The sweeping rate of post war changes in Sri Lanka in its sociopolitical and economic domains are so severe that the normalcy that prevailed during the war is being disturbed. Before and during the war the majority community defined the Sri Lankan conflict not as an ethnic conflict but as a conflict born of structural misalignment in the politics and society that marginalized the minority, especially the Tamil community. With the end of the war, the ensuing changes indicate that the prevalent structural misalignments are being strengthened and inscribed on stone to perpetuity marginalizing all minorities to the advantage of the majority. This is evident from the callous disregard shown to the implementation of the LLRC recommendations that attempt to remedy this socio-political and economic anomaly that damages the aspirations of the minority communities and the larger interests of the country. Compounding this is the emergence of the Buddhist extremist groups like Bodu Bala Sena(BBS) and Ravana Balaya(RB) that adds new dimensions to this equation, thus reinforcing the status quo. This challenges the existence of the minority communities especially the Muslims and threatens co-existence. They are of the view that the Muslims must adjust their values, aspirations and ethos to suit the parameters set by them in order to be accepted as a peacefully co-existing community. In other words, they want the Muslims to mutate to fit into their specifications to be accepted or else they would be named, shamed and ostracized as terrorists, separatist and marginalized as a pariah community. This is a new phenomenon in the body politics of Sri Lanka where miniscule groups allied to the power structure playing duplicitously to impose an agenda that damages Buddhist/Muslim cohabitation thereby damaging the long term interests of the country.
