Muslims, terrorism and US-European backed Israeli genocide: Exposing Rohan Gunaratne’s biases
By Latheef Farook
Four Sri Lankans were arrested at the Ahmadabad Airport in India on May 20, 2024, for smuggling in gold and drugs and later accused of being Islamic State (ISIS) operatives.
According to local media reports dated May 23, 2024, Sri Lanka’s state intelligence had asked for further information from their Indian counterparts to verify the background of the alleged suspects, as well as to probe if they are actually linked to the ISIS network.
Thus, there was no confirmation of their involvement in any organization promoting violence. One should not forget the government in power in India is extremely hostile to Muslims, often demonizing and unleashing violence against the minority community. On the other hand, it is ridiculous to state that they went to India to commit crimes for a mere Rs 100.000 each.
However, within 24 hours Professor Rohana Gunaratne, the self-claimed terrorist expert who is blind to the ongoing RSS-BJP atrocities on Indian Muslims and the US-European-backed Israeli genocide roasting and toasting Palestinians, had given a fatwa describing Sri Lankans caught in India as ISIS agents.
This was done even before the Indian authorities started their inquiries. Perhaps Gunaratne has his own information channel to Indian intelligence? The question is, how can Gunaraten accuse these four people, perhaps professional smugglers, of being ISIS members even before Indian authorities started their investigations?
His report warning Sri Lanka of ISIS threats was published in the May 22 issue of the Ceylon Today under the title ‘The Islamic State Sri Lanka Branch Revives’ sub-titled ‘Message to the Sri Lankan government and Muslim leaders: Do not live in denial, acknowledge the truth, and address radicalization’.
Such provocative claims demonizing Islam and Muslims have been Gunaratne’s speciality for reasons better known to him. In his report this is what Gnaratne stated;
“I have painstakingly stressed that the scourge of the Islamic State (ISIS) has not gone away from Sri Lanka even though Zahran and his infrastructure was disrupted. The ideology that is producing Zahrans is intact. Zahran was only the symptom of a larger problem of radicalization in the country.
“Whether we like it or not, the radicalization is a regional challenge that will grow. Extremist organizations have established a presence in Sri Lanka. Based on interviews with detainees who staged a catastrophic attack, I have shared the details of the network in my book Sri Lanka’s Easter Attack: Lessons for the International Community.”
Many alleged the IS to be a direct product of Israel, sometimes weaponizing the acronym to call it the “Israeli Secret Intelligence Service.” An X account called ‘Suppressed Voice’, which routinely amplifies Hamas propaganda and glorifies terrorism as a form of ‘resistance’,’ posted these conspiratorial sentiments alongside the false claim that Mossad is also an IS affiliate.
Islamic State said that Abu Bakr al–Baghdadi was actually a Jewish agent of the Mossad seeking to sow destruction and anarchy in Syria and other regions,
Isn’t it time that Rohan Gunratne spoke about the barbarity unleashed by Israel with the complete support of US and Europe, indiscriminately killing innocent Palestinians? This not only includes children but even babies taken out of the womb of murdered women, with the latest being headless children. So far they have killed more than 36,000 Palestinians, although the estimated figure is around 100,000 as those buried under the rubble of bombed and destroyed buildings have not been counted.
The Zionist Jews and their US European partners have caused immeasurable suffering to Palestinians who have been deprived of water, food, medicine, electricity and shelter.
Zionists are committing these barbarities to justify their- US-European-Israeli wars invading Muslim countries and killing innocent Muslims worldwide.
This began with the collapse of the former Soviet Union in December 1988. So far a number of Muslim countries have been destroyed and millions of Muslims have been slaughtered. Did any Muslim country anywhere in the world, invade a non-Muslim country, let alone massacre their people in the way US-Europe and Israel had done and are still doing?
Isn’t it time that Gunaratne wrote about US-European Israeli war crimes in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and now in Gaza rather than demonizing Islam and Muslims to help justify US-European Israeli warmongers destroy Muslim countries and kill Muslims worldwide?
Sri Lanka is passing through a very difficult period due to racist politics that divided the communities and contributed to the current economic crisis. Under the circumstances, the need of the hour is for all to get together to pull the country out of this man-made disaster and not divide communities.
Of the three communities in Sri Lanka, Muslims have been the most peaceful. They have never resorted to violence to demand their rights. Even in the case of the Easter Sunday massacre, only a few Muslim individuals were accused. Still, the community as a whole, suffered, even though five years after the incident, it has been proved the community had nothing to do with it.
-ENLC
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