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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ninja hattori" data-source="post: 17043715" data-attributes="member: 389526">In a paper published in the latest issue of the US Defence Department’s  journal “Prism”, Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has  reiterated his belief that Islamic terrorism poses a threat to Sri  Lanka.Since the LTTE’s defeat, some of the Muslim groups in Lanka have begun  to engage in activities that go “far beyond self-protection”, he said in  the journal brought out by the Center for Complex Operations (CCO).“There is information that some of these groups have even tried to link  up with global Islamic terrorist organisations. This is a situation that  requires careful monitoring,” Gotabaya said.  “Some Islamic groups in  Lanka have started to establish ties with LTTE-linked agents to create  further problems,” he further said.According to Gotabaya, the increasing insularity of Lanka’s ethnic  groups is at the root of the problem.   “Rather than identifying  themselves on the basis of nationality, the communities of Sri Lanka  have begun to identify themselves on the basis of ethnicity or their  religion. The cross-border links that can arise as a result of such  insular ethnic or religious identification are also troublesome,” he  said.“There are some foreign groups that wish to encourage Lankan Muslims to  identify themselves more with the global Muslim community, thereby  reducing their integration within Lanka.” The increasing insularity and  cohesion amongst minority ethnic groups has also led to the emergence of  hard line groups from the majority community, the top Lankan security  official observed. (Indian Express)dailymirror</blockquote>

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