The Malay leader Dr. Tuan Burhanudeen Jayah fought for Muslim rights and Sri Lanka’s independence from the British at the same time
Read moreJonah Blank, a researcher and political analyst for the Rand Corporation, said that the Easter Sunday attack was a result of political negligence more than intelligence failure. "The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) did not choose Sri Lanka, but the Sri Lankan extremists chose ISIS,” he said.
Read moreTulasi Srinivas, Professor of Anthropology, Religion and Transnational Studies, Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College, notes in her paper that during the pandemic-induced lockdown in India, science and faith were not seen as inimical to one another, but as working together, hand-in-glove.
Read morePope Francis in his Christmas message on Friday said political and business leaders must not allow market forces and patent laws to take priority over making Covid 19 vaccines available to all, condemning nationalism and “the virus of radical individualism”.
Read moreThey are being slammed for publishing the claims of the Ahmadiya community which mainstream Muslims consider heretical.
Read moreThe committee should ensure religious harmony while giving priority to Sri Lanka’s Buddhist identity, the Maha Sangha told President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Read moreSri Lanka gives up plan to bury Muslim COVID dead in the Maldives
Read more“The acceptance could come soon, say, in a week or so,” Hilmy Ahamed, Vice President of the Muslim Council of Sri Lanka, said.
Read moreMuslims want to be buried in Sri Lanka and some Maldivians wonder if there is enough space in their tiny country.
Read moreSri Lanka's Muslims feel badly let down by the Supreme Court’s summary dismissal of their plea to allow burial
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