{"id":49823,"date":"2016-11-23T17:28:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T21:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=49823"},"modified":"2016-11-23T17:28:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T21:28:25","slug":"cabinet-spokesman-senaratne-denies-32-muslims-joined-isis-and-that-isis-connected-persons-are-teaching-arabic-in-sri-lankan-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=49823","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet Spokesman Senaratne Denies 32 Muslims Joined ISIS and that ISIS Connected Persons are Teaching Arabic in Sri Lankan Schools."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nby Zacki Jabbar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amidst contradictory statements emanating from the government, Co-Cabinet Spokesman and Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said yesterday that no one connected to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ( ISIS) had come to Sri Lanka in the guise of teachers.<\/p>\n<p>He told a news conference in Colombo that according to the security authorities lecturers from abroad were engaged in teaching Arabic and had no connections with ISIS.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Muslims of Sri Lanka were law abiding and patriotic in keeping with the teachings of Islam, Senartane said, adding that the majority of Muslims were liberal minded and moderate.<\/p>\n<p>He also denied Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe\u2019s claim that 32 Sri Lankan Muslims had joined the ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Foreigners are propagating extremism among Muslim children here. Extremist foreigners have entered Sri Lanka under the guise of teachers,&#8221; Rajapakshe recently told Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton49823\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D49823&amp;text=Cabinet%20Spokesman%20Senaratne%20Denies%2032%20Muslims%20Joined%20ISIS%20and%20that%20ISIS%20Connected%20Persons%20are%20Teaching%20Arabic...%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>by Zacki Jabbar Amidst contradictory statements emanating from the government, Co-Cabinet Spokesman and Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said yesterday that no one connected to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ( ISIS) had come to Sri Lanka in the guise of teachers. He told a news conference in Colombo that according to the security &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=49823\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Cabinet Spokesman Senaratne Denies 32 Muslims Joined ISIS and that ISIS Connected Persons are Teaching Arabic in Sri Lankan Schools.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/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\/49823"}],"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=49823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49824,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49823\/revisions\/49824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}