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Buddhist Extremists and Muslim Minorities - Religious Conflict in Contemporary Sri Lanka (Paperback)
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Buddhist Extremists and Muslim Minorities - Religious Conflict in Contemporary Sri Lanka (Paperback)
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2009 brought the end of the protracted civil war in Sri Lanka, and
observers hoped to see the re-establishment of harmonious religious
and ethnic relations among the various communities in the country.
Immediately following the war's end, however, almost 300,000 Tamil
people in the Northern Province were detained for up to a year's
time in hurriedly constructed camps where they were closely
scrutinized by military investigators to determine whether they
might pose a threat to the country. While almost all had been
released and resettled by 2011, the current government has not
introduced, nor even seriously entertained, any significant
measures of power devolution that might create meaningful degrees
of autonomy in the regions that remain dominated by Tamil peoples.
The Sri Lankan government has grown increasingly autocratic,
attempting to assert its control over the local media and
non-governmental organizations while at the same time reorienting
its foreign policy away from the US, UK, EU, and Japan, to an orbit
that now includes China, Burma, Russia and Iran. At the same time,
hardline right-wing groups of Sinhala Buddhists have
propagated-arguably with the government's tacit approval-the idea
of an international conspiracy designed to destabilize Sri Lanka.
The local targets of these extremist groups, the so-called fronts
of this alleged conspiracy, have been identified as Christians and
Muslims. Many Christian churches have suffered numerous attacks at
the hands of Buddhist extremists, but the Muslim community has
borne the brunt of the suffering. Buddhist Extremists and Muslim
Minorities presents a collection of essays that investigate the
history and current conditions of Buddhist-Muslim relations in Sri
Lanka in an attempt to ascertain the causes of the present
conflict. Readers unfamiliar with this story will be surprised to
learn that it inverts common stereotypes of the two religious
groups. In this context, certain groups of Buddhists, generally
regarded as peace-oriented , are engaged in victimizing Muslims,
who are increasingly regarded as militant , in unwarranted and
irreligious ways. The essays reveal that the motivations for these
attacks often stem from deep-seated economic disparity, but the
contributors also argue that elements of religious culture have
served as catalysts for the explosive violence. This is a
much-needed, timely commentary that can potentially shift the
standard narrative on Muslims and religious violence.
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