Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) hit the world quite unexpected during the latter part of 2019 and soon consumed the world. The world community still reeling. It’s a new disease; the world still collecting data as to how it spreads. It is believed to spread person-to-person between people who are in …
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The European Parliament adopted a resolution on Thursday (10) that puts Sri Lanka’s trade concessions for imports to the European Union – the country’s second biggest export market – in grave peril. In its resolution adopted by 628 votes in favour in the 705-member legislative assembly of the regional grouping, the EU …
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Lady Warsi with Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in 2010. On 12 May 2010, David Cameron appointed Warsi as Minister without Portfolio in Cabinet, when she succeeded Eric Pickles as Chair of the Conservative Party. This appointment made Warsi the first Muslim woman to serve …
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Jeddah 29th April 2021: The Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) joins the international community in strongly condemning the Sri Lankan Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and its recently enacted regulation namely ‘De-radicalization from holding violent extremist religious ideology’, which allows creation of …
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The head of Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic church dropped a bombshell Sunday declaring that the 2019 Easter attack was “politically” driven and had nothing to do with Islamic extremism. Malcom cardinal Ranjith said those who carried out the April 21 suicide bombings against three churches and three hotels were only …
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RAMADHAN GREETINGS ALLAH’S MERCY IS LIMITLESS, SO LET’S NOT LIMIT OURSELVES IN SEEKING IT IN THE HOLY MONTH OF RAMADAN WE, THE ADMINISTRATORS OF WFSLM, TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO WISH ALL THE MEMBERS OF WORLD FORUM FOR SRI LANKAN MUSLIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES, THE BEST AND PRAY TO ALMIGHTY TO …
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“Indeed, Allah will not change the condition of people until they change what is in themselves.” [Qur’an – 13:11] Coronavirus. Conflict. Climate change. Humanity hangs in the balance, as we face the worst calamities in living memory. Ramadan is the month that Muslims all over the world count down to …
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(Reuters) -U.N. human rights boss Michelle Bachelet received a mandate on Tuesday to collect evidence of crimes during Sri Lanka’s long civil war, which ended in 2009 with the defeat of the separatist Tamil Tigers and an upsurge of civilian deaths. The United Nations believes 80,000-100,000 people died in the …
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UNHRC adopts resolution against SriLanka. 22 countries voted in favor, 11 against and 14 abstained. Bangladesh, China, Cuba, Pakistan and Philippines among the countries that voted against the resolution. The resolution requests the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to enhance its monitoring and reporting on the situation …
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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa have made phone calls to world Muslim leaders, a day before the UN Human Rights Council takes a vote on a resolution against Sri Lanka. Secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr. Yousef A. Al-othaimeen, had received a phone call …
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