A South East Asian Solution for the Muslims
Izeth by Hussain- April 11, 2014, 6:14 PM
I want to argue in this article that the best prospect for the Muslims to live in peace, amity, and co-operation with the Sinhalese would be to emulate the Chinese example in South East Asia, notably in the Philippines. It will be now widely acknowledged, unlike in the past, that Sinhalese-Muslim relations have become highly problematic. It is certainly true that historically the Sinhalese and the Muslims got on famously well together - there is an excellent book on the subject by Lorna Devaraj - but that alas is no longer true at certain levels of our society. I believe that this transformation can be best understood in terms of a paradigm of racism.