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[deep.ocean]

Sri Lanka orders 161 foreign Islamic clerics out - The Times of India

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has ordered a group of 161 foreign Islamic clerics to leave the country, for flouting visa regulations by preaching to pockets of Muslims around the country, an official said on Sunday.

Controller of Immigration and Emigration Chulananda Perera said the clerics, who were mostly Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indian, Maldivian and Arab, had travelled into the country on tourist visas.

"We have ordered them to leave the country by January 31. They have violated immigration laws. A tourist visa is to have a holiday or visit friends and family and not to preach Islam," Perera told AFP.

He said the group, which belongs to the Tabligh Jamat group, arrived in Sri Lanka last month in small batches.

Perera said he acted on several complaints by the Muslim community, that the clerics were not preaching the moderate Islam practiced on the Buddhist-dominated island.

"Foreign clerics wishing to preach Islam in Sri Lanka, must first apply for permission through the religious affairs authorities," Perera said.

In January, Sri Lanka launched an online-visa application system, scrapping the one-month visa on arrival for foreigners, except Maldivians and Singaporeans.

 

[Roybot]

161 Islamic missionaries ordered to leave country

 

[DelhiDareDevil]

India really needs to show the same balls as Sri Lanka.

And jail them or deport them back too.

 

[livingdead]

India really needs to show the same balls as Sri Lanka.

And jail them or deport them back too.

We dont allow foreign clerics, do we?

 

[xataxsata]

BBC News - Sri Lanka 'expels 161 foreign Muslim preachers'

Sri Lanka Expels 161 Foreign Muslim Clerics

Sri Lanka to deport 161 Islamic missionaries | World | DAWN.COM

 

[xataxsata]

How Sri Lankan/Lankan Ranger missed this news????

It will send out a very bad message in Islamic world.

And its a clear cut case of Islamic phobia as they have singled out Muslim and not taken any action against christian missionaries.

 

[BelligerentPacifist]

Now tabliighii jamaa3at visitors are being called clerics...they'd be so elated at not having to go through a any trouble studying before being called that, even if once in their lives.

They are common folk who go to remind other common folk of basic things like "spread peace, feed the people and stay up a part of the night in the remembrance of your Lord-God". Not scholars in a million years!

Of course, they should be repatriated if they overstayed their visas, but I guess free Halwah is numbing to your sense of responsibility!

 

[BelligerentPacifist]

... they have singled out Muslim and not taken any action against christian missionaries.

Maybe because they were concentrating on a certain type of missionary. The TJ preach to fellow Muslims while Christian missionaries to all and sundry.

Nah there's only gain in image of the SL authorities for this Muslim for being meticulous.

The concept of visa is a central theme in the Islamic understanding. Nobody goes to The Gardens without having their passports stamped on the Day of Qiyaamah, wAllahu a3lam, and this visa between countries should help us remember that visa.

 

[Skyline]

How Sri Lankan/Lankan Ranger missed this news????

It will send out a very bad message in Islamic world.

And its a clear cut case of Islamic phobia as they have singled out Muslim and not taken any action against christian missionaries.

They are sending back because of complaints, before this some christian missionaries also sent back, one ran away after some deaths of patients, some Indian Hindu Astrologists also arrest for molesting women. Buddhists monks also got arrest in here for some cases. Religion is below to the law of Sri Lanka.

 

[pmukherjee]

Good job Sri Lanka. We should learn from them. There are a very large number of foreign missionaries/religious preachers/proselytisers roaming around freely in India busy preaching and converting the poor and the destitute by giving them monetary incentives. Their activities are largely unchecked and unregulated. Enormous funds from Saudi Arabia, Europe and America are funneled to support their activities. We should put an end to this nonsense.

 

[Lankan Ranger]

How Sri Lankan/Lankan Ranger missed this news????

It will send out a very bad message in Islamic world.

And its a clear cut case of Islamic phobia as they have singled out Muslim and not taken any action against christian missionaries.

Because in Sri Lanka we deport foreigners if they break visa rules…

It is a normal issue……

Sri Lanka arrests Christian missionary

Sister Mary Eliza, from the Missionaries of Charity, has been in prison since Friday night accused of selling children. Since the congregation was founded, she is the first nun of Mother Teresa to be arrested. An anonymous tip-off informed police, which then burst into the Prem Nivesa of Moratuwa, a hostel for young unwed mothers run by the Sisters of Mother Teresa and arrested the nun.

The hostel is now impounded. Sister Eliza, superior of Prem Nivesa, is now in jail at the Women’s Prison of Welikada, and has not been able to see a lawyer yet. Today, a judge is set to charge her formally with illegal trafficking in children.

Last Wednesday, a group of people led by Anoma Dissanayake, head of the National Child Protection Authority (NCPA), surrounded the Prem Nivesa hostel to examine the situation of the children and mothers living in the facility run by the Missionaries.

“Police and NCPA officials burst into the home at around 11 am, causing panic. They checked every nook and cranny in the facility and took away our files,” a nun toldAsiaNews.

Two days later, on Friday evening, police agents took Sister Eliza and two nuns to a judge’s home. Sister Eliza was then taken by car to Welikada Prison, whilst the two other nuns were brought back to the convent.

“Police, NCPA officials and media rushed to our facility,” Sister Eliza said before her arrest. “They cross-examined the unwed mothers and took away many documents.”

“We have never been involved in child trafficking. It is against our faith,” she reiterated. “Our mission is to take care of unwed mothers and their children. We have never taken money for our work. Children are adopted in accordance with the law.”

Sri Lankan media accused the Sisters of “selling the future of the country to foreigners for few thousand rupees”.

The number of children in the facility was greater than the number reported in the registry.

The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) is an independent organization under the Sri Lankan government.


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