Prominent Sri Lankan monk calls for boycott of Muslim shops and stoning of doctor

<p>A prominent Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka has accused Muslims of destroying the island’s majority Sinhalese community and called for a boycott of Muslim- run shops and businesses.</p> <p>Monk Warakagoda Sri Gnanarathana, the chief prelate of the Asgiriya Chapter of Buddhism&nbsp;said, “Don’t eat from those (Muslim) shops. Those who ate from those shops will not have children in the future. In another 10 to 15 years, we will know the consequence.”</p> <p>The monk also made reference to a Muslim doctor who has been in the centre of an unsubstantiated sterilisation claims. He said the Muslim doctor who had served in the Matale and Kurunegala districts had allegedly done a “heroic” deed by destroying “hundreds of thousands of Sinhalese children.”</p> <p>“Such traitors should not be allowed to stay free. Some ‘upasaka ammas’ (female devotees) said he should be stoned to death. I don’t say that, but that is what should be done.”</p> <p>“Laws and rules are not necessary. We should unite as Sinhala-Buddhists. We should not look at colours and vote. We should elect people who think of the (Sinhala) race and country,” the monk added.</p>