My son often walks his big sister to the entrance if the school building, guiding her away from the muddy puddles. She is a students at the Ceylon School for the Blind.
Stood approx 1m away from the person in front of me at the bakery, because social distancing.
3 people who came after me closed the gap, because Sri Lanka. #පෝළිම්පනින්නඑපාSL
Why do people shame people for speaking 'bad' English?
This is particularly silly in a country where English is not the First Language, and most people are bilingual.
Maybe some of you are surprised to see Muslim women, specially those in hijab joining these protests. This is something we've never see much in SL. Due to eing discouraged by our families and fear of being labeled as extremists along with the fear of the dangers one could (1/3)
Where were you when a murderer was sworn in to parliament?
Where were you when a war criminal and a murderer were pardoned?
Where were you when corruption charges against Rajapaksa's were dropped?
Where were you when a lawyer and a poet were unlawfully detained?
A baby was put in cardboard box, wrapped in plastic bag and cremated.
So tell me everyone screaming one-country-one-law-ඇයි-මුස්ලිම්-අයට -වෙනම-නීති crowd, is this acceptable?
#StopForcedCremations
#lka
#COVID19
Sajith for President. Why? Because he has some good people in his team. And other opposition MPs such as Sumanthiran & Shanikyan will cooperate with him. He has to appoint a competent PM (Sumanthiran ok?) and work with Harsha, Eran et al to bring this country back.
We are not afraid anymore. Muslim mothers are encouraging their daughters to join the protests. The country has come together against a common enemy.
Sri Lanka finally, is our home!
#GoHomeGota
#RepealPTA
(3/3)
@merbaant
Thank you brother for speaking up. Too many men are abused by women, not only their wives. Please don't be ashamed of what happened to you. May Allah give you the strength to face any challenges that you may face!
In Sri Lanka we are fighting for our right to wear hijab. In Iran, they're fighting for their right not to.
Can people just stop telling women what they can and cannot wear?
#GoHomeGota
is not only about sending the Rajapaksa's home. It's about them packing along with everything they represent. Corruption, nepotism and RACISM!!
Yes, this is the TIME!!!
The idea I believe is to make this country a living hell for Muslims. They've wanted us out for a long time. They've been at it little by little since 2013.
The Easter Attacks just gave them a reason to come at us in full force.
#BBS
#SinhaLe
#racism
#SinhalaSupremacists
There is no mother in SL who doesn't pray for a fair baby when they are pregnant.
Sure they'd tell you, I only want a healthy child. But deep i their hearts, they also want it to have a fair complexion.
Maybe a SJB government wouldn't have plunged our country into an economic & political crisis.
But a SJB government couldn't have united Sri Lankans they way we are united now!
Just because I'm Muslim doesn't mean I'm answerable to every single thing that every single Muslim does and every single Islamic law or cultural practice.
This is not fair. This is completely not fair! Why are people like this? Why do you hate us so much?
It's like they were waiting in frustration to make this a Muslim issue and now they got an excuse.
It makes me so sad to live amongst such heartless people 😢
Just took a proper look at my monthly electricity bill and got an unpleasant surprise.
Last month, 495 units Rs 18,238.50
This month, 484 units Rs 29,384.00
😳
I think people ought to know how Muslims prepare the bodies of their deceased for burial.
I won't to into minute details, but here's a thread on what we do.
Perhaps after reading this you'd understand why we are so sensitive about the cremation issue. 1/
I've been denied work for wearing a hijab. I've been asked to take-off my hijab because it does conform with a "uniform".
Why is that progressive, but women wearing hijab because of their religious beliefs seen as oppression?
When do I get to choose?
Boycotted the batch photo at J'pura for 2 reasons.
1. Couldn't be bothered getting a white saree just for the occasion, and will never wear again.
2. Did not want to stand alongside the raggers in a photo.
Gave a few coconuts from out tree to neighbours. Two strangers walking on the road saw up plucking and asked for one or two. Now another neighbour came to ask if we had more. A neighbour we don't normally speak to sent us murunga.
#curfewSL
is doing strange things to communities.
President
@MaithripalaS
and the
#Yahapalana
gov were elected by the people, minorities in particular in the wake of the
#Aluthgama
riots by
#BBS
supporters.
Releasing
#Gnanasara
from prison is a hard slap on the face of thse who helped you come in to power Mr. President!
I think everyone's missing the fact *because* NZ intel knew he was a possible threat and have been monitoring him, that the terrorist was killed within 60 seconds, and there were no deaths.
