Muslims To Protest On Friday
T he Muslim politicians and the organizations in Sri Lanka will be staging a protest on Friday (28) in front of the Dewatagaha Mosque in Town Hall against Sri Lanka’s decision to abstain from voting against Israel on a UNESCO resolution recently.
The chairman of the mosque Reyyaz Salley said that Sri Lankan Muslims supported the present government with the expectation that the community will be supported and assisted by the government but even though it was an obvious fact that the land belongs to the Palestine, the government’s move to abstain from voting is a disappointment.
The UNESCO resolution, which was submitted by the Palestinians supported by Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar and Sudan strongly condemned ‘the escalating Israeli aggression and illegal measures and called on Israel, the occupying power, to respect the historic status quo and to immediately stop these measures’.
It also criticized the ‘continuous storming of Haram al-Sharif by the Israeli right-wing extremists and uniformed forces’. Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site in Islam after Masjid al-Haram in Mecca and Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina.
