of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Fashion+Bug&amp;x=9&amp;y=4\">Fashion Bug<\/a><\/span> clothing store in Pepiliyana on Thursday (28) night, the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Bodu+Bala+Sena&amp;x=12&amp;y=3\">Bodu Bala Sena<\/a><\/span> group launched a tirade of verbal abuse against the Muslim owned textile chain at a massive rally in Kandy.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_79536\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/video-evidence-bbs-encourages-violence-against-muslim-owned-fashion-bug\/galagodaatte-gnasara\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79536\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79536\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-79536\" title=\"Galagodaatte Gnasara\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Galagodaatte-Gnasara-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Galagodaatte-Gnasara-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Galagodaatte-Gnasara.jpg 642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-79536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galabodaaththe Gnanasara<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bodu Bala Sena General Secretary and vociferous hardline monk, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Galagoda+Atte+Gnanasara&amp;x=7&amp;y=6\">Galabodaaththe Gnanasara<\/a><\/span>\u00a0accused the clothing chains Fashion Bug and No Limit of forcibly converting Sinhalese women working at their stories into Islam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have all the proof and information about the Fashion Bug and No Limit outlets and what they are doing to your girl children! What harm have we done to the Muslims?\u201d Gnanasara Thero said.<\/p>\n<p>Reading from a list of names the BBS General Secretary said they were Sinhalese men and women who had gone to work at Fashion Bug and No Limit in Kandy and been converted to Islam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ask the big bosses at Fashion Bug and No Limit, is this true or not? They claim it\u2019s not true. Oh the poor little pussycats. We are not asking anyone to go and stone these places and attack them. Come and have discussions with us \u2013 let\u2019s solve this through discussion,\u201d the monk said angrily.<\/p>\n<p>He charged that nine Sinhalese girls were recently sacked from the Fashion Bug outlet in Kandy because a Manager at the store had begun having a relationship one of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarems are being created. Are we to sit back and allow this to happen? This is not extremism. We have to discuss these issues,\u201d he charged.<\/p>\n<p>The monk urged the crowd to refrain from permitting their daughters from going to work at these shops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHereafter we will only send our boys to work in these shops. They will no longer get our women!\u201d the monk raged.<\/p>\n<p>Gnanasara Thero accused the store owners of mistreatment of the Sinhalese men and women who are employed there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Fridays to go to the mosque, they close their shops for two hours. They switch off the lights and the air conditioning. Like broiler chickens in a coop, our boys and girls are left inside while they go to pray \u2013 they will go for hell for this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The monk called for these stores to be shut down on Poya Days to allow Buddhists working there to go to the temple too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not racism,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A mob numbering in the hundreds attacked the Fashion Bug warehouse on Thursday, causing extensive damage to property and personnel. The manager of the warehouse was hospitalized and journalists were attacked by the mob for filming the attack. Several monks were among the mob.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0E76Ivbw_I4&amp;feature=youtube_gdata_player<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=MA+Sumanthiran&amp;x=6&amp;y=7\">M A Sumanthiran<\/a><\/span> on attacks on\u00a0numerically minorities &#8211; Attacks on Muslims girls and Buddhists monk led attacks on Churches;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oQkWXDQovGQ<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Related posts;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"Video Evidence: Buddhist Monk Attacks Muslim Owns Fashion Bug\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/video-evidence-buddhist-monk-attacks-muslim-owns-fashion-bug\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Video Evidence: Buddhist Monk Attacks Muslim Owns Fashion Bug<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a title=\"Muslim Owns Fashion Bug Is Attacked By A Mob Led By Buddhist Monks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/muslim-owns-fashion-bug-is-attacked-by-a-mob-led-by-buddhist-monks\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Muslim Owns Fashion Bug Is Attacked By A Mob Led By Buddhist Monks<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":79536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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