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Shouldn’t hate speech be banned? By RMB Samaranayke

The Island 06/03/13

Recently, some persons, including some Buddhist monks, carried out a hate campaign against members of the Muslim community through public meetings and on the Internet. Several mosques have also been attacked and some Muslim traders have been targeted by unruly crowds calling upon them to close their businesses.

Should such hate speech be banned in a democracy? Liberals oppose any ban on freedom of   speech. They not only uphold the right of free speech but say that trying to stamp out hate speech curtails the debate that would ultimately discredit such speech. This is the viewpoint in the western democracies. Although freedom of expression is very important there’s a fine line where our beliefs and opinions may offend others who belong to a different group. Hate speech is not as it were an intellectual debate or discussion but speech specifically directed at inciting people to violence against a particular group of people.

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March 6, 2013

ACJU/NGS/044/2013

ஊடக அறிக்கை

சகல இனங்களும் ஐக்கியத்தோடும், புரிந்துணர்வோடும் வாழப் பிரார்த்திப்போம்.

அண்மைக் காலமாக நாட்டில் ஏற்பட்டு வருகின்ற அசாதாரண நிலைமைகள் காரணமாக முஸ்லிம்கள் மத்தியில் பீதியும், அச்சமும் அதிகரித்து வருகின்றது.

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මෑත කාලීන මුස්ලිම් විරෝධී ප‍්‍රචාරක කාර්යය පිටුපස ඇති යථාර්තය..!

ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ සිංහල බෞද්ධ සහෘදයන්ට පණිවුඩයක් !!

ආචාර්ය මසිහුදීන් ඉනාමුල්ලාහ්

මුස්ලිම් පල්ලි සහ ඓතිහාසික  වටිනාකමක් ඇති දර්හාස් කෙරෙහි දක්වන විරෝධතාවන් ආකාරයෙන් දිවයිනේ බොහෝ ප‍්‍රදේශ වල පවතින මෑතකාලීන මුස්ලිම් විරෝධතා ව්‍යාපාරය දිවයිනේ මුස්ලිම් ජනයා අතර යම් ආකාරයක මානසික බියක් හා අවිනිශ්චිතතාවයක් ඇති කර ඇත.

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The Department of Registration of Persons will make it compulsory for every adult to renew his or her national identity card every ten years to prevent misuse and facilitate easier identification, a senior official said.

Department of Registration of Persons Commissioner General R.M.S. Sarath Kumara said the department would be able to issue an electronic NIC on par with international standards containing the biometric data of the card holder.

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“Operation Dematagoda” by Bodhu Bala Sena Against Muslims in Meat Trade Ends in a Fiasco

By D.B.S.Jeyaraj

A calculated propaganda stunt engineered by the Sri Lankan Ethno-Religious Fascist movement”Bodhu Bala Sena”(BBS)in Colombo city against Muslims engaged in the meat trade ended in a fiasco on Friday March 1st 2013.

The neo-fascist Bodhu Bala Sena storm troopers were compelled to call off “Operation Dematagoda” a few hours after commencing it amidst great fanfare and publicity and “retreat” with lots of “Bithara” (egg) on their zealous faces.

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By Harim Peiris

The above was the anguished and rather alarming cry that emanated a few weeks ago from Cabinet Minister and Sri Lanka Muslim Congress leader Rauff Hakeem. That a minister, of justice at that and the leader of the preeminent Muslim political party had to make a plea for an end to ethno religious hate mongering in Sri Lanka was sobering enough. Coming as it does on the heels of a sustained and systematic low intensity civil assault on the Muslim community, that has included attacks on mosques and Muslim owned businesses is alarming. Sri Lanka is just emerging from nearly three decades of an ethnic based civil war and the signs are ominous that we seemed to have learned nothing from our past and are hell bent on starting a new conflict, this one an ethno religious conflict, with religion thrown into the toxic mix.

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“Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing; nor upon tradition; nor upon rumour; nor upon what is in a scripture; nor upon surmise; nor upon an axiom; nor upon specious reasoning; nor upon a bias towards a notion that has been pondered over; nor upon another’s seeming ability; nor upon the consideration, ‘The monk is our teacher.’ Kalamas, when you yourselves know: ‘These things are bad; these things are blameable; these things are censured by the wise; undertaken and observed, these things lead to harm and ill,’ abandon them.”- Kalama Sutta: The Buddha’s Charter of Free Inquiry

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A large presence of 33 Sri Lankan companies participated at the Gulf Food 2013 in Dubai displaying food and beverage products such as tea, spices, processed food, soft drink, biscuits, virgin coconut oil, dried fruits, herbal products etc. The Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB) and the Sri Lanka Tea Board (SLTB) in collaboration with the Consulate General of Sri Lanka in Dubai organized two country pavilions for tea and other food items.  Gulf Food is the fast growing international trade fair for food and beverage sector and it has been rated as third largest food exhibition in the world and the biggest in the MENA region.

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The Government today stated that it could not take over the responsibility of the issuance of the Halal Certification, Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said today.

The All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU) on February 26 requested the government to take over the issuing and administration of Halal certification in Sri Lanka.

The All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama, the Muslim scholar council asked the government to take an initiative to end the row after Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), or Buddhist Force, staged a rally and issued an ultimatum that all halal certified goods must be taken off the market shelves by end of March.

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හලාල් සහතිකය නොමැතිකමෙන් කෝටි එකහමාරක පාඩුවක් අපට සිදුවෙලා තිබෙනවා - වෙන්ඩෝල් ආයතනයේ සභාපති ලේල්වල ජී ගොඩකන්ද

හලාල් ලාංඡනය අද වන විට විශාල ප්‍රශ්නයක් බවට පත් කරගෙන. අපේ නිෂ්පාදනවල සත්ව තෙල් අඩංගු නොවන බව නිෂ්පාදන කටයුතු ඇරඹුණු අවධියේ සිටම සිංහල, දෙමළ, ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවලින් දක්වා තිබුණා. හලාල් හරහා එය වඩාත් තහවුරු කිරීමක් සිද්ධ වෙනවා. හලාල් ලාංඡනය සඳහා ව්‍යාපාරිකයෙක් වසරකට රුපියල් එක් ලක්ෂ හැත්තෑපන් දහසක් ගෙවනවා යැයි කීම සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම අසත්‍යයකි.අපි වර්ෂයටම ඒ සඳහා ගෙවන්නේ රුපියල් නවදාහක මුදලක්. අපි ළඟ ඒ සඳහා ගෙවීම් කළ රිසිට් පත් තිබෙනවා. අද දේශීය ව්‍යාපාරිකයෝ වශයෙන් පිටරටවලටද අපේ නිෂ්පාදන යොමු කරනවා. ජාත්‍යන්තරව විශේෂයෙන් මැදපෙරදිග ඇතුළු මුස්ලිම් රටවලින් අපේ නිෂ්පාදනවලට හොඳ ඉල්ලුමක් ලැබෙන්නේ හලාල් ලාංඡනය නිසයි. ඒ නිසා ව්‍යාපාරිකයන්ට හලාල් තිබිමෙන් වාසියක් මිස අවාසියක් සිදු වන්නේ නැහැ. හලාල් කියන්නේ සුදුසුයි කියන අර්ථයයි. හලාල් ලාංඡනයෙන් අපේ නිෂ්පාදන සුදුසුයි කියනවා. හරාම් කියන්නේ නුසුදුසුයි කියන අර්ථයයි. හලාල් නෑ කියන්නේ හරාම්. අපේ