"Leaving aside all those traditionally practised religions, all other sects funded by America and Saudi Arabia and those who spread Mahayana Buddhism should be banned from the country."
Source/Credit: Ceylon Today
By Gagani Weerakoon | July 21, 2014
The leader of the National Freedom Front (NFF), Minister Wimal Weerawansa, has proposed that the government ban all religious sects and denominations of recent origin – That is, 'not older than five centuries'.
He said such a ban would 'end communal, religious and sectarian violence in the future'.
Article 10 of the Constitution of Sri Lanka guarantees religious freedom, and 'freedom of thought, conscience and religion, including the freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice.'
However, Weerawansa insisted that only the mainstream religions should be allowed in the country.
"Until and unless the government takes steps to ban all those groups spreading extremism in the name of protecting the religion, this problem will not end. There are three or four main religions that people of this country have practised for at least 500 years.
"Leaving aside all those traditionally practised religions, all other sects funded by America and Saudi Arabia and those who spread Mahayana Buddhism should be banned from the country." Weerawansa said.
He was responding to a question raised by Ceylon Today on whether it was not the lack of action from the government towards reconciliation that is fueling communalism in the country.
"With the end of war, the government is taking steps towards reconciliation, but this is the only shortcoming that happened on the part of the government. Unless groups like Thoufeek Jamath and other Christian and Buddhist groups are banned, fundamental groups will keep on mushrooming," he added.
He alleged, while Sinhala Buddhist extremism is being highlighted, the extremism of other religions are tolerated.
"Everybody is blaming those so called Sinhala extremist groups, while cleverly mollycoddling the Muslim extremist groups. either types of extremism are not good for the country and what the government is attempting now is to defeat both. But, now both accuse the government of supporting the other. Muslim extremists accuse the government of supporting Sinhala extremists and vice versa. Truth is that the government is being targeted by both parties because it has nothing to do with either."
Minister Weerawansa alleged though, there was opposition by Sinhala Buddhists to Sinhala Buddhist extremism, there is no such phenomenon amongst Muslims.
"Even Minister Rauff Hakeem is busy pointing a finger at Sinhala Buddhists but does not speak a word against those Muslim extremists operating with funds received from Saudi Arabia. This problem could not be solved without banning all sorts of extremist groups," he asserted.
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