The Ltte is very secular its leader may be HIndu ( including Pirabakaran and his family) but they have never espoused or supported one religion or another. This reflects the position of moat Sri Lankan Tamils and in most tamils in Tamil Nadu too. The Tamils as people are very secular. TO them relgion is one's own personal belief. Even when the LTTE chased away the Muslims form the NOrth it had nothing to do with HIndu fanaticism. but the mere fact tehat these tamil Muslims cannot be trusted, They do not identify themsleves as Tamils in SriLanka (despeite thoer obvious Tamil origin) this is also encouraged by sucessive SriLankan governmens so that is the Tamils are divided by relgious and regional lines they become weak and can be easily destroyed. (Many Tamis of recent Indian origin have also succumbed to this and deny their Tami lheritage like teh Catholic Paravars and the Chetties in Colombo.)any way thiese Muslims state they are descended from Arabs when only around 5 to 10% of them have some Arab/Persian blood. The Hindu and Christian Tamils find this very insulting. Furhter tey have sided with the Sinhla government, especialay in the Tamil East as their aimis to have a Muslim eastern province once teh largely alomost 100% Tamil Hindus are chased away in the east. Saudi and Pakistani governmet ar funding Muslim madrassas in the East with SL govt support. They are also armed by the SL govt to attack Tamil Hindu villages in teh east. The LLte did not this in the North.
