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Date Topic Venue Time Audience Sunday 31st May ‘The role of the Masjid in Islam’ Wellawatte Jummah Masjid 8 pm Gents Only Monday 1st June ‘The role of women in a modern society’ Madrasa Ayn, Elibank Road, Colombo 5 9 am Ladies Only Monday 1st June ‘Marriage and Family Life’ Miami Reception Hall Wellawatte 8 pm Ladies …
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Muslim Resistance to LTTE in East First Major Obstacle to Eelam, By By M. M. Zuhair, P.C. Former Member of Parliament
Muslims across the island joined in the national celebrations that marked the end of three decades of war, culminating in the liberation of the brutalized Tamils, Muslims, and Sinhalese of the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka. Indeed, the end of Velupillai Prabakaran, signifies the liberation of the entire country, nearly 504 years after the Portuguese invasion of Sri …
Read More »Hypocrisy unlimted By S.L.Gunasekara
In this Nov.. 18, 2008 file image reviewed by the U.S. Military, guards escort a Guantanamo detainee carrying a book at the Camp 4 detention facility at the U.S. Naval open air common area at the U.S. Military Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP) Can one visualize a greater violation of International Law, International Humanitarian Law and the most basic …
Read More »Obama Aide Puts Israel’s Nukes in the Diplomatic Mix By Helena Cobban
(IPS) – Last month in Prague, President Barack Obama vowed that he would seek a world without nuclear weapons. On Tuesday, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller spelled out that this policy would apply to Israel, as well. Speaking at a conference on the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Gottemoeller said that “Universal adherence to the NPT itself, including …
Read More »The Torture Paradigm By Noam Chomsky
Over the past 60 years, victims worldwide have endured the CIA’s “torture paradigm,” developed at a cost that reached $1 billion annually, according to historian Alfred McCoy in his book A Question of Torture. He shows how torture methods the CIA developed from the 1950s surfaced with little change in the infamous photos at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison. There is …
Read More »Civilians Pay Price of War from Above By Robert Fisk
“The Independent” — Of course there will be an inquiry. And in the meantime, we shall be told that all the dead Afghan civilians were being used as “human shields” by the Taliban and we shall say that we “deeply regret” innocent lives that were lost. But we shall say that it’s all the fault of the terrorists, not our …
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