Attn to: The President, Vice President & Secretary,
Sri Lanka Muslim Welfare Association Crawley (SLMWAC)
P. O. Box: 1006
Crawley UK
Dear Sir,
Complains against SLMWAC for ignoring ‘Sri Lankan Muslim Women’ for the 1st AGM Meeting
I came to know that the SLMWAC (for men & women) is going to conduct its 1st AGM on 17th of January 2010 in Crawley UK. It was announced publicly and the agenda of the programmes was given to the members and to the general public. I could see many anti social and highly unethical behaviours of the committee as it has completely ignored women’s roles and basic women’s rights in the UK. There are many serious and very significant issues for your kind consideration;
01. The Committee has been functioning nearly 06 years, but until today the committee did not give sufficient positions for women. Indirectly bulling or insulting Sri Lanka Muslim women in the name of Religion, Traditions and what so ever.
02. None of the Sri Lankan Muslim Women were invited to this function. You have completely ignored and treat them as out casted people. This is against UK values and laws and also against the basic Islamic Women’s rights.
03. There are hundreds of Sri Lankan Muslim women who live in Crawley, but the committee look down them upon and treat them miserably.
04. Sri Lankan Muslim women should work independently (semi) in the committee, but until to date the committee made no arrangements to perform the women’s rights.
05. There are many Sri Lanka intellectuals living in Crawley and they work for women’s basic rights, but the committee systematically marginalized them and suspended them without any reasons and by practising incorrect procedures. In brief the SLMWAC is practicing jungle laws in the international environment like UK.
06. Until to date (nearly 6 years) the committee did not produce its constitution in a written form for the public.
07. The committee collects money from the people, but so far (nearly 6 years) the financial records and statements were not shown to the General public. It is very clear that the committee does not follow correct procedures in any matters. This is completely against UK values and laws. Also the committee does not allocate sufficient funds for Women’s welfare, activities and progress. It is very much regrettable indeed.
08. The committee does not open the door for intellectual open-honest discussions, professional interactions within the members and others, and it does not find any correct methods to resolve the internal problems. It is very clear that the committee systematically initiates ‘hate crimes’, divisions, disorders and anti social behaviours in various ways.
09. The committee does not follow the correct way of electing the people to run a good system, but members are being enrolled through ‘back door’, by cheating the public and giving false promises. This causes many disorders and tensions within the Sri Lankan Muslim community in Crawley.
10. Once the SLMWAC practised thug approach, when one of the Sri Lankan members raised some important questions about the committee’s wrong works. The particular thug group (Including President, VP, Sect, treasures, some committee members and others) entered into a particular person’s (Mr. Fazlan) house without prior permission of him. Further the committee’s thug group behaved in a degraded manner and made that brother’s wife (Mrs. Fazlan) cry. After this incident, the committee publicly apologised for their silly and shameful behaviours. (Evidence is available), we condemn this type of unethical approach of the Sri Lankan committee in all circumstances.
There are many chapters we can write about the degraded and mean approaches of the committee. However, as soon as possible we should find proper and ethical solutions for the above mentioned anti social behaviours.
We would like to request from the committee....
01. The committee’s constitution must be available in printed form to be read by all (men and women) and the corrections should be made after an open discussion with the public.
02. The constitution must contain a chapter for ‘Women’s roles and the basic rights of them.
03. Financial documents must be shown to the public at least monthly and an amount of money must be allocated for women welfare, activities & progress.
04. Minimum a day per week must be allocated for women’s welfare and activities in the Sri Lankan Mosque.
05. Women’s section must be operated semi independently. The committee must give its fullest supports in all forms to launch women’s public programmes for the Sri Lankan Muslim Women and for other women as well.
06. Women participation & their rights must be guaranteed in all the programmes of the committee.
07. The committee should allocate a Women prayer hall, Women Dress change room, women’s toilets, women discussion rooms, women library and etc in the Mosque.
08. The committee must provide a venue to run ‘Women Education and Development Unit’ in the Mosque.
09. The committee should not interfere falsely or unethically in any women’s activities.
10. A unit for women (‘Sri Lanka Muslim Women Welfare Association Crawley’) must be launched in the forthcoming 1st AGM. Therefore we would like to have open and honest discussions with the committee by the mediation of ‘Crawley Ethnic Minority Partnership of Crawley Council’ UK.
We look forward to your response in writing to the given e-mail address as soon as possible.
Thanking you
Yours Sincerely Islam,
Theoretician of Sri Lanka Muslim Women ‘Missing Voices’ Forum – UK & Islamic Women Think Tank & Policy Exchange – UK
NB: Document attached; 17th AGM programme schedule & this document contains two pages.
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