Lesson Sri Lanka should learn from Paris attacks
ast week, terrorists of the Islamic State butchered 130 men and women in Paris while they were - as one newspaper put it - indulging in life’s innocent pleasures: watching a concert, a football friendly and drinking beer by the roadside. Those terrorists - at least five of them - were identified as French Muslims. A week before that incident, Sri Lankan Muslim organizations, led by Jamiathul Ulama came together to demand that the government in Colombo denied visa to one rabid Islamist preacher, Jainul Abideen, the founder of Tamil
Nadu Thawheed Jamaat. Abideen was invited by Sri Lanka Thawheed Jamaat, a fringe group of Wahhabis awash with Gulf money. The government conceded. Abideen was refused a visa for a second time. In 2005, the government denied him an entry visa on the same grounds.
ast week, terrorists of the Islamic State butchered 130 men and women in Paris while they were - as one newspaper put it - indulging in life’s innocent pleasures: watching a concert, a football friendly and drinking beer by the roadside. Those terrorists - at least five of them - were identified as French Muslims. A week before that incident, Sri Lankan Muslim organizations, led by Jamiathul Ulama came together to demand that the government in Colombo denied visa to one rabid Islamist preacher, Jainul Abideen, the founder of Tamil Nadu Thawheed Jamaat. Abideen was invited by Sri Lanka Thawheed Jamaat, a fringe group of Wahhabis awash with Gulf money. The government conceded. Abideen was refused a visa for a second time. In 2005, the government denied him an entry visa on the same grounds.
