Original sentence: Abdul Azeez (of the organization) seemed to have accepted the reality, when he observed that:.Another view holds that the Sri Lankan Moors were simply Tamil converts to Islam.The claim that the Moors were the progeny of the original Arab settlers, might hold good for a few families but not for the entire bulk of the community.The concept of Arab descent was thus, invented just to keep the community away from the Tamils and this 'separate identity' intended to check the latter's demand for the separate state Eelam and to flare up hostilities between the two groups in the broader Tamil-Sinhalese conflict.This is evidenced by the fact that, the Moors's Islamic Cultural Home, Colombo were unsuccessful in digging up the genealogical history of Muslim families with Arab descent, in any great numbers.This view is dominantly held by the Sinhalese favoring section of the Moors as well as the Sri Lankan government which lists the Moors as a separate ethnic community