'Muslims of Sri Lanka - Under Siege'

"Latheef Farook"

This book is about the never ending 'Hate- Muslim'

campaign unleashed by a small group of Sinhala racists

 who fortunately do not enjoy the support of the vast majority of

 Sinhalese in the country.

 The writer is concerned that this campaign, unless brought to a

 halt, is likely to lead to a total breakdown in communal

 harmony to the detriment of the country which has

 just  emerged from a devastating ethnic war.

 This campaign began around four years ago, coincidentally or

 otherwise, with the ever increasing Israeli presence in the

 island. Today the Muslim community has become the victim of

 not merely highly offensive hate speeches but also subjected

 to attacks on mosques, religious schools, halal food,

 women’s dress code,

 slaughtered pigs thrown into mosque, burning and urinating

 on Holy Quran, forcing Muslim students to kneel down and

 worship Sinhalese teachers, writing Allah’s name on

 pig’s face and the list

 continues.

 These disgusting acts

 threaten the Muslims who live in fear with an uncertain future.

 This book of 46 chapters covers burning issues from the endless

 sufferings of the LTTE evicted Jaffna Muslims, ferocious

 Tsunami waves which snuffed

 out  hundreds of thousands of lives and left behind an

 unprecedented trail of

 horror, destruction of Muslim shrine in Anuradhapura to 

 many more and the attacks on the Muslims of Aluthgama,

 Dharga Town and

 Beruwala.

 The Aluthgama carnage caused

 death and destruction besides crippling Muslim economy

 turning happy families overnight to depend on charity for

 survival. This shows that no lesson has been learnt and the

 authority has remained blind to these despicable

 crimes.

 In the aftermath of the defeat of the LTTE in May 2009, all

 expected the

 government to attend to minority grievances, remove fears

 of the majority and bring communities together to move ahead

 in unity for a better future

 for all.  Instead minorities appear to have been

 written off and overall Sinhalization has been

 underway in full swing.

 The question is whether this

 country battered by three decades long ethnic war due to

 racist politics could afford to take the very same battered

 path which has all the ingredients to cause communal

 conflicts and tear apart the

country.

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