Yearly Archives: 2009

Vocational training and Scholarships

Educational scholarships have helped many academically brilliant but needy students pursue their desire for a higher education. There are educational scholarships not just for the less-fortunate students but there are also scholarships that are offered as recognition of academic achievements. The educational scholarships given based on the academic performance are called merit-based scholarships and those based on the financial need …

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Sarandib – An Ethnological Study of the Muslims of Sri Lanka by Asiff Hussein

Sarandib: An Ethnological Study of the Muslims of Sri Lanka by Asiff Hussein is by far the most comprehensive work of its kind. It is the culmination of much research, inquiry and field studies on the society and culture of the country’s major Muslim groups, the Moors, Malays, Memons and other Muslims of Indian origin who though of different ethnic …

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Woman in Islam

The role of women in Islam has been misunderstood in the West because of general ignorance of the Islamic system and way of life as a whole, and because of the distortions of the media. The Muslim woman is accorded full spiritual and intellectual equality with man, and is encouraged to practice her religion and develop her intellectual faculties throughout …

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Youth Page

We welcome the youth of the Sri Lanka to our website! We invite you to see, read, and learn what young people like you are doing to make a difference in the world we live in! We are a group of young people from Sri Lanka, who have decided to make this world a better place. We are determined, enthusiastic, …

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Merciless Israeli Genocide of Palestinians

In the latest of US-Israeli war crime ,  on 27 Saturday  December 2008, Israel  using United States supplied latest weapons, F.16 warplanes and Apache helicopter gunships  dropped 100 tons of bombs  on 1.5 million  defenseless and starving Palestinians  and indiscriminately and mercilessly killed 220 Palestinian men, women, children and the aged and wounded hundreds .Israel arrogantly claimed that  this  is …

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Sri Lanka- A great friend of Palestinians

Sri Lanka has been in the forefront in supporting the just cause of Palestinians who were robbed of their land at gun points to establish a state for Jews who were brought in from Europe and the Middle East. This support was based on sheer conviction .In this regard the Island’s Muslim community and the mainly left political parties remained …

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