Racist attacks hit Beruwala

People were experiencing some quiet period in racist attacks by BBS and other organizations until today where clashes have been going on in Beruwala and Aluthgama regions.

Meanwhile in quite a few Sunday newspapers there were news about Muslim extremists coming up in parts of Sri Lanka connected to Al-Qaeda.

There are extremists in both sides, both are not good. However unlike in other Muslim countries, Buddhists have been extremely kind to all religions in the country. And it’s a fact that both Buddhists and Muslims have been treated unequally from time to time by the opposite parties.

Another growing problem is the decreasing Sinhalese population which is most of the time true, even I meet someone from a Sinhalese family with large number of siblings (most of them have 2-3 siblings in a family, 5 max. 6-7 very rare).

However SM was the first place for people to join the bandwagon of blaming the opposite religion.

We had a 30 year war with tamils based on language, I hope there won’t be a war in this country based on religion. The war on religion will be much more worst than the war based on language and ethnicity like we had against the tamils.

First it was the Tamils they played with and now the Muslims , history repeats crystal clear. Beruwela #lka

— ₪ ρhlιcнé (@phliplo) June 15, 2014