The JHU, a partner in the ruling UPFA coalition has claimed the charge that Muslims were persecuted in Sri Lanka is a lie, reported Ceylon Today.
JHU leader Omalpe Sobitha was responding to the call by the Dalai Lama for Sri Lanka to stop persecuting Muslims, while speaking at an event commemorating a monk, organised by the Hela Bodhu Saviya (Sinhala Buddhist Strength).
Sobitha also lamented the fact that there was no Buddha Sasana Ministry to propagate Buddhism on the island.
General Secretary of the party, Technology Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka, said that only Buddhism has the power to protect Sri Lanka and that attempts are being made by international media to ‘sling mud’ at the Sasana, and to turn the media ‘halal’, by accusing them of being anti-Muslim and anti-Tamil.
He further said that he wanted to tell the “innocent Muslims” that there is no Buddhist terrorism here.
"Do not be afraid," Ranawaka told the Muslims.
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