Sri Lanka government orders removal of Dambulla mosque

[Sashan]

Sri Lanka's government has ordered the removal of a mosque from an area it says is sacred to the country's majority Buddhists.

The order comes two days after Buddhist monks led a crowd trying to storm the mosque in the central town of Dambulla.



BBC News - Sri Lanka government orders removal of Dambulla mosque

 

[somebozo]

Good step to avoid communal frictions. Otherwise we have another Babri Masjid riots on the way!

 

[Skyline]

Mosque about to replace in different location, coz temple claims mosque illegally built in the land belongs to temple area.

 

[junk]

whats with temples and mosques?

 

[Shinigami]

Good step to avoid communal frictions. Otherwise we have another Babri Masjid riots on the way!

so indian govt should have demolished the babri masjid, long before? just like the lankans did?

 

[Roybot]

Sri Lanka Buddhists disrupt mosque's prayers - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English

Buddhist monks vowed to destroy the mosque which was built in the 1960's.

A mosque in Sri Lanka has been forced to abandon its Friday prayers amid community tensions in the central town of Dambulla.

About 2,000 Buddhists, including monks, marched to the mosque and held a demonstration demanding its demolition, along with a Hindu temple being built in an area designated as a Buddhist sacred zone. Monk Inamaluwe Sri Sumangala Thera told the AP news agency that the construction area was inside the zone and that erecting houses of worship for other religions there was illegal.



He demanded the authorities stop the construction immediately. Shortly after the protest, the mosque was evacuated under police protection and its Friday prayers cancelled.

Many Buddhists regard Dambulla as a sacred town and in recent months there had been other sectarian tensions in the area.Last September a monk led a crowd to demolish a Muslim shrine in Anuradhapura, not far from Dambulla.

M Rahmathullah, a trustee of the mosque, disputed the Buddhist claim."We do not agree to their claim. The mosque was in the area for more than 50 years," said Rahmathullah.Overnight the mosque had been targeted by a fire bombing, but nobody was hurt.

Buddhism is the religion of the majority of Sri Lanka's 20 million people.

About 74 per cent are Sinhalese, who are mostly Buddhists, while about 18 per cent are Tamils, who are predominantly Hindus or Christians. About seven per cent of the total population are Muslims.

 

[third eye]

Strange that a 50 year old mosque is suddenly found to be in the wrong place.

Had this happened in India, the heavens would have fallen, since it is SL post # 2 seems ok.. eh ??

" main karun to sala character dheela hai !!'

 

[AbhijitSingh]

Strange that a 50 year old mosque is suddenly found to be in the wrong place.

Had this happened in India, the heavens would have fallen, since it is SL post # 2 seems ok.. eh ??

National interests trump Muslim Ummah it seems

 

[Skyline]

Dambulla Temple is famous archaeological site in Sri Lanka, "mosque" is located in the area belongs to the site.
Here's the temple.

This temple has a lot of lands belonging to it. Dambulla International Cricket stadium belongs to this temple too.

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here's the about to remove building which mentioning here as mosque.

 

[fallstuff]

Dear ignorance is a bliss beliving Indian posters: Your pet snake LTTE had been there, done that,

The expulsion of the Muslims and other nations from the Northern province was an act of ethnic cleansing[1][2] carried out by the Tamil militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) organization in October 1990. In order to achieve their goal of creating a mono ethnic Tamil state[3][4] in the North Sri Lanka, the LTTE forcibly expelled the 72,000 strong Muslim population from the Northern Province.

Expulsion of Muslims from the Northern province by LTTE - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Now be truthful, how many of you cried a river on that ?

 

[Coltsfan]

Dear ignorance is a bliss beliving Indian posters: Your pet snake LTTE had been there, done that,




Now be truthful, how many of you cried a river on that ?

Why would Indians cry a river on an internal affairs of another country?

Champions of Ummah, however, are conspicuous by their absence.

No rallies, protests or "Condom-ing"?

 

[third eye]

Dear ignorance is a bliss beliving Indian posters: Your pet snake LTTE had been there, done that,


Now be truthful, how many of you cried a river on that ?

This has no relevance to the subject @ hand.

Next its SL & its their country and they are free to do as they deem fit.

 

[kalu_miah]

Indians caught red handed trying to create friction between Buddhists and Muslims. Again divide and rule. Muslims and Buddhists of the world should unite against Hindu Nationalist and Brahmin supremacists.

 

[third eye]

Indians caught red handed trying to create friction between Buddhists and Muslims. Again divide and rule. Muslims and Buddhists of the world should unite against Hindu Nationalist and Brahmin supremacists.

This one should go to the humor section !!

The SL Govt decides to shift a Mosque in SL from one location to another, Skyline in post # 9 shows pictures of the mosque and explains the reson for the shift.

.... Indian caught ' Red Handed" ... Seriously after Bamiyan ... unity ???

 

[Coltsfan]

Indians caught red handed trying to create friction between Buddhists and Muslims. Again divide and rule. Muslims and Buddhists of the world should unite against Hindu Nationalist and Brahmin supremacists.

Like the Hindu nationalists created friction between east pakistanis and the raping/pillaging army of west pakistan???