Sunday, April 22, 2012

COLOMBO Mosque to be Destroyed by Buddihists in Siri Lanca

أمرت الحكومة السريلانكية بإزالة مسجد فى وسط البلاد ، وذلك فى أعقاب قيام حشد من البوذيين بمحاولة لاقتحامه.
وأوضح تليفزيون (بى بى سى) البريطانى - الذى أورد النبأ اليوم - أن هذا الأمر يأتى بعد يومين من قيام رهبان بوذيين بقيادة حشد لمحاولة اقتحام المسجد الكائن فى منطقة (دامبولا) الواقعة وسط سريلانكا ، وأن الحكومة تقول إن المنطقة التى يوجد بها المسجد مقدسة بالنسبة للبوذيين الذين يشكلون أغلبية فى هذه البلاد.
ومن جانبه ، ذكر رئيس الوزراء السريلانكى دى إم جاياراتن أنه صدر أمر بنقل المسجد إلى جزء آخر من المنطقة.
وتفيد التقارير بأن هذا الحادث أثار غضبا شديدا بين كبار السياسيين المسلمين فى سريلانكا.
وأشار التليفزيون إلى أن الرهبان البوذيين فى وسط سريلانكا كانوا قد هددوا بأنهم سيهدمون هذا المسجد خلال الأسبوع القادم إذا لم تبادر السلطات بالقيام بهدمه.

COLOMBO The Sri Lankan government ordered a mosque relocated on Sunday after Buddhist monks said the 50-year-old structure had been built illegally in an area sacred to Buddhists and threatened to demolish it.
The monks in the island nation's central town of Dambulla protested against the mosque on Friday, stopping the Islamic prayers, and threatened violence if it was not removed.
They also have asked that a Hindu temple in the area be removed.
"Following a discussion with the relevant parties, the Prime Minister has ordered the disputed mosque moved to a suitable location as soon as possible," Sisira Wijesinghe, media secretary to Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne, told Reuters.
He said several Muslim ministers took part in the discussion, a claim rejected by Muslim political leaders.
"It is a false statement and there was no discussion on this and we don't agree with the mosque relocation," A.H.M. Fowzie, a senior Muslim cabinet minister, told Reuters.
Muslims living in the area told Reuters that the mosque has existed since 1962 and regular prayers have been conducted for the past three decades.
Buddhist monks, however, said the government mistakenly had allowed the mosque to be expanded recently, despite a 1982 state regulation declaring the area sacred for Buddhism.
Constitutionally, Buddhism is the main religion in Sri Lanka, ahead of Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity, and the Buddhists make up around 70 percent of the population.
Analysts say successive governments have been under pressure to give in to the majority whenever there is an ethnic clash.
Sri Lanka saw a 25-year civil war between the government's military and Tamil Tiger rebels, who fought for a separate state for the Tamil minority, claiming their rights were discriminated against by successive Sinhala-majority governments.
اقرأ المقال الأصلي علي بوابة الوفد الاليكترونية الوفد - سريلانكا تزيل مسجداً بعد محاولة بوذيين اقتحامه

http://news.yahoo.com/sri-lanka-orders-mosque-move-buddhist-protest-191541764.html


Mosque in Anuradhapura destroyed by the members of Buddhist organization

The Mosque located near the tomb of King Duttakaimunu in Anuradhapura was destroyed by the members of genocide Buddhist organization.
Members of the Sinhala Ravaya National Organization, Security Council of Buddhism, Dhama Vijaya Council and some of the Buddhist monks have engaged in this illegal activity.
According to the sources, Inspector General of the Police and the other police officers fail to take action against this activity.
However since end of the war between LTTE in 2009 most of the religious places of the minority people have been destroyed by the majority, in the same time it was blame present government was fail to take action against this illegal activity.

Sri Lanka's government has ordered the removal of a mosque from an area it says is sacred to the country's majority Buddhists.

The order comes two days after Buddhist monks led a crowd trying to storm the mosque in the central town of Dambulla.

Prime Minister DM Jayaratne says the mosque has simply been ordered to relocate to another part of the area.

But the incident has angered senior Muslim politicians.

The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says this statement by the prime minister appears to have been issued in a hurry, a day before the various parties to this religious dispute were due to meet.

Buddhist monks in central Sri Lanka had threatened to demolish the mosque next week if the authorities did not act first. A special meeting to discuss the issue appears to have been convened on Sunday, and this statement was produced.

The statement listed four prominent Muslims as present at Sunday's meeting agreeing to relocate the mosque - but according to a weekly Muslim paper, three of them say they were not there.

Cabinet minister AHM Fowzie told the BBC he had not been to such a gathering. He added that it would be acceptable to request such a relocation but not to order it.

Another politician of the governing party, Azath Sally, said that even if the mosque were illegal, people opposed to it should not "act like thugs".

"Do Tamils and Muslims not have a right to live in this country now?" he added.

Mr Jayaratne, who is also responsible for the affairs of the country's majority Buddhists, said he had ordered the mosque to be removed from a sacred area in Dambulla and that it could be relocated to "a suitable place in the neighbourhood".

He described it as a mosque which is in the process of being built and local Buddhists have reportedly said that a previously small structure is now being illegally expanded.

The chief of the mosque told the BBC Tamil service the building was legal and was simply being refurbished.

Our correspondent says that whereas Sri Lanka's Muslim community normally shies away from confrontations with the government, this incident has angered some senior Muslims and prompted them to speak out.
Posted in the Sri Lanka Forum