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Muslims’ peaceful response to vandalism at Dambulla Mosque

17 May 2012, 8:55 pm

Western provincial council member Mujibur Rahman-The only Muslim politician who participated in the demonstration

By Latheef Farook

Muslim community’s overall response to vandalism at the Dambulla mosque by a mob led by Ven Inamaluwa Sumangala Thero on Friday 20 April 2012 has been “calm and dignified”.

In one voice their message to the mainstream peace loving Sinhalese was “restore communal harmony”. This was the spontaneous response of the community long before what people described as “so called politicians and so called religious scholars” came to the scene. [click here to read in full ~ on dbsjeyaraj.com: Muslims' peaceful response to vandalism at Dambulla Mosque]

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Dambulla outrage: Manifestations of anti Muslim racism are going since 1975

17 May 2012, 7:04 pm

By Izeth Hussain

There has been much comment on the so-called Dambulla incident, which might have more appropriately been called the Dambulla outrage, not incident. In this article I want to focus on aspects that have not been brought out adequately, or not at all.

The incident is not unusual as seems to be assumed, but is part of a pattern of anti-Muslim action that has been going on since 1975. In that year there took place the Puttalam mosque massacre, the result of the shifting of a bus stand which was clearly meant to provide advantages to Sinhalese traders at the expense of Muslim ones.
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