Local Issues

The Secretariat for Muslims (SFM) would like to acknowledge the recent public statement by Tamil National Alliance M.P M.A. Sumanthiran made in early May at the meeting to commemorate the 36th death anniversary of S.J.V. Chelvanayagam held in Vantharumoolai, Batticaloa. Recognising the Expulsion of the Northern Muslims from the five districts of the North – Jaffna, Mannar, Vavuniya, Mulaitivu and Kilinochchi as …

It appears that the island’s Muslim community seems to have forgotten the threats to their very existence from the extremely dangerous small minority of Sinhala racist elements who do not in any way represent the mainstream majority Sinhalese community. As we know that the Jahtika Hela Urumaya, Bodu Bala Sena and Sinhala Ravaya combine’s recent short sighted and destructive provocations …

Political bankruptcy of Muslim parliamentarians was exposed by the Tamil National Alliance leader R Sampanthan and the TNA parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran when they raised the issue of growing disastrous hate Muslim campaign in the parliament. As it is well known that there has been a wave of well planned attacks on the political, religious, cultural, economic life of Muslims in …

Muslim MPs representing the community in the country’s parliament have created an utter disappointment for the entire community by their deafening silence plus by some MPs even shouting down MPs belonging to another minority community speaking on their behalf. It is highly laudable despite having their own grievances they elected to speak on behalf of the Muslim minority on what …

  Hundreds of articles have been written in all three languages during the past few months analysing from every possible angle the United States sponsored United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution against Sri Lanka on alleged human rights violations during the final days of the government’s war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam-LTTE.   However there was hardly …

  Buddhist priests should follow the teaching of Lord Buddha and act accordingly; they should not create disunity among communities but unite them and teach the lay people what is good and bad said Nugegoda Magistrate Ajith M. Marasinghe when the hearing regarding the attack on Fashionbug at Papiliyana was heard today (2nd). The Magistrate made these observations addressing the …