{"id":22993,"date":"2013-07-19T23:51:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T03:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=22993"},"modified":"2013-07-20T11:28:03","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T15:28:03","slug":"mosque-in-mahiyangana-closed-for-prayers-after-uva-provincial-minister-anura-vithanagamage-of-upfa-threatens-trustee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=22993","title":{"rendered":"Mosque in Mahiyangana Closed for Prayers After Uva Provincial Minister  Anura Vithanagamage of UPFA Threatens Trustee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nUva Province Minister, Anura Vithanagamage, has allegedly threatened the trustee of the Mahiyangana Mosque against holding Jumma prayers, Minister Rauff Hakeeem, Leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) said in a statement issued to the media.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/MAHI072013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/MAHI072013-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"MAHI072013\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-23008\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Masjidul Arafa Mosque in Mahiyangana was closed&#8230;&#8230;.yesterday, subsequent to the threats.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Mahiyangana Mosque has been targeted for over a week, in what appears to be the latest in an organized series of attacks carried out on mosques and the hate campaigns against the Muslims in Sri Lanka by extremist Buddhist groups, for many months,\u201d he stated. <\/p>\n<p>Minister Hakeem also said, he was informed the son of the founder-trustee of the Mahiyangana Mosque was allegedly threatened by the Uva Province Minister on Friday morning, warning him not to conduct the Jumma prayers scheduled for that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this holy month of Ramazan, when Muslims observe the fast globally, with rigorous religious observances, such acts of intolerance and impunity hurt the sentiments of the Muslims in the country. This also contributes to further polarization of communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn an earlier occasion, when the mosque came under attack by extremists, evidently, no preventive action had been taken,\u201d the SLMC Leader said, in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Hakeem also said, he was reliably informed that Secretary General of Bodu Bala Sena, Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera, is \u2018openly promoting a hate campaign in the area.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government\u2019s impervious attitude to such rising crimes and non-action in curbing such mounting hate campaigns will be dangerously read as that of stimulating religious violence,\u201d he added.<br \/>\n<em>COURTESY:CEYLON TODAY<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton22993\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D22993&amp;text=Mosque%20in%20Mahiyangana%20Closed%20for%20Prayers%20After%20Uva%20Provincial%20Minister%20%20Anura%20Vithanagamage%20of%20UPFA%20Threatens...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uva Province Minister, Anura Vithanagamage, has allegedly threatened the trustee of the Mahiyangana Mosque against holding Jumma prayers, Minister Rauff Hakeeem, Leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) said in a statement issued to the media. The Masjidul Arafa Mosque in Mahiyangana was closed&#8230;&#8230;.yesterday, subsequent to the threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23009,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22993\/revisions\/23009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}