Sunday 21 October, 2012
RESPONSE TO ‘A VICTORY
OUT OF THIS WORLD’
Be
Sporty, Sri Lanka
Hameed
Abdul Karim
Desmond Samith’s article titled
‘A victory out of this world’ (LAKBIMAnews Sunday October 7, 2012) shouldn’t
have surprised me or even hurt my feeling. But you know what? It did both.
I have heard this tattle for
years. I mean the skit ‘Sri Lankan Muslims supporting Pakistan because of their
cultural and religious ties’. So, in a sense, Samith was only following an old
script, but it still hurt, because it projected Muslims as traitors in this
hyper patriotic era that we are living in today thus exacerbating the divisions
that exist in our society.
