Buddhists target Sri Lanka's Muslims

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Sri Lanka crowd attacks Muslim warehouse in Colombo

Sri Lanka crowd attacks Muslim warehouse in Colombo

Five or six people were injured including a cameraman who needed stitches
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The hardline Buddhists targeting Sri Lanka's Muslims
Several people have been injured in Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, when Buddhist monks led hundreds in an assault on a Muslim-owned clothing warehouse.

Buddhist monks were filmed throwing stones at the storage centre of popular garment chain Fashion Bug in a suburb of the capital on Thursday night.

Police told AFP news agency that forces had been deployed to guard the area.

The attack comes as hard-line Buddhist groups step up a campaign against the lifestyles of Muslims.

The development comes four years after the army in the mainly Sinhalese Buddhist country defeated Tamil separatists.

During Sri Lanka's bitter civil war the Muslims - a small Tamil-speaking minority, about 9% of the population - kept a low profile, but many now fear that ethnic majority hard-liners are trying to target them.

The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo said the monks led a crowd which quickly swelled to about 500, yelling insults against the shop's Muslim owners and rounding on journalists seeking to cover the events.

Five or six were injured, including a cameraman who needed stitches.

Eyewitnesses said the police stood and watched although after the trouble spread they brought it under control.

"We have deployed extra units of STR (Special Task Force commandos) and police to guard the area," police spokesman Buddhika Siriwardena told the Agence France-Presse news agency.

"The situation was brought under control within a few hours," he said, adding that no arrests had been made.

Television footage showed broken glass and clothing from the warehouse strewn in the street.

Hard-line Buddhist groups led by monks also sent around a text this week urging people to boycott Muslim shops when stocking up for the forthcoming Sri Lankan New Year festival.

After some Muslim groups called a strike in protest against a growing Buddhist campaign against their lifestyle, including halal food classification, a hard-line Buddhist party in the governing coalition issued a statement saying: "Sinhalese Buddhists should be determined to teach such Muslim extremists a lesson that they will never forget".

The assault comes a day after police set up a hot-line to tackle complaints about anyone "inciting religious or racial hatred hatred".

BBC News - Sri Lanka crowd attacks Muslim warehouse in Colombo

 

[anonymus]

@Vinod2070

Could you post the whole debate.I want to know the reaction of Anchor (seems like an ummah troll by facial expression) after being berated so badly.

 

[Silverblaze]

What is the point of this post? You said



So can you CLEARLY tell me what is this 'something else' that Dar-ul-harb should be doing (and would be doing)? Please stay to the point...



Thats when there is an active persecution going on...like Jews in Nazi Germany..

Global Islamic Immigration is spreading/strengthening the global Islamic influence/Presence....so its good.

Mashallah today, Islam is present in literally EVERY single nation on Earth! You see so many girls in Hijabs in US university campuses..they have halal food trucks...Dinning Commons of many universities serve falafel, hummus, lamb etc...

Universities like Harvard have complete courses on Islamic Law....Islamic Law is used as parallel legal system in family cases in UK... Global Halal industry is worth in trillions of dollars and growing...

"Islamification" is the only equal to "Westernization" in the world.

Islamic Culture and Western Culture are the ONLY two "global" cultures and both are "spreading" .....

Two greatest giants humanity has ever seen...

Just today its out in Washington Times ...see this

Cadbury to Muslims: Our candy is sharia-compliant - Washington Times

So Islamic Immigration is a good thing..We Muslims aren't like some others who become 'wanna-be' westerners..We keep our culture and spread it even farther...

(BTW, Turkey is funding the largest Mosque in Europe as we speak...It will be completed in 2014...)

New Islamic Scholarship is rising from the West, Mashallah...

Now on a very serious note : Trolling aside, Muslims have NO problem in living under secular laws--as long as these laws don't interfere with Islamic way of life...If there is law that Muslim kids will HAVE TO eat pork in high schools, you'll see resistance..but it aint happening..So we don't care what our other brothers in humanity do...So please stop your bs ...

Unfortunately, some of your points do not seem to make sense. You seem happy as in your opinion Islam is spreading.
Well, isn't it Islamic imperialism then? And the kind of anti muslim sentiments in the world, is this a good thing?

You mentioned that muslims have no problem living in secular countries. Why then many demand Sharia?

Actually in orthodox Islam, you cannot move to a place that does not recognize the sovereignty of Allah. Western countries do not recognize Allah's sovereignty. So, this islamic culture is actually like an ordinary way of life.

Before, 9/11, no one really cared about muslim way of life. Now its seen as an imposition. And thanks to US media, anti islam mood became stronger.

Now westerners ask, are minorities of muslim countries enjoy privileges as muslims enjoy in the west.

 

[KRAIT]

Well I am little confused here. Will OIC take a stand against Sri Lanka ? Will there be a resolution for Muslims of Sri Lanka ?

If this had happened in India, few nations would have gone all guns blazing. And they were also commenting on Indian Tamils protest against Sinhalese on killings of Tamils in SL.

 

[AUz]

Unfortunately, some of your points do not seem to make sense. You seem happy as in your opinion Islam is spreading.
Well, isn't it Islamic imperialism then? And the kind of anti muslim sentiments in the world, is this a good thing?

You mentioned that muslims have no problem living in secular countries. Why then many demand Sharia?

Actually in orthodox Islam, you cannot move to a place that does not recognize the sovereignty of Allah. Western countries do not recognize Allah's sovereignty. So, this islamic culture is actually like an ordinary way of life.

