Ranil Wickremesinghe in his recent economic policy statement 43% of Sri Lanka’s population live under just USD 2 per day which is hardly sufficient to secure even the daily food requirements of a person. As stated by Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mr. Your Majesty allow me to bring to your kind attention that the economic hardships we stressed above are not subjective creations of the victim’s own design but are entirely a result of the backwardness and underdevelopment of the state of the economy and the political establishment of her home country, Sri Lanka. Your Majesty, we therefore believe her situation needs humanitarian interpretation rather than a legal one and hence on humanitarian grounds she needs your mercy and kind pardoning. These conditions hurt her physical and mental wellbeing and in turn driving her unknowingly into her current plight. Her family on the other hand also are tormented by indebtedness given that sinking into debt remains the only means of meeting even the daily subsistence needs of her and her beloved family. The fact that she chose to work as a housemaid in Saudi Arabia since 2013 knowing that she will not be so financially rewarded in turn explains the level of helplessness she had to suffer at her home country. She did so only out of self-sacrifice to support her family and bring them at least faintly out of economic misery and permanent marginalisation in society. These abject economic and social conditions, entirely independent from her will, forced her to part with her loved ones and provide them a means to live by remitting her meagre savings secured from her wage as a domestic worker in Saudi Arabia. Your Majesty, it was not her wish to be separated from her family but the gruesome economic hardships that encircle her life in her home country Sri Lanka, having to feed, clothe and educate her children who are still adolescences while her husband has no access to secure employment.
The conditions which she faced at her home country left her no other option than to seek employment as a low paid housemaid in Saudi Arabia. We convey these views considering the extraordinary level of hardships she faced in Sri Lanka which forced her to leave her family unwillingly in search of employment. We respect the law in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the decision made by the Saudi Arabian judiciary and at the same time believes that on extremely humanitarian grounds the two convicted individuals from Sri Lanka deserve your Royal Highnesses kind pardon. Their illiteracy in this respect is solely due to their underprivileged and marginalised socio-economic background at their home country, Sri Lanka, which denied them even the minimum level of education required to be aware of complexities in a legal and cultural system that is inherently foreign to them. The Muslim Council of Sri Lanka presumes that the housemaid unfortunately sentenced to death by stoning and the male worker who would face lashing were unaware of the law and cultural practices in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.The Muslim Council of Sri Lanka is deeply grieved and is reaching out to Your Highness on behalf of the people of Sri Lanka for clemency to the house maid sentenced to death by stoning for the serious crime of adultery while the other respondent, a Sri Lankan male migrant worker is to receive 100 lashes.
We hope we can together build this Islamic school and mosque. Construction of the mosque at a cost of $3,000 Construction of new classrooms of 3 units at a cost of $13,000ģ. Through this campaign I would like invite you to become a donor. Through this campaign we also raise funds for the construction of the mosque. The mosque needs a place of ablution, a bathroom, a water container, a fence and a prayer rug. In addition, we are also currently building a mosque. Through this campaign, we raise funds for the creation of new classrooms of 3 units and the purchase of tables and chairs. Children learn on the floor with only a mat. I and my friends set up Islamic schools for poor children.Ĭurrently there are only two classes in this School. And I am the founder of the Mutiara Assyifa foundation. I live in a newly developed village so there are still many facilities that are lacking. I am a student of Islamic religion in Bengkulu (Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bengkulu). Assalamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
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