SRI LANKAN MUSLIMS ARE LOW CASTE TAMIL HINDU CONVERTS NOT ARAB DESCENDANTS
By Rifat Halim -May 6, 2013
The recent execution of Rizana Nafeek in Saudi Arabia has underlined the bogus claim of Arab ancestry by Sri Lankan Muslims (formerly known as Ceylon Moors). Ms. Nafeek, a domestic worker from a poor family in the East of Sri Lanka, spoke no language but Tamil. She requested a Tamil translator but was provided with a Malayalam-speaking minor employee whose command of the Tamil language was said to be insufficient. The Saudi authorities showed no clemency. Also, they refused to recognize her as a person of Arab descent. Her status was indistinguishable from that of any foreigner in that country.
M. Nasri Zuhair (@MNasriZuhair) commented on Sri Lankan Muslims Are Low Caste Tamil Hindu Converts Not Arab Descendants
Sri Lankan Muslims are SriLankan and not Arabic. That's why we have immense difficulty in obtaining visa even to go on pilgrimage to Mecca. It's not because we are low cast or any thing else. Simply we are not arabs any more. When our brothers and sisters visit middle east, they are nothing more than migrant workers. We don't deserve any special attention.
It's some sinhala politicos trying to prorate Muslims as Arabs and not Sri Lankans. And subsequently treat us as outsiders.
Commenting on the origin, Ceylon Moors are of two groups
1. Shona – decedents of Arabs 2. Shamman – decedents of Tamil converts
Shona people dominate Colombo to Southern province. They speak "Arabu thamul" a wired language with tamil, persian, arabic and urdu. They write and read "Arabu tahmul" written in arabic script.
Shamman dominate North and East and central province. They speak, read and write original tamil.
As far as I know, many early muslim scholars were Shamman while those who dominated trade were Shona.
Being shona or shamman will not make one more or less "Arabic" it remains purely due to origin. Now no matter to who we belong we are all Muslims. Sri Lankans. We belong to Srilanka and SriLanka is ours.
This attribution of muslims to arabs and not Srilanka is the result of some wicked sinhalese wanting to grab the whole Island and make it a stupid "Sinhalunge Rata"
If you want more clarification on this matter, http://www.mnasrizuhair.
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