Muslims in post-war Sri Lanka: understanding Sinhala-Buddhist mobilization against them (original) (raw)

Muslims in post-war Sri Lanka: understanding Sinhala-Buddhistmobilization against them A.R.M. Imtiyaz a * and Amjad Mohamed-Saleem b,c a Asian Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA; b University of Exeter, Exeter, UK; c Cordoba Foundation, London, UK This study attempts to understand the recent mobilization against the Sri LankanMuslim community by Sinhala-Buddhist organizations. In doing so, it adds to thediscussion about the relationship between second-order minorities and the state andhow identities can be manipulated pre- and post-conflict. States, led by majority ethnicgroups, may choose to work with second-order minorities out of convenience in timesof crisis and then dispose of them afterwards. The article will attempt to look criticallyat some state concessions to Muslim political leaders who supported successive SriLanka ’ s ruling classes from the independence through the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in2009. It will also examine the root causes of the Sinhala-Buddhist anti-Muslimcampaigns. Finally, it will discuss grassroots perspectives by analysing the question-naire on the anti-Islam/Muslim campaign that was distributed to youth, students,unemployed Muslims and workers in the North-Western and Western provinces

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