November, 2015

• 16 November

  Vacancy at National Shoora Council (NSC) : Post of Administrative Officer

  

  (1). Post of Administrative Officer (AO) :  The NSC is looking for a dynamic person who corresponds to the requirements below to the Position of Administrative Officer. Position: Administrative Officer (AO): Work Location : Colombo Qualifications: G.C.E A/L qualified (Preferably in English Medium)  Ability to read, write and speak fluently in English. Knowledge of Tamil or Sinhala is important Minimum …

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• 16 November

  Our terrorism double standard: After Paris, let’s stop blaming Muslims and take a hard look at ourselves

  

  We must mourn all victims. But until we look honestly at the violence we export, nothing will ever change BEN NORTON Any time there is an attack on civilians in the post-9/11 West, demagogues immediately blame it on Muslims. They frequently lack evidence, but depend on the blunt force of anti-Muslim bigotry to bolster their accusations. Actual evidence, on the …

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• 16 November

  French Muslim students responded to the Paris attacks with this video

  

  The Etudiants Musulmans de France, a nearly three-decade-old group representing thousands of Muslim students in France, called the Paris attackers anti-Islamic cowards, and pledged their solidarity to France in a moving video released on Nov. 15. “They think they are fighting Crusaders, and they invoke the Qur’an, and quote its verses. But shedding the blood of an innocent has no …

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• 11 November

  Sailan Muslim Foundation (SMF) expresses its condolences on the demise of the Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero.

  

  Sailan Muslim Foundation (SMF) expresses its condolences on the demise of the Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero.    Ven. Sobitha Thero was a key civil society figure in the defeat of populist authoritarianism. A national charismatic Icon and  a leading  figure behind the democratic changes which delivered Sri Lanka from a dictatorial and divisive rule. Thus, as the nation mourns the …

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• 10 November

  British PM Cameron rolls red carpet to Egypt’s murderous coup leader Al Sisi.

  

  Declared British policy for  century and half has been to crush Islam and democracy in Muslim countries by Latheef Farook :  British  hypocrisy was at full display in London this week  with British Prime Minister David Cameron rolling red carpet to the Egyptian coup leader Abdel Fattah Al Sisi who  toppled the  democratically elected Mohamed Morsi’s government and massacred more …

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• 9 November

  Most Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero; An Icon Of Excellence Is No More

  

  By Lukman Harees “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”- Eleanor Roosevelt Most Rev. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero , a national charismatic Icon and the fatherly figure behind the democratic changes which put Sri Lanka back into the map of civilized nations, is no more. Whether the changes ensued in the expected dose was a different …

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• 2 November

  Halal tourism going mainstream in the US and elsewhere

  

  ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – A rental company in Orlando, Florida, is offering “halal vacation homes” with curtained pool decks and rooms with prayer mats and copies of the Quran. A British company’s app lists gourmet restaurants serving halal meat in London and Dubai, while a Boston-based developer’s app offers travel guides for 90 cities with local prayer times …

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