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Well known yester year’s politician Mahmud Shamudeen Kariapper , popularly known as Gate Mudaliyar M.S. Kariapper, has been a legend who has contributed a great deal in uplifting the conditions of people in the East. Hailing from a leading Muslim family from the Eastern Provin­ce he entered politics to serve the people and the country. A leading intellectual from the …

LTTE suicide bomb attack at mosque in Godapitiya in Matara, at Milad-Un-Nabi ceremony. Bomb suspected to be on a motor cycle near the mosque, The death of the Suicide Blast in Akuressa has risen to 13 while 36 others were injured and admitted to the Matara and Karapitiya Hospital.

Muslim presence in the North dates back to eighth century. According to historians forefathers of present Muslims were present in the North of Sri Lanka as far back as the eight century.  Mannar and Jaffna are two places recorded in history. Muslims have been engaged in Trade and other vocation in the Jaffna area. They were settled in number of …

On  11 February 2009 The Morning Leader published a letter by Brian Jansz  of Pannipitiya describing even freedom struggle of Muslims as terrorism.It was a   deliberately misleading letter. Perhaps a  one panted by anti Muslims forces. I sent my response to the Editor,Morning Leader, who responding promptly asked me to forward  my response to the Editor-Sunday Leader. As requested my …

I would like to claim a historic status for my article Neo-Fascism and SL Muslims which appeared in the Lakbima News of December 28, 2008. This claim is not based on any immodest pretensions about the quality of that article. What I have in mind is that as far as my knowledge goes it was the first article published in …