{"id":103523,"date":"2013-09-03T21:38:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T16:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=103523"},"modified":"2013-09-10T01:58:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T20:28:25","slug":"gota-blames-tamil-muslim-insularity-for-rise-of-sinhala-hardline-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gota-blames-tamil-muslim-insularity-for-rise-of-sinhala-hardline-movements\/","title":{"rendered":"Gota Blames Tamil-Muslim Insularity For Rise Of Sinhala Hardline Movements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Under pressure internationally to address the country\u2019s human rights situation four years after the defeat of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=LTTE&amp;x=14&amp;y=5\">LTTE<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Secretary to the ministry of Defence\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gotabaya+Rajapaksa&amp;x=6&amp;y=1\">Gotabaya Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span> today warned of new terror threats, the rise of Muslim extremism and said minority insularity was resulting in the emergence of hardline Sinhala groups in Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_77151\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/gotabhaya-rajapaksa-and-his-bala-sena\/gota-8\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77151\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77151\" class=\" wp-image-77151  \" title=\"Gota\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Gota.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Gota.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Gota-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-77151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gota with BBS monk Gnanasara<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lanka-is-one-of-the-peaceful-stable-and-democratically-secured-countries-in-the-world\/\">Addressing the Defence Seminar 2013<\/a><\/span> in Colombo, the \u00a0Secretary MOD said <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Muslim+Fundamentalism&amp;x=11&amp;y=7\">Muslim Fundamentalism<\/a><\/span> was spreading all over the world and in this region. \u201cThis is a situation that our Law Enforcement agencies and Security Forces are concerned about, particularly as there have been instances where extremist elements were found in transit in Sri Lanka and were arrested and handed over to appropriate authorities. The possibility that such extremist elements may try to promote Muslim extremism in Sri Lanka is a cause for concern,\u201d Rajapaksa said.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary MOD said that Tamil and Muslim minority communities were growing increasingly insular, choosing to identify themselves more with Tamils in Tamil Nadu or the global Muslim community, resulting in a lack of integration with the rest of the population in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the consequences of the increasing insularity amongst minority ethnic groups is the emergence of hard line groups within the majority community,\u201d Rajapaksa said, referring to several <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Bodu+Bala+Sena+and+Sinhala+Ravaya&amp;x=10&amp;y=4\">Sinhala hardline groups<\/a><\/span> that have mushroomed in the recent past that have been implicated in rising intolerance and violence against the Muslim population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":77151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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