“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
The other day I posted a video by Choudary’s group, ‘need for caliphate’ staging a mock-outrage demo about persecution of muslims in south Asia.
The interview below gives a better picture of the region.
In the comments below this video at Youtube, Wrath of Khan was kind enough to post the following comment:
(I would be interested in seeing any BBC coverage of the massive and lethal attack on Hindus yesterday in Kashmir, or recently when Muslims in Bangladesh destroyed Buddhist temples etc. Any links appreciated)
H/T M
Aug 10 2013
Police were drafted into the area to quell unrest after the attack
A Buddhist mob has attacked a mosque in the Grandpass area of the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, leaving at least five people injured.
Buddhists and Muslims clashed after the attack, and police imposed a curfew in the area.
Details are now emerging of a top cop approaching two senior Muslim Ministers last afternoon (10 August) to request them to close the new makeshift mosque in Grandpass until after the end of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting scheduled to take place in Colombo in November, Colombo Telegraph learns.
DIG Anura Senanayeke
Western Province Senior DIG Anura Senanayeke had made the request although the motive of the senior police official is not clear. CLICK TO STORY:
August 10, 2013 | Filed under: Colombo Telegraph,News,STORIES | Posted by: COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH
Police curfew imposed in the Grandpass area until 7 am tomorrow after two groups clashed in the area following an attack on a Muslim prayer centre in the area.
Armed forces have been deployed in Grandpass after a well known masjid or Muslim prayer centre in the area was attacked this evening.
(Damn you have to love those Buddhists!)
Residents say the temple bells in the nearby Buddhist temple rang out before the Grandpass Muslim Prayer Centre attack took place this evening. The residents said the crowd of about 10 monks and at least 50 people gathered at the temple. Ravana Balaya has denied involvement in the attack and residents claim many of the monks were from the area temple.Upto five people injured including two policemen so far.
The Ravana Balaya group called for its relocation within one month. Security forces personnel have now been stationed around the mosque to assist the police to keep calm.
Armed forces have been deployed in Grandpass after a well known masjid or Muslim prayer centrein the area was attacked a short while ago. Upto five people injured including two policemen so far, according to reports onsite.
Sihala Ravaya exchanging words with members of the Muslim community in Grandpass last week.
According to eyewitnesses about 10 Buddhist monks suspected to be from the Ravana Balaya group, allegedly attacked the mosque despite the police guard.
The area remains tense after a few houses were also attacked on the Swarna Chaitya road in Grandpass where the mosque is situated.
The attack took place soon after Maghrib or evening prayers, sources told Colombo Telegraph.
The Ravana Balaya group called for its relocation within one month. Security forces personnel have now been stationed around the mosque to assist the police to keep calm.
While the BBC is busy calling rape victims Nazis for defending themselves, at least the Sri Lankan media is bothering to offer an explanation for these events.
By Raisa Wickrematunge
Clothes from the store were strewn on the ground and The mob shattered glass, and Army personnel were deployed to defuse the tension
This week saw a storm of controversy as Pepiliyana was struck by a couple of attacks on Thursday (28) night.
The Emerald Trading Company was subject to a sudden arson attack when a domestic matter spiraled out of control. Emerald Trading, which is a car salesroom, is owned by partners Murshid Sadun and Amjad Sathik – who also happens to be a captain at the national carrier Sri Lankan Airlines.
A domestic issue had arisen regarding one of Emerald Trading’s employees, a Muslim boy, who had been in a relationship with a Sinhalese girl. The issue was quickly resolved. However, the girl’s father had complained to a monk about the issue. Following the complaint, an eye-witness saw a monk leaving one of the temples in Pepiliyana followed by a group of youths, mostly under 25 of age. The group carried stones and, people were later to discover, kerosene.
[…] love affair between a youth and an underage girl had been the reason for the attack on this reputed textile store in Pepiliyana. A violent group attacked and pelted stones at the popular clothing store causing severe damage to the premises and merchandise.
SDAMATT
VIdeo on rape of Pakistani ‘aid workers’ on way to Gazania
H/T Wrath of Khan
The BBC’s Charles Haviland says the police reportedly stood by as Buddhist monks attacked a Muslim shop
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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 government’s Minister for Justice Rauff Hakeem, himself a Muslim, urged the prime minister to call an urgent cabinet meeting to discuss the security of Muslims following these attacks.
From People of Shambhala.
The predominantly Buddhist nation of Sri Lanka has ordered a group of 161 foreign Muslim clerics to leave the country.
The clerics, of Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indian, Maldivian and Arab backgrounds, are allegedly part of the extremist Tabligh Jamat sect. They travelled to the country in small groups last month, presumably to avoid arousing suspicion.
Chulananda Perera, Controller of Immigration and Emigration for Sri Lanka, says that he received several complaints from Sri Lanka’s Muslim community, who claimed that the clerics were practicing an… read more.