Muslim Issues

“Impact” presenter Mishal Husain discussed the controversy over the decision to hold the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka. There are on-going concerns about the suitability of Sri Lanka as the venue for the meeting, raised by human rights organisations and the United Nations. Mishal was joined by Senator Hugh Segal, the Canadian government’s special envoy to the …

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 …

In the last week we have been following British and French’s desperate attempts to push for a military intervention in Syria. It is far from being a secret that both British and French government are dominated by the Jewish Lobby. In Britain it is the ultra Zionist CFI (Conservative Friends of Israel) – apparently 80% of  Britain’s conservative MPs are …

UNITED NATIONS, May 29 2013 (IPS) – When the United States invaded Iraq back in March 2003, one of its primary objectives was to track down and destroy weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) reportedly stockpiled by the regime of President Saddam Hussein. By its own definition – and by U.N. standards – the United States was frantically searching for WMDs constituting …

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 …

Qadir Sheikh, a landmine victim from Warsun in Kashmir, says that his handicap will mean no education for his two daughters. Credit: Athar Parvaiz/IPS UNITED NATIONS, May 26 2013 (IPS) – Slavery. Colonialism. Apartheid. Gender discrimination in voting. All were abolished in most places after longstanding battles – largely in bygone eras. Now a high-level panel is scheduled to meet next …