Radical groups like National Towheed Jamaar do not represent even 1% of the Muslim population in Sri Lanka, he said. "What the moderate Muslims in Sri Lanka really fear is that these sorts of ...

the worst violence in Sri Lanka since the country’s long civil war ended in 2009, was claimed by the Islamic State. Since the attack, the country’s Muslim population, about 10 percent of the ...

Muslims account for 10% of Sri Lanka’s population, making them the second-largest minority after Hindus, according to AFP. Christians account for about 7%. “We are living in constant fear ...

Muslims in Sri Lanka are on edge. They're a religious minority in Sri Lanka - about 10% of the population. In recent years, they've been targeted by extremist Buddhist mobs setting fire to homes ...

However, Sri Lanka’s existing legislation is adequate ... often making similar unfounded claims that the small Muslim population is plotting to overtake the Buddhist population – 70 percent ...

which comprises 9 percent of the population. Unlike Sinhalese and Tamils, who draw their identity from their ethnicity, religion determines the identity of Sri Lanka’s Muslims. Violence ...

Muslim representatives in Sri Lanka welcomed the apology, but said their entire community, accounting for about 10 percent of the island’s 22 million population, was still traumatised.

Radical groups like National Towheed Jamaat do not represent even 1% of the Muslim population in Sri Lanka, he said. “What the moderate Muslims in Sri Lanka really fear is that these sorts of ...

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