Communalisation Of Muslims In Sri Lanka

Author : Pascal Gunasekera
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Download or read book Communal Violence Against the Muslim Minority in Post-war Sri Lanka and Its Implications for the Country's Fragile Ethnic Peace written by Pascal Gunasekera and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis revolves around the topic of communal violence against the Muslim minority in post-war Sri Lanka. The research question is what developments have led to the rise in the incidents of communal violence against Muslims since the end of the civil war in 2009, and how do Sinhala Buddhist nationalists justify their anti-Muslim actions. First, the relevant developments in Sri Lanka's colonial and post-colonial history are assessed and the roots and dynamics that have contributed to the growing anti-Muslim sentiments are identified. Second, the areas of controversy and the Sinhala Buddhist nationalist actors that characterise contemporary communal violence against Muslims are identified. Finally, a qualitative evaluation is conducted in order to establish the links between the historic developments that contributed to the rise in anti-Muslim sentiments and the contemporary prevalence of communal violence against the Muslim community. It is shown, that colonialism facilitated the emergence of two movements, that altered the trajectory of the previously peaceful coexistence between Sinhala Buddhists and Muslims. In regard to the Sinhala community, experiences under British colonial rule produced a Buddhist revivalist movement hostile towards minorities that is based on a minority complex, which governs the Buddhist nationalist psyche to this day. In case of the Muslims, Islamic revivalism consolidated the Muslims in colonial Sri Lanka and induced a cultural dissociation from the Sinhala Buddhist majority. In addition to the colonial process of diverging identities, the growing exposure to the Umma Islamiya and the influence of orthodox Islamic movements from the Middle East on the Muslim community during post-colonial times reinforced Sinhala Buddhist antagonism towards the minority. The rise in contemporary anti-Muslim violence results from the combination of the re-emergence of colonial tensions temporarily dormant during the.