Imagine how many lives could have been saved in April 2019 if My3 had done his damn job??
@munza14
@RW_UNP
@mkstalin
@ChinaEmbSL
@RajapaksaNamal
Follow uo questions:
How will it be ensured that politicians will not hoard some of the goods in their homes? (Johnston had over 50 gas cylinders in his home and a municipal counsellor was hiding urea.)
face if the protests turn violent, we have not participated in any protests.
We never organised a demonstration for
@justice4hejaaz
despite being suggested by many people because of we knew we'd be all be dragged off under the PTA.
But now things are different. (2/3)
Basically patriotism in SL is loyalty to a particular political party and their alliances.
Working to uphold minority rights, helping marginalised people and opposing said political party unpatriotic.
This is unacceptable! It's not about will. It's about not being given a choice. It's about the inefficiency of the state exam system. IT'S ABOUT SUCCESSIVE GOVERNMENTS SPENDING MORE ON MILITARY THAN EDUCATION.
Don't romanticize this shitty situation.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Some students sat for the GCE O/Level exams in flooded classrooms. They were assisted by the Army to travel to their schools/examination centers.
#SriLanka
Today eldest tidied up the house because a friend was coming over.
Checked myself before saying the sarcastic comment I used to hear when I did the same as a teenager.
Instead I told him he did a great job, and the house looks good.
Don't punish the behaviours you want to see!
Sri Lankans : You can't talk about the politics in Sri Lanka if you left the country and are living in luxury in the lands of the white man.
Also Sri Lankans : How dare you not identify as Sri Lankan despite mot being born here!!
With curfew from 8 pm to 5 am there's no chance of having Tharawih prayers.
But even if it's lifted, I hope mosques won't resume congregational prayers right now.
And please don't organise tharawih groups in your homes!
How casually our generation accepted the insane proportion of tariffs on automobiles, making it nearly impossible for a young person without intergenerational wealth to own a decent car without going into debt always blows my mind.
We need to seriously restructure our tax system.
Just want everyone to know that I'm really proud of my eldest. He's not vey into studies or the best behaved. But if you walk into his school and see the school flag flying, more often than not it was hoisted by him. And yesterday he was placed first in the tryouts for 800m dash.
Fmr Eastern Governor Hizbullah tells PSC on
#EasterSundayAttacksSL
should anyone force a merger of the North & East, there will be a blood bath in the latter province as youth will take up arms. "We should never allow a merger of the North & East" Hizbullah tells
@MASumanthiran
Following their members of the parliament what a pitmatic show by female Muslim graduates at Colombo University Convocation! Shame. No solidarity but kneeling down!
#SriLanka
#Muslim
If a Muslim does not want to support Pride for religious reasons please respect that.
But if a Muslim says Queer people are destined to eternal damnation, rip them apart if you want.
Ms Serasinghe needs to learn the difference between "jobless" and "unemployed". Nuzly, is currently out of work and is actively seeking employment, he is not jobless. He is still part of the Labour force.
I think it's Shamini who's jobless, as she has nothing else to do but pick
When will Sinhalese people call out their own on their hatred and racism?
But Muslims are expected to answer to Saudi Arabia's human rights violations!
What's a "wannabe Sri Lankan Muslim woman"?
Which part is wannabe? Sri Lankan, Muslim, or woman?
Is journalism an 'identity'
Also what's funny about wanting MMDA reforms?
Much confuse!
Doctors should not blame patients for "hiding" Corona! It's the doctor's duty to diagnose not the patients. How is the patient to know if they have symptoms or not? And aren't 12.5%-25% of patients asymptomatic?
The doctors at SJGH messed up and are blaming the dead patient.
Men who say "My wife doesn't need to work because I can provide for her" please elreconsider it because if you die, divorce, lose your job, yiur business fails or you fall ill and can't work, then who will provide? Let her have her career.
If Sri Lankans cannot accept a non-Sinhala/Buddhist as a president or least Prime Minister, then chase the Rajapaksa's and the entire aragalaya will be a waste.
Because they couldn't find a translator with adequate knowledge to correctly interpret his poetry?
This government is becoming more and more unpopular and messing up things because of the curses from innocent people like Ahnaf who are suffering for just writing poetry!
After detained for 18 months since his arrest in May 2020,
#Muslim
poet Ahnaf Jazeem (26) was charged under section 2(1)h of Prevention of Terrorism Act & produced before the High Court in
#Puttalam
, Monday (15).
“We saw him after one & half years” his brother told JDS.
#SriLanka