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Author: Raashid Riza

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Colombo, Groundviews at 10, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith

Lankan Muslims, Extremist Monks & a Feverish Government

Photo via Al Jazeera As turns ten, Sri Lankan Muslims are at a crossroads. The last ten years were predominantly about tensions between Sinhalese and Tamils, Muslims seem to now be the…

Raashid Riza Raashid Riza on 12/09/2016
Colombo, Elections, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

A Victory Not Just by the Minorities

AFP PHOTO / ISHARA S. KODIKARA, via Japan Times Images have been making the rounds on facebook, with various hues and shades, highlighting the fact that the sixth executive President of Sri…

Raashid Riza Raashid Riza on 01/14/201501/20/2015
Colombo, International, Religion and faith

Lankan Muslims in London and Political Myopia

AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, via There was a protest that took place yesterday by a group of Sri Lankan Muslims in Britain outside the Sri Lankan High Commission in London mostly regarding the…

Raashid Riza Raashid Riza on 05/06/2014
End of war special edition, Human Security, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Trincomalee

The untold story of a child

This war has taken the lives of tens of thousands of men, women and children. Hundreds of thousands more are displaced, and the abnormality of the war and post war situation is…

Raashid Riza Raashid Riza on 05/21/2010
Religion and faith

The Hijab unveiled – a response to Nazeeya Faarooq

The Writer of Nazeeya Faarooq, in her article has seemingly probed into a billboard and attempted to develop an intellectual response to an innocent picture. It is good in one-way to develop…

Raashid Riza Raashid Riza on 04/20/2009

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