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Apr-21-2012 00:16printcomments

President Instigates Inamaluwe Thero Against Muslims

The Muslim mosque in question is over 40 years old and had been completely renovated recently.

Rajapaksa scowling
Courtesy: gbdigest.com

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Lanka News Web) - Ven. Inamaluwe Sumangala Thero has organized a protest campaign on the 18th against the construction of a Muslim mosque in the Dambulla city on a Presidential directive, it is reliably learnt.

The Thero had summoned several donors to the temple and said that the protest was being organized on a Presidential directive.

A senior official from the Presidential Secretariat has requested Matale District Secretary to ensure that Samurdhi recipients cooperated in organizing the protest.

The Muslim mosque in question is over 40 years old and had been completely renovated recently.

Ven. Inamaluwe Sumangala Thero who is organizing the protest is closely affiliated to the President. The Thero make statements in support of the President whenever required and the President has in turn shown his gratitude by giving him a radio and television license.

The Thero first came into the limelight after protesting against the construction of a luxury hotel by the side of the Kandalama tank. However, it has been alleged that the protest campaign stopped midway after the management of the Kandalama Hotel had given the Thero several lakhs of rupees.

Also, it is the Kandalama Hotel and its staff that sometimes provide the Thero with alms.

Special thanks to Lanka News Web

http://www.lankanewsweb.com/english/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1724:president-instigates-inamaluwe-thero-against-muslims&catid=1:general&Itemid=29





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Sudarshana April 22, 2012 9:45 pm (Pacific time)

Our gratitute to the head of the chief for stopping building the mosque within the dambulla temple area. All buddhists kept this place very clean and we don't want to dirty this place

Editor: I have a hard time believing even the most hardcore Sinhalese Buddhist would really write this, do you have no concern at all about how this makes you look to the world?  

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