This is sheer madness. This is how one could describe the potentially disastrous hate campaign unleashed against the Island’s peaceful Muslim community by a handful of racist rabble rousers who are law unto themselves. Recently two Muslim payment hawkers were attacked by monks at Embilipitiya. Police, first refused to accept victims’ complaints, recorded them only after JVP intervention.  Then there …

“Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering” – Theodore Roosevelt. It is not so with nineteen year old Umar Azwer – an Amalian and an active member of Junior Chamber International (  Colombo Chapter ). History will record Umar Aswer  as the first Sri Lankan to win the prestigious JCI …

Essam al-Erian says all those who occupied Palestine ‘will have to return to their homelands,’ including Egypt A senior Egyptian official who also serves as an adviser to President Mohammed Morsi on Tuesday expressed the opinion that Israel would not be around in 10 years. The remark by Essam al-Erian, the deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice …

  Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr speaks during a press conference in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan 1, 2013. The anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr voiced support for Iraqi Sunni protesters who have been rallying against the country’s Shiite-dominated central government and said the demonstrators have the right to demonstrate as …