{"id":32035,"date":"2014-07-15T17:16:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T21:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=32035"},"modified":"2014-07-15T21:03:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T01:03:54","slug":"bodu-bala-senas-gnanasara-thero-calls-justice-minister-rauff-hakeem-a-political-prostituteand-wants-him-kicked-out-from-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=32035","title":{"rendered":"Bodu Bala Sena’s Gnanasara Thero Calls Justice Minister Rauff Hakeem a “Political Prostitute” and Wants him Kicked out from Govt."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dharisha Bastians<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rauf Hakeem<\/p><\/div>\n

The hardline Bodu Bala Sena Organisation yesterday slammed President Mahinda Rajapaksa for permitting his own Cabinet ministers to insult Buddhist monks and the Buddhist people who swept him into power.<\/p>\n

The remarks follow statements made by Justice Minister and Leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Rauff Hakeem to foreign correspondents in Colombo last week.<\/p>\n

The Group\u2019s controversial General Secretary Galagodaththe Gnanasara told a media briefing in Colombo yesterday that Minister Hakeem was \u2018stripping\u2019 the Sinhala Buddhist nation in the eyes of the world by calling for an end to Buddhist extremism in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I was his leader, I would drag him by his ears and kick him out. Why is the President still counting his fingers?\u201d Gnanasara Thero stormed. The monk said President Rajapaksa should be ashamed to continue to keep such Ministers in his cabinet.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLook at the drama the Muslims in Sri Lanka are enacting using a fake incident,\u201d Gnansara Thero claimed, referring to the recent religious riots in Aluthgama.<\/p>\n

He claimed that the Muslims had brought religious separatism and extremism to Sri Lanka with their \u2018Oluvil Declaration\u2019 in 2003, which was not unlike the TULF\u2019s Vaddukodai resolution in 1976. \u201cIf this Government has any shame, it will expel Hakeem from the Cabinet,\u201d Gnanasara Thero charged.<\/p>\n

Referring to the Justice Minister as a \u2018political prostitute\u2019, the BBS General Secretary said Rauff Hakeem would leave the Government at the right time anyway. He charged that the SLMC had not supported the UPFA at key elections in 2005 or 2010.<\/p>\n

Bodu Bala Sena CEO and layman Dilantha Withanage told journalists that Hakeem was instrumental in misleading the international community with his statements about Buddhist extremist groups operating in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

According to the BBS CEO, when Minister Hakeem claims that there was no political will to enforce law and order, he was effectively telling the international community that the President had no will to enforce the law.<\/p>\n

\u201cHakeem is using his portfolio as Justice Minister to attack these innocent Buddhist priests,\u201d Withanage asserted. \u201cHe is using his ministerial portfolio to attack Sinhala Buddhists,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The country does not need a Justice Minister who only serves the Muslim people of Sri Lanka, Withanage charged. \u201cHakeem is the person who started ethno-religious hatred in this country,\u201d the BBS CEO said.
\nThe BBS stands by its claim that there were armed Muslim extremists operating in the country, irrespective of which official denied their existence, he added.
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\nCourtesy:DailyFT<\/em><\/p>\n

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By Dharisha Bastians The hardline Bodu Bala Sena Organisation yesterday slammed President Mahinda Rajapaksa for permitting his own Cabinet ministers to insult Buddhist monks and the Buddhist people who swept him into power. The remarks follow statements made by Justice Minister and Leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Rauff Hakeem to foreign correspondents in …<\/p>\n

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