Is Islam or Islamophobia the real danger to Sri Lanka?
July 17, 2014
“The entire Sinhalese-controlled media went along with JR Jayewardene’s reasoning. Only one Sinhalese journalist, Mervyn de Silva of the Lanka Guardian, sensed the danger. In his news analysis, titled ‘Who buried the TULF?’ in the 1 August 1984 issue he wrote: ‘How very short-sighted and stupid’” – T. Sabaratnam, ‘Pirapaharan’ Chapter 19, ‘Burying the TULF’
Is the real danger to Sri Lanka the (hypothetical) rise of Islam in Sri Lanka or the (real) rise of an anti-Islamic movement and the ideology of Islamophobia?
