Last Wednesday when I mused about the very Long War, I listed a bunch of countries where Islam and not-Islam don’t coexist amicably. As though on purpose, the news today carries word of yet another country suffering the same conflict, in spades: Sri Lanka.
There suicide bombers killed 200+ Christians on Easter Sunday and wounded another 500 or so. Apparently no one has yet claimed credit, but there were warnings of Islamist violence during Holy Week and the suicide methodology is typical of jihadis.
Later ... I got curious and looked up the religious mix in Sri Lanka, using the CIA’s World Fact Book site. It turns out Muslims are only about 10% of the population, and Christians maybe 7-8%, fully 70% of Sri Lankans are Buddhist. This looks more like targeting Westerners and their sympathizers than a struggle for national dominance.