Before, 9/11, no one really cared about muslim way of life. Now its seen as an imposition. And thanks to US media, anti islam mood became stronger.

Now westerners ask, are minorities of muslim countries enjoy privileges as muslims enjoy in the west.

I was just trolling with the poor indian chap who took my bait.

You seem like a new guy (well relatively!)...

You probably don't know me...Ask indians here

Don't take my trolls seriously...

Well I am little confused here. Will OIC take a stand against Sri Lanka ? Will there be a resolution for Muslims of Sri Lanka ?

If this had happened in India, few nations would have gone all guns blazing. And they were also commenting on Indian Tamils protest against Sinhalese on killings of Tamils in SL.

OIC sucks b@lls...

Its existence is even more useless than the existence of U.N ....

 

[manlion]

Sri Lanka crowd attacks Muslim warehouse in Colombo

Several people have been injured in Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, when Buddhist monks led hundreds in an assault on a Muslim-owned clothing warehouse.

Buddhist monks were filmed throwing stones at the storage centre of popular garment chain Fashion Bug in a suburb of the capital on Thursday night.

Police told AFP news agency that forces had been deployed to guard the area.

The attack comes as hard-line Buddhist groups step up a campaign against the lifestyles of Muslims.

The development comes four years after the army in the mainly Sinhalese Buddhist country defeated Tamil separatists.

During Sri Lanka's bitter civil war the Muslims - a small Tamil-speaking minority, about 9% of the population - kept a low profile, but many now fear that ethnic majority hard-liners are trying to target them.

The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo said the monks led a crowd which quickly swelled to about 500, yelling insults against the shop's Muslim owners and rounding on journalists seeking to cover the events.

Five or six were injured, including a cameraman who needed stitches.

Eyewitnesses said the police stood and watched although after the trouble spread they brought it under control.

"We have deployed extra units of STR (Special Task Force commandos) and police to guard the area," police spokesman Buddhika Siriwardena told the Agence France-Presse news agency.

"The situation was brought under control within a few hours," he said, adding that no arrests had been made.

Television footage showed broken glass and clothing from the warehouse strewn in the street.

Hard-line Buddhist groups led by monks also sent around a text this week urging people to boycott Muslim shops when stocking up for the forthcoming Sri Lankan New Year festival.

After some Muslim groups called a strike in protest against a growing Buddhist campaign against their lifestyle, including halal food classification, a hard-line Buddhist party in the governing coalition issued a statement saying: "Sinhalese Buddhists should be determined to teach such Muslim extremists a lesson that they will never forget".

The assault comes a day after police set up a hot-line to tackle complaints about anyone "inciting religious or racial hatred hatred".

 

[Vinod2070]

I was just trolling with the poor indian chap who took my bait.

You seem like a new guy (well relatively!)...

You probably don't know me...Ask indians here

More like used the bait.

To drive the point home.

Don't take my trolls seriously...

Don't worry on that count.

 

[Vinod2070]

@Vinod2070

Could you post the whole debate.I want to know the reaction of Anchor (seems like an ummah troll by facial expression) after being berated so badly.

Mate, I don't really have a link for the full debate but there are several videos on Youtube where this guy and several others make the same point.

There are reasonable people in every society, who can see the reality that most want to deny.

 

[doublemaster]

Please watch the video. The monks are complaining of activities like "trying to convert the Sinhalis", "building too many mosques" etc. Some of these activities could be quite provocative depending on the context.

Why these should be problem? As long as it is legal? Isnt buddism allows conversions?
Why are you so desperate to search if and buts to support their crime?

 

[Vinod2070]

Why these should be problem? As long as it is legal? Isnt buddism allows conversions?
Why are you so desperate to search if and buts to support their crime?

But Islam doesn't! They prescribe death for apostasy.

Why demand from others what you can't give yourself?

 

[hussain0216]

This is why ive never had issues with Let, jhangvi types, yes they are cruel and ruthless to non muslims

But so what, look whats happening in Sl or burma

The next time let or al qaeda or any other nut ball decides to bomb or kidnap some hindus or burn some buddists, why should we care, why should we speak out

We need revenge against the buddists

 

[scorpionx]

This is why ive never had issues with Let, jhangvi types, yes they are cruel and ruthless to non muslims

But so what, look whats happening in Sl or burma

The next time let or al qaeda or any other nut ball decides to bomb or kidnap some hindus or burn some buddists, why should we care, why should we speak out

We need revenge against the buddists

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

We need revenge against the buddists

Why?

 

[Vinod2070]

This is why ive never had issues with Let, jhangvi types, yes they are cruel and ruthless to non muslims

But so what, look whats happening in Sl or burma

The next time let or al qaeda or any other nut ball decides to bomb or kidnap some hindus or burn some buddists, why should we care, why should we speak out

You are living in a non Muslim country.

We need revenge against the buddists

So what are you going to do about it?

 

[priti]

This is why ive never had issues with Let, jhangvi types, yes they are cruel and ruthless to non muslims

But so what, look whats happening in Sl or burma

The next time let or al qaeda or any other nut ball decides to bomb or kidnap some hindus, or burn some buddistswhy should we care, why should we speak out

We need revenge against the buddists

you guys have already done that in paksitan for last 65 years. and no one spoke out.
why do you need revenge against buddhists? first dinish taking revenge against israelis. dont keep getting distracted.