De-escalating Hate: Muslim Organizations’ Counter-Speech to Buddhist Islamophobia in Sri Lanka (2012–2014)

De-escalating Hate: Muslim Organizations’ Counter-Speech to Buddhist Islamophobia in Sri Lanka (2012–2014)

De-escalating Hate: Muslim Organizations’ Counter-Speech to Buddhist Islamophobia in Sri Lanka (2012–2014)
Andreas Johansson Article In contemporary Sri Lanka, nationalistic Sinhala organizations like Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) have made a great impact on the debate over what role Buddhism should play in the country. BBS claims that Islam is a non-Sri Lankan element in the Buddhist majority society, campaigning on such issues on social media between 2012 and 2014. This led Sri Lankan Muslim organizations to use social media to…