Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="fahadhnazir" data-source="post: 4655732" data-attributes="member: 161104">as per my knowledge.. apey gedara num languages 3 ma use karanawa.. sinhala, english, tamil..Muslims of Sri Lanka living in Eastern Province speak Tamil is a fact. But, this does not mean that they are Tamils by race For example, many non-Arabs speak Arabic but that does not make them Arabs.   A hundred years ago-in 1888, the, then leader of the Tamil community, Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan asserted both in the Legislative Council of Ceylon and in the Royal Asiatic Society (Ceylon Branch) that Ceylon Moors were Tamils by race and Muslims by religion. The Muslims were offended by this deliberate Misrepresentation or misinterpretation. The them President of the Moors Association, I.L.M. Abdul Azeez wrote a book proving beyond doubt that the Ceylon Moors were descended from the Arab traders who had settled in the island several centuries ago and that they were not Tamils.   Soon after Sri Lanka gained independence in 1948, the leader of the Tamil Congress, G.G. Ponnabbalam once again repeated that Muslims of Sri Lanka were Tamils by race. This time, the leader of Ceylon Moors. Sir Razik Fareed took umbrage and reiterated that by no stretch of imagination could the Ceylon Moors be considered Tamils and demanded that Tamil head teachers in government Muslim schools should be replaced with Muslim hand teachers.   eka hena loku scene ekak machang wen discussin...but short and sweet.. lankawe muslim families bahutharayak english, sinhala or/and tamil kathakaranawa</blockquote>

Verification: Dahaya deken beduwama keeyada?

Top Bottom