AMENDMENTS 01 – WAKFS BOARD DIRECTIVES ON REOPENING MOSQUESWAKFS BOARD DIRECTIVES ON REOPENING MOSQUESIn keeping with the government decision to permit all places of worship to be open from 12.06.2020, the waqkfs board of Sri Lanka at its meeting held on 11.06.2020 has arrived at the following decisions1. To permit all mosques to be open for individual prayers from 12.06.2020 …
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Cremation or burial? The debate is likely to go on for a long time because the government of Sri Lanka is determined to maintain its stance of indiscriminately cremating all those who are believed to have died of Covid-19. The danger of such a discriminatory action has been clearly exposed in the case of the Muslim woman who was forcibly …
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A recent Health Ministry circular prohibiting medical practitioners from carrying out female circumcision has been condemned as an affront to Muslims who practice it. A circular issued by Dr.Anil Jasinghe, Director General of Health Services states that “any involvement in the procedure, be it conducting the procedure or encouraging it, is considered highly unethical and that all medical professionals are …
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– By Mass L. Usuf The Public Representations Committee on Constitutional Reform (PRCCR) appointed by the Cabinet of Ministers on the 22nd of December 2015, has released its Report with regard to the proposed Constitutional reform. The more than 300-page Report goes on to state that a study of the representations made by the public reflects a desire in the …
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The alliance between anti Muslim Sri Lankan racist outfit Bodu Bala Sena and Burma’s blood thirsty Buddhist Monk Ashin Wiruthu, responsible for slaughtering thousands of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, spells disaster for the island. This extremely dangerous alliance, brought together by their common hatred towards Islam and Muslims, perhaps trained and financed by their new found Israel and United States …
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NATIONAL UNITY SHOULD BE NATIONAL PRIORITY Dr Nath Amarakone , President of the Peoples Unity Movement addressing the Seminar held at OPA Center said that most developing countries are going through a phase of instability in getting adjusted to self rule. It is imperative that the rulers thrown up by the democratic process consider the need to promote national unity between communities to have …
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